Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-09
Forty-Seventh Congress.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8

SENATE.-At the close of the morning hour the un-
 finished business-the bill to afford relief to Con- came up. Mir. Brown offered an amendment modify ing the section requiring sutors before the court of In the course of 8 long argument he de- nied that such proof could be required under section as it stood would tend to keep up stinc- ton between those who were once engaged in the all are now loyal and enjoying alike the prIvi- 1eges and sharing the burdens of the government. At o'clock the presidential succession bill came up unfinished business. MT. Beck made sat speech against the motion to recommit it. He and legislation less fraught with danger to the republic passed the better. There were glaring inequalities in the existing laws which would be moved by the passage of the pending which the result of careful investigation and deibsra tion.
 MT. Dawes followed with extended argument in
 Mr. sherman regarded this question as important, but not difncut It was necessary that there sh ,uld
 of the Presdsnt It certainly was of much more importance than the character of the persons erai propositions of the bill whieh provided for possible and gave assurance that tho discharged. He favored . proviso however for 8 speedy election to fill the ofacs in of vacancy
 Mr. Blair was unable te see any strong reason why this bill should be enacted substitute for the isting law. He recognized the fact, however, that something should be done by Congress to avert dan ger from the republic in such contingencies as oc cured during the illness the death Pres ident Garde1d Be thought by his amendment that the Cabinet officer Fpecifed in the bill the Presi dents successor should call Congress together Possible to enact legislation for the election of permanent President.
 After short speech by Mir. Jones, of Florida on constitutional questions, Mr. Ingalls, said the bill fatally defective in it's provision and omissions Did any Senator doubt that from July to September l9, 1881, that President Garfield unable discharge the duties of office The secrets of that horrible chamber of agony and death would never be dis closed. The Illastrious patient was tmmured and questered a seclusion and isolation that al most as voiceless the grave He presumed that no one familiar with such facts as permitted to cape doubted that President Garfield was as absolute
 y incapable of dischaFging she duties of his office he after he had been laid in the sepulchre. Tor tured with protracted sgony, stupefed with mar cotics, the breath of life merely kept in him by scientific methods, President Garneld could not gu de his trembling hand to form the letters his name. It was matter fact that during his illness only one attempt made by him to sign his to any document. The great question during that period the powers and duties of the presideEtial of- 1 fee It was said that practical difl- l cuIty hxd resulted, but that no answer to the question. Suppose that s,ience and skill had protracted the life of President Garfield l until December 18th and that Congress had bIed in pursuauce of the Constitution and 1t was l