The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-08
TIE WAY TO MEEf THE VETO.
Our Senators and Representatives Give
Their Views.
CoreYondence Necs aud C5urier.

Thinking our people would be interest
ed to know the views of their representa-
tives in regard TO the present state Of
affairs in Congress, | called last night
upon the several Senators and Represcn-
tatives in the order in which they appear
below, and obtained the following ex-
pressons of opinions. Only the sub.
st. zee of what was said in each instance
is iven, as a full report would be too
10. 6 for publication
SENATOR BUTLER
said, i'll substance, that lie thinks the re-
spective measures should now be scpa-
rated, and the President tried Mt once
with the so called political "ridcrs p
first with that one which is directed to
Statutes authorizing the use of troops at
succession. "He should have all the
ve.oing he wants" If the Republican
members choose to filihuster tliey must
bear the responsibility of an indefinite
continuance of the session No action
whatever should be taken in regard to
the appropriation bills until the Presi-
dent has acted upon the political meas
ures. He would be compelled to give
his reasons for yetuing them, and this
would put him on the defensive. When
the American people see him opposing
the majority simply for party purposes,
his course would be bound to recoil upon
him. The issue with him, upon these
riders, should be made as sharp and de-
cisive cs possible. If the Northern Dem
ocrats can't whip the fight in such issues
they certainly cannot upon any. Mum.
bers Of the Republican members have
declared that even they are ready to vote
for the passage of the riders if they are
brought up in separate form. Senator
Butler said in conclusion that this whole
fight ought to have been conducted solely
by the Northern Democrats for reasons
easily understood The Southern Dem
ocrats have acted in good faith in o II that
they have done in the matter. hut il wae
not their fight.
CONGRESSMAN TILLMAN,
who dropped in at this point, added that,
i'll his opinion, the best reason in the
world why the Democratic majority
should not stand on their present line is
The Southern people ought to have kept
silent and let them fight it out at the
North; the shoe pinches them more
chhh 49, 90 tSAiiy oil VI tdC StLiCo uHfltIk
over 10000 population are in the North.
Several of the Southern States have not
one. at is their funeral, not ours"
Hayes and his party have put
themselves on record in favor of the use
of the army at the polls, and we could
not have better issue if we desired one,
or had made it Tor the purpose. If
Hayes were to yield he would take the
wind out Of our sails. We can yield
gracefully; pass the army appropriation
bill and then say with truth and point !:
eve have done all we could to get rid of
this tyranny and disgrace, aud have
failed, and now. rather than show any
factious spirit, or show the semblance Of
one, we will pass the appropriation bill,
and let the people judge between the
two parties" This course would help
the South aud strengthen the Northern
Democracy as well.
CONGRESSMAN oCoNNoR
said that he regards the situation as a
very embarrassing one. think, said he,
an error was committed at the last ses-
sion iof the Forty-iiith Congress) in in
sisting upon the repeat, by way of n
rider upon the appropriation bills, OF
any more than the jurors test oath, and
the providing new mode for drawing
jurors in the U. S. Courts. When I
found that it was to be insisted upon
that the Federal election laws providing
for supervisors, along with the clause for
the repeal of the test oath and the inhi-
bition cf the use of the army at the polls,
were to be repealed; thought that it
would result in the failure of the appro-
priation bills and the necessity for an
extra session. In the Democratic caucus
held upon the reassembling of Congress
there was strong disposition to intro
duce these repeating measures separately
and submit them to the President for his
approval as separate and independent
enactments. But this course failed be-
cause it he'd been given out by the Re-
publicans that they were prepared to
take issue with the Democracy at every
step and fight them, point by point, upon
NIL these measures, whether introduced
separately or as riders upon the appro-
priation bills, and with this avowed pur-
pose on their part it was held by promi-
nent leaders of the Democracy who were
familiar with the rules of tho House that
there was no course left for them By
which 10 eject the repeal of the obnox-
ious laws save by putting them on the
appropriation bills as riders, for as inde-
pendent measures the Republicans, un-
der the rules of the House, could fiji
buster and stave off final vote indefi-
nitely. This resort of the Democracy
which was thus seen to be indispensable,
has been artfully used by the Republican
party in raising the cry of "Revolution,' u
! charging ita ini.isa..:o::. ::Poa tie Deruoc-
racy.
The impression, in the beq;a..i-g oi
the debate, among majority q, dispas-
sionate and bipartisan persons, was that
| the President would not yield to the
clamors of his party, and that, rather
than the appropriations to carry on the
government should fail, he would sign
the bills with the repeating clauses an
nexed, which clauses it was generally
admitted were harmless and not of great
Importance. The character of the de-
hAte which he's followed has been dc.
signed by the Republicans to solidify
partisan sentiment at the North, and
thereby, IL possible, build up q solid Sec
tional North for the purpose of party
| aggrandizement. The leading Repuhli-
cans of the House announced in the
course of the debate their Willingness to
vote for the repeating clauses of .he army
appropriation bill as independent meas
ureS, and it is we'll known that there has
been no objection to the repeal of tile
jurors test oath.
To-day we have the veto message oi
the President in which he disappr0ves OF
the army appropriation bill, not only for
the form and manner in which it has
been presented to him. but he disap-
proves of the repeating clause in SUBJ
stance. The legislative appropriation