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' 2tajt0fftlt .-ta Astoria. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, May 3, J 881. No. 2. Vol. xv. POLITICAL. BOURBON NONSENSE BY MOR GAN AND BROWN. THE ALABAMA SENATOR OX THE HARMONY OF THE country mr. brown ox the negro's CHANCES FOR OFFICE-MR. HOAR TELLS WHAT AX ADVANCED PO SITION IS. Obit SKSATr. UEl'OBT. Washington, April 14. The Vice-President laid before llie sen ate the unfinished business, being the resolution for llie election of officers of the senate. Owing to the fact that there was evidently no quorum present, Mr. Pendleton refrained from making his usual motion to go into executive ses ion. After a few moments, how ever, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, said that with the consent of the senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Dawes) he would submit that mo tion. Mr. Dawes replied that he would prefer to take a vote on the resolution; to which Mr. Davis re joined by stating that if he waited for that lie would wait until his hair was grayer than it was now. Mr. Dawes expressed his regret at hearing such an unpatriotic re mark. The motion to go into ex ecutive session w;is lost yeas, 20; nays, 21. Slorsnn'n Weak speech. Morgan then took the floor and de livered an exceedingly weak speech for three hours. He referred, in closing, to the senate as sitting here like a great debating com mittee, while the states were act ing entirely in harmony with each other. He did not know a state which had any quarrel with another. These facts were u re proach to the United States senate to-day, and a deadly reproach to those men who made it their busi ness to get up and undertake to create excitement against commu nities which were laboring to do their duty. Thank God that the .influence of the senate was not yet powerful enough to disturb the harmony of the people of the country. Mr. Uronu llxpluln. Mr. Brown next took the floor. At the close of the war he had, he said, taken position for the abso lute acquiescence in the rccon--struction measures, and after the adoption of the fifteenth amend ment he had stood in favor of a free ballot and a fair count. To day the democrats of Georgia stood fairly and squarely on that doc trine and practiced it. The fifteenth amendment was acknowl edged to be binding, and it was being faithfully carried out. There had, at the close of the war, been outrages. Tie admitted it. Now there was as free and fair a ballot in Georgia as any state in the Union. The laws were executed and the ku-klux had been disposed of. He proceeded to criticise the republican party for their injustice towards the colored race. If all the negroes, were, as they claimed, republicans, they constitute one fourth of the republican party. What had that party done for them? The last administration had given Fred Douglass the position of marshal of the district of Colum bia; but he had not been invited to do all the honors at the White house which had usually been performed by the marshal. There were seven cabinet ministers, and yet not one of them represented the race which composed one fourth of the republican part. Republicans need not be astonish ed if when the democrats meet in grand council again they should do right to the negro, as the repub k licans had failed to do so. Democratic Opinion. That was his opinion; that was his .dvance line, and he was a demo crat riirht on that line. He would notWo it for a party purpose; he would advocate it because it was right. Referring to the remarks made by several republican sena tors that they desired to break tip the solid south, he asserted that it could never be broken by any at tempt to republicanize it When the north was no longer solid, when ho more was heard about republi- canizing the southern states, the south would cease to be solid. Let an issue be presented, such as the tariff ,or the currency, and the south would decide as soon as the north would, and without regard to color lines. A word in regard to the strange state of things in Virginia. The republican party sought to take advantage of the division on the debt question and carry a portion of the democracy of that state into the republican camp. The democrats proper, the