Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-23
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WARRINGTON, March g, 1886. SENATE-General Logan submitted the

WARRINGTON, March %, 1886
 SENATE-General Logan submitted the following:
 Resolved, That the sessions of the Senate com apply to nominations, confirmations rejections shall hereafter be held with open doors, and that a public record Of the same shall be kept the same of legislative sessions.
 The resolution was ordered printed and to lie over.
 The urgent deficiency bill from the House was laid before the Senate and the Senate agreed to appoint committee of conference.
 Mr. Logan's bill to increase the efficiency of the army was then taken up. Mir. Hale moved to strike out the section providing for a force of thirty thousand enlisted men. He could see reason for an increased army service. He read from the report of the present Secretary of War the statement that the Indian was nc longer 8 source of danger and he did not think the Secretary of War or the lieutenant general desired the in- crease, and besides adding five thousand men to the army it meant an annual increase of $5;00O, 900 in the army appropriations.
 Mr. Logan said if MT. Hale could get a let ter from General Sheridan or General Sher- man or any leading army officer stating that 25, 900 men were enough for ou1 army he would withdraw the proposition to strengthen the army. He knew leading officers favored the increase. The proposi- tion to increase was not because of appre- hended danger from the Indians, but because the government should have army of re. spectable size. Our officers were almost ashamed to bring their companies out in the presence of the American people, No officer could be proud of twenty men un- less it had been reduced to that number in battle.
 At o'clock the bill went over until to- morrow and the Edmunds resolutions were laid before the Senate. MT. Colquitt took the floor in opposition to the passage of the resolutions. If there ever was 8 question, he said, that should be settled it was the ques- tion involved here. Referring to the contest between President Jackson and the Senate MT. Colquitt said if the gigantic intelleets Of Clay, Calhoun and Webster could not succeed in overturning the established construction and interpretation of the constitution it should be a warning to the leaders of this day that they are en- gagged in futile attempt to place another construction on the constitution. "Ofen- sive partisanship," MT. Colquitt said, was not a new discovery with this administration. He read the circular of President Hayes prohibiting the participation of office holders in political caucuses. To show what official partisanship was he read letter addressed by an office holder to the Secretary of the Treasury with out giving the name of the writer or the place he had held. Having been charged with want of diligence in his office the office | holder wrote that he had been nominated to l the office without his knowledge, that his ap- l pointment had been made looking to his | political operations in the then approach | ing campaign of 1884. He had gone te
 Washington and remained there two months doing political work; that that actior | was sanctioned by the Secretary of tht l Treasury, who well understood the object o
 the visit. MT. Colquitt read from a repor as to another oficeholder showing that h. was found short over $500 at his money orde