, 1876-10-29
OF his party caucus, stepped up and said, II move
to amend that bill by putting in clause

ten who-rose Immediately nnd said, ''This is NJ
! III order. Even under your new rule that Is not !
a yeq ha
unless 1t was measure Of retrenchmcnt-n Al
then the Chairman Of the Committee Of the Whole
whose m nane 90 not renlember,Il DO not wat :
you 10 tel! ne who 1t was, because do nos Nant
remember his name,-I do not want to feel unnec
| essary contempt for any man-1 do not renemoe
who it was, bnt he WAS Democrat, Of course
be was the Chairman Of the. Committee @
the Whole, which any member might be.and h
overruled this point Of order, and said this was =
! measure Of retrenchment "Why, of course, -
make hear, to get this 6ne point he said. p" TIL
| Is measure of retFenchment, because, you see,
said he, III You repeal The Supervisors lay, yot
r. Wg
it! 1tcosts $40 oooto have Supervisors in New lorl
in Presidential election. Think what an enoE 70
mons sa Is thrs wasted in one eoG g s q! tn
sonld est M traaduleet @ eeS't3e election 1i for 6a
the money at any time Langher h;,I and oi
charity, over every Republican vote, and carried
i. | have had some little experience in State and
National legislation, and said ut the time, and
never saw, aud never heard OF, any proposition in
legislative body as infamous as that was; neTes
n my lite: tcheers What was It, my friends: aaas
they colarea BY the throat all the charities Of the
United States Government They said, in words
almost, certainly IN effect; You shall not have
to spread ! cot IN IN u ma marine 6 hospital Tor a
disabled and possibly dying American sailor; you
wrecked crew exposed to the dangers Of q harbar-
GUS coast, or possibly begging their bread in q
10 Ro bn no. you s have one pint OF on
lake. Or ocean, or gulf; you shall not have any
thing for al these charities until you agree thnt in
the same bill you will repeal the Supervisors law
the State OF New York to give the Electoral vote
Of that State to Mr. Fillen.'' [cheers.) Now,
that is iust what they said and Tor sixty tour days
thsy sHr he'd that on that bill in the hSIn xan
the Senate Of the united States into
conceding it; bnt, thank God! the Senate OF the
Tbt TPite9 6ass sa e y RpnGeae bod Gnse s
quietly sat back in their arm chairs and SAID. IL
effect II not in words, sGeutlemen oe the House
OF Representatives,
TOUR PROPOSITION Is INFAMOUS,
and we propose to sit here. Rather than concede
that. we vii Sit here until The second Centennial
And they had to back down. They had to give it
up and the Supervisors law is on the statute
book, and we are going to hare fair count in New
fair count We are going to g{yo The Electoral yoto
Of that State to Rutherford u. Hayes. [Chcers.]
Well, this mode OF legislation on the apptopria-
ty soon We came to the Army bill. This is an en-
tirely new chapter In American history shat am
relating to you. don't mean that my revelation
Ter itself is new. We came to this Army bifi
Now, I don't know whether you arc greatly
alarmed out here about tho terrible impending
read the Democratic papers or attend Democratic
meetlngs-I can't particularly commend either
form do OF e%poymfnt W dG G1ahtss5'u tsat il
liberties are in serious Danger ni from ips 9bs
vast standing army that the Republicans keep up.
Laughter. It is frightfn1, know. Just think
eight States and eight Territories, and the District
OF Columbia, aud Alaska unorgauized, and we
stretch from the British Provinces down on the
coast Of Asia, and have got more territory than
all the nations and empires Of Europe together,
~ o5d we have got Of those States in disturb
ger OF Indian iucursions upon the from
tier settlements, and all these vast areas
with IS, 0o0 900 people and Is, 600 miles OF open
We IRE threatened In 70 our iii liberties T b. tromeu
lous army Of e5, 600 men. (Laughtes.] Why, |
lid you never reflect that in the Democratic State
sss x6oe arx Tns h
he Democratic pickpockets from stealing your !
'nrse. and mine between the depot and the hotcls
Laughter And then thsy don't more than bali
the army Of tho United Statcs as it cx-
sts to-day is under the act Of July 28, 1866.
Fhen the War closed we had I, 100, 600 men on tho
rmy roll. They were mustered out. It looks to |
ne az II
HALF OF THEM WERE HERE
o-night. (Chcers. I doubt not gteat mnny
;efes md yon are all better men e FOR having adea
ou were mustered cat, the question came up, what
re Should have ror the peace establishment, and
acn but in fixing that act, we found IN entirely
ew condition Of things in this country, in some
sspects. We found four millions Of people that
ONE free. and, being free, were made citfzens |
rmy Of the United States, and they fought we'll.
Niger soldiers" bat they did we'll: They
ought, and bled, and died, many Of them, olicf-
e the last sacrifice that humanity can for any
;als who commanded them, and heard the gal
ut Gen. Ben HARRISON the other day in Ind,afa,
here was at e meeting with him, say that the t,s
andsomcst foot race hc ever saw ia nis life was
ths battle OF franklin, in Tennessee, where
ooas army was destroyed. He said at the close ]
that battle he saw co!ored brigade 60 after
ZEN run 50 fast get over much ground in as lit
e .sn.a time, as ,,, thss eolofed 6sigaae {
t1rasg t1ss Esps5, is!fy but asS hsy aa
'iertake the Rebels [Laushter, Wen, now i
hen we came to make the peace establishment Of
!e army Of the United States, it would have been
net OF Infinite E1cauneas not to hare incuded | 7
ese negro men IN the army. They had | t
EARNED THE RIGHT u
wear the United States uniform; and in the |
fantry, and certain regiments or carairy, should n
) filled with colored men, and they were, and
ey areto this day And they are good regiments. il
i'd do tieir duty. Now, it Is almost inconceiya- q
G for, it's me1uness, that this Congress, on Il
e Army Appropriation bill, cu7faftcd a
ause, repeating those negro regiments, h
do'uttly driving the coored man out Of the 4
my; md. at the same tia,e they put On the files
the house, and had it reported farorahly by d ii
ebcl Claims bill doesthat is, the fotuities aud =
ances OF the political future. They have u biIl II
naiE to-day repeating another clause Of the Il
my bill. The other clause Is that no | q
N Fdo bore commission in the Rebel | n
my shall ever bear q commission in | c,
{, ur'ted States army. Ncycr (Cheers. | c:
4 he lever ought to. Now, murk you, we do | 7
t say that a private in the Confederate service
all nt do it. Many WHO were priyates in the | e
nfedtate army are now good soldiers IL the Ii
lion army. When you saw private in the Con- b,
1cEate army you did not know whether he was III
1scrtped, OF fofced or driven, or kicked into fu
e"sersi.e But you knew when yoti saw q man | y,
aringa commission that he did that voluntarily; cr
II lie vas volunteer tr:ti.os against the Gov tn
amen, Of the Dnited States on record IAN th
Euse.4 and he should never be trusted to ed
H. yol get two actions, OF which Is to drive OC
the olorcd men who fought On the Union side, tn
the cher is 70 bring in the other men OF tho | &C
nfcdc2tes, who did their best to destroy tina ! ca
~ Of fae United Suites. "a
Fnereis another thing why do not like the
ulocntlc party. 1t has too large an amount Of I ou
. ignorance OF this country In it. [Applausc. | to
", ira country depending for its government tn
nnlyrsat suffrage, i i very sad thou shs that fe
writ [Avoice-'s'T That's so;'' applause Sc,
tlallS q fact. and tn1lxinr firm, tho ,}n