The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-05-14
4 Lively Day il de Saale
Blaine and Chandler Stir up
the Democratic Me-
nagerie.
One o 1.-THE Aichigander's Characteristic
Speeches which Takes the Starch
Out Of the Confederate Briga.
dlers.
TIE CAUCUS" BILL FINALLY PASSED.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON. May 9-The Hous
bill providing for the payment O
money heretofore appropriated I,
James b. Fades and bis associate
Tor Inc Construction of ~jetties sut
slher works AT tne Suu,h Pass Of u,
Mississippi was passed with oil
amendment.
THF CAUCUS BILL
The Confederation Of the bill pro
hibiting military interference at cleo
tlous was then resumed.
MI. EDMUNDs made a legal arxu
men. upon the power Of The Exccn
tive Department to show that where
ever tsere is law there must be DO wei
TO carry it into effect, and that Their,
still EXISTED express authority for To.
President To exert the military power
Vt the Government Whenever th,
execution Of law, On all occasion,
aud every where, is obstructed by
Combinations too powerful for civil
authorities u Suppress. Ii be cleo
sions fsIi, or are prevented, what be
Comics of me republic aud the liberty
VI he cluz.nsY Justice may fail
he Courts nay De closed by armed
oauds, but hen tie power Of tn.
law overcomes opposition nobody
nas iost anything except by delay
But If y"u destroy the fountain o.
power, the Republic is At al end.
IL we, said Mr. EDMUNDs. surren.
der at this time The .u- InIng esteem
ed to De So small by some, aud 81
great by those who seek 10 larry
their scheme through, we surrender
all. Ii you follow the red rag in the
title Of the bill, for fear the people
Will think that yoL are opposed l,
Liberty unless You pass the biil pro
hibiuug military interference al eiec
iions, The capture of power would BE-
al q very Cheap rate.
In annlvziug the bill Mr.. Edmunds
said the preamble was contradictory
Of It's body. The preamble declared
that the presence OF troops at the
polls is contrary 10 the spiri, of our
Institutions and traditions of our PEG.
pie, and tends to destroy the freedom
Of elections" while The body Of The
bill declared that troops might be
present at the polls on election days,
10 the and under the circum
sta o the Constitution provides II
the preamble be true, the body i:
false.
Mr. EDMUNDs said, 10 reply to the
Senator who had preceded bin, thai
the Government does not enter q
State. Ii is in every fibre Of the
muscle Of every man. He wished il
was in the hearts Of all the men ol
the republic. [Applause.
BLAINE on STATE RIGHTS
Mr.. BLAINE said: Mr.. President,
| want TO make a single remark on
the bill itself If there is TO be q veto
upon it, | desire simply TO put q
punctuation point in the progress Of
things as they are now going on, aud
thai punctuation point is 10 mark the
high ufe which the ancient doctrine
of State rights is reaching 10 tbis
chamber and inthis C,ngress. This
question has engaged the attention
of the American people for just sbou,
fifty years. Ii has had its ups and
its do wns its victories and its de.
fests. 1t was s~traDgled for Q time
oy jackson. IL was dalliec with by
Van Buren, Ii rose to foil strength
under Polk and Pierce and Buchsn-
an. 1t marshslled itself for deadly
struggle under Breckenridge, and, il
| mistake DOT, a msjority Of the Sen
Rtors who sit on tnat side of the
Chamber supported Breckenridge
when be embodied that deadly here
~. In whatever there was in the
Issue between Calhoun and Jackson,
that side Vt the Senate Chamber req
resents Calhoun. Whatever there
was 10 the contes dividing the Dem.
ocratic party between Breckenridge
and Douglass, that side of the cham
Der represents all the evil there was
in the policy Of Breckenridge, and |
desire here to affirm and point out
that there never was before the re-
b~eIlion, there never was ut any time
In the history Of this country any
such assertion of State rights, aoy
such assertion of the mastery Of State
Government over the Federal Gov
ernmeut in it's own domain, rs il here
asserted by the heirs lineal of Cal
houn and of Breckenridge. ! shall
not debate this bill. 1t was useless.
lt has been extensively. debated.
The whole measure is a removal Of
the Federal Government from it's
proper domain aud he Installation of
The States into degrees of power that
were not dreamed Of by Calhoun,
and were Dot asserted by Brecken-
ridge. We thought there bad been
something gained on this queeiol in
q costly war, aud 10 the amendments
to the Constitution, bu. the tide, As
it now sweeps, is Oh he ebb, aud the
power of the Union, the power of the
Federal Government, was never 80
weak as these laws and these pro-.
ceedings will make it. Pass this
bill. While warning OF the National
Government from all interference or
control over its Own elections, you
voted down on the other bill . prop.
ositioR that armed men should not
come to the polls with the expressed
intent of interfering with the rights
Of voters, and guarded it under the
paltry quibble that it was not within
the constitutional poyer Of the Uni
ted States Government 10 warn
bloody-banded ruff ans from the polls
when Representatives in the Federal
Congress are being chosen. Pass
this bill, pass it as q triumph of the
Tesciionsry party against the spirit
Of the Union. Psss il in defiance Of
ell lessons spd ell teschilys lhst
have come from . bloody abortjve
rebellion. Pass it, and mark il o.
high tide of that reaction which, we're
to rise higher, could lead only TO
sgother and formidable rebellion
against the legitimate authority Of
the Union.
RAsPING SPEECH FROM zAcK cHAx
DLER.