Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-20

TO-. 1879.
Republican party had disappeared as dew be-
Tore the rising sun. The South would be solid
| Tor the Democratic candidate for President in
| 1850, law or no law, supervisor or no super
visor, United States marshals no United
| States marsbals.
| MIR. Butler said the South could not elect
resident. Something else was necessary
| what was it? The State Of New York. There
was the requirement for the repeal of this law.
| New York would have to be carried by the
| Democratic party in 1880, and New York gen
| tlemen knew perfectly we'll that with this law
on the statute book New York could not be
| carried for the Democratic party.
Mr. Wood-New York will be carried by the
Democratic party.
j Mr. Frye went On to state that it was the
election frauds in 1868 that had originally
caused the enactment of the federal election
law, and that it was the present necessity of
the Democratic party in New York that now
required It's repeal. He gave some of the fig
ures OF naturalization and election frauds in
New York in 1868, and characterized that cleo
ton as the most monstrous and marvellous
fraud for wickedness and for every
device of the devil that had
ever been heard of. He showed that on
|
preme court had naturalized 2, 100 persons, and
on the 18th of October the supreme court had
naturallzed 9l9, and yet Judge of Louisiana
mad been lmpeached and found guilty for hav-
ing naturalized some 400 persons in one day,
that being declared to be physical impossi-
blllty. He spoke of nine witnesses, one cap
tain OF squad, witnessing the naturalization
| OF nearly 1000 persons, one of them, the cap
! taln, being witness IN court for $50 per-
sons, and swearing that he knew all the men,
! while he did not know single one of them.
and while the judge knew that he did MT, but
that ne was drunken thief. In conclusion he
quoted from Cox's report on the New York cleo
ton in 1876, in which high compliment is
paid to the United States supervisors and mar
shals.
| MI. Hooker called attention to the fact that
section 2,O2l provided that supervisors, in the
| absence of the marshal, should absolutely be
made marshals, and in addition to their powers
as supervisors, they were entrusted with the
| power OF arresting parties without warrant of
! law.
Mr.: Hinkle supported the amendment, an d
stated his willingness to bring his rations on
tne moor OF the House and remain there day
after day and night after night, rather than
vote for a dollar to defray the expenses of the
government, until the odious laws in regard to
supervisors of elections were blotted from the
| statute books.
Mr.. Hanna characterized the attempted re-
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trine of States rights to fix it's poisonous fangs
In the heart of the republic, as another blow
at the doctrine that this country was nation
and not mere confederation of States The
amendment was brought forward in the inter
est of force, fraud and intimidation, and as a
vicious attack upon the purity of the ballot
Had it come to this, that the Democratic party
IN order to save from felon's doom certain
members Of the Forty-sixth Congress who. as
1t was said, would not be here if
these sections continued in force, were obliged
| to repeal the laws which threw a safeguard
was done the people of the North would in due
time awake to the peril of the hour and crush
the hope of the men who sought to control the
Democratic party.
MIR. Lynde defended the movement. He de-
MED the statements of Mr.. Frye as to false
NATURALIZATION papers IN New York, and asked
why 1t was it there were SO many false natural
| ization papers in 1868, that not one person had
| since then. been successfully prosecuted for
issuing them. He believed that the greater
part of those naturalization papers were valid
The election law had been got up by John J.
partisan purposes The way IN
which the law had since been administered
by Davenport was sketched and criticized by
him to prove that all these statements Of
election frauds We're gross exaggerations. He
characterized the Lawrence report Of the cleo
his facts and figures, as the most unreliable
political document he had ever seeu
| MIR. Baker. Ind, expressed the opinion that
his friends on the other side, who declared
themselves in favor of the freedom of cleo
| tions while they had their hands on the throat
OF the law that secured it, were protesting
little too much. Underlying the discussion
was the question which had eliminated in re-
belllon-whether or not the life Of the nation
can be protected by the nation itself.
MIR. Chalmers said he was reminded by the
speeches of the gentlemen from Indiana. Han
for his text, Peters wife's mother lay sick of
a fever (Shouts>on the Republican side, s'We
| heard that before; its old.'')
Observation-Disclosures you heard it or not, YOU
must hear it again. The time has come. said
| the preacher, when that old woman would GER
| talnly be dead. Chalmers went on to say that
as history was often found repeating itself, so
| it was now found that just as the nations of
Europe joined together to rescue the holy
sepulchre from the infdel the Democrats now
joined hands to rescue the constitution from
destruction at the hands of the radical Repub-
| ican party.
Mr.. Keifer characterized the amendments as
an attempt to establish free fraud in elections.
he spoke OF the Democrats as political econo-
clasts, and of Samuel ]. Tilden as the great
ravisher of ballot boxes in 1878, and as they
had just been told that history sometimes
! repeated itself, SO the country might come to
handed war.
MIR. Wood recited the history of the laws
Which were proposed to be defeated. They
were but portion Of the series of laws passed
in order to keep the Southern Sta ties as a sti-
pendlary of the Republican party, that had
been intended for the South but was now ap-
piled to the North. The gentleman from
Maine, Frye, assumed to speak for his party
when he said that he would resist by every
means IN his power the repeal of those laws,
He (Wood) could not speak for his party, but
he could speak for man when he said that
ne did not care what became of the appropria-
ton bills. He believed there was a higher
question tn an that of appropriatipg money.
He could stay in the House as long as any gen
tleman. The Democratic party could resist as
long as the Republican party, and he would
not consent to vote for dollar until this
amendment should be engrafted on the bill.
Mr.. Garfield said he had not spoken on the
points of order because he did not regard the
question as one that was being considered de-
hberately. Ordinarily this was hall of DELHI
Grafton, but now they were called upon mere
~ to register the edict of party caucus under
the rule OF person who was under orders to
decide that the amendment came in under the
rule.
This remark caused an immediate explosion
of anger on the Democratic side, and there
were calls to order, and demand that the OBJ
noxlous sentence be reduced to writing and
read at the clerks desk, but the chairman. Mr..
Blackburn, wished that no point of order
should be made, but that he (Blackburn)
should be permitted to respond, and that wish
was acceded to.
MIR. Garfield proceeded with his speech, ex-
hibiting in its delivery much feeling and de-
termination. He said: The chair will perfectly
understand that mean no reflection on him
personally. Derisive laughter on the Demo-
cratlc slde.) What l mean to say is that where