The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-28
EortY-six:s, tOnGrcss--FirSt Session.
WASlINGrnN, April 2G, 1879.
SENATE.

Senate was not in session to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House immediately went into Com
r,ittee OF the Whole on the legislative bill
under the lyc-minutes' rule. Under that
rifle debate will close 1T = o'c'ock.
Mr.. Ewing, Of ohio. first got the t'or
and continued his speech OF last evening.
lie declared that the men who were insult
inr the President were not tn" men on the
! Democratic side " the House, but were
! the StalwartS OF the Republican party, VINO
now held the lash over the President.
threatening him with partE expulsion II
| he dared TO be governed By his own luu@-
mcnt only instead oil by the necessities Oh
| sectional issues AT the North. He classified
among the staIwarts of the Republican party
! Mr.. Garfield. who bad said that il the Pre-
! siGent signed the bill. he would he violating
! his conscience and sense oi duty; Mr..
| Frye. who had pledged the President III ai-
! vance to veto the bill, which pledge was 4
threat TO the President, and Mr. Conkln@,
| in whose opinion the President would bc II
:. dog" ii he signed The bill. He then pro-
ccedcd 10 llud the southern represents
tircs declaring that since :" Confederate
| acknowledgements were here, there had
been no more great jobs passed through
| Congress-. lis speech was much appiauded
! on the Democratic side, and was replied to
; hy Mr.. Garfield.
| The speeches of both M"ssrS. Ewing and
, Garfield elected much applause on their re-
! >pectiyc sides. Each OF them spoke fifteen
minutes by unanimGGs extension 81 time.
! Mr.. Garfield declared that il had been III
tie power Of the hlmhscsl or greatest 81 the
! nrmcclats to have ruined hin, and proved
! him 10 be 4 traducer and ,iandcrcr by >.il!-
! bIy rising and saying. III cnntravcntlGn oi
! bis assertion as 10 is being the purpose OF
! tie Democratic party 10 >taIvc thc Govern
n1ent. I'VE do not propose 10 refuse To vote
! supplies TO the Government; Wc WISH 10
! Get our legislation through III reference 10
| elections. and everything else, II we can,
conStitutionally; but ii we cannot get II
through under all constitutional sanctions,
! we will pass the appropriation bills, IKE
| loval representatives. and 20 home" but,
though fcrty-lye Democrats had spoken,
| that sentence had not been uttered by SIN
| Gle Democrat.
At er these two serious speeches the
House was entertained with humorous
| dissertation from new member, Mr. Horr,
| OF Michigan. He commenced by holding up
| TO ridicule the Greenback representatives,
| and created great amusement by the aSSer-
ton that il all "recnback money demanded
bv the bills already introduced were to be
supplied, tue Greenbackers would have 10
| Get their clergyman DE LII Matyrl to ask
Deity TO vary the miracle OF the dclnSe, 10
| omen AGAIN the doors and windows OF He;i-
! ven and 10 rain greenbacks for forty days.
He then turned on the southern Democrats
and told them what their section wanted
was " more corn and cotton and less cus>ed'
ness" and lie wound MP By suggesting
that one OF the best things that could hap
pen 10 the country would be the turning OF
of the yellow-feycr in Congress, only tha
he wonld want Divinity to Use great dis
crimination in making his selection. Ml
Horr moved up and down the area as h
! delivered himself OF his sentiments, and al