The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-05
Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
XIV CONGRESS.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-SenRtors Ogles- /
BY and Davis ILL., presented joint reso-
luton of the Illinois Legislature urging |
Congress to make sufficient approprl-
alton this session to complete the new court |
house and postoffice at Chicago.
Senator Oglesby, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported favorably the Sen
ate bill for the distribution OF land patents
to certain states where local land offices
have been closed.
Senator Edmunds said, that at the first
opportunity he would call up the Joint reso-
luton proposing an amendment To the con-
stitution prohibiting the payment OF claims
of disloyal persons for property Injured or
destroyed in the late war. The resolutions
we're not a part Of the legislative business,
but we're mere party tactics. 1t we de
clare their validity another senate would
have power to declare their InValidlty. Ii
was q dangerous attempt to cenrahze
power aud bring within the control OF Con
gress the civil rights of citizens which be-
| onged to the state. LII the supreme court
decided that the power claimed in the Civil
Rights bill exists then which ever political
party gets control of the government, has
almost limitiess and crushing power. Mr.
Edmunds said he concurred that all should
have equal rights, but differed as to the
manner of getting them this. Equality
| should cease to be hollow pretence under
(which minority might control the states.
THE Republicans always believed in the
rights of the states, but also IN the rights
of the union. He discussed the legal
phase of the ques tion, and deplored the con-
dition of some of the southern st ates, which
were bearing legitimate fruit of bank
) ruptey, ruin and distress
MIR. Whyte took the floor but yielded
for motion for an executive session, which
despite Mr.. Edmunds' opposition, was
, kagreed to-28 TO 18
After the executive session the senate
! adjourne d.
HOUSE.
r WASHINGTON, D. c., February A.
e | In the debate on the appropriation bull
( | in committee of the whole, Cox, OF n. I.
! submitted an amendment reducing tht
t army to 1900 men, and said that there
e was not a member on the floor who Gic
) not understand very we'll that but for GER
: tain menaces, aud but Tor sending out or
4 ders for troops and artillery to come Il
e Washington. the electoral commission
e would never have been created. Ilmlt
II citizens, money lords and land holders,m ,meI
i who are constitutionally afraid OF reyoiu
It ton. and men who would rather submit t,
10 fraud and wrong than resort tc yIolene
e and revolution, when that menace cam
= from the chiet executive, and when al
i arrangements had been made, as the,
a were being made now for 1880, had bee
# frightened, and that fright had been th
a. cause of the electoral commission. Thl
i menace had made some members OF tn
o House forgetting their manhood and a
[ that is dear to American citizenship sue
i cumb to a power that was merely phys
ID cal and not moral. Where did MIR. Mill
get his right to critieisc the Democrat
d action.
s; MIR. Cox's amendment was defeated
* lis to .66.
v. Mr.. Butler offered an amendment
r. require railroad telegraph liues to transm