Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-23

be stationed near large cities to anticipate
VOLTS and for the purpose of holding the people
IN terror. The place for the army was upon
the frontier. In the name of the great State
he represented he would say, Pennsylvania was
able to protect her own people from invasion
at all times, andaon all occasions.
Mr. Extraordinarily did you have them there
last year?
Mr.. Might've did not want the army to
come there. You sent the army against our
| will, llaughterI and it did no good. Troops
there did more harm than good. They only
excited the people. More jeers and laughter.
Mr.. Keifer opposed reduction of the army,
and intimated that one object covered up in the
grades to be made from other than those who
had served in the Union army.
Mr.. Cannon favored force of rs, 600 men.
he was tired of having apologies made for call
ing on the federal authorities to put down labor
| riots last summer. The people of Pennsylva-
MIA were not the exclusive owners of that State,
| and when their militia could not be depended
upon to put down those riots, the people for
thousand miles west of Pennsylvania whose
! business was interfered with by those riots,
sent up universal ''thank God,' when the
call was made upon the President for troops.
Mr.. Hanna warned his Democratic friends
that if under the pretence of economy they
robbed the people of the frontier and of the
territories of adequate protection, they would
not only deserve, but would receive the scorn
anu contempt OF every palrlOC IN Lne lana.
Mr.. Phillips asked Mr.. Bridges what he
meant by talking of holding Mexico RESPONSE
BILE for depredations.
Mr.. Bridges-If Mexico did not prevent these
depredations he would have war declared, and
then this country would get another piece of
Mexico and would 60 on getting slice after
slice until this country had the whole of Mexico
it ought to have.
Mr.. Phillips-Does the gentleman propose to
get his slice of Mexico by exposing the frontier
settlers to murder?
Mr.. Bridges-No, sir.
Mr. Phillips-Co Contemplating war, do you
propose to reduce the army?
MIR. Bridges-l ann willing to have sufficient
force stationed on the Rio Grande frontier.
Mr.. Cobb denied that the Governor of In
diana had, during the late riots, called upon
the President for assistance and no troops had
been sent to Indianapolis to suppress the
strikes. If they had been, collision would
have occurred at once, and much property
would have been destroyed. He repeated that
Governor Williams had not applied to the
President for assistance.
Mr.. Keifer-What did he apply to him for?
Mr.. Cobb-He applied to him for nothing.
Mr.. Baker-He telegraphed the secretary of
war for assistance. It he did not have
the requisite legal knowledge to make formal
requisition.
Mr.. Cobb-The governor Of Indiana under
stands as we'll how to govern State as the
gentleman or any of his friends.
Mr.. Garfield thereupon sent to the clerks
desk and had read the following telegram:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 26, 1877.
"Tosthe President of the United States:
I'm view Of the threatening at ag DOMESTIC DOMESTIC
strike, request that all authority be at once
given the commandant of the arsenal to render
me all aid possible in preserving the public
peace. (Signed) JAMES D. WILLIAMS,
Governor of Indiana
Mr.. Cobb stated that did not contradict what
he had said. 1t was simply an application for
arms
Mr.. Cain justified and defended the use of
troops in South Carolina at the last election.
Mr.. Haskell opposed reduction.
The committee rose and the House took a re-