intelligent class of the people of that state, had stood manfully up there for maintaining the credit of the old state; but they would un derstand the republican party as tendering this issue to them, that it was intended to take hold of the readjuster element and put the negroes and readjusters in power. They might find it necessary then to drop their internal strife and tumble over 12,000,000 of the state debt, and, if necessary to the reunion of society, they might tumble over $12,000,000 more of it, or let the whole of it go; rather than have ruin brought upon the state by putting it under the con trol of people the majority of whom would not be allowed to vote in Massachusetts. The war had ceased. The bloody shirt had been buried by the republican party when that party had taken the senator from Virginia, a con federate brigadier, for its leader; and with that act before the people they would not enter into another crusade to establish republican power in the south. The south intended to become the equal of the north in wealth and intelli-o-ence. Then it would be re- spected. Mr. HoarN Itcplj. Mr. Hoar replied to Mr. Browns speech. That geutlemnn had aid that he, upon his election to the senate, had taken an advanced position. An advanced position on what? On the subject of obeying the constitution, which every pub lic ollicer in the southern states had taken his oath to support. That was a commentary on the statement that there was a free vote in the south. The gentleman had threatened that if the republi can party persisted, by sympathy and encouragement, in aiding the assertion of the right of the ma jority to rule in Virginia, the dem ocrats would be driven to ally themselves with those persons who desired to repudiate the whole of the debt of that state. Mr. Hoar desired that the people should take note of that statement. Thus democratic virtue proposed to take this leprosy to its embrace if the republican party did not cease sympathizing with a free ballot and a fair count. IlroMii (in Scripture Mr. Brown suggested that in Massacusetts the class of people in whose control it was proposed to place Virginia would not bo allowed to vote. While the sena tors from Massachusetts lectured everybody else on the subject of suffrage and the right to vote, they do not practice it in their own state. The senator from Massa chusetts (Mr. Hoar) had been fond of queting: "Beware of the leven of the Pharisee, which is hypocri sy." A Pharisee, he believed, was a man who preached one thing and practiced another, and thanked God that he was not as other men, believing he was better than other men. He would not apply the quotation to the senator, but he gave the quotatien: "Woe unto your Pharisees' hypocrisy.' A run ning and good-humored discussion ensued between Messrs. Hoar and Brown, which was kept up until Mr. Brown, misunderstanding a statement made by Mr. Hoar, and, misquoting it, was excitedly inter rogated by Mr. Hoar as to whether he implied that he (Mr. Hoar) had said what was not true. Mr. Brown denied any intention of mis stating the senators remark, and good humor was restored by Mr. Becks stimulated fear that the senate would lose both the sena tors from Georgia. Mr. II aw ley replied to some remarks in Mr. Browns speech relative to Connec ticut, defending the suffrage laws of that state, and asserting that no man there was compelled to vole except as his conscience dic tated. The senate then (at quarter past six), after some op position from the democratic side, adjourned until Monday. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. "THE COURTESY OF THE SEN- ATET BLAINE, WINDOM. KIRKWOOD. THE SENATE NOT FIGHTING TIIK KX- KCITIVK. is a CAPITOL GUSH. WHENCE THE SOURCE FROM IT COMES. AN ENTEK1T.ISING STIl'ENDIAKY A DEMOCRATIC SECRETARY. OF conn, astokian. Washington, April 15. There foundation in reason and decency for the "courtesy of the senate"' in the various forms in which it prevails. For "example, if a Senator is nominated to an office bv the President he is at once confirmed without reference to a committee, on the ground that he is already known to the senate, and that no question can properly be raised as to a member of the bodv. This is a courtesy of the senate. Under