Show aim ITOW IT OW va 11 oil vasilii VAs III alwil A IG G ISS the bower oscr branch of con ress ir bc asi too ero 1 bv 1 i feic if long r lei deock winch which waa bro tn ottly otly list last thursday y to pull ii 4 ai ol 01 together ca for work us as yet it is foyil io J ed yil hryc ver that our lawai linakis lw akes 11 t i duly penitent fur for toll 1 wasted june of the pat fert fortnight night most of which was sp autin tile most furious form I 1 orui of filipu and that lacy t nay will endeavor clide aroi to ato atone ie thic week v cek for recent sins by hard wo work k is the ibs flay day set for callins calling C up the IA mills lills tariff bill its friends say liaa has been lest by delaying so long tile the great giorl of the session time was needed lot only for tha preparation 0 of a lill hill but for the creation of a pub lie ile sentiment that coald bojia pre press s n through both of these objects they say have been attended tho the revenue reformers expect a victory whether the they y hive have sufficient reason to 10 do so or not since I 1 wrote toti the senate I 1 rot perturbed in the least by the house deadlock has been moving moving alon along at its usual dignified pace it has listened to tari tariff ff reform speeches high protection lon speeches and speeches on the admission 0 of f dakota to tile the union pod and the question of bryin buying general Was hint sword the senate sena grem very patriotic laet wednesday after passing pas sing a bill t to 0 pay for a pair of swords which had bad belonged to gen shields a bill to erect a in boston to uen gen 11 arren r abo fell jit it bunker hill I 1 in ill of ill the Be revolution 1 a and rid sortie the other bills for monument sto av other deceased aivre came up a bill ti purchase se one of george from miss virgina Virg inu mayio tiu then n i a it e 11 rab was ha f sublime and half ridiculous the penti nil mental antal and chouiniere commercial aal value of the relic being presented ted 1 by senators L a eirts virts V ves eaf hoar and Cockrell the senator from Allis missouri mr cockrell Cock reli thou thought 0 vt it was a very expensive anord and wanted to know nov if there ivas was any tion lon 0 ot it the v ew york senator mr rv ev arts vo had charge of the ine s tire said ai its authenticity and its relation 6 to the great event of the surrender of Washing tonis con colt were indisputable it could bo be ceen in the bi historical picture of that event it had been of use to the united states when d by its for former ow owner tier in that rela ton it had value As asa a bard arid and blade blada it was riot not worth much it was one of tho the five 1 vorda mentioned in gen washington s will and bequeathed to ilif differt ferent ant ones of his kindred tire the first of them was that one which had the traditional credit of having been to washington by F rederick frederick the great with the lues sago that it was from oe fe reedier in the world to the greatest general in the world that sword was as no now ow owned ailed riled by th lie state eState ofner of new havill having been purchased with other oilier articles for the sura sum of 00 yr mr evarts said the price mentioned in tho the bill now before the senate was that fiad by the representative of the legatee 0 of the sword the committee which thich reported the bill did not feet feel at liberty to cheapen the r word sword if arv anybody body else were to cheapen it it off ought riot not be the senate of tile the united states bt senator cockrell was 90 49 converted lie ile still insisted that the price asked aris exorbitant the shields swords et ct t with jewels ul and therefore biad an ac icv value alap mr evarts evarta here interi 1 1 osell that the fixed lind vo io relation rel stion at all 1 the money valus value of the blade it was in estimable i it t was tile sword of washington Washing ten senator cockrell v was cia then reinforced rein by senator vest who ano said lie ile 11 lind no idea of voting to lo r give ire 0 fyr this tin s sword if this bill were to lo piss pass every relic of every other distinguished r man would lie be liero here and cori congress agress asked to buy it at art an enormous price A monument the 0 grandest in the world had lipen erected lo 10 the mcivory of washington Washing 0 toa and ore was vias being erected to the memory of his mother there was a propof pro poi i tion before congress to construct an avenue from this city to mount fount vernon at great expense in all sorts of ways the american people I 1 a tried to evidence their veneration for the father of liis bis court coun I 1 try and mr hr vest had no diiro i I 1 t on to depreciate the gratitude and lionor honor which every american citi zon should feel for the memory oi of washington still lie he did riot not propose to la pay tho the heir who wanted to make inoke this sale any such price for the sword senator voorhees bees said eaid lie he would just as soon vote for this thib awod as any other sum it wai wa ot 0 t a question qu stion of money senator ila iio r suggested that senator Senat orVest vast a lend the bill hy by su 0 thi th price orice of for the t 11 e 11 M vest replied that he had bad said nothing to justify such a suggestion suz ebion he had simply said that the price abbed was enormous if they wished to express their estimate 01 u the servi ies of washington they should make anak W nt kiil ia 11 offis ar J kalhe ra ill 0 j 0 o ori n v 4 T HT t dred millions who lie he d brou brought that sword here as a it a ter ot of commerce who was vil vii lug ing to take money mono y f for tar les relic |