The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-02-13


r. laughter comes from that side.
D Mr.. Mills-I.et 1t come from where
.. II wili, ! stand by uIy constituents.
HI Air. TOWushend-Of that twenty
= five thousand, how many were kept Os
. tEe Texas border.
, ME. Mills-Not enough u protec
! il.
r Mr.. TOWh>heud-IIJw many wer,
kept Oh the Indian border:
, s!r. Mills-NOt enough 10 protect
/ it.
/ Mr.. T0wnshend-Ther were only
. three hundred with Custer when ht
: Was destroyed.
Mr.. Mills-Then he did not havi
enough, and it wss because OF YOU
= false economy that Custer bled. Tall
/ about economy when your border i.
= laid III blood and ashes. Economy
/. seems 10 be the only idea which hi:
p any existence IN the craftsmanship ui
this House. y Government is an III
stitutiOn to protect her people, ant
. cannot fail to do it without being guilty
Of dishOnOr. Applause on the Republic
c;in side.
Mr.. Townsend IlIJ said that tn,
laugh came from the same quartet
that ii did in lSJl in France-it cainC
from the friends OF Imperialism. Loud
, laughter and applause on the Kepub
p lican side. His friend from Texas
! (Mr. Mills had charged the DemOcratiC
party with being the cause OF Clusters
death because of its economy. Not
WithStanding that there WAS an army
Of 5000, Custer had been compelled to
face nearly 2.OOO red devils with 300
] N ltRw4 flsa lt.al.fFRfss4 1F ha
army: In the Southern States building
up Imperialism. Laughter and ap-
plauSe on the Republican side. When
Custer had been compelled 10 race the
Indians with 600 men there had been
rigadier-Generals commanding in
Louisiana and holding bayOnets at the
thrUatS of the people of that state II
came with an i'll grace from the geI-
tleman from Texas To accuse the Dem
Ocratic party Of being guilty by ecOnO-
my of the death of Custer and his men,
when the living fact remained that
there had been an army of 5000 men
/ with no Use for il save on the Indian
frontier.
Mr.. Finley argued rs the Committee
on Appropriations last session cOnsid-
| cred an army of 10000 men sufficient,
there was no reason why 1t should
now, like Davy CrOckett's coon, come
down and surrender to the Republi-
! cans.
Mr. Kimmell Dem., Md suggested
| that the real point of objection WAS
not 50 much TO the strength of the
/ army as to the uses To which the army
was applied, and he called attention to
the fact that the present Secretary Of
/ War was endeayUring to have the
posse cOmitdtHs clause of the last
Army Appropriation bill modified or
repealed. The object of such repeal
was to establish a military despOtism
pure and undeliled.
Mr.. Keifer Rep, Ohio spoke satir-
| ically Of the family quarrel that had
broken out on the Democratic side of
the House. lie remembered that the
Governor of Maryland had. in July,
1877, appealed most piteOusly To IIayes
for troops to he sent to Baltimore, to
put down a riot that could not be con-
trOlled by the militia. lie also asserted
that if it had not been for the few
troops gathered in Washington by
President Grant two years ago the dc
cisIOn of the Electoral Commission
would have been overturned by viO-
lencc and revolution, and 4 man have
been put in the Presidency who had
not been elected by the people For
himself he was i'll favor of a larger
army than one of 2J,OOO men.
Mr.. Cox (Dem., y. Y } said that there
was not a member on the floor who did
not understand very well that, but for
a certain menace, and but for sending
out orders for troops and artillery to
come to Washington, the Electoral
Commission would never have been
cre;lled- IIlllld cltlLcIiS, money lords
and bOndhOlders men who would
rather submit to fraud and wrong than
resort to violence or revOlutiOn), when
that menace came from the Chief Ex-
ecutiVe, and when all the arrangements
had been made (aS they were being
made now for 1850, had been fright
ened, and that fright had been the pro-
create cause of the Electoral Commits
sion.
This menace had made some MEM
berS of the House forgetting their
manhood and all that is dear To Amcri-
can citizenship succumb To power
that was merely physical, not moral.
That was 4 part of the history of the
country. The bill appropriated some
S2G,OO0,OOO for 25,OOO soldier men. The
same average had existed for the last
ten years, 50 that more than SzGO,OOO.-
900 had been spent on the army in the
last ten years. What good had it ever
done? Had it settled the Indian
question? No Had it given pr0tec-
tion on the Rio Grande? No. 1t had
only (ls expressed in the Declaration
Of INDEPENDENCE eaten ont the sub
stance of the people. The old Demo-
cratic thought of Thomas jefferson (uf
reliance on the militia, and that a
standing army might he the nucleus of
4 power which would OYershadow the
liberties of the republic) had been for
gotten. The gentleman from Texas.
(Mr Mills had caused a smile on the
other side Of the House 10y ridiculing
Democratic apprphensiOnS of a stand
ing army. Where had the gentleman
got the right to call the Democratic
side of the House to account for its
proposed action?
Mr.. Mills-IgOt it from my cOn;tit-
uCnts Iapplausc on the Republican
sidci, and I Will never fail To exercise
it either.
Mr.. Cox inlimate,l playfully that
whereas, other members represented
the United States the gentleman (Mr.
Mills seemed To represent only the
Lone Star State. lie aDplaudcd the
gentleman's patriotism, but it WIS
local. The gentleman should enlarge
his views. should read history and
study jefferson, and then he would be
not only "a Democrat, but Il Republi-
can.
Mr.. Davis Dem, y. c. argued that
large standing army had ALWAYS Seen
the instrument Of dcSpOtic power, and
that a well organized militia was the
dependence Of freedom.
Mr.. Mills replied to Mr.. Cox. That
gentleman (Mr. Cox proposed TO with
draw military protection from the pcO-
pie Of Texas and to offer up that pe0-
pie as 4 sacrifice to appease the thirst
for economy. For himself. he was
merely the local representative of his
own constituents, hut he would not
consent to the sacrifice. lie ridiculed
the idea of an effective militia force.
and said that in the last war the mill
tia troops were the laughing stock of
both armies.
Mr.. Harrison Dem, ILL commented
on Mr.. heifcr's speech, Sayingthat that
gentleman had spoken out in school"
and had left out what he had not eX-
pected to let out. That was that, but
but for the army, Mr.. Tilden would be
the President of the United States.
That was what the Democrats had
been telling the people for two yelrs.
They had told the people that trOops
had been gathered in the Washing
ton arsenal, and that guns had been
trained upon the Capitol, to intim-
idate members Of the House. The
present Executive WAS following in
the footsteps of his iron predecessor.
while the latter was carried about
from country 10 country on United
States frigateS, learning the WAYS of
kings, 50 that he might come back
with an army behind him to govern the
people of the United states. IDerisive
laughter on the Republican side.l
Mr.. Townsend rep, Y. VI con-
fcss there were two great wrongs done
in this country two years ago. First, !
when the people of the United States /
refused To elect the Sage of Gramercy
Park President. Laughter If was |
a great and biting wrong. The second |
wrong was that the people of Oregon |
and South Carolina and Florida refuS- !
ed TO be bought by Grover, 10y Kelley, |
by Pelt0n, by Weed, or by any other |
man sent into the field [Laughter.l |
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