St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-27
The Threadbare Edmunds Resolutions Fl.
nally Passed to Oblivion by Almost
Party Vote.
A Hint Thrown Out That the Attorney
Genaral May be Imprisoned for
Contempt.
ingalls, Causes Amusement by Calling
the Democratic Administration
Pterodactyl in Politics.
Short Speeches by Messrs. Logan,
Harrison, Voorhees,, Morgan
and Blackburn.
The Edmuuds Resolutions Passed

OF his resolutions. the third ana only eSSell-
tial resolution having been adopted by the
overwhelming vote of 80 TO %. This inl-
menSe majority of one becomes the more
significant when it is considered that if Mr..
Hearst of California had been on hand, the
Democrats would have had one more vote,
and there would have been a tie. Nor is
this ali that demonstrates the magnihcence
of the triumph of the senator from Yer
mont. Mr.. HOar, n member of the judi
ciary committee, declared to-day that in
spite of the third Edmunds resolution, he
would be ready at any time TO go into exec
utive session 10 consider Mr. Bumetts NOM
inatiOn. because. Duskin's commission hav-
ing expired. there was now a vacancy, and
yesterday he said he was willing 10 act on
nominations even where the papers were
CALLED FOR AND REFUSED,
il he had information enough without the
papers to act nteligently. This is the
whole size of Mr.. Edmunds' victory. By
the theory of our government, congress de-
liberates on a subject, and as the result OF
The deliberatiOn acts. Mr. EdmundS, who
is posing as the champion of popular gov
eminent and republican institutions, re-
verses this. He induced the Republican
majority in the senate to agree, without
debate. and in a secret caucus, to adopt his
open senate to be discussed three weeks TO
the detriment of public business. Messrs.
Mitchell of Oregon and Van Wyck revolted
at the third resolution, which was intended
10 bind the senate TO reject any person
nominated to succeed a suspended official If
the papers regarding the suspension were
asked for and refused. The other two
resolutions Were adopted by strict party
vote.
LAST DAY OF THE wRANGLE.
WASHINGTON. March 26.-In the senate
Mr.. HOar introduced bill, which was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee, prOvid-
ing for inquestS under national authority.
The affair at Canollton, Miss, had sug-
gested to him the prOpriety of such in
quests. In that affair Democrats were the
murderers and the opponents of the party
were killed. This bill wOnid supply a
method which would be removed from poll
ties. The Edmunds resolutions were then
placed before the senate. and Mr.. ingalls,
took the floor. He said:
The senate has not asked the presidents
! reasons for suSpending anyone and no private
papers have been asked Tor, neither has the
| senate been inactive in confirming appoint
/ ments. Since Jan. %. 1856, the senate has
confirmed 493 nominations. 1t has been
/ charged that the senate was trying to keep
| Republicans in Office. The Republicans of
/ Kansas are neither afraid nor ashamed TO be
| classed as Republicans. They are proud Of
/ the achievements of their party. They be-
lieVe that in all the great measures or the
| last quarter OF a century they were right and
! their opponents were wrong and were able to
| give reasons for the faith that wss in them.
After the election the Democrats expected TO
| ees in and the Republicans to get out, but a
new genesis had Gene about of late years-a
class of political philosophers who believed
that -partisanship was panacea for all
| the evils that afflicted the republic. men who
decried the operation of the american" sys-
ten. as they called il. This new party had
been recruited from the Republican party.
| If there was any genuine
CIVIL SERVICE REFORMER
who had deserted the ranks of the Democracy
history did not record his name. Laughter.
The neutCr gender, Mr.. ingalls, said, was not
popular, either in nature or in science.
| male and female created he them" But
| there was third sex, If that could ''sex" be
called, which sex il had none. resulting some
times from cruel caprice OF nature, at Others
from accident or malevoent design, posses
sing the vices Of both and the virtues OF
neither laughter. unable either TO beget or To
| bear. possessing neither fecundity nor viril
ity. Endowed with the contempt OF men and
the derison of women, doomed TO sterility,
isolation and extinction. Laughter. But
they have two functions; they sing falsetto
Tgreat laughterl, and they are usually Sc
|
oriental despots. Renewed laughter. Tt
come from figures TO f. Cts, this third party
has distinguished itself b. singing in falsettC
phrases of civil service reform and was Sc
lected as the guardian of the conscience OF
the national government He was not here
TO impugn the good faith, patriotism or many
extraordinary qualities OF the president OF
the United States. The president was the
SPHINX OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
It was said that he was fatalist and that be
regarded himself as the child of destiny, thai
he placed devout and implicit reliance upoI
the guiding influence of his star. Certainly
whether Grover Cleveland was very great
or a very small man, he was very
extraordinary man. His career forbade any
other conclusion. The Democratic party
was not wanting when the conven
ton was held in Chicago il
many great and illustrious names
men who had led the forlorn hope in darkes
days, men for whose character, achieve
ments and history, not only that organization
but the country had the profoundest admira
) ton and respect There was Thurman an'
Bayard and Hendricks and Tilden, and other
, perhaps not less worthy, but less illustrious
upon whom the mantle of that great dfstinc
ton might properly have fallen. But Grove
| Cleveland, the man who at the mature age o.
%, abandoned liberal and honored profes
sion, that he might become sheriff of an in
terror county, was selected for that position
and when little more than year ago b.
entered the senate chamber and subsequently
: took the oath of Office on the platform, b.
encountered an audience not one twentieth
part of which had ever seen him, and
greater part of whom two years before, di
not know him even by name, and who wa
even at that moment practically unaC
quainted with the leaders of his own part
$ in the senate.
THE RISE OF NAPOLEON
r was sudden. startling, dazzling. Many othe
Of had
q itY to fame but no illustration of an elevE
ton from an obscurity so profound TO
= | height so brilliant and dazzling was recorde
IN history as the selection of Grover Cleve
\ land TO be chief magistrate of 60,000.000 @
e people. II when he was lnaugurated he ha
f determined that the functions of govern
ment should be exercised by men of his ow
| party. the nation would have been content
! and hereon was founded the justificatio
that the majority Of the senate could use
: demanding that no action should be taken
n connection with these proposed removal
r from Office until there had been satisfactor
n assurance that injustice had not been done
Il If il were un erstood that these removal
= were made for political reasons the countr
a would be content. The Republican majorit
= IN the senate would be content The pres
u dent had declared that there should be n
VI changes in Offices where the incumbents wei
n competent for political reasons, but the
d should be permitted to serve their tern
e Like those that were grinding at the mil
n one had been taken and another left. Som
n Republicans had been suspended and othel
!, retained. What was the irresistible influences
y the logic of the situation in view of Ia
Is PRESIDENTS UTTERANCEs,
: except that every suspended man was su
n pended for cause and not for political re.
It sons. Mr.. Ingalls, alluded TO the celebrate
II circular issued by the postmaster genera
Y which he characterized as the most thorough
"a deg1 AIDED, dehled. execrable aud detestab