New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-02


| ieets for which the extra session was called ,, -,
| When the doors rr0pcned, at $50 o'clock, the
| Senate adjourned until tomorrow at IL O'CLOCK.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr.. ATKINS (Dem, Tenn.) reported the
Legislative Appropriation bill 1t approrriates be-
tween SI5 900 900 and Sl6O0OO00 Under the head OF
Judicial" it provision repeating the last
clause of Section 500 OF the Revised Statutes
| (which applies to the State OF Pcnnsyvanal, and
| Sections SOL $50 and S2l of the Revised
Statutes, and providing that all jurors Grand ana
petlD snail be publicly drawn from box containing the
names of not less than 800 persons possessing the
necessary qualifications. which names shall have been
miss Sper to he appointed by the judge, the com
missioner to citizen residing III the district and
Tosjna that to which The clerk shall belong It
| also repeats sections 20l6, 2,0l9 and 1920,
! and ali of the succeeding sections down TO
aud lnci1aifg ~ q, s sec,ion oi9 t6e y",Js
" For the purpose OF engaging the work OF canvass
in the ballots" and strikes ont OF section 2OZs the
words, or deputy marshal ana me Words Ca55yy
except such part Of 1t relates to the pay OF upery-
Of elections IL repeais an otner SeetOns aod
elections and special or deputy maLShal5 OF
Committee of the Whole.
Mr. ATKINS offered "A resolution for printing In dozen
reut form those sections Of the Revised Statutes which
# is proposed repeal amend IN the pending appro
prIatlOn bills. Adopted
DEBATE on THE ARMY BILL CONTINUED.
The House then, at 1910 p. went INTO Committee
Of the Whole. Mr. Springer tDem I'D in the chair on
the Army Appropriation bill.
Mr BELFORD O.ep.. COLI characterized the action OF
the Democratic party In placing upon appropriation
bills the legislation which 1t proposed To place
there ~ an attempt force Mr. Tden into the White
House IN 1850. 1t proposed TO treat the Army in
ht is to place It upon reservations aud forbid
ing used 10 suppress riot tumult and anarchy
npon the day OF election. Was the preser
yatIOn OF the peace at the polls grievance Of
the Democratic party Were riot, tumnlt and anarchy
allies OF that party in elections HIS side OF tue
House did claim that tine Army should be used 30
should be armed win power to protect the citizen IN
fhe cxcrclse of his elective franchise. and auy Govern
men that restrained in the execution Of that power
was a disgrace TO the civilized world and unworthy to
he ranked among the family OF nations In the present
great struggle, the President might yield the Repub-
| can party never. The Nation could not endure
! If sectional bitterness were perhetuated lie
| from the Democracy OF the North That De-
| mocracy was cowardly 1t would incte its Southern
crisis came. During late years the pendulum Of power
had been swinging toward the SOUTH and IL might be
that ne Statues OF Lincoln and Grant would give place
To tn sc OF Jackson aud Lee but II would swing back
agoi1 and when $50 around and the millions In
the North who had fought FOR the Union had rallied
under the leadership Of the great captain, the revolu
tionary purposes the Democratic party would retire
| to the rear as they had retired in the past
| Mir. HUMPHREY Qep Wis., warned the Democrats
that the country would submit TO their party whip only
until s voice could be heard The North was massing
and yould present solid phaanx aid as sure as The
party cOntinuediu its course sure
would the election OF 1880 leave that party over
Mr. MULDRow Dem, MrssI expressed his astonisl-
ment at the means employed BY the gentleman
from Ohio-Mr Garfield Nepl-a few days ago
o 90 uon' That gentleman, standing on bis
! record, had attempted TO make the people believe
legislation by different methods tnan those he etOfore
adopted by the Republican party iLat parry had set
many snch precedents. In 1867 IL had placed
| on the Army APPROXIMATION bill provision
which struck aSsous at nS gg9su TSa2 sG
| gone further and bad placed on the same bill
| Union from organizing militia companies. That bill
had passed the House every Republican, voting for It,
and had been IN ~ gdSG the
been sent to the President and lad been sgned by MIN
Mr. KEiFER rep. Ohio inquired whether the gen.
| tleman from Mississippi Endorsed tlaI Protest
| measures had been unconstitutional, and lie would
always attempt Prcycut the passage Of unconStitu
| wished TO rcpea, had been placed on the Legislative
Appropriation bin. The gentleman from omo MIR
Committee in charge of that bill, and had rec,
Commended us passage; and 1t had passed. He
| His party was not IN favor OF revolution They pro-
PU s,6a6 10 Then ihe President desired 10 o t6e
supplies of the Government the responsibility would be
man from had done great injustice 10 the Preadent
and TO his high oice wnen he lntIDated that tAat
officer would veto the bill when passed Congress The
revolution which tho Democracy gagged In TO day
was not "a revolution which threatened to xiii the Gov
ern nIemt by blood starvation The revolution
repeal bad laws aud make laws. IL restore
to the country that Constitutional liberty which IL
had deprived for the past fifteen IT that
was the kind of revolution 10 which the gentleman from
| OHIO had alluded, he In favor Of gong
forward IN that programme II the attempt
10 break the chains or tyranny from the people
revolution, IL revolution which the people would
applaud But he hoped that the President would not
attempt tn Congress. He hoy ID that Republican
America the spectacle would not be presented OF the
hgncs officer ia the land putting himself between the
| OF the Government and the people.
| MIR. CHALNERS (Dem, Mlssl referring to the re-
mark made Mr. Garfield, Saturday. 10 the effect that
Congress had power over religion called attention 10
the fact that power had been gwen Ia provost
| narsbals To remove ministers and report them
! 10 that pious Individual, Benjamin f. Butter. He
WAS glad that there was one act OF radi-
| cal desp1tsm OF which the gentleman from
OHIO did approve. IL reminded HIM OF the Mctho-
dist sister who dld not much harm in jewery fac
clothes but who had draw the line somewhere And
Sister Jores, stands feathers" In the advance OF
the ~ publican uaTy IN &c spOtism, he glad
| Ion" The remarks made by that gentleman had
| shown that no had forgotten the history OF
| the laws which It was proposed TO repeal He
deprecated the attempt made 10 bacfen the names Of
Senator Powell aud ReveIdy Johnson, BY saying that
they had been advocates OF using the keep the
peace ~ the polls In reference tn Mr.. GaThuds slate
inent that Southern Democrats Of 1861 threatened
made no sucH threat. The gentleman was rs lar nom
| the truth OF history when he made that
| statement as he when he charged the Democracy
sOi with having advocated the clause III the law
which II was now proposed To repeal Tho South had
| claimed tho right Of peaceful secession, aud had ut
tempted peacefully to secede Tho Sonth has not only
made no threat shoot the Union DEATH but 1t had
SAID what Abraham said 10 Lot Let there be strife
between us IL you 90 to the North We Will 20 10 the