Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-05

the Republican side, said it might be as well tt
do that as anything else. II the other side in
tended to flibuster until Ia O. clock. Tomorrow
| for the purpose of preventing one of theil
party friends from being brought to the bar Of
tho House, it might do 80 and take the respon
sibility for it.
The Potter report had to be withdrawn be
| cause the Republicans insisted on having tht
report with the views of the minority read.
The minority report on the Seward impeach
ment case referring the whole subject to tht
Judiciary committee was voted down, 50 to 100
and a separate vote was demanded on each Ol
the seventeen articles of impeachment
The question was then raised whether vote
! should be taken first on the first article or or
| the general resolution of impeachment, the Re
publicans claiming the former and Springer in.
| sisting on the latter. The Speaker decided in
favor of Springer's position. The question
and there were yeas 100, nays 17-no quorum
the Republicans generally having declined to
vote.
THE ARMY BILL.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, reported that the
conference committee on the army appropria-
ton bill had not been able to agree.
The question was raised on the Democratic
side that there was no quorum on the last vote,
| and that therefore nothing was in order but a
Cdl1 OI Tue LOUISE OF u mOUlOu Co auJOuru.
The Speaker decided conference reports could
be received pending call of the House. The
report was therefore read.
MIR. Hewitt of New York. on the suggestion
of Republicans, made statement as to mat
tiers in controversy. He stated that an agree
ment could be reached on all of them except as
to the presence of troops at the polls.
LEGISLATIVE BILL.
message from the Senate was announced
that the conference report on the legislative ap-
preparation bill had been disagreed to, and
asking a new conference. Mr.. Foster said he
thought he fully realized the Importance of
trying to come to an agreement on these bills
and saving the country the annoyance of an
extra session. With that view he had offered in
conference what he thought was fair basis
compromise or settlement. That was that the
Republican side of the House would agree to
the proposition embraced in the army bill and
would also agree to the jury clause in the legis-
lature bill, and that the Democrats should re-
cede from the clause known as the supervisors
and marshals' clause. They had been, how
ever, informed in conference by their Demo-
cratic friends that they could not yield any
thing.
Mr.. Garfield, in reply to Mr.. Hewitt, New
York, intimated that that gentleman had
drawn on his imagination in the statement he
made that the liberties of the nation were now
IN danger, or ever had been from the legisla-
ton it was proposed to repeal. He argued that
instead of being enacted to allow the military
to Interfere with the freedom of elections the
very opposite was the case. He was free to ad-
mit however, that they were passed at time
so different from the present that they could
possibly be mustered out of service without
doing harm in any direction.
But they were confronted not with that sole
and only trouble but with three propositions,
which his friends on the other side had put
upon the appropriation bills: First, the ques-
ton of troops at the polls second, the jury test
oath clause; and third, the election section.
these were the three things that prevented
them closing their work and shaking hands at
IL to-day, with the session ended, only to be
resumed in December next. He and his Re-
publican friends were willing to abandon the
first two of those difficulties to-day, to give up
the army clause and the jury clauses, but they
were not willing to give up the other. This
House had no right to say that the other equal
branch should yield all and the House Weld
nothing. He thought it fair and honorable
and just that if the other branch yielded two
of these points the House should yield one He
thought that the conference committee should
meet again and that there might be rendered
proposition to give up the first two points on
one hand and the other point here. He would
do all in his power to produce instant consent.
He had been distressed at seeing in this morn
ing's Washington Post an article to this effect:
I'VE are authorized to state for the benefit
of Mr.
HAYES AND HIS MISERABLE GANG,
and for the information of any possible Demo
GRAFT who may hesitate or feel weak in the knees
that if the worst comes to the worst there is an
in the House, embracing eighty
odd men, pledged in honor to stand by hIr.
Snnf ard md fho
hours Of the session rather than let the legisla-
tive bill pass without repeating the election
law. The fraud in the white house and his pals
are welcome to whatever can be extracted from
this information" He should be glad to know
that that was not true. He hoped that in spite
of that both sides would strike hands on the
proposition he had made.
Mr.. Clark-Which party has been flibuster-
ing all this evening?
Mr.. Garfeld-Nobody was fIibustering on an
appropriation bill.
The discussion was further continued by Mr..
Townsend, of Illinois, and MIR. Southland The
latter argued that the proposition made by his
colleagues Foster and EGarfeld) was really
yielding nothing, as the Republicans had said
all along they did not care for the two points
which they now offered to yield.
Finally vote was taken on the motion that
the House insist on its disagreement and it
was agreed to.
SEWARD AGAIN.
The Seward impeachment was again, at 8 A.
NJ, taken up, and a vote was taken on the reso.
luton. The Republicans again declined to
vote, SO that there was no quorum voted.
MIR. Potter suggested to Mr.. Springer that he
had performed his whole duty in the matter
and he should now withdraw the report.
After brief discussion, in which there were
some stormy passages, the House RECONSTRUCTED
the vote ordering the previous question, and
thus got rid of the subject.
POTTER REPORTS.
Mr. Potter then, at A. NJ, presented the re-
port of the committee on election frauds, with
the views of the minority and MIR. Butler. and
also report on the cipher dispatches. They
were ordered printed.
YELLOW FEVER
MIR. Gibson tried to resuscitate the yellow
fever bill and to tack it to the MCGOWAN
but objection was made
Mr. Blount, from the conference committee
on the postoffice appropriation bill, made a
supplementary report the provision for
double postal cards. Agreed to.
GEN. SHIELDS.
The Senate bill for the appointment of James
Shields as brigadier general on the retired list
was taken from the Speakers table and passed.
100 AAo, A"yo W, VuC OpSdhtE Young In the
affirmative to make the necessary two-thirds
majority.
BLODGETT.
Mr.. Knott, from the judiciary committee,
pressed the report in the Blodgett case with a
resolution that the charges against 81. E. Blod-
gett, United States district judge for the north
ern district of Illinois, be laid on the table. and
that the House take no action thereon. Mr..
Bragg insisted on having the report read in
full.
The Speaker sustained Bragg's right to have
the paper read, and much amusement was
caused by the efforts of an inexperienced read
ing clerk to throuuh tho maven Tho 80.