Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-20
BLAIR'S ATTACK.
He Denonnces the President and Wishes to
Seat zj1den In the Latter,s Place.

He DenOMnces the President and Wishes to
Seat Zitden u. the Latte,'s Place.
ANNAPOLIS, February 14.-In the House of
Delegates to-day the unfavorable report of
the committee on federal relations on the
memorial of Montgomery Blair to Congress
to reopen the electoral question and ascertain
judicially who was elected President, came
up as the special order.
MI. Blair proposed substitute for the
unfavorable report of the committee, as fol-
lows:
"Resolred, by the house of delegates, That
the installation of person as President of
the United States who was not elected to
that office, by counting for him the electoral
vote of several of the States upon returns, OBJ
tanned by the use of military force, and
VIGOROUSLY false and fraudulent, and so de-
clared to be at the time by the highest judici-
al tribunal Of one of the said States, COM
posed of the political friends of the person
SO installed, is regarded by this House as a
fragrant usurpation.
Second, That, by acquiescence in this
usurpation, and, on the deposition of the
President elected by the greatest majority
ever cast by the men whose fathers founded
this government, by failing to supply the
legislation required to enforce the judicial
investigation of this fraud contemplated by
the electoral bill itself, or otherwise to pro
vide for the peaceful assertion of the rights
of the people, Congress sanctions and invites
its repetition in the future and endangers
the peace of the country and the stability of
Republican institutions, and continues an
administration which, by reason of the want
of confidence of all parties in it, has not the
power, if it has the disposition, to correct
ent paralysis of industry and widespread
bankruptcy are due, and thereby insure the
continuance and aggravation of these evils.
Third, That it is manifest that this ac-
quiescence is attributable to they same cause
which led to the blishment of the electoral
commission, by which the House of Repre-
sentatiyes was deprived of it's constitutional
power to defeat the fraud consummated by
that measure; and the presence of a Demo-
GRAFT in the cabinet of the beneficiary of that
Fraud and the relation to the administration
of the Democratic leaders IN Congress who
assented to the electoral commission, explain
and fix the responsibility alike for the resort
to the electoral commission and for the con-
tinued acquiescence in its result
Mr.. Blair then addressed the House for an
hour in an earnest and bitter speech de-
mandatory of the electoral commission and
the seating of President Hayes He spoke
of the value of Mr.. Tilden's public services
in New York; declared that he had been
elected President because the people felt that
his advent to power would give assurance of
the revival of the economical and Union
school of Democracy, and claimed that the
direct proof that Hayes was counted in by
virtue of an arrangement with a portion of
his political opponents was clear. The un-
disputed statement of John Young Brown,
published in May, 1877, established this.
There were many indications rendering it
absolutely certain that the only question as
to the betrayal of the people was simply as
to how it was to be done, and were Tilden
to be declared President it would not require
sixty days for the people to indorse the ac-
ton. There is not disputed fact nor a
d0u full point of law involved in the pro-
ceedng under Mr.. Fields bill to seat Mr..
Tilden. His political adversaries now desire
to give him his seat. His So called political
friends only stand; in the way,T.and they fail
to assert his title and yendicate the rights of
the people because they now enjoy patronage
and power under Hayes which they appre-
bend they would not enjoy under Iilden.
Other speakers followed Mr.. Blair, but
without coming to a vote the subject was
laid over and made the order for Thursday
next.