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THE FORTY-FOURTH CONGRBss.-
SECOND SESSION.
HOUSE.
Mr.. TowNsEsD's SPEECH ON TIE COMPROMISE


States of Louisiana, Florida CT South Caro-
| lima that there is Giificultly, and when the
| question in regard 10 them is settled the
whole difhculty is no. settled not bit of it.
| The question Of Colorado remains. Every
| democratic press in the country, includ-
ing that managed by the gentleman from
Kentucky, (MsrtersoG), declared for weeks
that Colorado had elected the demoeratio
ticket. and that her three votes were Sc
cured for the eminen. citizen OF Gramercy
Park but by.and-by it turned out that
the vote Of Colorado was republican, and
then all at once it was ascsrtained that
Colorado was not q state, and had no vote.
When the delegate from the Territory Of
Colorado retired, the House refused to re-
ceivc the Representative from the state of
Colorado and kept him here for two
months like Mahomet's S coffin between heaven
and earth: and | should like to know
from the judiciary committee where in
beayen's name he is. But there is more
light shed on this question, and that light
Is from that prominent luminary. CrOnin's
nose. loud laughter.) The democratic
party, the great constitutional party.
the great strict cOnstructlOnist party,
has had Cronin here to enlighten the peo-
pie, and they found out that that light
was led with oil, not of naphtha but with
oil that came from New York, fed by q
young man named Pelton. nephew and
private secretary of the eminent citizen
Gramercv Park. (Laughter.) The upris-
ing of 1861 was simply because the demo-
cratic leaders were likely to lose the profits
Uf oitce and Tor nothing else. They failed
in it. and now in 1877 we are brought
face 10 face with a similar state OF things.
The republican party has elected Hayes,
and the democratic party wants Offices.
They are hungry. their followers are hun
gry. This House Speaking respectfully
was hungering on tie fourth Of December.
1875, and has only grown more hungry
since. daughter That is the difficulty,
that is the trouble about the constitution,
that is the trouble about counting the vote.
that is the cause OF the great distress of the
country. | am asked whether | will vote
to entrust the power of counting the votes
to one man. That is the very thing
which this bill. doe=. Four judges of the
supreme court are to chose fifth Judge,
and he is to be the Colossus of Rhodes, who
il to span the ehasm. 1t is one man whom
t5e constitution chooses. The man fixed
upon is Judge Davis, of Illinois. The de-
mocrats want fair count, and in order to
ensure Its being perfectly fair and unbiased.
the Mephistopheles of Gramercy Park
has sent an order to Illinois that the de-
moerats in the legislature should elect him
United States Senator. Not that there is
anything wrong in that, but simply to make
Judge Davis unbiased and now simple re-
publIcans are asked to throw the power of
the country into the hands of this judge,
whom the democrats have taken great pains
to show to be unbiased. | shall not vote for
any such unbiased arrangement. The whole
nf "a Tod htr
house. For my part, am well enough sat
isfed with the laws and constitution as in-
terpreted by Washington, By jefferson. by
Adams, by Madison, by Monroe. without
dissent in their day. II any one else wishes
better Interpretation of it, | say God speed
to him. l am satisfied with the old law
and must adhere to.the constitution Of our
fathers as they understood it.
THE GENERAL DEBATE.
Mr.. Knott opposed the bill. lie enter
tanned the opinion there was nothing in
volved in the presidential question which
demanded or justified the measure under
consideration, even concedlng that Con-
gress had the right under the constitution
TO pass such bill, which in his opinion it
had not.
The debate was continued up to five
o'clock. when, the time for general debate
having closed, Mr.. Payne rose to move the
previous question. Before making the
motion, however. he allowed to be read an
amendment which Mr.. Hopkins, OF Pennsyl-
ysnis, proposed to offer, the most Impor-
tant point being to refer to the Commission
all tue testimony taken by the committees
oil either House. Mr. Payne refused to
allow the amendment to be offered, and
unAral fba Than n
effort was made by Southland to get in an
amendment which be had suggested, in
regard to Colorado. but was met with loud
calls for the regular order and Payne
insisted on the previous question The
previous question was seconded and the
main question ordered. Mr.. Payne having
the tnal hour 10 close the debate, Welded
portion of his time to Mr.. Walker, of
Virginia, who declared he would give the
bill his cordial support. lie had been re-
qutsted by his constituents to vote for 1t
and on this occasion the constituents and
representatives were in accord.
