The United States is occupied with Senatorial scandals. Mr. Pomeroy,
Senator from Kansas, has been accused in his own Legislature of buying his seat, has been refused re-election, has been arrested, and is said to be dying of brain fever. Mr. Cald- well, his colleague, has also been expelled for buying his seat, this time by the Senate itself. The House of Representatives has also received a. report from the Investigation Committee ordered in the affair of the Credit Mobilier, discussed elsewhere, recom- mending the expulsion of Ames and Brooks, who revealed those -transactions. They have, however, refused by 109 to 106 to impeach Mr. Schuyler Colfax, the Vice-President, who is implicated in those transactions, apparently because they disliked so cumbrous a process against an officer whose power was just expiring. The investigation into the charges against Senators is not complete, but opinion in America pronounces at least three men guilty. The exposure appears to have stopped all appropriations for new undertakings for this Session.
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