The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-30

for the benefit OF all and. because gentlemen
did so. their conduct was characterized rs reyo-
lutionnry, and unrtnking Of their action in 1860
and 1861. II they saw ilt to speak for liberty at
the polls. were they to be denounced us revolu-
iionury and wanting to starve the Government
Ho reminded his friends on tho other side that
they were In n large minority. To be sure they
had tho President. but everybody know how ho
became Presd
1t came with an IN grace from any Republican
10 say that the provision was improper because
it WINS put upon an appropriation bill. The Re
publicnns themselves had passed many moas-
urss in the same way. IL had never been con-
sdered revolutionary but, on the contrary. rs
protection against arbitrary power to attach
legislation TO appropriation bills. Tho Demo-
Gratis wanted the jury box purified. the use OF
the troops Mt tho polls prohibited, and the ro-
which put il in tho power OF marshals and their
deputies TO corrupt the ballot box and intimi-
daio honest voters
placed upon them by the Republicans. Some OF
them his party proposed TO repeal at tho pres
ture time (which. he thanked God. was no, lar
distantl When all the departments OF the Gov
eminent were in the. hands Of the. Democrats,
then the gentleman from Ohio lMr. 0arfeldl
would witness that revolution which was always
going on when a Republican officer was to DO
put out Of Office. Laughter on the Democratic
Mr.. White tRep... Pa remarked that in the
John Brown raid Robert y. Ice was sent up
with the military but. hearing OF disturbances
in Maryland. he had gone there to make
MT DhA0bOb-InA eASnh 0t2kApCul Shed
gentleman once marched into the gentioniiIf'' q
own State. and the Legislature never invited
Mr.. white-Yes. and tho friends who are
working with the gentleman Mr. McMahon)
did not assist in driving him out.
-. MIR. Warner tDem.. Ohiol-l beg pardon.
There are gentlemen on this aide who did help
To- drive him out. Applause on the Democratic
Mr.. white-They do not make majority Of
the gentlemans party.
Mr.. Narner-I say further that we stand by
the same fiags and the same guns that we did
then.
Mr.. Chalmers Dem. Miss.l narrated tho his
tory OF the law OF 1S65-thnt II was introduced
now proposed to leave il; that on tho motion OF
Senator Pomeroy OF Kansas. tho words Ito
keep the pence ut the polls " were inserted; and
that every Democratic Senator voted against
the Insertion OF those words. Applause on the
Democratic sidel
Mr.. spnrks-1ho gentleman from Ohio did
not tell MS that
Mr. Wood dem. n. " said that tho author
ity conferred on the Executive. under the law
Of 1860, to keep the peace at the polls. had been
shnmeIully abused: that the construction OF it
by the Executive had gone far beyond the au-
thority and Limitation OF keeping peace mt tho
polls; that the troops had been used to intimi-
datc and TO compel tho voters 20 follow ENccu-
tive dictatlon, He said that no small part OF the
power Of the Republican party had boon de-
rived from tho abuse OF that little clause in the
act Of 1865
This closed for tho day debate which ex-
cited the deepest interest on the floor and in
tho galleries-it being regarded as the opening
Of the great parliamentary contest upon which
hllsd with an attentive and occasionally excited
audience.