Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSEVENTH CONGRESS EiXYrn SESSION SENATE Washington 10The petition relative re-lative to the case of Boynton was referred to the committee on foreign relations Blair offered the following Resolved That in the judgment of the Senate public interests require that Congrtss be convened in public session immediately He read a letter asserting that recent re-cent decisions of the Supreme Court meant ruin to hosiery and knit i goods of New England and suggesting suggest-ing an extra session as a relief He called the attention of the chairman of the committee on foreign relations rela-tions that DeLesseps vas digging his canal today andit was becoming a vested right There would be no remedy for this if immediate action was not taken except war There were other considerations which made it almost imperative that there should be an extra session and that as soon as the House could be called together The Senate was booked until December Democrats had taken their position and it would be cowardly for them to retreat Republican senators had taken their position and it would be cowardly for them to retreat lIe offered the resolution without consultation with his colleagues Let the deadlock be broken in the way which democrats would consent to have it broken Logan spoke in refutation of the charges made and which he characterized charac-terized as slander that he at anytime any-time sympathized with secession He read in support of his denial of the charges a letter which he had received from Senators Lamar and Pugh who served with him in Congress Con-gress at the outbreak of the war bearing testimony to his Logans loyalty to the Union at that time He also quoted from speeches made by him to show his opposition to sec se-c and challenged anybody to show any speech in which he had upheld rebellion Ho denied explicitly ex-plicitly the various charges that lie had raised a company to join the rebels and read letters to prove that these charges were absolutely false Beck said at the close of the war lie had been kept out of the House of Representatives for some time through the efforts of the gentleman from Illinois Logan and he had collected some papers reflecting on that gentemans action at the outbreak out-break of the struggle He had submitted sub-mitted many of those papers to Frank Blair who had said to him I Beck John Logan was one of the I best fighters in the war and when I men who are trying to whistle him I down were seeking safe places he was holding his life in his hands and continued Beck I took every paper I had and burned them before his eyes Call then made a speech asserting there was freer ballot and fairer count and more independent voting in the south than in Massachusetts Cameron of Pennsylvania said the plan of democrats was simply the repetition in a different form of the shotgun policy the socalled Mississippi plan which had proved so successful in many stttes south of the Mason and Dixon line It was an attempt to revolutionize all I precedent to accomplish by parliamentary parlia-mentary maneuvres what they the democrats had failed to do by precipitating pre-cipitating the country into a war |