The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-24
WARNING UP IN CONGRESS-.
BLIINE PROTOKING SHIRP REPLIES
FROM DEMOCRITIC MEMBERS.


ENpiaIninx Rubeson aud the Election Laws
wAsutSGroN. April 29.-The proceedings /
the Senate to-day opened with renewal Of |
The -luabbe over tho one or two hundred Sen |
al, officers. The expiration OF the morning |
hour put an end to tho wranglng.
After some fencing between Messrs. Blaine |
and Eaton aud parley between Mr.. Coukling |
md Mr. Withcrs concerning the hour Of taking |
vote ON the Army Appropriation bill in which
Mr. Conkng disclosed his purpose to speak. /
Gen. Williams Of Kentucky addressed the Sem
ate. II was his first appearance ON tho Senate
floor Messrs. Blaine and Conklng seemed to
have formed the idea that Gen. Williams was
an imprudcnt stump speaker who would turn
out good grist for the Republican mill They
watched him for time like hungry hawks but
at length abandoned the hope of making any
party capital out Of the KentuckiaL. Ho spoke
without notes but with ready ease and so far
from furnishing points for his opponents.
talked MS Loyalty and cordially Of the old flag rs
though he had been thrty-two years younger
a Kentucky youth. following tho Stars and
Stripes up the cannon crowned heights Of
Cerro Gordo. Ho even expressed in strong
terms his great regret that the Northern people
had not sent n larger proportion OF their dis.
tinguished warriors to the Senate instead Of
clamorous politicians who after hiring substi-
array the sections against each other.
There was no regret. Mr.. Williams continued
on their part for the part they had played in tho
great drama of the war. Neither was there any
doubt as to their duty now. which was to sup
port and cherish the Government under the
Constitution; and. so far from being revolu-
tionists 1t would be found that the Confederate
Brigadiers were tho most conservative men in
Congress-. Nothing could again stir them up
into conflict. II, as the great prophet and
thinker Of the Republican party-Wendell Phil
lips-hnd said. the next rebellion should come
from New England. all the Confederate Briga-
diers would be found rallying round the old
nag to bring the seceding States back into
the Union. They would all be coercionists then.
The mission of the Democratic party was to re-
store the supremacy of the civil over the mill
tary power. and to set up again the boundaries
Government which had been thrown down. The
war had established some facts. II freed the
negro. and demonstrated the fact that major
ity OF the people were determined that the
Union OF States should be perpetuated. Beyond
this II gave the government no new right nor
took any away from the States. His party in
tended to observe the Constitution in its present
form and all other legislation.
Mr.. Jones Of Florida delivered o carefully
prepared and written speech. The Senator
from Florida has frank. manly countenance,
which lmpresses his hearers with the truth Of
what ne says; There Il nothing sensational or
usual. close. logical. and ausumentative. His
reply to Mr.. Blaine IA to the dangers Of the use
Of the army. and his recital OF the wrongs done
his own state. eliminating in the seizure OF its
vote 10y fraud and force to install usurper were
especially felicitous, AT the close Of n long and
wearisome debate he was able to invest many
otthe topics In new and attractive light.
Mr.. Blaine improved the afternoon 10 bring
be has been several days making ready. His
fierce attacks upon south Carolina and Louisi-
ana brought Senators Butler and Jonas to the
front, and aroused the ire OF Senators Randolph
and GI9ome.
fore the Teller Committee. taken in South Caro-
lima. showing that numbers Of white men came
around the polls hiring guns and Tightening
Cured ut divers polls in South Carolina, at
which there was no more freedom OF election
than there would be in any mob.
Mr.. Butler Is. CO asked Mr. Blaine II 1t were
not true that within the last three days an ac-
guittal had been ordered by the presiding
Judge in Charleston County in n case depend
ing on Just such evidence as that Just read,
after and went on to allude to tho idea that this
amendment WAS contrary TO the clause OF the
arms. Would il Be said. he asked. that arms
could be carried everywhere and always. in the
jury box. on the bench or in the Senate There
has never been free election, he continued. in
five Southern States he could name since the
Democratic party got into power; There was
this Congress than there would be in mob OF
roughs who should capture the polls IN the
in that State had been mere travesties on cleo
Mr.. Butler asked II the Election laws we're not
on the statute books when these trayestes were
carried on.
T.
the Supervisors and marshals mad been mobbed
and the Federal authority deiled;
Mr.. Butler denounced the Teller Committee
testimony rs false SO far as related to South Car.
DINA and said Juries in his state had sustained
Yes!' said Mr.. Blaine. and jury in Louie
lana did something or other There was peace
full election there too. only forty or nifty men
slaughtered, and Jury acquitted some OF the
Mr.. Jonas asked leave to explain about the
trials in Louisiana. They Were upon the very
tdned under the test oath. The United States
reports Of the Teller Committee as a guide in
questioning witnesses, and the accused were
acquitted. showing that tho testimony was
MIR. Blaine said the acquittal OF one man. OF
party OF men. did not after the fact that mum
Ders OF murders were committed.
Mr.. Blaine then read testimony showing that
Republicans were not fairly represented among
der state law in south Carolina by Gov. Hamp
ton, and that persons appointed as Republicans
We're really Democrats in disguise, q
Mr. Blaine then said there had been a good
deal Of what he might call chasseng around &
certain historical fact. and the Senators iron
New Jersey Mr.. Randolph and Maryland MIR
GruOmel, who were the very ones who had mos
reason to recall IT, seemed to have conveniently
forgotten 10 remember or remembered 10 for
get II in their remarks, lie meant the order by
the present Demo Tatic Governor OF New Jer
States Army. treaklng W the Legislature o
Mr. Randolph said Gen Mcclellan was ther
acting under orders OF his superiors apj die
his duty rs a faithful soldier That such order
We're poss ible "A strong argument agains
laws under which they could be given.
Mr.. Blaine said there was no evidence tina
Gen. Mcclellan acted under orders.
Mr.. GroOme said he had mentioned in hi
former speech the arrest Of the Maryland Leg
isature in 1861 and condemned that outrage
II was peculiarly unJustiilable, in view OF tn
fact that before the arrest the Legislature had
by vote OF SO to 49, adopted the report Of il
Committee on Federal Relations against seces
sion. He added that he would protest agans
such outrages whether committed by Demo
Gratis or Republicans.
Mr.. Blaine said that. ms no Democrat seemed
10 have cared 10 quote Gen. McClellan's letter O
instruction TO his subordinate officers. he woul
do so himself. He then read the letter.
Mr.. Morgan contended that Gen, Mcclellan
action was based on the orders Of the Secretar
OF War to Gen. Banks. but Mr.. Blaine sat
Banks was a subordn officer TO Mcclellan.
Mr. Blaine then alluded TO Mr.. Davis OF Hi
nois. lie said that Senator had. after poisn
himself. leaped to the Democratic side. Tha
Senator had said in his speech, 90 Drop all thi,
and try something Tor the relief Of the coun
try" Now" continued Mr.. Blaine, tina
Senator had been here three sessions and VIVA
measures for the relief Of the country nad h
proposed?" He regretted the Senator was no
now in his seat; but he denied to that Senate