Show In the Senate WASHINGTON April 7 Evarts presented the resolutions of the Now York chamber of commerce com-merce protesting against the pending bill for a census enumeration of the Chinese as absurd barbarous unchristian and cowardly and a memorial me-morial on the same subject from the American Missionary asoclation was presented by Davis Platt presented a memorial for the admission of New Mexico without committing himself to the views set forth in it Hoar moved to proceed with the Montana contested election case contestl electon Hale asked him to give preference to the Chinese enegrl ri g poJgt nese enumeration bill which was important and would have to be disposed of as soon as possi foarotr asl r ea ble l Hoar intimated that the Chinese census bill could not bo disposed of immediately as Exarts desired to speak Upon I Hale asked Evarts whether he desired to debate de-bate at length Evarts said he did Halo then gave notice that he would move to take up tho Chinese enumeration bill as soon as the Montana election case was disposed of The Montana election case was thentakehup and Vance member of the committee on privil nbsr egos and elections made arguments supporting the minority report declaring Clark I and Magin dgl g t1 h I nis the Democratic claimants entitled to the seats seatsle Vance never heard of a title to a seat in the Senate based on such slender technical trilling grounds He never had known the pnb lie will of a comnlunlty thwarted and trampled under foot on such flimsy pretexts He knew the flat had gone forth He knew tho Republican can claimants were to bo seated Republican Senators would be sickerover the thing before they were done with it than he was He had heard Of an old fellow who went out to Ohio to speculate In hogs He bought a bg drove and shipped them to New York When he got to New York he found hogs cheaper there than in Ohio so he shipped them back and sold them in Ohio Some friends said to him Jim you made a bad speculation Yes said he I lost a good deal of money bull had the company com-pany of the hogs both ways So he rj thanked God that in all future denunciations of the south for the suppression of colored votes tho southern Senators would have the company of the hogs Laughter Spooner also a member of the committee on privileges and elections made an argument in favor of the majority report that Sanders and Power tho Republican claimants are entitled upon the merits of the case to be seated He would pass ho said from tho jokes of the Senator from North Carolina Vance and advert to the very able and ingenious argument ot the Senator Sen-ator from Delaware Gray All tie Senators agreed that the question was one of nigh privi lego of grave import and much delicacy I ano ted not only the right of Montana to bj represented in the Senate by the men of her choice but it affected also the dignity and integrity in-tegrity of the Scmte itself I should therefore be considered wti judicial calmness and deliberation de-liberation freed us much as might be from partisan bias dU prejudice He knew eh was not necessary to assure the Senate that it had been In that spirit that the majority of the committee com-mittee on privileges ard elections commenced and continued the consideration l of the case A Senator could of course only be elected by the state legislature and in order to seat a mil In the Senate he must have been chosen by ice legislature organized within tho meaning of the conslitutlon But it was not necessary in his opinion to go beyond I what might I be called the prima face evidence and that prima facie evidence evi-dence was found lu this case in tho certificate of the board of canvassers consisting of the chief th justice governor and secretary of the territory In the course ot his speech Spooner alluded to the charge made by Gray against the President for undue haste in issuing the proclamation for the admission ot Montana and ho defended the President in that mater The Presidents whole life he said was ample refutation of any such intimation Spooner yielded for executive session and the Senate soon adjourned |