Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-02

section 800 Of the Revised Statute
(which applies to the State 0
Pennsylvania, and sections 8O1
$40 and 821 Of the Revised Stat
utes, and providing that all juror'
grand and petit shall be publicly
drawn from a box containing the
names of not less than 800 person:
possessing necessary qualifications
which names shall have been placed
therein by the clerk of the court
and the Commissioner to be ap
pointed by the Judge, which Com.
missioner shall be q citizen residing
in the district, and shall be well
known member of the princip al
political party opposing that to
which the clerk shall belong. II
also repeals sections 2,016, 2,018
and 1920, and all of the succeed
ing sections down to and including
3,027, and also section 5,422. 1t
also strikes out of section 2,019 the
words, "For the purpose of
engaging in the work of
canvassing the ballots" and
strikes out of section 2,O28 the
words, cor a Deputy Marshal" and
the words, "city, town, county and
parish" 1t also repeals section
2,031, except such part of it as re-
lates to the pay of Supervisors of
Elections. 1t repeals all other Sec
tions and laws authorizing the ap-
pointment of Chief Supervisors of
Elections and Special or Deputy
Marshals of Elections. The bill
was ordered printed and referred to
the Committee of the Whole.
The House then went into CONS
mittee of the Whole on the Army
Appropriation bill, and was ad-
dressed by Mr.. Belford, of Col
orado, against the sections forbid-
ding the use of troops at polls.
Mr.. Belford's speech was deliv~
cred from the manuscript. He de-
clared that in the contest which
Congress was now engaged, the
President might yield, but the Re-
publican party never. He charac-
terized the Democratic party Of the
North as cowardly and treacherous,
and warned the South against rely>
ing on it. All that the Republican
party asked of the South was respect
for the laws of the country. They
had been told that the Confaderates
had crossed the Potomac and seized
the Capitol. But the Southern pen
dulum would swing back, and in
1880 the Democratic party would
retire to the rear as it had done in
the past. He was followed on the
same side by Mr.. Humphreys, of
Wisconsin, who also read from man~
uscript.
Mr.. Muldrow, of Mississippi, ex
pressed his astonishment at the
means employed by the gentleman
from Ohio (Garfeld), few days ago,
to make party capital out of the
pending question. That gentleman,
standing on his record, had atteupt-
ed to make the people believe
that the Democratic party was
now seeking to carry out
legislation by different methods than
heretofore adopted by the Republi-
can party, which had set many such
precedents. His party was not in
favor of the resolution. They pro-
posed to resort to peaceful methods
and constitutional methods. Then
if the President desired to
stop the supplies Of the Gov
ernment the responsibility
would be on the President
and not upon Congress. He con-
cluded, that if the attempt to break
the chains of tyrany from the peo-
pie was a revolution, it was a revo-
luton which the people would ap-
plaud. But he hoped that the
President would not attempt to CO.
cree Congress. He hoped that in
America the spectacle |
would not be presented of the
highest officer in the land putting
himself between the operation Of
the Government and the geople.
Mr.. Chalmers, of Mississippi,
followed in answer to Mr.. Garield's
remarks of Saturday, and denying
that the statement of the latter,
that the Southern Democrats of
1861 had threatened to shoot the
Union to death. In answer to an
interrogatory by Mr.. Price, of
Iowa, "where was the first gun
fired ?" Mr.. Chalmers said the first
gun was fred near Harper's Ferry,
when Southern blood was shed on
Southern soil Loud applause.
WASHINGTON