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Show i Slitriul Smlou ol Hie Senate j Waaliin'ton, S. Thf motion to re-U-c lliu credulities of Murui, frmn AUl.ama, to tho cl;.tiui:a cummittr:?, : lost and the resolution tU:it lie be niforn in was adopted unaniui',uiy. 1 ai:d Morgan was awurn in. WaIUco cvLd up hU motion to eet li rover. Harunt submitted the (oliuwing imitiiLuu: Wlmreas, Under tho constitution and laws and practice of the eenate, L.ifjiyellu liroTtrr, claimiiii; to bo eeti-atur eeti-atur from the state of Uri'M, his credential cre-dential beinii regular and in due form, ai.d there b.mi no cout-jetant lor tho seata is entitled to admission to a seal in this body on the prujfi tfi? cane presented by nueh creden-'tiids, creden-'tiids, notwitlntiiiidiiiK the objections contiiiiii-d in the petition of citizens of tlieatate of Oregon a-ainst hia admis-uion; admis-uion; therelore, etio(ret. That tho credentials of Lafayette (i rover bo taken from the ubtu and the oath of ollicc be administered admin-istered to him. liesvivtd, Further, that the peti-tionn peti-tionn of citizens ol Oregon containing charges against Lafayette Cirover, lie on tho table until tho committee on privileges and elections is orcanized, wheu tliey shall be referred to such cominitteo, together with the credentials, creden-tials, with instructions to investigate such cliarnes and report ua lo their trut.h nr luluitv. Wallacy accepted tho substituU. Conkling moved to amend by inserting in-serting in tho preamble after tho words "no contcatant for tho seat," an follows: "And there being in said state but one body claiming to bo the legislature, and but ono person claiming claim-ing to bo governor, and tuero being no doubt or dispute as to the oxistenco of ono loyal, rightful state government." Tho amendment wns accepted by Sargent. . Conkling said ho had heard it ufbrnied that the same reason which entitled tho governor to ho seated upon a prima facie caso entitled Kel-loijg Kel-loijg to be seated on a prima facie emu yesterday. If that position waB sound in law and sound in truth it 1 provod conclusively the caprico of 1 those who voted to refer his credentials creden-tials yesterday. Ha denied that there was any analogy between the I cases. Tho Orofcon case was one in ( which there was ono ascertained con- j atitutioual leciahiture. It was a caso in which there was ono ascertained uud acknowledged governor, because the constitution did not acknowledge a dual exocutivo in any state. Tho facts in the caso ol U rover mado up a prima facie caso, and the claimant i was entitled to his seat. Aftorwards any investigation could bo made as to alleged vice lying behind the certificate. In Louisiana two ; rival bodies hotly contended, restrained re-strained from violeuco and turault by tho arm of power, had been asserting each against tho other that it was the lawful legislature. It waa equally notorious that tho two governors bad been sworn in and each was insisting that ho was tho lawful gov-, gov-, crnor and exercising prerogatives, the , attributes of t'ae executive of tho atato. Tho esseutial question concerning con-cerning Jyouisiaua was whether thero was a legal legislature and lawful government. Tho senate must decide that. Tho senate could not have decided de-cided it yesterday without hoaring a word of the testimony which the ' senate committeo had taken. , Tho late illustrious chief magistrate magis-trate could not, after three months' examination, decide that l'ackard was governor or that his legislature was legal, lie thought, theroloro. it was propor that tho tes timony bo hoard. The senate was nut buund by tho decision of the I electoral tribunal who had decided that it was constitutionally debarred from going behind tho roturus. The senate was buuud by no such provision, provi-sion, but was compelled to inquire into tho legality of tho electing body. This question has soma significance, too, in tho light ol events swiftly passing before us. Addressing the vice president he said: Tho other day you wero an the eastern portico of iho capitol, overlooking an immense concourse of people. You saw the oath ol office administered to the chief magistrate of the republic in whose election, under tho forms and substance of law, all parties and all factions, whatever their convictions may be, peacefully acquiesced. Standing to' be endowed with the power of the chief magistrate, he uttered to his countrymen something of the principles, purposes andinapir-, andinapir-, ations which would actuate his administration. ad-ministration. Conkling then quoted from tho inaugural regarding southern affairs, and resuming his remarks said: Can it bo that tho chief magistrate magis-trate who uttered thoso words does not deign, with conscientious aim af right, to find out, to ascertain, tc declare who in trut.i on tho 7th of November last was chosen governor of Louisiana, who in truth of tho contestants con-testants in tho various legislates iliilrinfs worn entitled tn nit and con stitute the legislature? and if tho chief magistrate, freshly anoiuted with his great duties, does mean, as we aro bound to believe ho does, by the modes provided in tho constitution and law to ascertain the very truth of the election in Louisiana, shall it be said that on the threshold of his administration ad-ministration the senate, in Order to be consistent and allow Grover, a senator from Oregon to bo sworn in, must proceed without any investigation of the committee to oloso tho door iu the lace of the president, or leavo him, if his judgment requires him to do it, to attempt to recognize ono state government, govern-ment, although lus senate had recognized recog-nized another, or bow before the hasty assertion of the senate, made without investigation and beforo it was ciosed by judgment, no matter how exceedingly repugnant to ids judgment it might be? In conclusion, Conkling again alluded to the Louisiana case, and said he thought it was consistent lorefcr the Kravo and serious issues in that cass to the committee on elections, and . refuse to roier the credentials ol trover involving entirely did'erent J principles. Morton spoke of the facts necessary i to constitute a prima Jacis case, and j claimed that the caso of Kellogg was regular on its face, and he came with a oropcr certificate signed by the governor, and therefore had a prima r::k-case, which was not invalidated because there was another body in the state pretending to be the legislature, or another person in the stato pretending pre-tending to be governor. It had been argued here that because General G.