St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-27
The Threadbare Edmunds Resolutions Fl
nally Passed to Oblivion by Almost
Party Vote.
A Hint Thrown Out That the Attorney
Genaral May be Imprisoned for
Contempt.
ingalls, Causes Amusement by Calling
the Democratic Administration
aPterodactyl In Politics.
Short Speeches by Messrs. Logan,
Harrison, Voorhees,, Morgan
and Blackburn.
The Edmuuds Resolutions Passed.

great NlcIOfy. lie mas secured tne auOpIlOn
of his resolutions, the third and only essen
tial resolution having been adopted by the
overwhelming vote of 80 to 90. This im-
mense majority of one becomes the more
| significant when il is considered that if Mr..
Hearst of California had been on hand, the
Democrats would have had one more vote,
and there would have been tie. Nor is
this all that demonstrates the magnifcence
of the triumph of the senator from Yer
mont. Mr.. Hoar, member of the judi
| ciary committee, declared to-day that in
| spite of the third Edmunds resolution, he
would be ready at any time TO go into exec
utive session TO consider Mr.. Bunetts NOM
inatiOn. because, Duskin's commission hav-
ing expired, there was now a vacancy, and
| yesterday he said he was willing 10 act on
nominations even where the papers were
CALLED FOR AND REFUSED,
| if he had information enough without the
papers to act intelligently. This is the
whole size of Mr.. Edmunds' victory. By
the theory of our government, congress de-
| liberates on a subject, and as the result Of
the deliberatiOn acts. Mr.. Edmunds, who
is posing as the champion of popular gov
ernment and republican institutions. re-
verses this. He induced the Republican
majority in the senate to agree, without
| q
resolutions, and then brought them into the
open senate to be discussed three weeks to
the detriment of public business. MessrS.
Mitchell of Oregon and Van Wyck revolted
at the third resolution, which was intended
| to bind the senate to reject any person
nominated TO succeed a suspended official If
the papers regarding the suspension were
| asked for and refused. The other two
resolutions were adopted by a strict party
vote.
LAST DAY OF THE wRANGLE.
| WASHINGTON, March 26.-In the senate
Mr.. Hoar introduced bill, which was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee, provid-
ing for inqueStS under national authority.
| The affair at Carrollton, Miss, had sug-
gested to him the prOpriety of such in
quests. In that affair Democrats were the
murderers and the opponents of the party
were killed. This bill would supply a
method which would be removed from poll
tics. The Edmunds resolutions were then
| placed before the senate, and Mr.. ingalls,
took the floor. He said:
The senate has not asked the presidents
reasons for suspending anyone and no private
| papers have been asked for, neither has the
senate been inactive in confirming appoint
ments. Since Jan. 25. 1856, the senate has
confirmed 493 nominations. 1t has been
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| Republicans in Office. The Republicans OF
Kansas are neither afraid nor ashamed 10 be
classed as Republicans. They are proud of
the achievements of their party. They be-
| lieve that in all the great measures of the
! last quarter OF q century they were right and
I their opponents were wrong and were able TO
| give reasons for the faith that was in them
| After the election the Democrats expected 10
| set in and the Re- Cpublicans TO get ont, but a
| new genesis had come about of late years-a
~ nh NThn hnlf
| that non -partisanship was panacea for all
the evils that afflicted the republic. men who
decred the operation of the American" sys-
lem, as they called it. This new party had
been recruited from the Republican party.
IL there was any genuine
CIVIL SERVICE REFoRMER
who had deserted the ranks of the Democracy
history did not record his name. Laughter.
Tie neuter gender, Mr.. ingalls, said, was moi
! popular, either in nature or in science
| male and female created he them" But
| there was a third sex, if that could sex be
called, which sex IL had none, resulting some
times from cruel caprice of nature, at Others
from accident or malevolent design, posses
sing the vices of both aud the virtues OF
neither llaughterl, unable either 10 beget or tc
bear, possessing neither fecundity nor viril
ity, indowed with the contempt OF men and
the derision of women, doomed to sterility,
isolation and extinction. Laughter. But
they have two functions; they sing falsetto
[great laughter. and they are usually Sc
lectcd as the guardians of the seraglios OF
oriental despots. Renewed laughter. Tt
come from figures to fl cts. this third party
has distinguished itself b. singing in falsetIC
phrases of civil service reform aud was Sc
lected as the guardian of the conscience OF
the national government He was not here
10 impugn the good faith, patriotism or many
extraordinary qualities of the president oi
the United States. The president was the
SpuTNX OF AMERICAN pOITTTCs
It was said that he was fatalist and that ht
regarded himself as the child of destiny, thal
he placed devout and implicit reliance upor
the guiding influence of his star. Certainly
whether Grover Cleveland was very great
or a very small man, he was q very
other conclusion. The Democratic party
was not wanting when the conven
ton was held in Chicago il
many great and illustrious names
days. men for whose character, achieve
ments and history, not only that organization
but the country had the profoundest admira
ton and respect. There was Thurman anC
Bayard and Hendricks and Tilden, and Others
perhaps not less worthy, but less illustrious
upon whom the mantle of that great distinc
ton might properly have fallen. But Grove
Cleveland, the man who at the mature ago Of
%, abandoned a liberal and honored profes
sion, that he might become sheriff Of an in
terror county, was selected for that position
and when little more than year ago h,
entered the senate chamber and subsequently
took the oath OF Office on the platform, b,
encountered an audience not one twentieth
part of which had ever seen him, and
greater part of whom two years before, di'
not know him even by name. and who wa
even at that moment practically unac
quainted with the leaders of his own part
in the senate
THE RISE OF NAPOLEON
was sudden, startling, dazzling. Many othel
, soldiers of fortune had sprung from obscur
, ity TO fame, but no illustration of an eleva
tion from an obscurity so profound to
height so brilliant and dazzling was recorded
IN history as the selection of Grover Cleve
land 10 be chief magistrate of 60,000.000 o
? people. If when he was inaugurated he hai
determined that the functions of govern
ment should be exercised by men OF his owl
party, the nation would have been content
and hereon was founded the justification
that the majority of the senate could use ii
demanding that no action should be taken II
! connection with these proposed removal
I from Office until there had been satisfactor
+ assurance that injustice had not been done
| If it were un erstood that these removal
were made for political reasons the country
D would be content. The Republican majorit
! IN the senate would be content. The pres
dent had declared that there should be n
changes in Offices where the incumbents wer
r competent for political reasons, but the
should be permitted TO serve their term
3 Like those that were grinding at the mil
, one had been taken and another left. Som
Republicans had been suspended and other
retained. What was the irresistible influence
the logic of the situation in view of tn
PRESIDENTS UTTERANCEs,
except that every suspended man was sus
] pended for cause and not for political rea
t sons. Mr. Ingalls, alluded TO the celebrate,
circular issued 10y the postmaster general
a
a degl AIDED, defiled. execrable and detestabl
: | ,,,1llin 1lttnrancn ever made hr nrnr. o.