Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-13

crancs colleagues as be brought his fist
down upon his desk, he shouted: "They
ought to be made gor'
This appropriate observation was re-
ceived with demonstrations of applause
which was soon checked by the presiding
oheer. hsnna has evidently rsnsacked
the history of the government from 1895
down to the present year. he had learned
his lesson well and reeited it today with
great merit.
oh! WHAT 3 FALL!
The speech left the Edmunds faction in
9 pitisble condition of paralysis Three
promising Presidential candidates were
lett strewn upca the field with mortal
wounds. Logan, Edmunds and Sherman,
are In one red ruin blens Kenna has
gone to the forefront of the Democratic
party, and his Democratic colleagues
are open aud unstinted in their
praise. Even 50 keen and experienced
q lawyer as Jackson, of Tennessee, who in.
tended to speak ss q member of the Ju
dietary Committee, says he is willing to
leave the controversy rest with kennas
speech. The effect cannot be described.
Ii was not only a refRtstion of the Repub-
liesn conspirseys proposition, but COM
plete yindicstion OF the President course.
/ He was bristhng with facts and records
sll systemized and he hurled them With
telling precision. He had no manuscript
10 dull the delivery, but continued without
fatigue for nearly three hours.
THE TERRIFIC ARRAIGNMENT
and also the legal argument clear as crys-
tai. When he read Shermsn's letter re-
fusing papers to Conkling on the Arthur
case there was an intimstion Of larger |
bombs in reserve. When he came to the |
House resolution offered by Logan in 1869, |
theIllinoisisn was doing In the cloak room.
he came forth dumbfounded by the res
direction from the record Of his resolution
to declare all offices vacant that
johnson had filed. The point was made
with bitter sarcasm that buf 643 suspen
sions had been made in eight months,
while Grant in seven weeks, during six Of
which the original tenure of ClIice was in
full force, had removed $50. Then came
THE CHAIXsROr AND GREEK FIRE
of the day. Picking pp Blaine second
volume heresd that Republican idols ex
coristion of Edmnnd's petty partisan con- |
duet in 1869. calling it unfsirness between |
man and man meFs bypocltical party |
cant then from the record hs read Ed
muud speech in 1869, giving the lie to his
speech OF 1867, exposing his avowal that
the change was purely to ssrya MS party |
friends
THE POOR VICTIM FROM VERMONT
sat hunehed up reading book whose
pages he never turned, his aacetic face was |
buried upon his bosom, and he sat q pollt-
ical chameleon, but with no beautiful col
ors Of that chsngeRbie animal The gal
leries again aud sgsin sought to applaud.
Blaine admission that th9 tenure OF Office
act was practically repealed and meant
so 10 be BY the amendment OF
1869, drove nearly every Republican
but Eysrts to the selsce of the cloak room.
Never was vinegar bottle more thorough
" crushed than the Vermont Senator.
There was an acid smell psrVading the
hall. Kenns ended By asking that masks
De thrown of and this illegal conspiracy
to hold on to the offices be confessed.
His legal argument showing that
the law of 1865 expressly restored
the exclusive and uuhsmPsFei power OF
the President to remove was masteriy and |
when It was all over EVarts came over
smiling to the Democratic side. lie has
been right from the start aud Will 2c| a'o"
himself, After the speech there was
general iubilation in the caucus room OF
the Senate by the Democrats.
THE ,rfEcH
in detail is as follow:
He contended thar the Senate wss not
entitled to call for aid 10 receive such doc
umeuts and papers Gs come within the
definitiou of du6Ec sni official papers as
laid down BY the Senator sFoR Vermont
and said; /
IF paper were addressed TO the Fres'-
dent pro tempore in his official capacity, |
that fact alone, according to the Senator
from Vermont, made it sn official paper to
which every department. Of this great gov
a,r,e,t was entitled. il pi5ht come from
a Po,tovotton;;n IndisH, signeG if kIs na' !
tive dialect, involving 'snots connnSeH'
ey of the scalping Of tha officers ma uea''
bers of the Senate, aud yet according to ,
the definition, it was su official paper
THE FOLLY OF EDNUYDs CLAIM.
The Senator from Vermont had pro- !
cesded to demonstrate, assuming his theory |
10 be correct that the Senate had right to
20 into every department OF the govern
ment TO the White House Treasury, War
and State Departments, whether acting IN
executive or open session, rsnsacklng the
archives of these various departments snd
vripging from them pspers coming within
the definition he had read and yet very !
mockery of this situation seeme1 oy some !
urovidential interposltion to exni0t
,tself within moment after ne
had concluded, no sooner had the
honorable Senator taken his seat thsn as
is customary in the Senate, some senator
moves that the Senate proceeds to the con
alteration of Executive business, ana tne
hills which were arranged for the conyen-
;encs of members of the Senate began TO
tinvle throughout the Capitol A body OF
gentlemen, composing a part OF the ce.or-
S;rats branch of the Government hsvlrg
I;stsnsd TO argument which undertook 10
saw that al mankind should nave no
secret from the Senate, was sdnonlsne9
bv that ringing of bells that The time nad
come that the Senate would
PUT ON IT'S ROBES or ROYAL PURPLE.
Five thousand brave men and far women
were expelled from the galleries. Ths
sves of the American press we're closed.
The doors ratified and sentinels took thSif
hosts, m snd as fitting testimony at tne
conclusion % tie speech OF the senator
from Vermont, the Sensss vss resolved IN,
- lie ancient secrecy, aud as the Lies
nsroSsd out and the officers assumed
their posts as spards of the sscred PRIV,
;nsn las of the Senate I'D denied everywhere
eIss, the thought came h0% s5gndsnuy
us n-set;ces mSy eDgraft themselves upon
he human composition snd hoT httle re-
section esS perhaps members Of the Senate
6sS 5sS'TT SiVsn to the fact tba: for hundred
Uss,s UsS or more the bedy hsd been the star
chamber Of the American Republic; why
the Senator from Vermont would oeny
kAS ., nRner IN