The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-15

second session of the forty.second Con.
gress ended last evening, at 9 O'Clock,
after a session of 1873 days. The session
has been distinguished more for the
variety OF its investigations" and the
dexterity OF their management than for
the passage OF any measure Of great i'm
portance, except perhaps the tariff and
tax reduction bills, the partial amnesty.
and remarkable ryder to the sundry
civil appropriation bill affecting the
supervision OF elections, being in fact q
modification of the Senate's supplement
tsry enforcement election bill. The at
tempts of the Senate majority to force
upon the House the supplementary civil
or social rights measure, and the propo
sition to continue the power in the
bands of the President, suspending the
writ OF habeas corpus in the South. we're
finally OF no avail, by reason of the re-
quisite two o-thirds vote not being OBJ
tsinable to suspend the rules in the
House. The measure which gave the
greatest trouble, however, in the last
days and hours of the session, was the
supplemental election ryder to the sun
dry appropriation bill.
This measure, in its most Obiectiona-
BILE form, passed the Senate on Friday
night last, and the action of the Senate
in thus jeopardizing an important ap-
preparation bill at the heel of the session
of Congress, in violation of it's own
pledges, aroused universal Indignation,
not only among Liberal and Democratic
journals, but in the Republican press.
The supplement-, in it's original form,
provided for extending the provision
for Federal inspectors and supervisors
OF election in towns of not less than
10000 inhabitants to all towns and
cities of the country, with authority to
call in the aid of the United States
forces, should the marshals deem it me-
cessary, thus overriding the State au-
thorities in tho matter of elections. The
Philadelphia Inquirer (Republican) call
ed it the bayonet bill, and denounced it's
object of putting the polls in Novem-
ber under military CONTROL" The In
quirer warned the Senate that ''the
country will not submit to military rule
in times Of absolute peace" and said
that if the Senate insisted in its mad
scheme, ''the favor in which General
Grant now stands will be taken from
him."
The New York Herald, independent,
declared that "'there is no more neoessi-
ty for extending military law over the
Southern States than over the New
England States, though they propose to
bring both under the same law, fearing,
as the Herald says, sit may become ne
cessary, in case of Greeley's endorse
ment by the Democrats, to carry the
South at the point of Federal bayonets. "
The New York Sun, independent Re-
publican, asked, care they mad? have
they been struck with insanity" &c.
The New York Tribune said TINT the
Senate had seriously injured it's oharac-
ter, and the New York Post asked If it
was ''mad, or what?'
After determined struggle in the
House, yesterday, the bill going back and
forth to different committees Of confer.
ence, it was finally passed in o compro-
missed form. providing that there shall
be no moro marshals than those already
authorized by law, and that on the re-
quest OF ten citizens the Judge of q
United States Circuit Court may appoint
two citizens of different political parties
as supervisors, who shall have no power
to make arrests or to perform other
duties than to be present and witness all
the proceedings ct elections, and to see
to the counting of the votes. All such
measures, however, are of especial evil
omen when demanded by party on the
eve of Presidential election. By rea-
son of the compromise. none of the ap
preparation bills were lost. as had been
apprehended. Sun.