it Messrs. Uiaine, Windom, and Kirkwood were con firmed. Had either of them re signed before being nominated he could have been subjected to what ever opposition senators chose to make without any violation of the courtesy of the senate. In the matter of nominations within a state the courtesy of the senate assumes that if the two senators of that state say they arc informed in regard to any given nomination the' arc to be believed over and above all other informants, save only, probably, in a case where the Presidents own state is involved. u Senator Can tote InlelUitrBli) On anv nomination until he has some information from a reliable source. Of course the fact that the President has made a nomina tion is prima jacie evidence of its fitness. But if the Presidents judgment ought to be conclusive upon the subject the constitution would not have provided for any refereuce of it to the senate. That instrument provides that the Presi dent "shall nominate and by and with the advice of the senate shall appoint," etc. By sending to the senate any nomination the Presi dent virtually says: "Senators how do you think this man will do for the place tc be filled?" or, "do you think such and such an incum bent ought to be removed and Mr. So-and-so appointed in his place?" This devolves upon the senate the duty of discussing the matter. The first question naturally arising is: Who knows the nominee? Being from one of the states, the Senators from that state are ap pealed to. They are persumed to be Truthful unci Kcfcpecfnble ."Men So runs "the courtesy ot the sen nte.:' If both agree the other sen ators believe them, and act accord ingly. If the two senators differ, then each senator judges for him self which is correct. Who better than Messts. Dawes and Hoar could satisfy senators as to the fitness of a Massachusetts nomin ation? And so of Edmunds and Merrill for Vermont, Piatt and Hawley for Connecticut, Hale and Frye for Maine, and so on to the end. Whenever both senators from a state approve or opposo a nomination "the courtesy ot the senate" treats their opinions with respect and- follows their advice. It is common to extend this cour tesy to the opposition senators to the extent of treating with great consideration their opposition to a nominee on account of unfitness or any other than political objections. The "courtesy of the senate" is simply the faith reposed by sen ators in each other in matters whereof all cannot be equally well informed. The seaate does not "fight" the Executive when it sas to him: "We do not think this man had better be appointed;" or, "No; we advise you to lnke no Removal at Present." I have alluded to this subject to call attention to the simplicity of it. Great and influential journals are discussing the senate as a tyrannical and usurping body be cause it does not abdicate its duty b' blindly and indiscriminately ad vising and consenting to all execu tive nominations. The present exe cutive is too well versed in public affairs to accept the interpretation put upon senatorial independence by the clacquers of men who may, by hook or crook, succeed in se curing his nomination. He is too well schooled in the claims and rights of the house and senate to desire to be' a dictator to either as to the duties imposed upon them by the constitution. What I have here said refers to the general usage and rule of the senate, and has no special application to any particular case. Do not, in a jealous rage, misunderstand that. Oissoid. Cissoro. SAX BKANCISCO CLOTHING STORE. 3imHtiimiMKii3iiniEimmHUiiimumHiMiiimiHi3mtMisHmMiAi It has been a sort of surprise to us, when reading the Washington gush in pi ess dispatches, and a wonder as to from what source it could have all originated. The National Republican explains it thus: Wc find on the pay-roll of the senate the name of a certain very respectable young man :is a labor er, at a compensation of $720 per annum. He is m the department of the secretary of the senate. In addition to the labor over which he tucfs and perspires in the office 6f socretary Burch, he find's time to aid in the conduct of our enter prising and vivacious neighbor, the Evening Star. Most of the twinkles of that luminary which tells us of the doings at the