Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-25
. SWEET REVENGE ON ed
MJNDS.
che PIumed knights Friends Refuse to
HOLD Up the Hands OF tho senator
from Vermont.

ma Tn the Hands of tho Senator
from Vermont.
From the Chicago Duly Nea5s.
WAsHINGroN, March ia secret has
,eaked out during the last day or two
,sbich accounts for good deal OF Senator
rImnnds' irascibility-and the old gem
,oman hasn't a heavenly temper at pest.
,ba men known as the Blaine Senator's
NAT is. Senators Hale. Logan, Sherman,
Gyorts and a few others-are quietly
1Jockinr Senator Edmunds' assaults on
the President in the matter OF furnishing
Incarnation in regard to suspensions ana
JiernissaIs from office and are not hitting
a finger to help the Vermont Senator. A
very snort examination OF matters
shows this, even without the posltlYe
information on which this dispatch Is
founded. .. -
6xing upon the course Of the Republican
majority on the question only twenty
fDree out of fOrty-twO Republican SEN
atOrs responded-barely enough 10 con-
atitute a quorum. None OF the senators
identified as Blaine Senators attended.
They were. Of course. bound by the ac-
ton OF the caucus. though, TO let the re-
solutions be offered, but they eEluehtly
do not consider themselves bound 10 take
mart in the fight. Not one of them has
snoten or has indicated that he means to
epeak on the question. Senators CullOm
(TlD Wilson Iowa and SpOOner Wis. J
are The oulv Republicans who have Open-
ed their mouths in favor OF the reSOlu-
lions. while the biggest guns on the
democratic side will be heard in the can
nonade. Senator Sherman is committed
fully to President Cleyeland's views by
mis- action in the case of Mr.. Arthur, then
collector of the port of New York. Sen
ator then Secretary Sherman fatty re-
fused to give his reasons for the dismissal
and the letter containing them was given
ont bv the OfficiousnesS of Rutherford b.
HAYES. If consistency had anything to
do with Senator Edmunds he would pro-
hahly have WINGED when his own record
was brought up against him. This was
done in the most cruel manner on the
floor OF the Senate by Senator henna
reading an extract from MIR. Blaine's sec
ond volume of "twenty years in Con-
eress.0 which had not been long enough
out of the printers hands Tor Senator
Edmunds to know the boomerang con-
tanned therein. Speaking of the suspen-
sion Of the tenure-Ot-oftice act, Senator
Kenna quoted from Brother Blalne's
book
The chief defenders of the proposition
10 suspend tn act were Mr. Trumbull,
Mr.. Edmurds, and MIR. Schurz. Mr.. Ed
munds, pressed by MIR. Grimes to furnish
a good reason for suspending the act, re-
piled that lowing TO the peculiar crcum-
stances that have attended the last adj
ministration it is desirable that
there should be an immediate
and general removal of the office
holders of the country as rule, and as
an agency for that removal, subject to
our approval when we meet again in
confirmation of their successors,
lhese bad men being put out, we are will
ing to trust this executive with that dis
,retion."
Coming from a Senator of the United
States this declaration was regarded as
extraordinary. The "bad men" to whom
Mr.. Edmunds referred were the APP
pointees Of President Johnson, and
every one OF them had been
confirmed by the Senate OF the
United States when the Repu0-
licans had more than two-thirds OF the
body. II these appOintees were dad
men, why, it was pertinently and fOrcI-
DIV asked by the aggrieyed, did not Mr..
Fdmunds submit proof Of the fact to his
Republican associates and procure their
rejection? He knew, the accused men
declared, as much about their characters
when their names were before the Senate
as he knew now when he sought, behind
the protection of his privilege, to brand
them with infamy. To permit them to be
confirmed in the silence and confidence of
an executive session, and then in open
Senate, when their places were wanted for
others, TO describe them as "bad men,"
seemed to them a procedure not TO be eX-
planned on the broad principles of states
manship, or even on the common law OF
fair dealing.
While this was being read the Blaine
men snickered. Senator sherman had,
meanwhile, slipped out Of the Chair and
A Democrat, Senator Blackburn, was
presiding. 1t was perfectly we'll under
stood that the Blaine men welcomed this
opportunity TO pay OFF the debt they con-
tracted toward Senator Edmunds during
the Presidential campaign of 1884, and it
Is also understood that instructions to LET
the Vermont man do all the lighting came
from Augusta, Ne.
Meanwhile Senator Edmunds has got
his blood up, ana he is fighting now, moi
President Cleveland, but the Republicans
VINO stand by and let him enter on a party
war without striking blow. 1t is sur.
missed that in this, as in few other things
Brother Blaine mas OVerre2ched himself
and when the time comes To call an ac-
count Of what each Senator has done
for the Republican party Senator
Edmunds will be on hand with a long list
Of quaker statesmen who had con
scienu0us scruples against political war