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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
being in session) it is not encumbered with the duties of ordinary legislation Mr. Cameron secured action on all but one of the treaties at the session of Congress meeting March 4, 1871, when general legislation, except as to the condition of affairs in the Southern States, was excluded by rule; so that there was ample time for the consideration of treaties, as there is at special sessions of the Senate when the House is not in session. The Darien Canal treaty, which Sumner reported July 13, 1870, is still (1893) pending in the Senate; and, according to Davis's method of accusing Sumner, not only he but all his successors in the chairmanship have been, during a period of twenty-three years, culpable for not moving forward this treaty and securing the Senate's action upon it! (2) It does not appear that the Secretary of State ever asked the senator to obtain earlier action on any one of the treaties. (3) The treaties when reported were in the hands of the Senate, and could be call
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 19 (search)
of dates of reporting suggested to Mr. Sumner's friends a further inquiry as to the omitted dates. On November 21 the injunction of secrecy was removed from the Senate proceedings, on the motion of Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, and Mr. Fish's repeated charge found to be untrue. Mr. Sumner's chairmanship ended March 3, 1871. It was found that he reported the Mexican protocol (referred Dec. 8, 1869) on Jan. 11, 1870; the Darien Canal treaty with Colombia (referred April 1, 1870), on July 13, 1870; two treaties with Peru, and one each with Guatemala and Nicaragua (all four referred Dec. 8, 1870), on Jan. 12, 1871; one with Salvador (referred January, 1871), on March 1, 1871; one with Great Britain (referred Feb. 28, 1871), on March 1, 1871; leaving only the Austro-Hungary treaty (referred Dec. 14, 1870) unreported,—eight of the nine treaties being thus reported by Mr. Sumner, which Mr. Fish charged he had pigeonholed in his committee. Not only did he report them, but he reported