THE SENATE. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT TO TRE RON, JOHR BRIGHT. Yominations and Confirmations—Wash ington Notes ir, General=Oflices to Be Filled. ly tolegraph to the Dispatch.) Ca PUI REET 10 FRaia 10 punt ome 101 honorably-discharged Union soidiers and tie other against the trafic in intoxicating tiquors, the Viee President laid before the senate Mr, Stewart's resolution expressing the profeund sorrow of the Sepate at the dexth of John Bright, Mr. Sterman suggested that the resolu tion had better be referred to the Committee of Vorcign Affairs, as its adoption might es. tablish a procedent that would return tc plague the ¥enate, Mr, Hawiev remarked that no such oces wion was hely to arise agam, If the United States had over had a friend in time of nead thst friena was John Bright, Mr. Hoar thought that wn this puticalsr case the senute was safe, as it was not al «ll Jikely that the state of things would again prise that would establish between the United ates and a enlzen of a foreign country the paculiar relations of resneet on one wide and of a tender and grateful aifee tion onthe other that existed inthis country toward the great knglish statesmen who had just gone to his tomb, With the possibie exception of Lifayette there was no other citizen of a foreiga county lor whose meteor v the American veople vatertalned =o strong an attachment, This country had been engared in a struggle for iis fife; the re puoite, Constitution, constitutional liberty, freedou, vot of oue race, hut of the com won prople of every race had heen in jssue sud al £lake lo the great struggle of twenty. five vears wo, If there was any people from whom the United States micht have hoped for sympathy wn that dreadfna! contest it was the kuglish people, from whom the Aweri can peop'e had derived Ltoeir language, their fnstisutions, their faws, aud their principles of constitutional Jiberty, And yet, with searcely an exception, the great statesmen of Enviend, her men of letters, her men of rank, men who were leaders in ber social life, manifested unmistakably their sympa. thy with the rebslilon, and their exuitation at the prospect that the great republic was spproaciioe its end. It was the voice and mtiuence of John Bright which aroused the sentiment of the comnmon people, of the laboring men of Great Britain, to the mistake which her leaders were making, and pros duced a state of public feeling which made Foglish intervention in behalf of the rebel. Poa impossible, There were few finer utter. snees fn ait literature; few noblerand more stigniant ntterances iu the eloquence of con stitutional Tbherty than those magnificent sentences of John Bright in which he pies tired toe future of the United States and its yelations to the future hopes of humanity, He hoped that the motion to refer would be witharawn and that the resolution would be adopted, Mr. Telier also advoeated the adaption of the resolution, If anv man, he said, in the present generation or in the preceding gene ration was entitied to such distinetion, no ne would deny that John Dright was en. titled to it. For more than sixty years that yiastrions Englistinan had stood ac the ex. ponent of the hichest and best that was Lowa to the Enziish-speaking people, lle "w a humanntarico, with sympathies as broad and as great as the whole world. His sympethies went out to the sullerfog and downstrodden of alithe world, and lie stooa today us the central figure among the men who xpend their lives in defence of the great principles on which American jonstitntions were founded. He agresd with My. Hoar that the adoption of the resolution wonld not likely to prove a vrecedent to plague the United States Senate, beeanse John brights were exceedingly rare, He trosted that the resolution would be adonted without dissent, Mr. Sherman, while yielding to none in respect for Mr, Bright, was opposed to the example which the resolution wonld set, but be would offer no obstacte to it and would withdraw the motion to refer, Ar. Reagan geferred io the false step taken by the House of epreentatives some vears RO In passing a resolnhon complimentary toa wember of the German Rewhstae, and having if returned diadainfnilv by Riemarck, He thought that the pending resolution would establish a bad precedent, under which the senate might hereafter be asiied ty adopt resolutions of verre whenever a foreton state anan or cevolutionist might die, fle toercfore vencwed Mr. Sherman’s ino tion th refer tae vespliution to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 4 Mr, Stewart opposed the reference of the resolution and favored its adoption, lie enlogized the chargcler of Mr, Bright asa leader among wen; not by nherntuuce of yank: but by the vight of great natural en dowmenis and bizh moial integrity, bis public fifo tor vearly hall 8 century having heen const leuous in herele efforts to remedy ancient shuses, 5 Mr, Hawley «aid that the incident to which Mr, Reagan referred differed in all respects to the case of Mr. Bright. fa that ease the person commended had heen engaged in a Bitter controversy with the Gertoan Governs wens, and the House dicected 8 copy of the yesolution to be sent that Government, lo this case there was no stich proposition. It was pothiog to the Senate whether anybody thought of John Bright as the