capitol are said to be furnished by the laborer in question. "He is a very previous sort of person, and if the republicans who arc snaKing up his 720 nest do not seem to him to be diligent enough in sur rendering to the democratic minor ity, he calls republican caucuses (m the Star), and in these caucuses the democratic wish will (in the Star) be gratified; and the re publican senators will go into executive session (in the Star), and will do various things in the exact order marked out for them by this overworked demo cratic laborer in Secretary Burchs office. The laborer always carries J things n:s way in the caucuses held by the republican senators (in the" Star). Last erening the Star said: "A caucus of the re publican senators bus been called" but it was utterly untrue. No caucus had been called. He goes on to say: "The caucus will, so republicans say, discuss the situa tion, giving due consideration to the pending nominations and im portance of confirming some of the nominees." But how can the caucus discuss the situation when there is no oaucus called? Then the toiler goes on to detail most minutely how the senate will pro ceed (in" the Star) in the executive session, which is to be agreed on in the caucus (in the Star) which is not to be held (in the senate). We congratulate the Star and its readers on its superior facilities for obtaining inside information cou THE NEWS! SIISfI!UCaiIE!It!ISIIIC!SSlIlSl!IIltIHMHt!HllIIltHIIHiHniIIHWHf1- WmHI WELCOME TO ALL I THE FISHING SEASON HAS OPENED AND SO HAS THE POPULAK SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS CARDS. I Q. A. BOWLBY. J. f ATTORNEY AT LA"W. . Cnenamua Street. - ASTORIA. OREGON O. w. fumtos; ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA - OREGON Office over rage & Allen's store, Cass street "P C. HOLDKN.l NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND SURANCE AGENT. m- A VAN DUSEN. NOTARY PUBLIC. Chenamus Street, near Occident Hotel, ASTORIA. OREGON. Agent "Wells, Fargo & Co. 1 CLOTHING STORE 1 Opened the largest and best I selected stock of ! EQW mm i -ASD- Gents Furnishing Goods, BOOTS AND SHOES, TRUNKS AND VALISES, HATS AND CAPS, Tjl P. HICKS. PENTIST, ASTORIA, --- - OREGON. Rooms iu Allen's building up stairs, cbnaf oi uass ana oqemocqne streets. TX. X. D. JENXING8. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate University of Virginia, is Physician tc Bay View hospital, Baltimore CltT.isea-To. Office In Page & Allen's building, up statrs. Astoria. h TAX TUTTIjE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Omen-Over the- "White House Store, Residence Next door to Mrs. Munson'i boardm- house, Chenamus street, Astorf Oregon. T C. ORCHARD. DENTIST, Dental 'Roowk. BUUSTER'8 Photograph Building. -AND THE BEST- CARTER'S CAPE AM unOu : 2 i RUBBER BOOTS, ETC., WHICH WILL RE SOLD AT SAN FRANCISCO WHOLESALE PRICES. REMEMBER THIS IS NO HUMBUG. HAVING MADE ARRANGEMENTS IN NEW YORK AND SAN FRAN- CISCO FOR THE PURCHASE OF ALL MY GOODS, MY FACILITIES FOR BUYING ARE SUCn AS TO ENABLE ME TO St'ff" ttm Undersell all Others. I Defy-Competition. stipendiary of :i democratic senate official. MISCELLANEOUS. T A. HcIXTOSlI. MERCHANT TAILOR Occident Hotel Buildiny. ASTORIA - - - OREGON Q H. BAIX & CO., OKAI-EK IK Doorai, Windows. .SUaeta, Traa aHM, Lumber. Etc. All kinds of Oak Lumber, Glass, Boat Ma. terlal, etc Steam Mill near Weston hotel. Cor. Omi evive and As tor streets. J G.FAIRFOWL&SON, STEVEDORES AftO RIGGERS Portland and Astoria, Oregon. A Refer by pennluionto Ror en. Meyers A Co. lien Jfc Letrii.CorbUt JcMacleay, Portland. Oreron. UlIIiKMIAKT SCHSESE. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTORIA - OREGON. Sot, Cold, Shower, Hteara and Sulphur BATHS. ESrSpeclal attention aea to ladles' and children's hair cutting-. Private Entrance for Ladles. Wholesale agent for the RED CROWN FLOUR Made by the new wce. The best Flour iu the market. Every -"ack can return It. Merchants will find It to their advantage toell this Flour. BRAN, SHORTS AND CHOP FEED Also for ;tk'. I,orsiii' Hitliiii? Flour or Fct-d will find nu at mv new Druj; Store, at O. It. & X. CiVa dock." Astoria. .1. W. CONN. saxjstt zKcaa-srs HOSPITAL, ASTORIA, - - - OREGON. THIS INSTITUTION. t'NDER CAUE OF the Sisters of