New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-25

continued to reappear, while settlers
in the vicinity shun the spot as
haunted, and say that the winds
from the meadows bring piercing
cries for help to their ears.
Our Washington Letter.
Washington, D. G. June "A, 1879
Ii a mob of street loafers had un-
dertaken to legislate for us they
couldn't have done much worse than
the Democrats have this session.
Leaving out their disloyalty and
their passion for medicious mischief,
and there is enough remaining of in
efficiency and stupidity to rule them
out Of intelligent Legislators. The
general appropriation bill got up by
them and forced through the House
is a fair sample of their handwork.
1t is a tumble which, if it becomes
law, will puzzle the Dept offices
tor months to enterpret. Not a
sing lie clause in it is Ineligible by
it self. So anxious were the Confed.
crates to avoid all appearance of
taking the vetoed bill minus the DO.
litical clauses for fear of being ridi.
culed as having backed down, that
they have laid themselves open to
ridicule in the worst manner. When
the bill came up in the Senate yes.
terday, the Republicans had a jolly
time poking fun at it, and Senator
Beck, Of KY, had to acknowledge
that he was ashamed of it, but his
colleagues would not let him offer a
substitute. Senator Blaine severely
criticised the. form of the bill, saying
it actually appropriated nothing at
all, and the Senate Committee had
to amend by inserting the necessary
appropriating clause. He thought it
little short of a disgrace for Congress
to send such a thing out as an appro~
priation bill. He read some Of the
language of the bill, and, amid the
laughter which followed, said if peo
pie didn't know where this language
was used they would think It was
taken from some joke book. Yet
this was what came from the House
as an appropriation bill. He thought
a good motion would be to kick the
whole thing under the table. Sen
ators Conkling, Window, Hoar, and
others also tried to laugh it down,
but it was useless. The democratic
caucus had marked the line of con-
duct to pursue, and the bill was forced
through.
The Objectionable political legisla-
ton had been taken off this bill, and
placed on what is called supple
mental bill to provide for the courts.
1t prohibits money being paid to e.
lection supervisors and marshals, but
of course repeats no law and only has
effect for one year, or during the ex.
istence of one appropriation bill. It
is intimated, however, that the Pre-
sident will veto the bill, and also the
Army bill, prohibiting the payment
of troops used at the polls, not be-
cause they may be of any effect but
because they set bad precedent,
and because it is the duty of the Ex-
ecutive to guard against the en-
croachments of one department up
on another as these bills plainly are.
The democrats evidently fear he
will, for they still hesitate to say
they will go home and leave the is.
sue with him, apprehending that the
President might promptly call them
back to finish the work they have so
bunglingly failed to do this session.
Ben Hill got his reward when he
undertook to reprimand Senator
Blaine for what he called a misre.
presentation Of the records Of South
ern Senators and particularly the
valiant Ben's Hill had denied that he
voted for the original secession or
dinace Of Georgia, and asserted that
what he did vote for was a plan to
postpone action on that instrument
Senator Blaine showad by the rebel
records that Hills plans for post
ponement contained humiliating
conditions to be imposed on the
North as u consideration Of Georgia's
remaining in the Union. Hill de-.
manded, in short, that slave holders
should be allowed to carry slaves
wherever they chose, and the North
ern States should be forced to pro.
tect slave property when thus trans.
ferred; that no restriction should be
placed upon the spread Of slavery;
that the slave code Of the Southern
States should be part Of the crimi-
nal code Of all the States; that North
ern men should be responsible for
the enforcement Of the fugitive slave
law; that the u. S. Govt should
never attempt to coerce a seeding
State (the independent Republics Of
South Carolina SC. as Ben Hill
called them) and that IN short the
Northern people should consent to
establish the nfederacy over the
Federal Govt. Hill was entirely
usedsup and made q pitiable figure, as
other Confederates have, IN trying
to explain q bad record.
The Greenback craze has received
several set backs this session, but
none SO severe as the Senate's refu-
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