The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-02

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GENERAL NEWS.
A Lively Time in the House Of
Representatives.
Answers to Garfeld's Speech Show
Ing the Programme Of the
Southern Members.
stlI Harplng 90 State Sovereignty.
Simon Cameron Beats Widow Oliver.
The Monthly Public Debt Statement.
FoRTY-srxTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April l.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April /.
SENATE.
The bill appropriating 100000 for vel
low fever and disinfecting vessels wa,
passed.
Senator Gordon took his seat to-day.
MIR. Davis, OF West Virginia, said tina
difference Of opinion existed at the ad
1ournment Of the late Congress asto wheth
er the joint rules for the government o.
the business OF Congress were now in
force, and he therefore submitted a resolu,
tion to authorize the Committee on Rules
to take the whole subject matter under
consideration and confer with the Com.
mittee on Rules OF the House, with view
to joint action thereon.
The resolution was agreed to, with an
amendment to except the general appro-
priation bills from the operation OF ths
former 10th and 18th joint rules.
The Senate went into executive session,
pending motion by Mr.. Edmunds to take
up the resolution heretofore offered by
him, declaring that the business and other
interests OF the country required that leg
islation should be confined to the objects
for which the extra session was called.
When the doors were re-opened. the Sem
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Atkins Tenn. J, reported the legisla-
tive appropriation bill. 1t appropriates
between fifteen andsixteen million dollars.
The bill contains provisions repeating the
last clause OF Section 500, OF tho Revised
Statutes, which applies to Sections SOL,
$40 and S2l OF the Revised Statutes, and
providing that all jurors shall be pub
licly drawn from a box containing the
names Of not less than 800 persons, poss-
essing the necessary qualification; which
names shall have been placed therein by
the Clerk OF the Court and Commission
er, to be appointed by the Judge, the
Commissioner to be citizen residing in
the district, and well known member Of
the principal party opposing that to which
the clerk belongs.
1talso repeals sections 2,016, 2,0lS and
2,02l, and all the succeedingsections down
to and including 2,027, also section ., 1922.
1t also strikes out OF section 2,0l9 the
words: for the purpose OF engaging in the
work OF canvassing ballots. And strikes
out dissection 2,02S, the words: or deputy
marshall, and the words, city, town,
county and parish. Italso repeals section
2,0Sl, except such part Of it as relates to
the pay Of supervisors OF elections. 1t re.
peals all other sections and laws authoriz-
ing the appointment OF Chief Supervisors
Of Elections, and Special or Deputy Mar.
shalls Of Elections.
The House then went into Committee
OF the Whole on the bill.
TAcKING TILDEN on TIE APPROPRIATION
BILL.
Mr.. Belford said: Having captured both
houses OF Congress 1t is proposed to com.
plete your conquest and to force Tilden
into the White House in 1880 by lacking
him on an appropriation bill. To accom-
plsh this object the army, like the In
dians, is to he placed on reservation.
His side of the house only asked that the
government should be armed with power
to protect q citizen in the exercise OF his
elective franchise, and any government
that was restrained in-the execution OF
that power was disgrace to the civilized
world and unworthy TO be ranked among
the family of nations. In the present
great struggle the President might yield;
the Republican party never! The nation
could not endure II sectional bitterness
were perpetuated. We warned the South
that it had nothing 10 hope from the De-
mocracy OF the North; that Democracy
was cowardly; it would invite its South
ern brethren on to mischief and abandon
them when the crisis came.
During late years tho pendulum OF pow
er had been swinging toward the South,
and II might be that the statues OF Lincoln
and Grant would give place TO those OF
jackson and Lee; but II would swing back
again, and when 1880 came around and
the millions in the North who had fought
for the Union had rallied under the lead
ership OF the great captain, the revolution.
ary purpose OF the Democratic party would
retire to the rear as thcy had retired in the
past,
Humphrey warned the Democrats that
the country would submit 70 their party
whip only until its voice could be heard
The North was massing and would present
solid phalanx, and as sure as the Demo
cratic party continued in lis present
course, SO sure would the election In 1856
leave that party overthrown.
A FEW REMARKS Of STATES RIGHTS.
Mr.. Chalmers, referring to Mr.. Garfeld'c
speech, said: The remarks made by that
gentleman had shown that he had forgot
ten the history OF the laws which it was
proposed TO repeal In the last Congress.
| lie had admitted that his party had enact
ed these laws, and was willing to have
them mustered out ofservice. In 1877 the
Democratic party had wanted suspen
sion OF military domination, and they
had asked for itin the very same language
which was nov on the appropriation bill.
He deprecated the attempt to blacken the
names Of Senator Powell aud Reverdy
johnson by saying that they had
been advocates OF using the army to
keep peace at the polls. In reference
TO Garfeld's 8 statement that the Southern
Democrats OF 1861 threatened to shoot the
Union to death, he declared that they haG
made no such threat. The South hat
claimed the right OF peaceful So
cession, and had attempted, peace
fully, to secede. The South hat
not only made no threat to shoot th'
Union 10 death, but 1t had said wha
Abraham had said ~ Lot: "LGt there bl
no strife between u.s." "Il you go to the
North, we will go to the South" ut wa
the North that said you shall not go.
You sent grand armies after US; you hem
med US in by land and sea; you not onl!
threatened to shoot but you shot US t
: death; with the battle cry oil the constitu
ton as 1t Is and Union as 1t was;" yo
, rallied the whole North without regard :
party in defense OF the old flag.
Mr.. Price-where was the. .drstgln free
Applause on the floor and the galleries.
Ghalmers.-The FIRST gun was fired nea
Harper's Ferry-Southern blood was she
on Southern soil. Loud applause on tn
q Democratic side, aud In the galleries
p The Chairman gave notice that II sue
demonstrations were repeated he woul
order the galleries cleared.
s Mr.. Price. The gentleman must kno
Il that John Brown and his sixteen me
were not fighting to destroy the Uniol