Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-04-05
THE EVENING STAR.
IA ph1DAH April :. a
CONGtS ENSsONA0.
O0ooeessS0n Of Yesferd0v's ProoasAx~~s.

HOUSE.-After our report Closed
Mr.. DE La Matyr entered his earnest protest
against the whole spirit, manner and purpose
vtve dead and buried issue. 1t was an effort
to turn the attention OF suffering people from
most vicious S system OF financial legislation,
interests OF freedom demand that this war of
sections cease, at once and forever AS TO the
and the modification OF that, for the reason that
they are expressive OF dangerous tendency
towards undue Capitalization OF power.
Mr.. Jones (Texasl, greenbacker, next made
speech condemning the principle OF placing po-
ntlcal legislation OR appropriation bills.
Mr.. Wright pa, greenbacker, asserted the
night night OF the House TO engraft on appropriation
bills other necessary measures OF legislation.
lie predicted defeat in 1850 for the party that
raised the dead and buried issues OF the war.
MT Hawley next spoke. He SAID Congress
Bau met In extra session 10 discuss two import
ant appropriation bills, appropriating ABOUT
Si6,O00Gt0 for the support OF the government,
without the passage OF which the government
could not theoretically live. Each OF these bills
contained provisions not essential 10 the pur-
pose asserted in their title-placed there =.
compel the President TO accept them. Ii any
BODY knew the Presidents purpose IL WAS "a [
to be announced here Members OF the dols
were TO vote as they deemed best for the ecu
try. Members o. The republican side OF TIE
House had the right to say that they would O
10 further I'm this deblte. but would coniet
themselves With an infleXible, unvarying NAV
to the END OF the chapter. He conlended tina
itSt SoNS WAS flOj Il SDheTHUeli Win
out force. Without the power 10 absolute
crush down resistance no government could
exist. The American army was a safe one: l.
had always been an honorable one. The da ager
In this country was not from the element OF
force; 1t was from the weakening OF the eKecu-
i've power and from the drawing into the eyls
iatlve BODY or all the functions OF government.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hawley said that IL the re-
phplicanS had done anything wrong il has been
from zeal (Which he hoped God will pardon) for
HOeTty, freedom and Tree ballot.
MT. tucker next Sp0np He arq1lad that there
was nothing In the constitution or I'm the rules
Oh the House TO prevent the passage OF this bill
WHat right has any member (alludng to Mr.
Gafheld1 TO say that the President would object
70 the rules OF proceeding In the House? WHAT
right had the President TO object to the mode
OF proceeding used by Congress? That manner
was TO be prescribed by Congress alone The
PRESIDENT could not veto the bill on account OF
sne meIhod OF It's passage. IL must be on the
MeItS OF the Oil, and what were those merits?
Ihey took away from his excellency the right
10 preside with his troops at the polls In n Vas
power oi congress and 1t was Its duty 20 do
What IL was now doing, II was bound to stand
there forever. He would tell gentlemen on the
other side that in the conflict between power
and liberty, If power would not yield lib
matter in which there was no free consent
In the sense OF the absolute consent OF the
MIND was there any I'm 1861 when Andrew
Johnson had been compelled to sign an appro-
priat1on bill for the army with provision by
which he abdicated his constitutional preroga-
tive as executive? The House was bound to do
privilege to hold the purse Ia hand as a means
OF redTeSslng grievances The army would die
on the $Ctn OF June unless Congress would re-
store 1t by legislation. Congress would restore
IL without giving TO the President the power to
keep the troops at the polls. 1t was not queS-
tlon OF repeal, 1t was question OF re enact
give money for the support OF an army to be
USED as keepers OF the polls at so-called free
elections. He liked the army In its place but
us place was not at the polls. The great danger
Straa
the cartridge-b0X would be exchanged for the
bailot-box. Would his friends, Garfield and
Hawley, vote for the propo ed repeal as sepa-
Mr.. Garfield would vote for a repeal OF
these clauses If they were brought up separate
", but not to make them as you propose to
make them.
MI Tucker, continuing, said his friend stood
on the very narrow ground that on its
merits the law should be repealed, but on ac-
dent ought to veto it. He was In favor OF an
army, the servant, not the master OF the peo-
pie. He had no purpose in view but to make
the I Mon glorious Union among the nations
OF the earth, and to make the government a
success for the liberty, prosperity and indie.
pendence OF its people.
AT this point the general debate closed and
the bill was considered under the fiye minutes
rule.
Mr.. GARFIELD said he had never denied that it
was either revolutionary or unconstitutional to
put rider on an appropriation BILL What he
said In 1872, and what he said now, that it was
revolutionary In the democratic party tc refuse
TO let the appropriation bill be voted on. The
majority had Alright (however indecent lie might
lie as a mat OF parliamentary practice) I'd put
a rlder On The appropriation bill and pass It. He
denied that he or any man on his side had
threatened veto. 1t would be Indecent to do
It. In the course OF further remarks Mr.. Gar
field expressed his Willingness TO help the demo-
Gratis to wipe from the statute books the law
authorizing the use OF the army at the polls. but
urged that a bill for that purpose should be in-
| troduced In the regular manner.
Mr.. Baker offered an amendment making It
| unlawful for any person TO nave on his person
| EIearns, bowie knives, clubs or bludgeons in
| the vicinity OF place where ali election is be.
| ing held.
| The chairman, in ruling out Mr.. Bakers
amendment as not germane to an army bill,
encountered good share Of opposition from
| Mr.: Conger, against whom he threatened to
call in the services OF the sergeant-at-arms to
which Mr.. Conger replied with defiance Fl.
| naliy. however, angry passions subsidized the
| committee rose, and the House, after ordering
all debate On the bill and amendments to close
at 1880 saturday, TOOK, at $40, recess till II
! O'Clock today