Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-12

Report OF HrOC0oQ1nSS OF Cno S6n-
ate in Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, April .11.-The Vice.
President laid before the Senate the
unfinished business, being heresolu-
ton for the election of Senate officers.
The usual motion made by Mr..
Davis, of West Virginia, to go into
executive session, was lost-yeas 10,
nays 20.
After few remarks exchanged by
Mr.. Davis, of West Virginia, and
Mr. Dawes, tending to show that
each side of the chamber was deter
mined in its course of action, Mr.
Call took the floor in the continu-
ance of his speech of Thursday last,
to contradict the charges made by
Mr.. Malone that West Virginia had
shown no disposition to make pros
visions for the settlement of the
debt question. He quoted from
various acts passed by the legisla~
ture of West Virginia for the ap,
pointment of commissioners to adj
Just the debt. The last of these
acts had been passed in 1871, but,
before waiting for the action of the
commissioners, the legislature of
Virginia had passed the funding bill,
by which two thirds of her debt
had been funded and certificates
for the remaining third issued.
These latter had been issued
without the knowledge of
West Virginia, but had improperly
came to be known as West Virginia
certificates. The commissioners had
proceeded to make a report which
showed that West Virginia would
not be liable for one-third of the
debt on the basis of territory, popu-
lation or revenue. This report had
been forwarded to the authorities of
Virginia, and there the matter had
rested down to the present time.
Mr.. Vest thought the object of the
present position of the Republicans
on this floor was this, that the Re
publican party with it's vast paIron-
age, its great influence, its patronage
in the Senate should throw itself
into the coming contest In Virginia
and crush out the real and true
Democracy of that glorious old com
monwealth, and the Democrats were
called upon in the name of the Con
stitution to sit supinely here and see
this outrage perpetrated. He told
the gentleman on the other side in
no spirit of bravado, that rather than
submit to this interference of the
. national Republican party in that
contest, and rather than see
the Democratic party of Vir.
glnia stricken down after that
fashion, the Democratic Senators
would stand here, God willing, until
the SHOWS Of December covered the
hills in their winding sheets The
coalition of parties based upon
mutuality of opinion was legitimate,
but coalition without that mutuality
was contrary to public morality and
should be denounced. Where coali-
ton was simply for power and for
offices, without community OF opin-
ion, it verged upon a corrupt coali-
ton.
Democratic Senators had been toIo
that they had groveled at the feet of
the Senator from Virginia. It we7
not true; he denied it emphatically
and plainly. The Senator from Vir~
ginia had said in his opening address
that he had been invited to their
little tea party. If he had been so
invited it had been done unoHicially.
1t had not been by a Democrat !
caucus.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Vests
speech, motion to go into executive
session was lost-yeas 19, nays 20
and then, at 4.3O, the Senate, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Dawes, adjourned.