Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-11
THIRTY-SlXTH CONGRESS.
Extra Session
The Senate.

duced by request a bill relating to telegraph
communication between the United States and
foreign countries.
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
Consideration was resumed Of the bill max
ing appropriations for Legislative, executive
and judicial expenses of the government for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1851, and for
other purposes. Mr.. Beck of the committee on
appropriations said the bill was substantially
as agreed to by the committee on conference at
the former session of Congress, with but few
exceptions.
Senator Edmunds inquired whether what he
called the political legislation is the same as
proposed last year, or did 1t differ by enlarge
meut or diminu6iOn.
Senator Beck replied that he not pre-
pared to answer, as he had not compared the
two positions.
Amendments restoring the compensation of
the Senate's officers, clerks and other employees,
which the House had reduced, were agreed to.
Senator Hill asked why the discus
sion had been thrust upon
the Countrywide legislation proposed be-
lug very simple, nothing more than the repeal
Of some portion of the laws enacted during the
late war. He had watched the discussions in
order to arrive at a motive which prompted it,
and was now satisfied that party in the coun-
try had entered upon well-or rather ill
considered but determined purpose of reopen
ing sectional agitation which so long disturbed
the people, with a view of consolidating one
section against the other for the benefit of
party without reference to public good. If the
bill should become a law it would not affect in
any degree legislation previous to 1865. If the
majority in Congress declare from this time
forward that the army and navy shall not IN
terfere with clectious they but re-enact wha
the custom, practice and law were before the act
offlS65. The countrytwas to be told the Demo-
Gratis wanted to destroy the power of the gov
eminent to enforce the laws. The speech of
the Senator from Vermont ought to be studied
ha Of ncn
between the two great parties now struggling
for the mastery. If the assumption that there
could be no protection to the country save by
the military arm should unfortunately ever be
believed by the country, the republic would be
at an end. He then alluded to persons who had
soiourned in the South and gone North to de-
liver lectures on the subject of Southern
wrongs and outrages, their statements being of
a grossly exaggerated character, and also re-
ferred to those who instigated the movement of
negroes to Kansas under false pretences and for
their own personal benefit, as they became
sharers in the money contributed for the relief
of the sufferers. The South had been maligned
in a hundred different shapes and forms fol. the
purpose of an.agonizing the North and to Sc
cure the Republicans in posses.
sistent earnest, arbitrary and dictatorial
purpose to induce the President to veto the
bill prohibiting military interference at the
pols. He never believed the President would
would lend himself to any such scheme. The
President signulizea his administration by the
removal of troops at the South, and therefore he
did not believe that the President would be
guilty of inconsistency by vetoing this bill.
The President declared in his inaugural address
that the man who best served his country best
served his party. He hoped the President
would rise above the clamor of those who are
seeking to revive sectional agitation. If he
should do so he would for the second time in
his administration show himself worthy OF
the position he holds, but if he should veto the
bill for party ends. the time would come when
the two parties would be face to face on the
great issues. which the. Democratic party would
meet with moderation but hrmness. The
Republicans, Senator Hill repeated, resort to
the veto because they want military IN order rae,
to keep themselves in power. Senator Hill
aft rmed that the tremendous contest before
the country had its origin and meaning IN the
purpose of the Republicans to obtain absolute
control of the States by force, in order to per
petuate their power, whether the people are
willing or not, and in furtherance of their pur
poses Of mastery. Republican speakers hae
been seeking to impress the country with thu
idea of the great danger to come from what
they call con federates IN Congress-. Ih
Senator from New York (Conkling) had pointed
out the members Senators and Representative
who were in the confederate service, saying
that because Of this the people Of the NORTH
were alarmed, but all the charges that the
were not loyal and, therefore, could not b.
trusted, were basel on the assumption tina
they were enemies of the Union. and, SHOULD
the government pass into their hands, ther
would be great danger to public liberties. l
the assumptions were true, the result was IN
evitable. If they We're enemies OF the Onlo
they had no right in Cengress-no bushes
here. If they were honorable men they ough
to leave. The people OF the North ought t
understand these things. He granted what tn
Senator from New York intimated. This gus
will not do, the Senator said, and this walkin
arm in arm and shaking of hands by confed
crates and Union men in public assemble
was we'll enough for Sunday school teacher:
Statesmen, said Mr.. Hill, want reason. TIL
representatives of the South were not enemie
of the Union, and therefore ought to be pre-:
ent. The Republicans opposed the repeal c
the obnoxious laws under the pretense tbs
the South was not to be trusted
How could it be that the South could not
trusted because it was proposed to repeal law
that had not been on the statute book fe
seventy-fve years before they enacted
Was the South not to be trusted because
wanted intelligence and virtue in the jury DO!
and because it wanted the army taken ava
from the polls, and because the South, throug
its Republicans, wished to prevent the contr
of elections by deputy marshals and supe
visors? Southern men went to war in Wind
cation of their convictions The South d
not secede from the union because they We
enemies of the constitution and union.
was driven into secession by the extremists
the North. The Senator from New 70,
(Conkling) called the Republicans of the Sout
confederates, and then notified the North tn
they ought to be alarmed because legislatit
was proposed by the same kind of men wi
were here before the He (HilD had be,
making count too, and strangely as the Sen
tor might think of it, of nine Representative
and two Senators from Georgia nine-certain
eight-were opposed to secession till it cam
and they stood up in that dark hour like M
for their convictions. They had no apology
make. OF the ninety-three Southern Rep1
sentatiyes and Senators about seventy-fve we
opposed to secession. He mentioned this
the purpose of showing how sound the Southe
people are. They are willing to be represent
by men true to the Union. Senator Hill tn
related some of his personal history. Sou
Carolina seeded in December, 1860. The pc
pie of Troupe county, in which he lived,
ouested him to serve their delegate in t
State convention Of Georgia. He accepted tt
trust in a letter. in which he said he would &C
sent to dissolution of the Union as he won
to the death of his father, only from necessi
that bad and extreme men we
fighting the Union, which ne1
harmed anyone. From those who we
destroying the government in their folly, tn
to give his children better one. His peo]
sent him to the convention without opposite
In January he had the honor to make the i
speech against the resolution in favor of sec
sion. On the 10Th of that month, when
ordinance vas framed, he wrote to friend