Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-15

Democratic side on that point, and show
whether the federal government would be
allowed representation at the polls at all ex-
cePt by two men of straw, without any power
who can merely look on. He would go 80 fur
as to say that if the bill went through in it's
gard to marshals and supervisors would be
worth nothing, since there would be no power
its provisions. We are told, said
Blaine, and it is rather a uovel thing, that
if we do not agree to the bills as offered we arc
announced in both branches of Congress-, he
supposed on the authority of the Democratic
caucus. Not merely the army appropriation,
they did not stop there, but in the legislative
bill, as it comes from the caucus, there was
an appropriation for defraying expenses of the
supreme court. circuit courts and dis
trict court of the United States,
of the revised statutes be repealed. He had
always understood that the government was
divided into three distinct departments, the
legislative, executive and judicial but now the
legislative branch struts forward and says If
the executive does not sign the bills it offers it
will starve the judiciary. This was carrying
the matter further than he had ever known it
to go before, and besides starving the judiciary
the other side would refuse to appropriate a
dollar for the expenses of the capitol
buildings and grounds, for public printing or
for Congressional or library. The department
be proud for it's conduct of its foreign affairs,
was to be disabled and our diplomatic relations
must cease unless the President signs these
bills. The beacons and warning lights on IT,
900 miles of coast must 60 out, the mints
of New Orleans, Denver, San Francisco and
Philadelphia must stop. The pension bureau
must suspend operations. All executive func-
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throat in highwayman STYLE and commanded
to stand and deliver in the name of the Demo-
cratic caucus.
leading Democrat, an eloquent man, who
had courage, frankness and many good quail
ties, boasts publicly that the Democrats are in
power for the first time in eighteen years, and
that they do not intend to stop until they have
wiped out every vestige of Republican war
measures. Forewarned is forearmed and the
Democrats began properly on a measure signed
by Abraham Lincoln. The picture was striking
one, and strange time had come when men
fresh from the battle fields of the rebellion
took their seats here and proposed to repeal
the laws enacted while they were trying to de-
stroy the Union.
The vice president of the confederacy had
stated that for fifty or sixty years preceding
the rebellion, from the foundation of the gov.
eminent, the South, though in minority, had,
by combining with what he termed the anti
centralists in the North, ruled the country,
and in 1866 the same gentleman said
in speech before the Georgia
legislature that by a return to Congress the
South might repeat the experiment with the
same success. He, Blaine had read that speech
at the time of it's delivery, and had little
thought he would live to see the prophecy full
filled, but now we see these meas
ures matured in Democratic eau
Gus in which the South has an
overwhelming majority of two-thirds in the
House and thirty out of forty-two Senators,
three of whom, a positive AID pronounced
majority, participated in the war against the
Union either in civil or military situations,
so that our legislation is shaped and
fashioned by caucus in which the ex-con-
federates have majority, and Mr.. Stephens
prophecy is realized. Very appropriately the
Congress, controlled by the South, says to the
President, the remaining branch of the govern
ment elected on Republican principles, in op-
position to the party now in power that he
shall not exercise his power to veto bill.
They asked if we call it revolutionary, con-
tlnued Blaine, to put amendments on an ap-
preparation bill. OF course not. There has
been great many amendments put on such
bills, some mischievous and some harmless.
but I call it the audacity of
resolution for any Senator of Representative.
or any carcns of Senators or Representatives,
to get together and say that they will have
certain legislation or stop the departments of
the government. That is revolutionary. ]
don't think it will be revolution 1t VIII be a
revolution that will not revolve.