The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-26
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOsP Attacks tho Course Of the DEM
acrsey In Amx,ng tho Repeal Of the
Election Laws ON tho Appropriation
Hill.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, March 25.-The new Senate
officers were In their places this morning
ready for duty The Vice President laid be-
fore the Senate q communication from the
Secretary Of the Treasury, In answer to Mr..
Wallace's resolution calling for information
In regard to fees paid deputy marshals la the
elections OF October and November.
Mr.. Herman presented memorial from the
people Of New York asking for an appropria-
ton Of $500 TO erect monument TO the
memory Of Gen. Herkimer.
Mr.. Johnston, Of Virginia, presented q letter
from the Com mittee on Agriculture asking
for an appropriation OF $4,000 To pay insDec~
tors at different points In reference TO the
prevention OF the introduction Of the cattle
disease.
Mr. Grover presented a bill to reimburse
citizens Of Oregon for moneys expended In
defending the frontier against attacks BY
BY Mr.. Rollins: A bill to refer outstanding
claims against the District OF Columbia to
the Court Of Claims.
By Mr.. Mcdonald: A bill to incorporate
the Mount Pleasant and South Side Street
railway.
BY Mr. Mcdonald A resolution authorizing
the Secretary Of the Treasury to purchase a
copy Of the Centennial memorial containing
the autographs Of the members OF Congress,
government officers, etc, for 800.
MIR. HOar called UP his resolution declaring
that the refusal Of one House OF Congress To
pass the appropriation biils, except upon con-
diti0n 81 The repeal Of certain laws, was re-
vOlutionary and calculated to overthrow the
| foundations of government
| Mr.. Morgan asked II 1t would be In order
to amend this resolution.
| MIR. Hoar replied that he desired to make
| speech and hoped that the gentleman from
Alabama would withhold his amendment for
time.
Mr. Hoar then proceeded to address the
Senate Mr. Hoar took the ground that there
! 10 no historical precedent for the refusal Of
the House To grant supplies except upon the
conditions 1t has fixed. The notion that
English history furnishes warrant for this
action was, he said, mistake. He went
back into English history and made numer-
GUS citations to show that since the middle OF
| the seventeenth century no House OF Com
mons bad undertaken to usurp this preroga-
| tive. MIR. HOar read an extract from the
speech made by Mr.. Beck at the close Of the
/ last session, In which he promised, on
the part Of the Democrats Of the Senate,
that TIE appropriation bills should be passed
! Immediately on the reaSsembling and with
out opposition from his party. There was an
attempt to follow English precedent; there
was, however, no analogy between this gov
eminent and England In that respect. The
| House OF Commons had never claimed the
right to withhold supplies for the purpose Of
coercing the government. 1t had never with
| held the necessary supplies except In extraor-
binary cases. The supplies which were SO
withheld were never those which appertained
to the crown by hereditary right, and since
| 1868 there was no instance OF such interfer-
ence on the part OF the House OF Commons for
any purpose whatever. He said that the doc
trne which had called this Congress to-
gether is as new as 1t Ia monstrous. The
| English people would have disdained to have
undertaken what this Congress is about to
undertake. Not only has Congress no right
to withhold the necessary supplies, but 1t Ii
the duty of Congress to vote them. Mr.. Hoar,
leaving English history. came down into
more modern times, and cited evidence in the
history Of our own country where 1t was at
tempted by the House to attach the tariff bill
to the appropriation bill. 1t was resisted In
the Senate by Senator Bayard, father OF the
present Senator from Delaware, stephen A.
Douglass, judah P. Benz amin, VIM. II. Sew
ard and others, and thus ended the first at
tempt OF the kind. After citing these histori-
cal presidents Hoar defended the election
laws which are proposed to be repealed.
becK rose at the conclusion OF HOar's re-
marks and said that he observed that the
nam part OF the speech of the Senator from
massachusetts, was an extract from one OF
ms own and from one Of Thurmans, both
aeiVertd at the last session. For him self he
naa hothlng new, but for his colleague, Thur
HiaII, WHO was Ill and not able to be in his
seat, the attack made upon him BY the gen.
tiehah from Massachusetts, was, under the
circumstances hardly proper, hardly decent
a. III .usI nave known when he began his
sp.-cn mat MS antagonist was sick
Mr.. hOar diSclaimed any such knovled1 ga
Mr. Beck moved to lay the resolution upon
the table of0N
Pending that motion Mr.. Wallace moved
that the Senate adjourn. --o'o =
Mr.. Blaine tried to speak. but was ont ofY bu
Mr.. Beck.
Mr.. Edmunds demanded the yeas and NAYS
on the motion to adjourn, which was agreed II
by vote Of 81 to ., and the Senate, at . 20 q
M, adjourned.
HOUSE.
A number OF gentlemen desired to Offer
bills, but Mr.. Conger objected, insisting that