Nevada County picayune., 1886-03-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.

senator Euinn0uS or erlnOnl He hoped to obtain through it safe reelection 10 the Senate next fall. This he has probably accom- plished. but all his adroit little schemes for managing the contro- versy have failed ignominiously, through the Presidents adhesion to sound policy, good precedents and his constitutional rIght aud duty in the premises.
 i Everybody was getting tired of the useless debate when suddenly in the midst of q Republican Sen. ators speach, Senator Beck infus- ed some new interest into it. He asserted that Duskin was unfit to hold office, that the Vermont Se..- ator knew it, and that the papers were called for in his case because it was thougl.t the President would comply, and a precedent be thus established.
 IL was shrewdly believed that as Duskin furnished bad exam pie of m official appointment un der Republican President, this Democratic administration would fall into the trap laid for it by the resolution, which would make Mr. Edmunds master of the situation and thus enable him to roam at will through the antecedents of all other cases.
 The Kentucky Senator said that everybody knew that Duskin was nominated in March 1881, and tlIe Senate did not see fit to confirm him. He was again appointed af- ter the adjournment of the session, and nominated at the October term of the same year, and Mir. Edmunds had not felt justified in reporting him to the Senate for confirmation. When he had fin ished this statement profound silence tel! for few mnutes upon the surprised Senators.
 Then MT. Edmonds arose with an expression almost of pain upon his face, and turned upon the Sen ator who had dared, as he said, to betray the Scnate's secrets by speaking ot this matter in open session. Mir. Beck instantly do nicd having violated his. duty. The records and tie public pa pers,n said he, "show three nomi nations of Duskin, and 1t is be. cause the Senator from Vermont knows that he is unworthy that the papers were asked for because he expected to entrap the depart ment,
 Mir. Edmuuds claimed to be greatly shocked by what he claim, ed to be violation of rules on the part of Mr. Beck. He said he would have to leave what the Senator from Kentucky had said in utter silence. Whatever other gentle men might choose 10 do, he could not violate his "oath" or his "hon- or" alluding 10 what the Judicary committee had or had not done until he should have permission. |, Senator Beck was not to be i'm posed upon by tame conventionali- ties. and when question of honor was hurled at him. he grew warmer, more gesticulatory, and stepping forward little raised his power ful voice higher.
 "The Senator from Vermont, !" said he, speaks of my honor, and oath and integrity, and compares them with his own. l am willing 10 stand by the comparison. What. eyer say. say boldly and openly. l do not believe in secret ways. l do not believe in hypocrisy, or in circumventing anybody.' Mir. Beck had more respect for the man who meets his enemy in the open field and either knocks him down or takes a fair knock, down himself than he had for the man who stabs his brother under the fifth rib while shaking hand, with him and asking him. "IIow is it with thee, my brotherI"
 He proposed to have all the pro. ceedings in Mal ch Sl, Oct. Sl. and Dec, and all the papers filed with the Ju1jcary committee, of which Mir. Edmuuds is chairman, and all the proceedings had before that committee bearing on the Duskin case made public, so that the coun- try could judge whether he had