Charity, Is now ready for the reception of patients. Private rooms for the accommodation of anv desiring them. . , , Patients admitted at all hours.day orniRht. No phvMcian has exclusive right, even patient is free to and has the privilege of employing any physician they prefer. I'nlted States Harlnc Seamen who pav Hospital Dues, are enti tled to Free care and attendance at this Hov jiitnl ilnrintr sickness. Permits must be ob tained for United State Marines at the Cus tom House. SlSTKIt-S OK CHAKITV. Facts and Figures ! GREAT SURPRISE AT THE : a ! San Francisco Store ! I WBLLLUl FRY, PRACTICAL BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Chexamus Strket, opposite Adieus Book store, - Astoria. Oregon. E?" Perfect fits guaranteed. AIL work warranted. Give me a trial. All orders promptly filled. MtTX W. L. M'CABE, Astoria. J. A. MOWN Portland. HANSEN BROS Contractors and Builders, COItNKi: ASTOK AND CASS STREETS. Near Congregational Church. And are now ready to receive orders for all kinds of wood wcurh:. Contracts taken to build and repair snips, houses, boats, etc., AT LOWEST RATES. HfDoors and Wndon Frames made t o order. HERE ARE PRICES OF GOODS THAT WILL SUSPSISE ALL. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. MENS AND BOYS CASIMERE SUITS FROM S 8 CO TO 15 00 EXTRA BEST SUITS " 12 00 "20 00 FINE BLACK SUITS 18 00 " 25 00 DIAGONAL SUITS 15 00 22 00 CASDIERE PANTS 2 50 " 4 00 EXTRA BEST PANTS " .-.. - 4 00 5 50 BOYS SUITS. ALL SORTS, FROM 6 00 "12 00 FUSNISBING GOODS. OVERALLS FROM GO CTS. TO Si 00 BP.OW.V A McCABE, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS. Astoria office At E. C. Ilolden's Auction store. Portland office 24 1$ street. 13-tf Music Lessons. T. F. CULLEH and C E. BARNES TEACHERS OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a few pupils on cither of the above instruments. Terms Eight lessons for live dollars. Egr-Orders left at Stevens & Sons book store will he promptly attended to. To-Xight. To-Night. GRAND BALL. AT MUSIC HALL, TILTS EVENING. GERMANIA BEER HALL AXD BOTTLE BEER DEPOT. Chk."ivus Struct. Abtoku. The Bent or Layer 5 Cts. a Glass Orders for tlir JUMPERS " 60 ALL "WOOL SOCKS 20 CHECKER SOCKS. SIX PAIR FOR COTTON SOCKS, THREE PAIR FOR WHITE SHIRTS FROM '. : SO COLORED . " 75 CASIMERE " " S 1 50 FLANNEL " - 1 00 BLUE NAVY 2 00 FLANNEL UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS FROM 1 25 COTTON FLANNEL SHIRTS AND DRAWERS 60 MARINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS M OIL CLOTHING. LONG OIL COATS FROM - S3 50 TO OIL JUMPERS 2 75 1 00 25 1 00 25 i 75 I 50 3 00 1 75 2 50 2 25 4 50 3 00 BOOTS AND SHOES. dealer In TAMILS CiROCERIES, NAIIJS, MUX FEED AHfD HAY Cash paid for country produce. Small profits on cash sales. Astoria. Oregon, cor ner of Slain and Squeruocohe streets. I. "W. CASE, IMPORTKK AND WHOLESALE AND HE TAIL DEALEIt IN GEflEBAL MEECEAMSE Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA --- OREGON. MENS CALF BOOTS FROM- & CO MENS KIP BOOTS - 2 75 ELASTIC GAITERS - 175 BUCKLE SHOES - 2 25 MENS SLIPPERS - 50 BOYS BOOTS " 125 TO 4 50 4 00 250 3 -J5 1 00 .1 75 ia :BF?M.fc. Left at this place will be promptly attend ed to. -T"No cheap San Francisco Beer sold at this place WM.SB0CK-. Proprietor. I HAVE THIS SPRING STRAINED EVERY NERVE AND USED MY ENTIRE ENERGY AND BEST JUDGMENT IN PLACING IN OUR AS TORIA HOUSE THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE ABOVE LINE OF GOODS. CALL AND INSPECT FOR YOURSELF. YOU ARE WELCOME. I "WILL GLADLY" SHOW MY GOODS, NO MATTER "WHETHER YOU BUY OR NOT. NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER. . S. DAZIGER. Son Francisco Store. So,raocqne street, next door to Pae & AUen'a-store, north of "Wallu-walla Kestautanti'Astonn Oregon. Wm. Houseman of Portland SEGS LEAVE TO NOTIFY HIS frien and. customers that he has opened A FISHERMAN'S CLOTHING, AND FUKNISIIING GOODS STORE Next to G. W. Hume's grocery store. F. HOUSEMAN, Aeat THE DEW DROP INK ! Oh. fishermen, all hear the good news ! A fine saloon Is started with best of Liquors, Wines and Beer, AND FINE FHEE LUNCH UNGUAltDED. The Grandest Caviar and. Cheese, IN SANDWICH THICK AND THIN And will you spend a pleasant hour, drop In at tne DEW DRQV INN on ConcoKdy stmt. J.T.BOUCHEBS,