New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-27


throughout the chamber, and all eyes were turned
to him as one who spoke with authority in Mr.. Til
dens cause but Mr.. Field disappointed them. He
entered into constitutional argument, and stated
his belief in the bill wise, patriotic, and cOnsti
tutional. He INDUCED in little fight Of rhetoric
about the flag that waved the Senate during
the whole of Wednesday night and furled rs
the sun rose in the morning and the bill passed
by that body but its point difficult TO discover.
John Young Brown of Kentucky, who acquired an
unenviahe reputation during his first term in Con-
gress as an extreme fre-eater and who has been
laboring during the whole of the present session
the side of patriotic conservatism, took directly OPP
posite views from his colleague, Blackburn, and
recognized IN the bill prospect of peaceable solu-
ton of the pending difficulties and chance for a
triumph of the Constitution
At the very minute when the hands Of the clock
pointed to ive the Speaker announced that the vote
must be taken. Several attempts were made to
offer amendments but Mr. Payne refused 10 have
any of them considered. The bill was ordered to a
third reading without a division. On the final
PASSAGE the Yeas and Nays were called, almost
every man was in his seat, and profound silence
reigned throughout the hail. There was great sus
pense during the % minutes required to obtain the
sense of the House. Nearly every member answered
to his name when first called, and after the
list had. been completed Speaker Randall
rose in his place and said that he demanded his
stituOnal right representative of the State of
Pennsylvania to vote upon this question. This
caused little ripple of sensation it is a right
which since the DAYS of reconstruction has been
very seldom asserted. The reading clerk called the
name of Samuel j. Randall, and when he responded
"Aye" there was little burst of applause on both
sides of the House.. The result then announced,
at 800 o'clock, there being 191 in the affirmative
and Sc in the negative. The bill is passed." de-
clarcd the Speaker; the title will stand
ported"
No full analysis of the vote in the House is neces-
sary. As in the Senate in the House the bill was
much more generally supported by the Democrats
than by the Republicans only Is of the former vot-
ing in the negative, while 159 recorded them
selves for the bill. OF the lS only one, Mr. Hurd of
Ohio is known as q strong constitutional lawyer,
unless Proctor Knott chairman of the Judiciary
Committee is placed in that category. Five of the
Democrats who voted in the negative, or more than
one-fourlh of the whole number, were representa-
tives from Kentucky. Three were from Ohio three
from Alabama, and the remainder distributed
among the other States. Among the Republicans
the vote was more than two to against
the bill, 80 in the Affirmative to 90
in the negative. All of the Ohio Republicans except
Mr.. Foster followed the lead of Gen. Garfield and
voted against the bill. The Indiana Republicans
stood two IN favor to four against and those from
Iowa, five in favor to three against. The Michigan
Republican delegation equally divided, and
only one Republican from Illinois voted for the
measure. From New-England there were five Re
publican votes in favor of the bill to II against it,
the entire delegation from Maine, except Mr. Bur
leigh and all the Republican Representatives from
Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut voting
No. In the Republican delegation from New York
there wero four votes in the negative, those of
Mcssrs Baker, Lapham, Townsend, and Williams.