-aut did not recognize the Packard government the senate should not do He bad as much respect for the late president as any other man, but j ue tailed to see the force of the argument argu-ment mentioned. The views ot tnej ;a;e president could not be brought acre to induencs tho senate. Thurmau said the charges against Grover iu the petition were as vague as it was possiolo for language to nuke them, bat It rover desired him to say that ho courted tho fullest in-rcitigation. in-rcitigation. and he would therefore vote for the resolution oG'ered by Sargent. McMillan argued that Packard had '. a complete and unbroken titie to the otce of governor of Louisiana. ' " Saulabury said it had been stated that the people of the city of 'ew Orleans were an armed mob. A more unjust and erroneous statement had never been made. The Packard government wa a usurpation. Packard had no title to the olliee and wjh afraid to chow hium-lf out of the St. Louis hotel, occupied as a tul house, hauliury beueved tiie ladies . of New Orleans would drive the ) wnole Paekaul government out of trie city, provided it was not aided by the federal power. It was madness to attempt to iuipoo upon the peopls af tins eoun'ry u man barricaded in a hotel aa tiiq liwuu govL-mui ui sovereign stale. Ho was not sur-nr-jed at the wards of peace uttered by President Hayes. Tney did honor to hia heart uud honor to his head. He (Haulsbury) was not in favor of hia election and did not believe he was elected, but now that he had Iv-en clothed with the duties of the oilieo ho was glad to see that he appreciated ap-preciated the high duties imposed upon him by hut oath. Ho was surprised sur-prised at the attempt mado on the lloor of tho senate to bulldoze the incoming in-coming administration and tho announcement an-nouncement that its policy must not be pacific. Ho trusted the prceident would defeat the appeals of partisans and obey the high behests of siatcs-men. siatcs-men. Howe said if tho people of New Orleans were law - abiding, why should Packard bo afraid to show himself boforu thorn? It had been said that he claimed an office to which he was not entitled. Tho Bame thing had been Baid about tho president of tho United States, and yet in this law-abiding law-abiding city that president was not afraid to show himself. This fact seemed to him (Howe) to distinguish the character ol the pcoplo of Washington Wash-ington from tho character of the people peo-ple of New Orkntio. . , i iilaine sent to the clerk s desk the following letter to himself: Washington, D. C., March S. Hon. Wm. M. Evarts begs me to say to you that he did not endorse tho letter ot Stanley Matthews to Governor Gov-ernor Chamberlain to the extent implied im-plied by the te!srn of Governor Chamberlain to me. That letter was presented to him by Haskell of South Carolina, and he wrote upon it substantially sub-stantially as lollows; That he had read the foregoing letter; that he desired to aeo tho troubles in South Carolina arranged. ar-ranged. Ho desired to hear from Governor Chamberlain upon tho subject. sub-ject. Very respectfully, U. T. CoaniN. Also tho following telegram received bo him to day: New Orleans, March 7. Senator Bayard is mistaken. In every parish outside tha city except tho five bulldozed parishes, par-ishes, in one of which our tax collector has just been murdered, my government is recognized save by a few pretended Nicholls officials. S. B. Packard. Thurman askod if he would not givo tho senate the Stanley Matthews letter. Blaine said he would be glad lo do so it ho had it, but it was in democratic demo-cratic hands. It was procured by Haskell, chairmin of the democratic committee in South Carolina. Ha I understood a similar letter had been scut to New Orleans. Blaine quoted i from the remarks of Key while he was in the Bcnate, in regard to the caso of the Oregon elector, to the cllcct that ho regarded tho action of the governor of Oregon as wrong, but it was not moro reprehensible than the returning boards in Louisiana and Florida, and that he (Key) supported Tildeu and Hendricks and believed them to have been honestly elected. The first resolution and preamble submitted by Sargent in tho caso of Grover wero agreed to without division. IJayard said ho was authorized to stato that it was tho purpose of Grover tn ofltr a. rwuluLn if hu would bo admitted, calling for the fullest investigation of all the charges against him. Sargent then withdrew the second resolution. Grover was escorted to the desk of tho presiding officer by Bagy ai-d the oath was administered. Thurman said at a former session of tho senate tho credentials of J. Eustis, claiming lo bo a senator from the state of Louisiana, were referred to the committee on elections. The committee reported against the right of Eustis to a scat on the ground that the vacancy had been filled by 1 tho election of Pinchback, and subsequently subse-quently decided that Pinchback waa not elected. He therefore submitted a resolution that the credentials of Etiilis be taken from the table and I referred to the committeo on clea-i clea-i tions. Laid over. 3 Too senate thon went into execu-- execu-- live session, and wheu tho doors were i re-opened adjourned. II EXECUTIVE SESSION. r Immediately after tho senate went . into executive session, this afternoon, a motion was mado to bring before ' the senato for action tho nomination of Sherman to be secretary of the r treasury. Objections being interposed on the ground that the nomination had been ordered to be referred to the , finance committee when appointed, ' and that it could not now be acted j j- upon without unanimous consent, , tho vice-president decided that the rules applicable to the rules of com- ! , mittees, etc., were not in force, us no ; committees were in existence. Alter considerable discussion the vice-prca r ideut was sustained. The question , was then taken on the confirmation j of Sherman's nomination, and it was confirmed by a solid vote of republican republic-an senators against twenty-six votes in the negative by democratic members. mem-bers. Several democratic senators re-, re-, frained from voting. No attempt was made to confirm any other cabinet nominees. |
