Daily globe., 1879-02-20

}RUARY 20, 1879.
Republican party had disappeared as dew be-
fore the rising sun. The South would be solid
for the Democratic candidate for President in
1851, law or no law, supervisor or no super
visor, United States marshals or no United
States marsbals.
Mr.. Butler said the South could not elect a
President Something else was necessary.
what was it? The State of New York. There
was the requirement for the repeal of this law
New York would have to be carried by the
Democratic party in 1880, and New York gen.
tlemen knew perfectly well that with this law
carried for the Democratic party.
Mr.. Wood-New York will be carried by the
Democratic party.
Mr.. Frye went On to state that it was the
election frauds in 1868 that had originally
caused the enactment of the federal election
ia" ana that 1T was the present necessity of
the Democratic party in New York that now
required It's repeal. He gave some of the fig
ures of naturalization and election frauds in
New York in 1868, and characterized that elec-
tion as the most monstrous and marvellous
der;oa dEaGd for r. wiekedness ek and for every
uS'AOo VI Iuo ueFll that had
ever been heard of. He showed that on
the 9th of October, in one single day, the su-
preme court had natuialized 2, lO9 persons, and
on the 18th of October the supreme court had
naturalized 919, and yet Judge of Louisiana
had been impeached and found guilty for hav-
ing naturalized some 400 persons in one day,
Joat peing declared to be physical impossi-
nlilty. he spoke of nine witnesses, one a cap
tain of q squad, witnessing the naturalization
OF nearly 7,OOO persons, one Of them, the cap
tain, being witness in one court for 986 per
sons, and swearing that he knew all the men,
While he did not know single one of them,
and while the judge knew that he did nst but
that ne was drunken thief In conclusion he
quoted from Cox's report on the New York cleo
tion in 1876, in which high compliment is
paid to the United States supervisors and mar
shals.
Mr.. Hooker called attention to the fact that
section 2,O2l provided that supervisors in the
absence of the marshal, should absolutely be
made marshals, and in addition to their powers
as supervisors, they were entrusted with the
power OF arresting parties without warrant of
law.
Mr. Hinkle supported the amendment, and
stated his willingness to bring his rations on
the floor of the House and remain there day
after day and night after night, rather than
vote for dollar to defray the expenses of the
government, until the odious laws in regard to
supervisors of elections were blotted from the
statute books
MIR. Hanna characterized the attempted re-
peal as another effort of the hydra-headed doc
trlne OF States rights to fix its poisonous fangs
IN the heart OF the republic as another blow
at the doctrine that this country was a nation
and not a mere confederation Of States. The
amendment was brought forward in the inter-
est OF force, fraud ~aud intimidation, and as a
vicious attack upon the purity of the ballot.
Had it come to this, that the Democratic party
IN order to save from a felon's doom certain
members of the Forty-sixth Congress who, as
1t was said, would not be here if
these sections continued in force, were Obliged
to repeal the laws which threw safeguard
around elections. He warned that party if that
was done the people of the North would in due
time awake to the peril of the hour and crush
the hope of the men who sought to control the
Democratic party.
Mr.. Lynde defended the movement. He de-
MED the statements of Mr.. Frye as to false
naturalization papers in New York, and asked
why 1t was 1T there were many false natural
ization papers in lS6S that not one person had
since then been successfully prosecuted for
issuing them. He believed that the greater
part of those naturalization papers were valid.
The election law had been got up by John J.
Davenport for his own and for
partisan purposes. The wav in
which the law had since been administered
by Davenport was sketched and criticized by
him to prove that all these statements Of
election frauds were gross exaggerations. He
characterized the Lawrence report of the elec-
tlon OF 1868. from which Frye had obtained
his facts and figures, as the most unreliable
political document he had ever seen.
MIR. Baker, Ind, expressed the opinion that
his friends on the other side, who declared
themselves in favor of the freedom of cleo
tlons while they had their hands on the throat
OF the law that secured it, were protesting
little too much. Underlying the discussion
was the question which had eliminated in re-
belllon-whether or not the life of the nation
can be protected by the nation ITSELF
Mr.. Chalmers said he was reminded by the
ma and Baker, of the young preacher who took
for his text. "Peter's wife's mother lay sick of
fever" (Shouts on the Republican side, :sWe
heard that before; its old.')
Chalmers-Whether you heard it or not. YOU
must hear 1T again. The time has come, said
the preacher, when that old woman would GER
tainly be dead. Chalmers went on to say that
as history was often found repeating itself. so
1t was now found that just as the nations of
Europe Joined together to rescue the holv
sepulchre from the infdel the Democrats now
joined hands to rescue the constitution from
destruction at the hands of the radical Repub-
Lcan party.
Mr.. Keifer characterized the amendment as
an attempt to establish free fraud in elections.
he spoke OF the Democrats as political econo-
clasts, and of Samuel J. Tilden as the great
ravisher of ballot boxes in 1878, and as they
had just been told that history sometimes
repeated itself, so the country might come to
red-handed war.
Mr.. Wood recited the history of the laws
Which were proposed to be defeated. They
were but portion of the series of laws passed
in order to keep the Southern Sta tes as a. sti
pendiary of the Republican party, that had
been intended for the South but was now ap.
IN tho
Maine, Frye, assumed to speak for his party
when ne said that. he would resist by every
means in his power the repeal of those laws
He (Wood) could not speak for his party, but
ne could speak for one man when he said that
ne did not care what became of the appropria-
ton bills. lie believed there was higher
question tn an that of appropriatiug money.
He could stay in the House as long as any gen
tleman. The Democratic party could resist as
long as the Republican party, and he would
not consent to vote for dollar until this
amendment should be engrafted on the bill.
Mr. Garfield said he had not spoken on the
points of order because he did not regard the
question as one that was being considered de-
hberately. Ordinarily this was hall of delib-
Grafton, but now they were called upon mere
~ to register the edict OF party caucus under
the rule of person who was under orders to
decide that the amendment came in under the
rule.
Ills fe"aih caused an lmmedlate explosion
of anger on the Democratic side. and there
were calls to order, and a demand that the oh
noxious sentence be reduced to writing and
read at the clerks desk, but the chairman. Mr..
Blackburn, wished that no point Of order
should be made, but that he (Blackburn)
should be permitted to respond, and that wish
was acceded to.
Mr.: Garfield proceeded with his speech, ex
hibiting in its delivery much feeling and de-
termination. He said: The chair will perfectly
understand that mean no reflection on him
personally. (Derisive laughter on the Demo
cratic side.) What mean to say is that where
party caucus resolves against the will of its