Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-12
FROM WASHINGTON.



terest in the Senate to day, was the calling
up OF the resolution of Mr.. Eawley, republic
can, of Connecticut, for the production aud
publication as an executive congressional
document Of General Shermans response to
Mr. Jefferson Davis's letter denying that be
bad entered into conspiracy not only to-
destroy the United States, but TO establish
a piutocracy in the South, and eventually
in the whole country. Senator Harris, OF
Tennessee, the old Isham whose name Is
loved and whose fame Is known throughout
the whole South, as soon as the resolution
was read, rose and said that while he could
see neither rhyme nor reason in the reSoIu'
lion he would not oppose its passage if the
gentleman, who offered it, thought that any
action of the Senate upon it either was or
could be necessary. He nor no man in the
South objected in the least to the pubica-
ton Of any thing that had occurred during
the whole civil war; on the contrary they
courted the fullest publicity of the history
of that war. He had gone TO the War Office
and examined the document called for, but
had found nothing in it that bad not already
been published, except letter OF General
Sherman. A personal controversy had
arisen between General Sherman, brought
on by himself, and Mr.. Jefferson Davis, ard
the resolution, if adopted, would only make
the Senate do what it had never done be
fore, even in Instances involving the charac-
ter of its own members, make itself party
to personal controversy. II, however, he
said the Senator FROM Connecticut thought
that anything would be developed BY the
resolution that would demand, or i'll the
faintest degree call for, the action of the
Senate he should not make the slightest
objection to its adoption. Mr.. Hawey made
the tamest, weakest and lamest reply ever
made in a similar instance. He knew the,
what Mr.. Harris had said was right, and
could, on The instant, find no better excuse
for offering the resolution than the lame one
that it called for the publication of On his.
torical document which though now in the
hands of the historical bureau and in prog
ress of preparation for publication, would
probably not be made public for two or three
years. He sat down with no approving
manifestations on his own side Of the cham
Der, and evidently by no means satisfied
| with himself Mr.. Vest, democrat, Of Nils
souri, then arose and said the papers called
for by the resolution contained nothing
new, and certainly nothing that had not al
| ready been prin tod, and that tina adoption
of the resolution, so far from making Eisto-
rv-with which the Senate had nothing to
| do-would be only repubshng what was
already known to every well.informed man
about the history ofhs country-or, at least,
should be. The object Of the resolution, he
said, so far rs he could see, was only to
| make the T. s. Senate take the part OF the
former in u controversy between General
| Sherman and an old gentleman, broken in
fortune and health. living peacefully and
quietly among the people who honored
| nh oil him IF he enlH the rnSOl,l-
ton was passed, he should be compelled TO
protest against it, and to say it made the
| United States Senate the partisan support
ers of one man against another in personal
controversy, aud that the man against
whom the side was taken, though he had
been opposed by most Of the leaders Of the
South, was as true TO The people Of that
section and 10 their liberties as the needle
to the pole; that ninety-niue out of every
hundred of those people belieTed him so.
and that the resolution had no more bust.
| ness in the Senate than STROUD had for
peck ct. Many Old Confederates heard Mr..
| Vests speech, aud there was not an eye
amoug them that did not we'll up at the
remembrance revived by it OF thei.
old, loved and respected chieftain. Mr
George, democrat, of Mississippi, then
rose and said that while he protested
against the passage or the resnlu
tion he was certain that nothing caile.
forth by 1t would in the remotest degree az
feet the honor Of the quiet old gentleman
who was living peacefully in his far.oll
Southern home. Mr.. Conger, republican
known as the sweet singer from Michigan.
thought it proper to interrupt! MIR. George
by remarkinS that Mr.. Davis was not cit
zen Of the country, but his put in" war
thought impairment and indecent even OF
his own side CT the chamber, and be sub
sided SIS much crest-failen as it Was possible
| for him to be. At one O'Clock Mr. George
was still talking.
Every unbiased and intelligent mau
spoken to here this morning on the subject
of the Sherman-Davis squabhle says hat
| the formers attempted refutation Of the
| latter's denial is anything but satisfactory.
Congressman Eaton, of Connecticut, il
reported as authority for the statement thai
Mr.. Bayard has pretty we'll determined not
to 60 into the Cabinet.
1t has been decided that Mr. John w
Daniel, Tho has been selected to deliver The
Grafton upon the occasion Of the dedication
of the Washington Monumep. on the 2lsl
Of next month, shall do so in the hall of The
House Of Representatives.
There is more social converge between
the members OF the two sides Of the Senate
chamber this session thar has been since
the war, and nothing is now more frequent
than to see democrats on the republican
side, and vice versa.
In the House to-day there was the usual
call of States for resolutions and bills, after
which bills of local interest TO the District
of Columbia were considered.
Among the petitions introduced in the
Senate day was that of Be!va Lock wood,
praying that she be declared President, for
the reason that she received more than
thirteen hundred votes in New York, which
destroyed the vote of that State, and that
she received the vote Of Indiana. II is
known that after the electors of Indiana
cast the vote Of that State for Cleveland, as
a joke they cast it for Belya. The petition
was offered by Mr.. Hoar, and was appro-
priately referred.
Phelan, it is said here, was discharged
from his position as Capitol policeman on
the Sd of July, and on the morning of the
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