Daily globe., 1879-04-06
FORTY-SlXTH CONGRESS-.
Especial Session.
H0WSe of Representatives..

I.
in the Chicago Inter- Ocean of an interview
with President Hayes by Mr. Davis of Chicago, |
and said there effort made to coorce the !
President into the extreme measures OF the |
extreme members or his party yet
Chicago had just given Democratic |
msjorlty OF 1923 to Carter Harrison. In place |
of putting ranrods into the Presidents back |
bone all the marrow and stiffness had been |
taken out of the Republicans. That Demo-
cratic victory in Chicago was the first popular |
response from Republican city, and it was
startling in it's character Mr.. Caswell remind
ed Mr.. Sparks that the day Wisconsin
gave an increased Republican majority of over
5000. Mr.. Bragg responded, eliciting loud ap-
plause from the Democrats.
Mr.. Lowe moved to strike out section 6. Mr..
Conger suggested that if that were done his
side would aid IN passing Immediately without
debate a separate bill repeating entirely the So
called Objectionable section of the statutes.
Mr.. McMahon, speaking for himself, repudiated
the proposition.
The issue was whether or not in this country,
this free country, this great republic, the armed
soldiers, the paid servants of sovereign people,
were to come to the polls to drive sovereign
people away. That the issue. ''Gcntle-
men," Mr.. Sparks said addressing the Repub-
ican side, 'you make the issue. We go to the
country upon it. We mean to stand upon it.
We know the sovereign power that stands be-
hind u.s. stands behind you, and the Prcsi-
dent; governors and Congress must all yield,
and the sovereign people are with U.S.
Caswell inquired whether Wisconsin had not
shown an increased Republican majority
of six thousand votes. Nlr. Sparks
replied that Wisconsin was hardly important
enough to consider. He was talking about the
Republican city of Chicago.
MIR. Caswell inquired whether his friend did
not recognize that the Greenbackers had helped
the Democrats to carry the election in Chicago.
Mr.. Bragg, in answer to the first question of
his colleague said the Judge of the supreme
court who had been elected in Wisconsin by
11,GO0 majority had not been the nominee of
the Republicans. The newspapers of the State
had dis carded the idea that there should be any
politics in the election, and members of the
bar belonging to the Democratic party had sup
ported him, and now he would like to ask his
colleague why he and his colleagues on the
Republican side we're sustaining the right to
employ troops when Republican Wisconsin,
where the people were free, had law which
prohibited the military from being reviewed or
called out, or organized, for two days prior to
the holding of election, under penalty of
fine of $500. Applause on the Democratic
side)
MIR. Caswell admitted that Judge Cole had
not been elected by party caucus. but would
his colleague deny his opponent had been the
choice of the Democratic caucus of the leglsla-
ture of that State2 That issue had been made
squarely between the Repu blicans and Demo-
orsts.
Mr Chittenden followed and said when you
repeal these laws you disfranchise not only the
weak and ignorant, in every part OF the coun-
try, but in all the large cities you disfranchise
men who have not the courage to meet desperar
does and hulldozers and blacklegs at the polls.
hold in my hand q letter from the last Demo
cratic candidnte for the Presidency, now dead,
to the present Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent, who still lives, and ask every man on
the floor, without regard to party, to read it.
It is ten years old, but it is perennial-a living
,,H 4hn
bottom Of our free institutions
and it will last and endure
while honesty and the ballot box are sacred
he then sent to the Clerks desk and had reac
extracts from letter sent to Samuel j. Tilden
chairman Of the Democrotic committee, by
Horace Greeley.
Mr.. New moved to strike out the sixth Sec
tion of the bill and to instruct the committe'
to report it to the House with the recommends
tion that it be withdrawn a separate bill.
After some discussion the vote was taken OF
Mr.. News amendment, and it was agreed to
yeas IS, nays 4, the Republicans refraininE
flom voting.
MIR. Gillette offered an amendment providin!
that no appropriation made by this or any othe
bill, and no deficiency occasioned thereby, shal
be deemed by the secretary of the treasury a
ground for increase of the interest-bearin
debt of the United States. Ruled out on
point of order.
GIr Lowe moved to strike out section 6 O
the bill which contains the proposed report.
Mr. Conger suggested to his friends on th
other side that they should agree to strike ou
the section, and then so far as the committe
could recommend to the House, should recon
mend the passage of a bill repeating entirel
the two sections of the statutes. He though
he was authorized to say that if ON the CON
mittee he would rise and recommend to th
House the introduction of separate bill r.
pealing the two sections Ne the revised statute
30 far as his side of the Heuse was concerne
it could be passed without debate, and withor
delay, leaving the army appropriation bi
without any Objectionable feature.
Mr.. McNlahon said III 1865 the party which W.
represented by his friend from Michigan ha
claimed almost unlimited power with troop
The law not only denied that unlimited pow'
but put the seal Of crime on officers who vi
lated it, and he wanted to keep that law ther
and for that reason, speaking for himself alon
repudiated the proposition. Discussion fo
lowed. in which Haskell, Cox, Conger al
Price participated.
MIR. Cannon moved to strike out the wor
'scivil' where it occurs in the sixth sectlO
and spoke in favor of the proposition.
Mr.. Finley moved the amendment.
MIR. McCord remarked that the Democrat
side of the House did not recognize that the
could be any such thing as armed enemies
the United States, and asked the members
the other side who were in rebellion and W.
we're armed enemies of the United States,
rise up and show their hands. No one rose, al
McCord accepted that, amid much laught
As proof of the correctness of his position,
went on to say the country was sensitive on t
question whether not the Democratic par
was patriotic party, and confessed that Il
experience of last week rather strengthened
suspicion that it not a patriotic party.
Soon afterwards debate on the bill a
amendments closed and voting was resume
Mr.. CannOn's amendments were rejected
yeas l22, nays 1877.
Mr.. Baker submitted an amendment MAXI
it penal offense for any person, by mera
or threats, to disturb any meeting assemb]
for a lawful purpose in any campaign for
election of members of Congress or to endea,
to procure by menaces division of time
speaking. Ruled out of order.
Mr.. Rrewer submitted an ame1
ment providing that nothing C.
tanned in the bill shall in any way limit
right or power of civil officers Of the COVE
ment to keep peace at the polls at such ti1
as are prescribed for the election of memb
of Congress. Rejected; yeas, IT'S; nays, 1856
MIR. Conger moved to substitute for sect
six the following: That sections 2,OO2
652s. revised statutes be and the same
hereby repealed. Rejected; yeas 109; ma
1856
Mr. Caswell moved to strike out the port
of the section providing for penalties.
The question recurred on the motion m
by Mr.. Love to strike out the whole of sect
ak. Rejected; yeas, l22; nays, l35.
The committee rose and reported the