Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-02
House Of Representatives.


WASHINGTON, April 1.-AIr. Atkins, of Ten
nessee, reported the legislative appropriation
bill It approp PIRATES between fifteen and six
teen million dollars. The bill contains pro-
visions repeating the last clause of section 500
of the revised statutes, which applies to Penn
sylvania, and sections 601, $40 and S2l, revised
statutes, and providing that all juries, grand
or petit, shall be publicly drawn from q box
containing the names of not less than 300 per-
sons possessing the necessary qualifications,
which names shall have been placed thereon by
the clerk of the court and a commissioner to be
appointed by the judge-the commissioner to be
member OF the principal party opposing that
to which the clerk belongs. also repeats Sec
tions 2Ol6, 2,O1s and 1000 and all of the sue
ceeding sections down to and including 2.027,
and also section 5, 522. 1t also strikes out Of
section 2,0l9, the words For the purpose of
engaging in the work of canvassing ballots"
and strikes out of section 2,028 the words. "a
deputy marshall y and the words, "city, town,
county, parish 1t also repeats section 2, 031
except such part of it as relates to the pay Of
supervisors of elections. 1t repeats al other
sections and laws authorizing the appointment
of chief supervisors of elections and special or
deputy marshals of elections.
The House then went into committee of the
whole on the army bill.
THE ARMY BILL.
Mr.. Bedford said: Having captured both
houses of Congress, it is proposed to complete
your conquest, and to force Mr.. Tilden into the
white house in 1880 by lacking him on to an
appropriation bill. To accomplish this object,
the army, like the Indian, is to be placed a
reservation. His side of the House only asked
the government should be armed with power to
protect the citizen and exercise his elective
franchise, and any government that was re-
strained in the execution of that power was a
disgrace to the civilized world and unworthy to
be ranked among the family of nations. In the
present great struggle the President might
yield, tho Republican party never.
The nation could not endure if Sec
tional bitterness were perpetuated. He
warned the South that it had nothing to hope
from the Democracy of the North. That De-
mocracy was cowardly. Is would excite its
Southern brethren on to mischief, and abandon
them when the crisis came. During late years
the pendulum of power had been swinging to-
ward the South, and it might be that the stat.
ues of Lincoln and Grant would give way tc
those of Jackson and Lee, but it would swing
back again. and when 1880 came around, and
the millions in the North who had fought fol
the Union had rallied under the leadership OF
the Great Captain, the revolutionary purposes
of the Democratic party would retire to the
rear as they had retired in the past.
Mr.. Humphrey warned Democrats that
the country would submit to their party WHY
ouly till its voice could be heard. The North
was marching, and would present a solid
phalaux, and as sure as the Democrrtic party
continued its present course so sure would the
election Of 1880 leave the party overthrown.
Mr.. Muldrow made q speech in reply to Gar
fields speech of Saturday as to the seriousness
of the crisis. He thought that the underlying
question would be regarded by the people as
still more serious, and that it was the right OF
the citizen to cast his ballot unawed and unin.
Inundated. He quoted against Garfield and tn
Republican party the precedent set by tha
party par in oGngssss bin on in 1853 gaong
which President Johnson in signing the bill
had protested against, and also the preceden
by the same party in placing on the s,fhdr.
civil bill of 1872 one of the measures which il
was now proposed to repeal. If, after tn
Democratic ma iority in both houses had exer
cised its constitutional rights, tho Presiden
took the responsibility of stopping supple
for the government, he thought the response
bility would be on the President and not OF
Congress. He hoped the President would no
attempt to coerce Congress. He hoped that i
republican America the spectacle would not b.
presented of the highest officer in the land put
ting himself between the operation Of the GOV
eminent and the people.
Mr.. Chalmers referring to Garfeld's speech
said the remarks made by that gentleman ha
shown that he had forgotten the history of Law
which it was proposed to repeal. In the las
Congress he had admitted that his party ha
enacted those laws, and was willing to hay
them mustered out of service. In 1857 til
Democratic party had wanted suspension
military domination, and they had asked for
in the very same language which was now
the appropriation bill. He deprecated the a
tempts made to blacken the names of Senate
Powell and Keverdy johnson by saying thu
they had been advocates of using the army
keep peace at the polls. In reference to Ga
fields statement that the Southern Democra
of 1861 Threatened to shoot the Union to dealt
he declared they had made no such threat. tt
South had claimed the right of peacef
secession and had attempted peacefully to S
cede The South had not only made no tire
to shoot the Union to death, but it had sa
what Abraham had said to Lot, LET there
no strife between u.s. If you go to the Nor
we will 90 to the South. It was the North til
said, You shall not go. You sent grand arni
after us. You he1nmed us in by land and sc
You not only threatened to shoot, but you sh
ua to death With the battle cry of the "co
stitution as it is and the Union as it was" y
rallied the whole North. without regard
party, in defense of the old flag.
Mr.. Price-Whose was the first gun fire
Applause on the floor and in the gallaries.)
MIR. Ohalmers-The first gun was fired NJ
Harpers Ferry, when southern blood was sh
on the southern side. cloud applause on
Democratic side and in the galleries.)
The chairman gave notice that it su
demonstrations were repeated he would orc
the galleries cleared.
Mr.. Bruce-The gentleman must know tt
John Brown and his sixteen men were I
fighting to destroy the Union, and the first G
against the Union was fred at Sumter.
Mr.. Chalmers went on to say that if the p