Senate did, Dut as a matter of fact, whatever there was of good in the British nation (of ali parties) bad borne testunony to Mr Brient’s great worth, He was soriv to see uny difference of opimion as to the resolution, aittiongh he was aware that that aitlerenee did uot attach to the merits of the geeat man, The question wos taken on Air. Reszan's yuotion to refer the resolution to the Come mittee on Foreign Relatons, and (t was so yeforred, The Vice-President Aa the present oc. cupont of the char is about to vacate the chair for the remamnder of the session he de sires to aval himselt of thie opportunity to express his grateful appreciation of the courtesy and consideration which he lias re. ceived {20m every member of this body, He dexires also to express the hope that he shi find «tf the next session of the Sepate every senator in Lis scat in good heaith, and thst he shall then have the opportunity io resume tod continue the agreeable relations already cafablisiied, Sa Mr. Edmunds then efiered a resolution that, mn the absence of the Vice.’resident, Mr. Inealls be chosen President of the Senute pro tevpore, Lhe resolution was put by the mecrctery and sareed to without division, and then Mr. lucalls, escorted by Mr, Ed. ywunds, had the oatn of otlice sdiministered to him hy the Secretary apd took the ehair, expressing ot the same thine his grateful ac- Knowledguwents ty the Senate for the re- newed expression of its confidence, he senate then, at 1:50, proceeded to the cons.leration of executive business, aud at S40, on motlen of Mr, Cameron, adjourned sine does NOMINATION, The President soot the following noming tion tothe Senate to-day: Robert J. Fisher, of Chicago, to Le Assistant Commissioner of Patents vice Rovert B. Vance, resigned. CONFIRMATIONS, The Senate this alterwoon conbrmed the following pominations: George HH. Shields, of Mussourl, to be Assistant Attornev-Gens eral; Robert J. Visher, of litinois, to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents; Cap. tain George i, White, to be Cbiel of the Buresu of Yards and Docks; T. Bradford Prince, to be Governor of New Mexico; Williatn F, Wharton, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secreiary of Siate; ail of the delegates to the Congress of American Na- Lions to be held in Washinglon November, 1550, and number of army aod pavy pro motions, EXECUTIVE SESSION, In exectitive scesion to-day there was ¢one In executive seesion to-day there was cons tioued objection to the personnel of the delegation to the Congress of American Nas fons, but it avatled vetling. Neoator Beck charseterized the Democratic members as Mugwumps who were not recognized as be. looglug to the party at all, and he didn’t think It fair to have them pose before the country as representatives of the Demo cratic party, However, they were all con firmed. A motion was made to reconsider the vole by which the vomination of An drew Carnegie was confirmed, but only six or elght sepators voted for it in the course of the session efforts were made to remove the injunction of secrecy from the votes on the motion tw confirm the nominations of Whitelaw Reid to be Minis« ter to France and of Murst Halstead to be M a to Germany; but they were uppuce cessful, Further consideration of the extradition treaty with Russia was postponed until the next session, ‘The calendar of pominations wis almost entirely clearell. The nomiva. tions of Edwin L Kubsbeedt to be United Sates Marshal for the Eastern district of Louisiane aud of William I. W hitman, to be en Associate Justice of the United Stales Court in New Mexico, were the most promi. Lent of those that failed of confirmation, IMPORTANT OFFICES YET T0 BE FILLED. Theru are a pumber of impolant offices Yet 10 be tilled by nomination of the Presi Cent sad sppolatment by fhe Leads of depart mets, These lnciude the following: A Jus bie of the Supreme Court, Solicitor-General, Madi ded LLB ARTIRTS ARTs, rrimter, Superintendent of the Burean of Eagraving and Printing, Minister to Germany, Minister to Ching, Consuls.General ta Liverpool and Part aud all the consulates, oflicers of the District of Columbia, i Wo come missioners, Marshal, Recorder of Deeds, and Register of Wills; two Civil Service and one Interstate Commerce Commissioner, loreal officers at New York and Philadelphia, postmasters, col« lectors, surveyors of rt, ete. The Hlst in auflicient to keep foe place-hunters in Washington for several weeks ye, and they will be accompanied by Senators and Repre eentalizes who are not satisfied to leave the selection of lerfunate nominees to the ex ecutive departinent without their advice and suggestion. Today's developments indi. cato that the office of Public Printer will be bestowed upon none of the gentlemen who have been so far named 10 Connection with X, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISION, Representatives of the southern snd sonth western ratiroads appeared before the Inter slate Commerce Commission to-day for the jurposs of fully and particniarly setting forth and showing what their rates are, and how these export rates are made, The wit. neases stated thal the rates of inland trans. portation fluctusted according to the rates made by seaboard steamship lines, and for thie reason they could make no rates, The greater part of the time of the witnes