Year: 1876

SENATE.


The Senate bill removing the political
disabilities of Geo. w. johnson, OF West
Virginia was passed.


The consideration was resumed of the
bill providing for the sale OF the Usage
ceded lands, in Kansas, to Actual set
tiers, the pending question being on the
motion of Mr.. Edmunds to strike out the
eighth section.


Pending discussion the morning hour
expired.


The impeachment trial was resumed,
but on the statement that Mr.. Carpen.
ter and Manager Lapham were sick, the
Senate, az q court, adjourned till Monday
and the continued the discussion of the
river and hsrbor bill.


MIR. Eaton, who was entitled TO the
floor, said he was glad the Senate ad-
iourEed Just after he took the floor on
Tuesday last, because, after reflection, he
was satisfied that this floor was not the
place for political speech on the river
and harbor appropriation bill, but he had
a word to say To the Senator from Ohio,
[Sherman.] That Senator said there WAS
no act ofthe Democratic party within the
last forty years which could be de-
Tended before the country. All this
was said in the face of the fact that
for sixty years the history of the United
States was the history of the Democratic
party. Under Democratic rule the
country had increased from 100000 to
10000, 900 of people; old England had
been humbled on land and sea by Dem.
ocratic men, and the Democratic party
was worthy of the country. He Eaton
would say, out upon al. such trash; it was
childish and absurd, aod ought not TO be
heard on the floor of the Senate. He
promised hereafter, in more than one
part OF this broad lard, to discuss
this question, but not here in the
Senate. Again, the Senator Sherman
ventured to couple the honored name o.
Samuel j. Tilden with that of VIM. M.
Tweed. There was no defense for that
here, or anywhere else. Benedict Arnold
was once the trusted officer and associate
Of George Washington, Father OF his
Country, one Judas lscariot WAS called
an apostle at one time. 1t would not do
for any man on this floor, or anywhere
Else, to couple the name of Samuel j.
Tilden with that of VIM. NJ. Tweed, or
any other naalefactor, except as his perse-
cuior. He EstoD] made no charge
against any Republican, neither did he
wish 10 offend the Democratic party. He
would do that hereafter and elsewhere.


Mr.. Sherman said the Senator from
Connecticut had, by straining the Ian
guage which he had uttered in the heat
of debate, made new issue. lie then
read from his remarks Of Tuesday last,
and said that what he meant to say was,
that no position of the Democratic party
since l846 could be defended before the
country, and on that question he would
be glad to meet his friend from Connect
icut on the stump. He next referred to
his remark in regard to Tilden, and said
he didn't mean to say that he was man
of the same character as Tweed, but it
was we'll known that Tildcn was the
political, and to some extent the personal
associate of Tweed. He Sherman had
letters and kilograms furnished him by
his friend from Rhode Island Anthony
to show this fact. He felt bound to say that
when Tilden did participate in the efforts
in New York to put down fraud, it was
after long delay, though when he did
commence the work he did so with vigor.
Tllden did decline at first to become
member Of the committee OF
seventy. In all the reform
for which Tilden was distinguished
he was aided throughout by the Repub.
lican party in New York, and opposed
by a strong element of the Democratic
party. 1t was only by the aid of re-
formers that he got the title OF great
reformer.


Eaton said he would not be drawn in
to political discussion, but when the
senator from OHIO said that Tilden was
the associate of Tweed, he Eaton
might as well say the President of the
United States was the associate OF
Mcdonald. The Senator from Ohio
had challenged the senators on the Dem
ocratic side 10 name one Republican who
had been detected in fraud. He Eaton
did not propose to name one now out OF
O thousand


Mr.. herman said he did not desire to
discuss politics on this bill, but as Tiiden
lived in the state of New York, he de-
sired TO say that when the frauds in that
state were first discovered, Tilden then
consulted with Governor Seymour and
other prominent gentlemen of that
state, and they took the stand that
the people committing these frauds
must be turned out of the Democratic
party. TiIden openly denounced Tweed
and all his associates, and he Mr.. ker-
nan thought he could appeal to the New
York Times and other papers in New
York, 10 show that Tllden, Seymour and
other men Of character in the Democratic
party, came TO the frort to put down the
frauds


Mr. Howe said there might be several
arguments as 10 when the Democratic
party ceased TO do good; bu. there was
one point upon which all the Senators
could agree; that was this, the river ant
harbor bill should not be reeonmitied to
the committee. Laughter.


The Senate returned TO the question
properly before it the recommilsmeht OF
the river and harbor bill.


Pending discussion, the Senate went
into executive session and soon alter ad-
journed.


HOUSE.


A number of private bills were re-
ported and acted upon.


The House then went into Commit