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Show .5jT.r. I;;ts-i; i.; DEBATE OX TUE AP.M1MTRA-TIOX. AP.M1MTRA-TIOX. Washing. en. p. In :l:e Senate : ry Howe yestorcay, tna: Baeg w.is m-ti.icrs-e.i iu- the matter c: snn-:xati:n by rure'.v patriotic motives, sail, by the published abstract from the fer.h-eeming fer.h-eeming report, he iuni an es"r.i"r:.u.-2 of this nnselish ratri ?itn ef Baez. In the items of the bill to be raid by the United S rates were T'l'.-XO for preperry desrroye-d by -.he Spaniaris. ? 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M rt"!l referred til his slated. -nt -r-r'lay. that while liegotiati' -lis were I l.i.g f r the ami' sativn of Texas. M.-xieo wa- ii"tili.-l by the United Stat.-s that no h.j.-t.le demoii-tra-ions on In r 1 art toward Texas would be I .-riuifed. whi.-h a--, rtion Pchurz had d. Tiled. lIolMorlOni reiterated the s'at'-ni.-ht. and quoted the otheia! dispatches. Further euntioversy ensued between M Tt' n and Sehur. as to the analogy Ij. tween the twoea-es; and some dis cu-siou I'ull iWed as to tin) propriety of road i:g a letter which the iee-l'resi-d"nt announeed he had recived from GeiiTal Cabral, relative to a stite-in. stite-in. -nt made by Senator Sumner. The ii-e-l'resid.-nt decided it was not proper to rea l it, as it was not from a citien of the I nited States. Harlan addressdl the Senate in reply re-ply to Sumner. He said he had carefully care-fully read every line of the fifteen columns col-umns of that senator's elaborate speech, and had found that the whole speech, the whole charge, the whole foundation founda-tion tor the grave arraignment of the President was a single paragraph in the instructions to our naval commanders com-manders in the vicinity cf dominica, directing them to preserve peace during dur-ing the pending negotiations between Loniinira and the United States. Not one belligerent act had been committed, commit-ted, not one pun fired, and not one drop of blood shed. Sumner, interrupting, said, by his reading of tho Constitution the war-making war-making p.ower was conferred exclusively exclusive-ly "on Congress. The senator must either admit the President had usurped this power, or else blot that out from the records of the navy department. The fact that no blood had been shed in unlawful despotism, did not losses the enormity of its guilt. Harlan, continued: he said, we had always treated with Indians as independent inde-pendent nations, and had carried on numerous wars, against them, yet Congress Con-gress had never formally declared war against any of these Indian tribes. Then, too. the first battle in the Mexican war was fought before Congress took any notice of a condition of war between Mexico and the United States. Thurman remarked that the reason was. because Mexico began the war. Harlan said, hehad also heard of the bombardment of Japanese ports several sever-al years ago, by the combined naval forces of England, France and the United States, and we had taken our share of the proceeds of that foray. That was certainly an act of war, yet Congress had not declared it necessary to inquire into it. The cause of Schurz' and Sumner's wholesale denunciation of the San Pomingo matter, Harlan declared, was plainly to breakdown the hold otthe President upon the country. They wanted to defeat his renomination and secure the executive chair for one of themselves or one of their friends. Because postmasters in Missouri, friends of Senator Schurz. had been dismissed Schurz. interrupting, stated with much warmth and emphasis, that this was the first time in his knowledge, that such an imputation of bis motives had been attempted. He desired to say the charge was absolutely unfounded. unfound-ed. Senator Ilarlan's respect for human hu-man nature must be very meagre, when he believes that a man holding the honored and responsible position of a Senator of the United States could be influenced in his official course by motives mo-tives so miserable. i Murmurs of approval ap-proval in the galleries. ) Harlan said the senator had too hastily jumped to the conclusion that the integrity of his motives was assailed. as-sailed. Why did the senator deny such charge in advance of its being made? Sehnrz "Beies the senator pretend that his conclusion was not that which I have stated? If he wants to crawl out of it, I will give him the opportunity. oppor-tunity. The Vice President said this remark by Schurz was unparliamentary, Kar'an, proceeding, said, the senators sen-ators from Missouri and Massachusetts claimed to be friends to Grant, but the President pight well sny- "save me from my friends." for he had been cl. irg - i by those pretended friends with e forces, in coxrarijn wi:h which the misiiamors of Andrew Johnson wre white is snow. Harlan read he i resi i.n: as i'.ie b.-ai cf ihe iV no mtoan Ku Kens: during the reading 'f w.-iiehroo-m-ier exlaimed. arprc-v-tngly. ' io-.t is sol" "And yet." contimiei Uar.nn. "the Senator calls an : -ie noner cf the Texas annexa-ti annexa-ti n. be to k the same grour. i as Mr-rarity .letwoen that case and that cf San T'omingo. and concluded by mover mov-er umner arnemod to Harlan for an errortunitv to reply, but the latter insisted in-sisted en the motion anithe yeas; and nays reo-g called for. lore cork ccrrrg- :he cha r, iu: wis n-rally imreratively who oriered the rrli call to rrc-ree-i Har oau s mcuon. to table the rescln-tirns. rescln-tirns. was agreed to. yeas ?r. nays if. The crv F.eruo-ioans voting r.-,. were Patterson. F.ohrjrrtscn. Schiirz and Sumner. Sum-ner. Bayari crr-oseu tore mr. hong and was rairrso-i winh Carpenter cu the ether side. Those absen:. or r;r vo-dng. were Ba-rarrd, Caldwell, Carrenter. Fenten. lerry. cf Ccrmeericut. ir.arn-igan. ir.arn-igan. 1 Is. Logan. Motrili. of Maine, Morrill, cf A errmont. Scott. Srencer. Tiptcn, Ykiczs arod Wilscs. |