The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
A Victory for the PeopIe.

house, sent to the judiciary committee. On
Wednesday B. Butler undertook to get q
of that vote, but the Re-
publicans, under his lead, were foiled at
every step by the Democrats, by
dilatory motions which they had
a right, under the rules, to Make
and this contest Of physical endurance con- |
tinued until 1O:45 A. NJ. of Friday, when,
after contest Of 46 hours continual ses-
sion, the demoralized Republican party
backed down and the house adjourned, and
the civil rights humbug takes a setback.
Butler and his collar-men are greatly in
censed at those Republicans who would not
vote to deprive the minority of their rights,
under the rules, and announce their iptcn-
ton of keeping up the warfare until even
the most rebellious of the Republicans
shall consent to be whipped into the traces
and vote for the adoption of the Cessna
resolution repeating the rule requiring a
two-thirds vote to suspend the rules, and
allowing them to be suspended by bare
majority. Unless the two-thirds rule is
abolished it will be impossible for congress
at this session to pass any Of the thousand
and one jobs that are before the commit
tees and on the speakers table. The lobby
understands this, and every advocate OF
schemes of subsidy and corrupt legislation
= is laboring assiduously to deprive the mi
nority of its rights on the floor OF the
| house. Butler and his followers are san,
guine that their tactics will succeed. Ii
q they can worry the Republicans into voting
for the Cessna resolution next Monday, any
party measure can be put through by
bare majority vote; if that resolution II
q not adopted the passage of the necessary
! appropriation bills will be all that can b.
: accomplished at this session.
8 The Chicago Tribune administration
paper) says:
The desperate opposition of the Bourbon miuorlt
in the hou-e of Representatives in Washington to tn
Unworthy Of pubic legislator Either the CIV
rights bin is right it is wrong II it is right
he inter- SIS Of the public Welfare L i. is though
TO be wrong by the minority, the sttempt to defes
it by resorting TO the desperate means OF conei
- Of physical endurance nd hunger is none the ies
j. reprehensible. II the bill, in their opinion,
: wrong Democrats should make their protest again
e IT, They should record their votes against 1t, an
70 offer what amendments they can, and then the
can safely go before The country with the certain
that they will be sustained, II the bill proves to
an injury instead of benefit, their skirts at leas
will be clear their recod will be justified, and Il
- responsibility fastened upon the Republicans IN
+Ia viz
And the Inter Ocean (administratio
a paper says:
The course adopted by the minority in the hou
nt Of representatives is revolutionary. The precede
nc which the Democracy seek to establ sh in Washin
10 ton will surely come home to plague those who \
pt now setting this pernicious example.
n. We beg to remind the discounted ar
at defeated and exasperated Republicans tn
ct their tactics are not new. The Wings r
I'd sorted to the same tactics to pr
II. vent the passage Of the Indepel
On dent Treasury bill in 1910, and Il
minority has always continued it to tt
IS. Gay. Who has forgotten the fact that t
G. Republicans resorted to exactly the sar
tactics to defeat the passage of the Nebrs
ka bill? This is the last expiring gasp
no corrupt Republican congress and unle
;lu they can repeal the two-t thirds rule and &
the minority their corrupt schemes of plu
der will be defeated and their chance
10 robbing the public treasury be forever 10
;, They don't care for the civil rights b
~ Grant would veto it if they were to pass
IRE What they want is to repeal the twothir
at rule in order that they can pass subsidi
az salary grabs and any other corrupt schel
of plumber they please, by bare major
~ setting the rules aside at any time,-a
'ne this is what the Democrats are resisti1
,n' They are doing the country great servi
'so They have gained one victory. We trl
~ they may be. successful during the ft
'ns weeks yet left to this scandalously corrr
LOU Republican congress. Its last days ara I
IT, most to be dreaded, for in the hurry of
eg- closing hours, and in the desperation of
ao- more than hundred defeated membe
VI and for the reputation of its party by {
u people last fall. they will resort to a
means to rob the treasury, for they kp
this is their last chance We hope
hat brave minority may prove equal to
orc great task before them.