The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-12-26
Conversational.
FORTY,FlFTR CONGRESS,
BLAINE's RESOLUTION ADOPTED
WITH THURMAN'S AMENDMENT
IN THE SENATE.
The House Passes the Deficiency Postal Bill
After q Spicy Debate
SENATE.

Washington d, G December H.
The Vice President presented communication
from Secretary OF Treasury In reply to BtcRs reso
luton Of December 81, calling for information az
TO the amount of silver coin received from Gus
toms duties, aud II applied to the payment OF In
terest on the public debt etc. The secre aiy raAs
rnits report from the Treasurer Of the United
States on the subject. ordered to lie upon the
table and be printed,
The Senate insisted Hpon lbs amendments to the
Military Academy Appropriation bill and Nessrs'
Allison, Blaine and Davis Nv, Va were appointed
a Committee on Conference
Mr. Plumb from the Committee on Military AZ
fairs, reported with an amendment the bill re-
Gently introduced by Mr.. Paddock providing
that the posse comitalus clause In the Army Ap
propriatlon bill shall not be construed as apply
ing to the army employed In the protection
Of life and property In the States and Territor.
les subject to Indian invasion. Placed on the cal
endar.
THE CONSULAR BILL PASSED
Mr.. Window, in explanation OF the Consular
and plomstlc Appropriation bill, said as II came
to the Senate 1t appropriated 81 O457S5. The SEN
ate Committee addt SS2 100 and az now reported
the bill appropriated $4,000 less than estimates
for the new fiscal year The committee had re-
stored the salaries Of the Ministers to Great Britain
France Russia, Germany Spain, Austria, Italy
and other plae es, Various amendments proposed
by the committee were agreed 10 without discus
sion. The bill then passed.
Mr.. Window reported, with amendments the
Pension Appropriation bill Placed on the cal
endar.
BLAINR's REloLUTION CONSIDERED
Consideration was resumed Of the Blaine reso
luton regarding the constitutional rights OF ciu-
zens.
Mr. Merrimon read prepared speech in reply
to Mr. Blaine He spoke for peace, harmony and
breaking down Of all sectional feuds.
Mr. Wallace said he would have arrayed the
Democrats of the Senate solidly against this reso
luton If he could, for it could bring no results
and the people were sick Of sectional and political
agitation. 1t wa not true, as charged by the
Senator from Maine, that thirty five members had
been given to the South since the war by reason Of
the negro vote. The act Of 1872 only added twep-
ty. The figures given by the Senator from Maine
were base upon population and not upon voters,
and the same irregularities that he (BIsine) point
ed out in the South existed In the North These
are the results of our system and must be borne.
We could not deprive the States of representation
II we could Pennsylvania might suffer, for
masses Of Vsters were turned away from the polls
there for non payment of taxes, The only safe
methods for the settlement of such wrongs wasby
contests for seats The laws recognized no other.
He referred to the conduct of elections in Pnila.
delphia, and said Republicans or Republican
ma ayers placed at every poll in that city deputy
uaishaS, many of them of the most diTeputable
character, TO drive away voters. A SubServieut
legislature had taken from the Sheriff of Phila.
delpha the power to appoint deputies because he
happened TO be Democrat No Omatler what was
done, let results come, such was the Republican
rule IN Pennsylvania. The negro voter was pro
videi by them with tax receipt, and white men
VINO were too poor TO pay their taxes We're driven
from the polls
He argued that the condition of the South was
infinitely better than 1t was five years ago The
country must be content with It's progress through
which the capacity of the negro for self-guvern.
me could be fully tested
The question then being ION Blaines amendment
Offered yesterday, authorizing the committee to
take testimony aud admin STR oaths, aud visit any
portion OF the country when such visit may III
their Judgment facilitate the object of inquiry, it
was reed 10 wthOuC divsiOn.
TIE Question then being on passing the resolu- |
ton az amended, Mr.. Wnyte spoke against the
resolution. lu the course OF his remarks he
referred to Know Nothing times, aud asked
where the Senator from Maine (Blaine) was
then
Mr.. Blaine said he was quite a young boy al that
time.
Mr. Wbyte doubted if that Senator ever was |
young boy Certainly In politics he is the old boy |
now, There was peace aud good order in the |
Senate befure the Senator from Maine was trans |
planted here from the other end of tue capitol,
Mr.. Whyte then told AL amusing story related |
by one KIT Hughes, who dreamed he was IN the |
realms OF his Satanic Majesty when Satan made |
his appearance with hu e pitChtOrk and great |
noise. yelling that the place was not big enough |
for Bim aud Kit Hughes, and his friend from
Maine reminded him Of that story. The Senate |
did not desire these scenes all the time, and II the
Senator from Maine desired TO keep the country |
IN huOhub, he (Nhyte) hoped he would return |
to the other end of the CAPITOL In the place which
another senator described as bear garden, but
OF course he would not say anything like that.
Let these political questions be postponed until |
the next Presidential election, and then we
would have chance at the Senator (BlaIue) him.
s,f
Mr. Morgan made lengthy speech ir opposi-
ton to the resolution, and said he supposed the |
Senator (Blaine), under parliamentary usage
would be Chairman Of the Special Committee
Mr.. Blaiue said he had already announced he
would not accept the chairmanship.
Mr. Morgan, continuing, said the Senate might
not excuse the Senator he for one would vote
against exeusiug him. Let him father this invts-
iigatiOn, which belonged to no one else. He de.
Tended the Southern people, and denied that
there had been any discrimination against the
negro On the contrary every hing nad been
done to qualify him for citizenship. The negroes
voted with the Democrats because they were con-
Vinced that the Democrats were honest and de-
sired to d. right by them He gave notice that
this investigation should be a full and fair one 1t
must go into Pennsylvania and see what had
been done there; into Massachusetts, New York,
and out west to Colorado and Nevada
Mr.. Teller denied that there had b-en any fraud
on the part Of Republicans in Colorado, aud in.
Vited the fullest investigation.
BLAINEs RESOLUTION AS AMENDED ADOPTED.
I The question being on the resolution Of Blaine
as amended, it was agreed tO-yeas, 26 nays, 6
as follows: