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Show I CONCLUDED AT LAST. At last the curtain has been rung down , on the obstruction farce played on the floor of the United States Senate, and the Edmunds resolutions in the Duskin case have been disposed of. The dispatches ' of last night state that, after a grand oratorical whoop-up by Messrs. Ingalls, Logan, Harrison and Edmunds, the resolutions reso-lutions were separately voted upon and adopted. The first resolution, embodying the majority report from the Judiciary Committee Com-mittee which maintains the right of the 1 ; Senate to call for all the papers in the '! Duskin suspension case, was adopted by a vote of 32 to 26. The second resolution, resolu-tion, condemning the refusal of Attorney- General Garland to transmit the papers ' called for by the Senate, was adopted by a majority of seven votes ; and the third resolution, declaring it to be the duty of the Senate to refuse its advice and consent con-sent to the proposed removal of officers I in cases where the papers are withheld by the heads of Departments, under the President's direction, was agreed to by a majority of one only, three Republicans voting with the Democrats in opposition thereto. This agony being over, the country will now feel like asking of the Republican majority in the Senate, "What are you going to do about it ?" The President declines de-clines to transmit to the Senate, and the heads of departments, acting under the President's directions, decline to send in for the Senate's consideration such private pri-vate and unofficial papers as may largely influence the suspension or removal of Republican officials. By these resolutions resolu-tions the Republican majority in the Senate Sen-ate censure the actions of the President and the Attorney-General, and say they 5 wiH refuse to confirm any more nomina tions in certain cases, unless all the papers upon which the suspensions are made are laid before them for their con-sideration. con-sideration. Thus the issue is made up. We do not suppose that the President and Attorney-General Garland are going ; to worry themselves to death because of tlie adoption of these resolutions, and the I - expressed determination of the Repub- ! lican majority to adhere to their uhwar- j ranted obstruction policy. One thing is certain, neither of them will or can be impeached, since the requisite two-thirds vote of all the members present will j never be cast in favor of impeachment, j j unless the Democratic Senators are ! j caught napping when they should be on j j duty and that will hardly be looked j I ' upon as a possibility. - J j j - Well may the country ask, "What! j re they going to dp about it?" j |