The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-22

ylelQeu 10 MT. Lamar, WnOi With peEMls-
sion of the senate, made an address. it
being understood that the bill forbidding |
the further retirement of legal tenders be
| considered tomorrow.
The senate went into executive session, |
aud when the doors were reOpened MIR. |
| Teller entered motion 10 reconsider the |
vote by which the bill to place Gen. Shields |
on the retired list of the army was lost. |
| hejected.
| Adjourned.
HOUSE.
| WASHINGTON, May 2I.-Mr. Sparks, a
member of the appropriations committee,
supported the army bill. The attempt of
the committee to Itorgenize the army had
been met with sensational rumors about
Indian uprisings There was no founda-
ton for those runors. Coming down to
the question OF 'he use of the army in
suppre$sing domestic violence, he had
read portion ii the report OF the secre
tary of war. in which he declares that the
army should be to the United States what
the police is 10 cities. If the secretary
meant that riots should be suppressed BY
the regular army he emphatically dis
sented Money monopoly might bring
about state of things which it was man
uUOu IL TSSIsty UuL "Htu IdDbE got pPyONu
its legitimate bounds, and became com
munistic and incendiary, then the great
, middle class would put its hands upon and
crush it ont.
Mr.. Phillips argued that the army was
needed 20 secure the frontier settlers, as
, they never had been secured. Within
, fifteen months two of the most terrific
Iudiap wars known in history had taken
| lnoo M III coi1 aHuro mould ho
no wars
, Mr.. Banning advocated the bill. He
. dissented decidedly to the sentiment of
General Sherman, that without the army
the nation would be mob, and to the Sec
retary OF wars report favoring the army
to keep down riots. He referred to the
charge Of dishonesty made against him by
Jay Gouids newspaper. the New York
Tribune. aud said there was class of
: communists who sat in arm chairs and
: stole railroads and wanted armies to pro
tect their theft aud keep their iIl-gotten
gains. Communism came from bad ad-
miuistration, credit mobiler, Pacific mail
subsidy, salary grab and the theft of the
presidency. These things led men to be
lleve that there is no honesty in public
affairs. He favored old time honesty il
. the administration of the government
;, The bill would give the country a better
y more efficient, and less expensive army.
Mr.. Caldwell favored the bill, but sale
the President only did bis duty in order
ing the regulars to quell the riots when 81
requested by the Governors last summer
: lie said incidentally that he had opposed
the Southern war claims and Texas Pacific
subsidy and had rather favored the pro.
motion OF foreign commerce. The peopi
OF the South were grateful to Presiden
re Hayes and no Southern Represenativ,
ID favored disturbing his title.
Ig The committee rose and the House tool
ID recess till evening. when the genera
lg debate on the army appropriation bill
ir will close.
ly EVENING SESSION. The house wen
into committee of the whole, Mr.
,e Springer in the chair, on the army sp
he preparation bill and was addressed b,
a. Mr.. Butler on the labor question. FL
D said the country was approaching
Id crisis which, if not guarded against an
Iprovided for, would produce a conditio
I'd OF affairs wherein constitutional con
b. siderations would be as powerless a
be they were in 1861. What was needet
1g was that the gift of land in the kome
in stead law should be made remedial
i'll La this time of present distress there ba
been no subsidies and no dividends, n
es Credit Mobiliers for labor, but only swea
OK and toll The expenditures of the go,
of ernment for the last FIVE years had aver
aged $445. 900, 900 year, not appropriate
g, but expended. and be challenged referenc
. to any substantial appropriation in tina
"a time tor the direct benefit of industri;
he classes. There was little time or interes
be expended in congress over the condition {
sis labor even in Federal courts. There ws
no protection for the laboring man. Thol
Dr., sands of laborers might be slaughtered, q
ne they had recently been in one portien
1t the country, and the country could nj
'm punish the criminals, and it was unconst
Dd tutional to use the army for that purpos
mt but if few laborers impeded for a fe
lhours or threatan 70 destroy commerce