The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-01
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4 mhfcn -. mtSbfb. toilultl, OF dcOfktn, anu
Jackson, Of Tennessee addressed the Senate in
| opposition TO the Edmunds resolutio 4. Mr..
Harris presented petitions from the corporate
authorities Of the city II Memphis and Of the
Cotton Exchange Of the same city praying for
necessary appropriations for the protection of
| the harbor Of that city. Among the bills intro
duced and appropriately referred one by
Mr.. Cockrell, ut the instance, ne said, of the
Merchants Exchange at st. Louis authorizing
| the construction of bridge over the Mississippi
River ut ~. Louis. Senator Logan caused To
be read In the executive session of the
Senate Letter written TO the Postmaster
General by John II. oberly last spring,
| charging Mr.. Palmer, the Postmaster ut Chicago.
with offensive craftsmanship and suggesting his
Immediate removal. The letter was referred To
the Committee ON Civil-Service Reform. SEN
sation was produced in the House of Represen-
tatives when the Chaplain devoted his
opening prayer TO an invocation TO God
to nd the land Of gamesters, whether in
cards, dice, chips, stock, wheat, bucket-shops,
or boards of trade, and To lead the people TO
know that money-making other than by the
sweat OF the face was contrary to His laws.
Mr. LOGAN explained In the Senate ON the
24th inst. that under the present laws
there were but 23625 effective men in
the army. aid that under the proposed
increase to $4,000 there would probably be only
about q, 900 effective men. Mr.. Teller opposed
the increase. 1t was claimed by friends OF the
bill that the increase needed for a specific
purpose-to guard against Indian troubles
but he saw no reason In the Indian question
for an increase in the effective force of
the army. Mr., Plat favored the proposed in
crease. He said we had no army. 1t was a mis-
homer to call it the present skeleton" an army.
The argument that we had no immediate need
for an army was like arguing that because il
was not raining to-day il would never rain. The
house passed the Indisn appropriation bill, and
then took up the pestofiice appropriation meas
ure. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, addressed the
Senate ON the Duskin resolutions. While he
concufred in the majority report in SO far 10
asserted that ii was the duty of the executive
officers 10 furnish when called upon by the Sem
ate papers relating TO the administration of an
| nj ha not raafn ar I. tlanff
presence OF such papers in the Senate alb
solutely necessary TO the discharge by the
Senate of it's constitutional duty in adj
vising and conserving TO proposed removals from
office. He believed the Attorney General plainly
in error in refusing to furnish the pape y called
for. But, IL called on to vote on the series
of the majority resolutions a whole. he would
do so reluctantly and under positive protest
While the resolution asserting that the absence
cient to warrant the Senate in refusing to act on
the nominations referred to, his vote, il
cast for the resolutions, mus be co1sid-
cred merely perfunctory and under decided
protest, and he would reserve the right
To exercise his own Judgment as 70 the confirma-
ton of nominations. He assorted it To be the
duty OF the Senate TO perform its own proper
functions whether papers were furpished or not
and in the light of such information or evidence
as it might have before il, or might be able to
obtain. Prior TO the speech of Senator Mitchell.
Senator Morgan ALA made n constitutional
argument in support Of the minority report. The
House proceedings were brief and unimportant.
SENATOR VOORHEES, addressed tho Senate
March 25 in opposition to the majority report ON
the Duskin resolutions. He criticised the Senate
for dallying with such subject while great
public questions were pressing for attention,
and the flesh and blood of men and women were
being ground in the massive hoppers OF great
corpora ions. Referring to Senator Wilson's
characterization of the Democratic party
az -prCtoplasm," Senator Voorhees, said
it fortunate for the Democracy that
the colored people had not been told before
election that tie Democratic party was
u protoplasm. IL, instead OF the word itself,
the Senator from Iowa had used It's
definition as given by Webster-"the yiscid,
heterogeneous material in vegetable cells, by
which the process of nutrition, and growth goes
forward'-the speakers Imagination shrank
from contemplation of tho probable results.
lRenswed laughter II IL had been understood
that the Democratic party was anything ike
"non-cellular' formation OF vital vegetable
substance" Senator Voorhees, had not the
slightest doubt that that party would have been
counted out in New York. lLaughter.l The
Senator from Iowa ought to have denounced
the Democratic party as an hypothenuse or
a rectangular paralelogram. Laughter
Senator Evarts addressed the Senate IN sup
port Of the majority report. The doctrine that
the President had the right to say whether the
papers called for related to n subject with whlch
Congress had right to deal was inadmissible,
b cause, under it, the President could refuse
papers affecting his OWN conduct. When the
President made announcement that place was
not To he vacated for political reasons, and then
asked the Senate to concur III the appontment
of the successor OF a suspended official, Sen
ator Evarts thought that the Senate ought not
to lie left in the dark concerning the
grounds for the suspension OF that ofiicial
When the postofice appropriation bill came
up in the House Mr.. Dockery, OF Missouri,
defended the Postmaster General from the at
tack made upon him by Mr.. Burrows, OF Michi-
gan In the course OF his speech he declared
that when the Democratic party left the control
of the Government it left the Republican party
in the possession OF n splendid merchant
marine, manned by American sailors and car
rying American commerce. Mr.. Brumm, OF
Pennsylv9nia interrupting)-And you gave US
drive it from the sea. Mr.. Dockery
oh. know it hurts. When we
come again to our fathers house we hnd that
only ID per cent of the commerce of this great
country is carried in American vessels; ana
these vessels are manned by whom? American
carry your flag. or what is left of your flag, are
foreigners. Who is responsible for that? Mr..
Brumm-Semmeg not q foreigner. Mr..
Dockery-The gentleman from Pennsylvania is
one of the most extreme Of the leaders who
fiaunt the bloody shirt. Mr.. Brumm-When
your party stops brandishing the bloody dagger
we will stop waving the bloody shirt i know
the CALLED jade winces,'" was Mr.. Dockerys
comment. as he dismissed tho subject
The Edmunds resolutions oondemning the
Attorney General for his refusal to furnish cop
ies Of papers desired and declaring il to be the
duty of the Senate to refuse its consent TO re-
moyals of officers in cases where documents
showing misconduct were withheld, were
adopted by the Senate ON March 20. The first
resolution, adopting the report OF the judiciary
Committee, went Though 10y vote Of 81 70 %.
The vote ON the second resolution condemn
ing the Attorney General for refusing TO
send copies OF papers called for by the
Senate, 30 20 Is. The third reso-
luton. declaring IL to be the duty of the Senate
to refuse its advice and consent TO proposed re-
movals Of officers, the documents ia reference
to the supposed misconduct Of whom are with
held. was adopted by majority of one-yeas
30. nays Z-Senaiors Mitchell, Van Wyck, and
Riddlebergor voting with the Democrats The
flaa n NJ
ex-uUion soldiers and the putting in their
places of men who had rendered no
military service for the Government was
thCn voted ON and agreed to-yeas So,
nays lSenator Morgan Senator Hoar
introduced bill establishing inquests under
national authority. 1t provides that upon the
sworn complaint of three United states citizens
that any person has been killed, or has sus-
tanned bodily injury or serious injury in his
estate. or has been threatened with injury in
person estate because of race or color or
political opinion, or TO prevent such person from
casting vote at any election provided for in
tho 90 lstitution, any United States Judge must
institute al inquest into the matter and report