Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-23

Mr.. Logan inquired IL the paper Mr..
Colquitt had read from was the Record.
MIR. Colquitt: eyes"
Mr.. Logan asked whether it was from
the Post-0ffce Department.
Mr.. Colquitt answered that IT was,
and that it was open to any senator
apply ing TO see it.
Mr. Logan was struck, he said. with
the strange fact that records could be
furnished against individuals for some
senators to make speeches from, but
could not Be furnished when called for
in the resolution Of the Seuste. Laugh
ter in the galleries
Mr.. Colquitt assured Mr.. Logan that
he could have any records in the Post
Office Department If be applied for them.
They had never been refused.
Mr.. Hoar inquired whether the facts
were that papers Of this character were
furnished when officials were guilty and
not when they were innocent.
Mr. ColQuitt had no doubt the Sena-
tor could get papers Of both characters,
if there were such papers 10 the Depart
mept and the Senator would ask for
them.
Mr.. lIosr asked on what principle the
papers were given to the Senator and
denied to the resolution Of the Senate.
Mr.. Colquitt said they had never been
denied. lie asserted that no senator
had ever been refused access 10 papers
in that Department. The Department
had, however. refused to give them IN
response to this call. made as matter
Of right by the Senate. Senators had
never been denied an inspection Of pa
Pers.
Mr.. Hoar said this Was the first time
be had heard OF the consent Of the De-
partment to exhibit them to anybody
except to senators on the Democratic
SIDE. and Mr. IIoar had heard a good
many refUsals. - -.
Mr.. Colquitt presumed the--Senator
from Massachusetts, had never applied
or be would have found out.
Mr. Hoar said that he had never ap-
piled.
Mr.. Colquitt remarked that in such
case there was no good reason for
Mr.. Hoar's statement that the papers
had been refused.
Mr.. Hoar said be lHoar) was a mem
Der Of the committee that had been re-
fused.
Mr.. ColQuitt admitted the truth Of
Mr.. Hoar's statement. Mr.. Colqul,t
doubted not that papers Of every char
acter would De open to senators who
should seek TO know what was in them.
The ground on which they had been
declined was that the Senate IN rs
capacity as the Senate had no right -
demand correspondence Of private
and confidential character relating TO
removal from Office.
Mr.. Logan called attention to the fact
that they were furnished TO an lndi-
vidual to be read in public and pub
lished throughout the country, and IN
Quired whether that was not exactly
what the Senate was trying TO get at.
He inquired why they should have been
given to an individual and not to the
Senate. That was something that Mr.
Logan could not understand.
Mr.. Colquitt said it had been under
stood in the past. General jackson
had understood It. There was nothing
mysterious in it that Mr.. COlquitt could
see. The Senate demanded the papers
as a matter Of right. Senators would
ask TO see them as a matter Of cour-
,esy. He thought that a very broad
distinction.
Mr.. Logan said there were some SEN
stors who would like TO see papers but
who did not 60 to the departments.
lie was Of that number. He did not
60 10 the departments to see papers.
Mr.. ColQuitt said he had merely read
the papers to show that in case Of Of
lensive partissnship the Administra-
ton should Use its authority and should
suspend or remove men OF the char
scter indicated. The only object that
Mr.. Colquitt could see that was to be
subseI,ed by the adoption Of the reSo-
luuons reported by the majority Of the
committee was to place on record and
perpetuate the malice Of that majority.
Mr.. jackson followed Mr.. COlqutt,
also in opposition 10 the majority re-
port. He believed the right OF Ie-
moyal Of officers to be wholly in the
President. 50 far a. the acts Of Con-
eIess made removals dependent on
the consent Of the Senate those ac.s
we're an encroachment on the constltu-
tional rights and powers Of the Presi-
dent; but aside from that, it was the
candid conviction Of al real adyo-
Gates OF administrative reform that
all such attempts had been unwlse.
At5 o'clock-Mr. Jackson retaining
the iooT-the Senate went into executive
session, and at $40 the doors were
rtopened and the Senate adjourned.
House of Representative
In his opening prayer this morning
tie chaplain said - We beseech Thee,
Almighty God, help the people Of this
country 10 learn that money gained
otherwise than as Thou commandest-5y
the sweat Of the face-as the fair AMI
honest wage Of honorable, manly works
Of brain or hand, Is gained by theft, 10
matter how We name the stealing that
money Is never converted into
wealth unless it ceases 10 be
the pander Of our lusts and
lifts Us above the level Of
the animal lifting Us to the graces Of
life; eleyating our hearts to manly
aspirations, making US kindly with our
kind. patient TO good laws, and reyereat
TO ourselves. Rid the land. we beseech
Thee, Of all camesters. whether they
gamble with dice or cards or chips. or
with wheat or stocks or corn or cotton.
Deliver US from the influence and the
power Of robbers who, enticiug their
victims to boards Of trade and stock
exchanges and bucket-shOps, name
their practices OF plumber shear
ing lambs Enlighten our intelli-
gence with Thy truth. Sweeten
and deepen our humanity with
Thy love; quicken our piety with Thy
spirit, and may Jesus Christ become
more and more the master and ruler OF
our lives and characters and thoughts.
We pray through His hallOxei name