The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-16
XLvI CONGREss--IST SESSION.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April Is,
Senator Hoar has esigned his position on the COM
mietee on agriculture, and Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin
on the committee transportation rates to the sea-
board, and Senator Bell was appointed in their
stead.
note was received from Vice President Wheeler,
saths that ne was called home owing to the danger
GUS illness OF his sister, and stating that it would be
necessary ior the Senate to elect president pro tenn
Anere oelng more Republicans than Democrats
PRESENT. motion Tor an informal recess was passed
IN oiue' " seno iof the absentees On re-assembling
MIR. Thurman was elected president protein.
MIR. anthony presented memorial REPRESENTING
the danger OF an Indian war in Oregon and else
where, and asking that commission be appointed
to adjust the difficulties
The following bills were introduced; By Mr.. AM.
son, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to
aot lands in severalty to Indians and issue patents
thereto. By Mr.. Plumb to provide for the increase
of the army in case of emergency
The army appropriation bill was taken I'M in tho
Senate Mr.. Logan addressed the Senate He
thought the question now before the Senate is more
important than any that has arisen since 1851 and
that the same sentiments which prompted the pres
ent legislation, expressed by many of the same men
now uttering them, led to the war. He denonnced
the proposed legislation as bad in ITSELF and as being
attempted by non-paramentary practices, The
spirit in which the legislation was attached to appro
pration bills was of more consequence than the
legislation ITSELF Its supporters felt obliged 10 resort
to violent means TO pass what was repugnant to all
tne friends OF good government. The Republicans
mad passed laws to save the government, but the
present attempt was to disable the government. and
though its immediate result would not be fatal, it
would the IN Irth
would overthrow our institutions He defended the
propriety of the use of tie veto power and quoted
President Pierces message accompanying his veto of
Dill In 1855 to show that Democratic doctrine had
then guarded the independence of the Executive as
whoiesome check on legislation. This legislation
would not stand on its merits but its supporters felt
oDged to resort to violent means to pass what was
repugnant to all friends Of good government. The
people would not be deceived by such methods AL
the provisions now advocated to protect the ballot
had been passed by Republicans, together with an.
other provision to keep peace at the polls, which lat
ter was now to be stricken out making the wholeIlaw
imperative, What good citizen would object to hav-
ing peace at the polls and why should not outrages
De suppressed on election day well as other days
Can 1t be that the promoters of this bill have an
interest in disorder at the polls in elections? He
thought it looked SO. An officer of the peace
NNJ~Se
There are already laws preventing military
interference at the polls and that fact shows that
the real aim of this bill is to get rid of civil
officers Of the United States at elections.
NO provision is now made to prevent the presence of
State troops at the polls, and the underlying idea is
only new form OF the pernicious theory Of State
rights which has assumed SO many forms to suit the
different times at which it has been advocated The
right OF General Government to preserve its own ex-
lstence could not be abrogated. In former DAYS f1
gitive slaves were recovered from the States which
did not recognize slavery by what was then recoe-
n1zed by the Democracy as the authority of Con-
stituton dominating all the States He had read by
the Clerk President Filmofes proclamation in 1851
Gaining Tor the restoration Of fugitive slave and then
cited the celebrated Burns fugitive slave case and
asked where the docttne of State Rights had been in
Gays when slaves were pursued by the forces of the
aenerai government into States whose citizens
wished to protect them from degrading bondage
lhe same black man, once hunted down, now asked
protection in the rights guaranteed him by law, but
state Rights were now sat up to take away his pro-
lection in the exercise of his privilege.
Mr., Beck followed Logan, and after short speech
yielded to voorhees, for a motion to adjourn.
A Joint resolution authorizing the painting of
Joseph Henry's portrait was agreed to-
Verbal amendments from the House to the refrig-
Grating ship bill were agreed to and the Senate ad
journed.
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