The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-03-20
From Washington.
rErom our Regular Correspondent
WAsHINGTON, March :, 1856.

! The Senate meets today 10 discuss the
question pending between It and the Pres
ident and good entertainment Is expected
by the gallaries A most decided change
has come over the spirit of senator Ed.
munds' dream since the Forty. first Con
gress. A speech delivered then has JUS
been unearthed, which shows that he did
not always think as he does now about the
Presidents prer0gatives. In it he said
1t is cause enough for me, sir, cOnsti
tutional cause, when the president OF the
United States, acting upon conscientious
sense of his responsibility - the people,
chooses to send in one mans name for Il
place that another holds"
And then remember a sentence OF his
eulogy in the Senate over Senator Morton,
delivered some years ago. II made even
the studiously unimpreSsionable Conkling
smile and look guileless 1t was when he
hit the administration foul by saying Sen
ator Morton was not one of III jse Repub
licans tina, believed that the best interests
Of a cause would be promoted BY appoint
ing is opponents to office,
To the surprise Of many Senator'S the
Educational bill was Endorsed by the votes
of three foarths Of their bo..y. Ia the de.
bate which had been going on for three
weeks the opponents Of the measure had
decidedly the best Of the argument, but
many Senators were committed upon it by
their votes in the last Congress. There
will be no such obstacle to Independent
judgment in the House, where the bill
now goes, and it is believed in Washing.
ton that it will pass that body and become
a law.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, held that
the condition Of the South warranted the
legislation of this bill as temporary
eXpcdiency to meet a great public eXigen
cy. The aid offered should not he regard.
ed rs daily bread but as medicine for a
grave national disorder, Said he: The
South OF today is hot the South OF twenty
five years ago. The exhaustion of Prussia
under Frederick or France under Napoleon
was not more thorough than had been the
ruin of the South. All her lccal iustitu
tions, Industrial, financial educational
and religious, has been shattered and pull
vcriZed their very foundations turned up
and destroyed and her political rehabili-
tation had been committed to her former
negro slaves, not only elevated to be free
men, but cnfranchised and intrusted with
political control.
MI Sanford, CALIFORNIA; millionaire
Senator, is among the earnest indorsers Of
the proposed permanent exhibition in
Washington in connection with the Cele
bration Of til" centennial anniversary, in
1889, of the adoption Of the constitution A
permanent exhibition OF the products and
attractions of the three Americas at the
National Capital strikes many congress
men As an admirable idea because of its
benefits to the business interests of the
country.
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