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'ublican Senate to agree, the bill fail

puDllcan Senate to agree, the Dill fall-
ed and the extra session in October
1877 was the result. At the regular
session of the Forty-fifth Congress in
1878, the Democratic House de-
manded legislation in the army bill,
prohibiting the use of the army as a
posse cOnaitdtus to execute laws. The
Republican Senate resisted for long
time, but finally yielded, and the
provision became law by approval of
the President. lii the last session
of the Forty-tifsh Congress, the Dem
ocrats of the House demanded the
enactment of certain clauses of legis-
lation in the army bill, and in the
Legislative, executive and judicial ap
preparation bill, repeating certain of
those obnoxious laws enacted by the
Republicans. The Senate being Re-
publican refused to agree to them,
and Congress expired without these
two appropriation bills having been
passed and the called session resulted,
at which all these demands were en-
bodied in laws, that were vetoed
but being altered and repassed, and
in part approved, much that the Dem
ocratic party struggled for was gain
ed. And as to those laws in which
the attempt to repeal them failed,
they cannot be executed not dollar
of the peoples money can be used
for that purpose. They are dead
sections and will remain dead, till
Gabriels trumpet is sounded if the
people shall endorse the refusal to
appropriate money for their execu-
ton.
In alluding to what the Democratic
party proposed to do in the future,
Senator Cocklell said: We propose
to preserve to the people and to per-
petuate IN the administration of the
General Government, freedom of re-
ligion, the press and speech, and
freedom from arrest of their persons
without due process, either hy SOL
diers of the army or officers of the
Government, either at elections or
elsewhere !; the right of election by
the people, unawcd and uncontrolled
by the presence of troops or armed
men at the polls, or of special Deputy
L. S. Marshals of elections; the alb
solute supremacy of the civil over the
military authority: the right of trial
by juries impartially selected; the
absolute acquiescense in the declared
will of the majority the encourage
ment of agriculture, the corner stone
of the worlds industry, and the foun-
dation of individual and general
prosperity and of commerce, it's hand
maid; the establishment of the BIZ
metallic system; the perfect equality
Of gold and silver as coin and bullion,
with unlimited coinage and legal ten
der power; the establishment of the
tariff on basis of revenue only, and
not for the protection of the few to
the oppression of the many; the SUBJ
stitution of United States notes for
national bank circulation, with re-
peal of the laws authorizing the char
ter or incorporation of any more ma
tional banks or the issue of any more
circulating notes hy thnn tho issna
directly by the general government
of all the paper circulation of the
country; the support of the state
governments in al their rights as the
most competent administration for
all domestic concerns and the surest
bulwark against all anti-republican
tendencies and the preservation of
the general government in its whole
constitutional vigor as the sheet an
chor Of our peace at home and safety
abroad, thus making of the general
and state governments an indissolu-
BILE union of indestructible states.