After some further debate Mr.. Payne.
chairman of the committee which reported
the bill, closed the debate in q brief but
earnest speech, in the course of which he
said, although the danger of civil war has
been fippsntly sneered at. there had been
danger of such war, with which no war in
ancient or modern republics could have
compared.
The debate being closed, the speaker an
nounced that the vote would now be taken
on the final passage of the bill. The clerk
proceeded to call the names OF members
amid the most intense interest and excite
ment. Ths speaker announced that he
would exercise his constitutional privilege
and vote as the representative from Penn
sylvania. He directed the clerk to call his
name and his response of"aye," was greet
ed with applause. Finally the count was
completed and the result announced rs
follows:
YEAS l9l NAYS So.
There was bot slight manifestation on
the announcement and then the spectators
left the galleries and one of the most i'm
portant and exciting sessions of the House
closed at 5:25 p. IN.
THE VOTE.
The following is the vote in detail;
Yeas-The Speaker. Abbott, Ainswort5,
Anderson. Ashe, Atkins. Bsgby. Geo. A.
Bagley, John ii. Bagley, Banning, Beebe,
Bell. Bland, Bliss, Blount. Boone,
Bradley. Bright, Brown. (Ky), Buckuer,
Bnrchard, (Wis.), Burleigh. CahilI, Cald
well (Tenn.) Campbell. Gambler, Caulfsld,
Chaplin, Chittenden. Clark. (Hy.). Clark,
(Mo.). Clymer, Cochrane. Cook, Cowan,
Ccx. Crapo, Culberson, Cutler. Darrsll.
Davis, Davy, Debott, Dibrell. Douglass,
Dursnd. Eden. Ellis, Faulkner. FELTON,,
Field. Finlan, Foster. Franklin. Fuller,
Gunter, Hamilton Ind }. Hamilton On. J),
Hancock. lardenhergh. Harris Mass. .Ilar-
ris (Ga j., Harris IVA. Harrison, Harrridgc,
Hartsell, Hutcher. Hasborne. Raymond.
Henkle. Hereford, Hewitt IN. " Hewitt
Gala. J. Hill, Hoar, Holman. Hooker. Hop
kins. Hoskins, House, Humphreys, Hunter,
Huntop, jerks, Jones IN. H., Kehr,
Kelley, Lamar, Lsnders (Ind.), Landers
Conn.,. Lane. Leavenworth, Lemoine,
Levy. Lewis, Luttrell, Lynde, Msckey,
Marsh, McDougall, McCrary. McDill. Nc
Farland. McMahan, Meade Metcalfe, Miller,
Money. Morgan. Morrison. Mutchler. Neal.
New. Norton, % 'Brien, Oliver, Payne. Phelps,
Phillips (Mo.) }, Pierce. Piper Piatt. Potter,
Powell. Rea. Reagan, John Reilly, B
Reilly. Rice. Riddle. Robbins; IN. C),
Robbins (Pa.). Roberts, Ross IN. U,
Sampson. Savage, Sayer, Scales, Shleicher,
oeelye, ,Sheakley Southland. Sparks. Springer.
Stanton, Strait, Stenger, Stevenson, Stone.
oWhnn, IaluOA, lee>e, leTrJ, Iuoupsou,
Thomas ,Thackmorton. Townsend Pa. Tuck
sr, Turney. Vance IN C), Waddell, Walker
IN. ". Walker (ys.). Walllng. Wslch.
Ward. Warner. Warren, Wstterson, Wells
(Mo. Wells Miss ,Whitehouse, ,whitthone.
Wike, Willard, A. 5. Williams (Mich),
Williams (Del.); W. B. Williams (Mich),
Willis, Wiltshire. Wilson (W. W, Wilson,
Qa.). Wood IN. Y J. Yalls. Young.
Nays-Baker lind. J, Baker IN. Y J, Bal
low, Banks, Blackburn. BLAIR. Bradford,