The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-24

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SENATE
The morning hour Eas principally Oe,
cupird with 4 resolution relative 70 reno
vals and appointments TO Office without
the Intervention Of the presiding othceF.
SersrRl amendments were AYreed 10, but
before dnd action the morning hour ex.
pired and the consideration Was then re-
sumed Of the army bill.
WILLIAMS SOOTHING syrup.
Mr.. Williams said that before proceed.
ing TO the merits oi the bill he wished TO
Hay aieW soothing words TO his friends Of
the other side who had expressed an
alarm At the presrnce Of the confederate
briEhdiers on the hOOF olthe Senate. One
might think iromthrir speeches that there
was doubt Gs TO whether or not the war
for the Union had been q success. He
aud his side held = deliberate opinion
land their experience gave their opinion
considerable weight that the war had
been great success and no betteFeyidence
thereof could be bad than this very
presence here Of these brigAdiers.
He wished the people Of the North had
been animated by the same wise policy a.
their Southern brethren and had sent
their gallant soldiers TO be their represen.
tatives, because II the question growing
out Of the war had been left for solution
to the brave men who fought the war lha
return Of prosperity and the approach Of
reconciliation would have been hGslened.
II was not the belligerents but those who
stayed A. home aud made money out Of
the misery Of their eountry who now
threw stumbling blocks in the way oigood
feeling By creating false issues. He had
been Union man. opposed 10 secession
until 1t WIS inevitable, and when the
bonnie blue Tag" went down before the
millions in arm, she accepted the situation
and renewed his allegiance 70 the Union
Of States.
ONLY OFFERED TO TEST THE SINCERITY OF
THOSE WHO WE'RE oPPUsED To COERCION.
Mr.. Blaine withdrew the amendment he
formerly offered to the Army AppropFia.
lion Bill, and At later stage Of the pro-
ceedinRs gave notice that he would again
submit Il, but not until alter the 9Th Sec
ton Of the bill had been acted on as some
OF the Senators had expressed desire TO
vote directly on striking out that section.
His intention in Offering the amendment
was TO test the sincerity Of those who had |
expressed desire TO have no coercion used |
vt the polls, for Il had occurred to him that |
the alarm about the army overriding llber.
ty was 4 mere Chimera, and in attending |
TO this imaginary danger his friends OppO- /
site were ueglecting fruitful aud ever
present source Of danger 10 the ballot in
the Southern States. He read from the |
testimony before the Teller Committee,
taken in South CarOlina, showing that
numbers Of white men came around the
polls, firing guns and frightening the col.
cred men away. This, said AIr. Blaine,
occurred at divers polls in South Carolina,
At which there was no more freedom OF
election than there would be in any mob.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA BuLLDozERs.
Mr.. Butler asked Blaine II it were not
true that within the last three days an
scquittel had been ordered by the Presid-
ing Judge in Charleston county In case
depending on just such evidence as that
Just read.
Mr. Blaine said he believed there had
been dismissal on flaw in the indict.
ment. But Butler insisted that 1t was on
the evidence. Mr.. Blaine said he would
recur 10 that hereafter, and went on To ri.
lude TO the idea that this amendment was
contrary to the clause Of the Constitution,
giving, every man a right to carry arms
Would II, he said that arms conld be car.
rIed everywhere aud always, in the jury
box, on the bench, or In the Senate.
There has never been 4 free election,
he continued, in FIVE Southern States he
could name since the Democratic party
got into power. There was no more free
election in South Carolina for this Con.
gress than there would be in q mob Of
roughs, who should capture the polls in
the lower districts Of New York city. The
elections in that State had been mere ira.
vesties on elections.
Mr.. Butler asked IL the election laws
were not on the statute when these trayes-
ties were carried on.
Mr.. Blaine admitted that they were, but
said the supervisors and mGrshals had
been mobbed and the federal authority de-
tied. He based his statement on the iesti.
mony before the committee already refer.
red 10.
Mr.. Butler denounced the testimony as
false as far as related TO South Caroiina,
and said the iuries in his State had sus-
lained his assertion. "H1 @
SOUTHERN IDEA or JUSTICE.
Yes, said Blaine, and a Jury in Louisiana
did something or other, there was a
peaceful election there, too, only 10 or so
men were slaughtered, and Jury acquit-
ted some the murderers.
Mr. Jonas asked leave TO explain about
the trials in Louisiana. They were upon
the very testimony now referred To-; the
iures were obtained under the test oath;
the U. s. District Attorney conducted the
cases using the reports OF the Teller Com
mittee as guide In questioning witnesses,
and the accused we're acquitted, showing
that the testimony was worthless.
Mr.. Blaine said the acquiital Of man or
party ot men, did not alter the fact that
number Of murders were committed, a
TACT admitted by Gov. Nichols. The
gentleman's logic was like that OF the man
accused ottheft, who brought witnesses to
swear that they did not see him steal.
Somebody did commit murder even II
these particular persons did not.
Mr. Blaine read testimony showing that
the Republicans were not fairly represent.
ed amOngthe Commissioners Of Elections
appointed under the State law in South
Carolina by Gov. Hampton. and that the
persons appointed as Republicans were
really Democrats in disguise.
Mr, Butler said he personally knew q
Republican Commissioner in Charleston
county, and asked II Mr.. Blaine would de-
ny that Col, Montgomery, one Of them,
was aRepublican? Mr.. montgomery, he
said, was for two years or more presidinR
officer Of the Republican State Senate.
Mr.. Blaine said he did not know any.
thing about Montgomery but would give
way 10 the Senator from Colorado who