St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-13

viewed by representative of the press In st.
Louis with regard 10 Davis denial, requested
to make statement, saying it was a matter
between himself and Davis, and not matter
Tor the press. Its personality was established
by Gen. sherman himself, and the discussion
that had been brought up in the senate could
throw no light whatever on the naked, bald
issue of fact-whether Gen. Sherman saw a
letter writ by jefferson to a senator now
in the United States senate, saying he would
coerce southern state if it should attempt to
secede from the confederacy. ~ assert SIR"
said Lamar, ''thai no such letter
is in existence, and, in my opinion, no such
letter was ever written. When the truth
comes before Gen. Sherman, that he has
made an assertion, even against a political
enemy, which he cannot sustain, it would
comport better with his high character and
position to acknowledge an inadvertent and
unintentional injustice than to charge the
issue before the American people and raise
the question as to the character OF the seces-
sion movement"
As reason for his belief Lamar said he
had been throughout friend of Davis, and
had been often in consultation with him, and
If Davis varied his opinion from the begin
ming of the secession controversy to the end,
Is
movement upon the consent of the people
engaged in II, and lot upon any force, his
most intimate friends were ignorant of any
such revolution of opinion. No man had
stood more firmly than Davis by the doctrine
that il should be government based upon
consent aud not force through all the event
full scenes OF tue struggle.
Senator Vest said the senator from Kan
sas Ingdlls) could indulge in no debate
without becoming personal That the senator
was verbal horror and an oral terror One
of the offences known to the old common
law, was that being a common scold, the
punishment for which was duckng. He
(NesD would not, however, prescribe such
punishment for the senator from Kansas.
The confederate states. Vest continued, were
dead. The soldiers who fought for the con
federacy and those who fought for the union,
slept side by side, having illustrated, with
matches deeds oil valOr and herOism, both
sections Above them might be put the an
cient epitaph 1.-THE knights are dust their
swords at rest, their souls with God we
trust" and with that there should be the end
Of acrimonious discussion of the issues in
volved in that terrible conflict, But the
senator from Kansas sought to impute to the
the senator disl0yalty to the oath they had
taken TO the constitution of the United
States. Tue senators had said that he (Vest)
had been il the habit of deluding in spirit
of bOastfulDess to the fact that be had been
member of the confederate senate. 1t was
not true. The records would show he had
made such illusions upon only two occasions.
Once in his culogy upon Hill, with whom he
had served in the confederate senate, and
again to-day in order to assume iull share
of tue responsibility which was sought in cer-
tain quarters to be put upon Davis, the
senator from Kansas had said that he Vest
was never accorded to the confederate senate
He (VesD had received his credentials from
a governor of the state of Missouri, elected
by majority Of $4,000 in time of profound
peace and bis election was by a legislature
elected in time of peace. He would say
now to the senator from Kansas that his
Vests credentials to the confederate
senate, as also those to the United
States senate, had never been disputed
by his own constituents; and the senator
from Kansas would know what he meant.
The hour of 2 O'Clock arriving, the matter
went over till tomorrow, and the chair laid
formally before the senate, unfinished legis-
lation business, being the interstate com
merce bill. But this yielded TO a motion for
the consideration Of executive business. The
naval bill just passed by the house, was the
first, however, laid before the senate, and
was referred to the committee on appropria-
tions.
A joint resolution providing for meeting
Of both houses in joint convention Feb. IL,
to count the electoral vote. was also laid be-
fore the senate and referred to the com mittee
on privileges and elections.
The senate then went into executive SEES
sion and soon adjourned.