Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-15
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS-
Extra Session.
The Senate.
NEW BUSINESS.

WASHINGTON, April l4.-Vaf1OuS memo
rails and bills we're introduced and appro-
priately referred, among them the following:
By Senator Vance-To amend so much of
the civil appropriation act of 1878 as pro-
vides for the pay of mail contracts in the
Southern States before the rebellion.
By Senator Morgan-To amend the con-
stiiution in regard to appropriations.
By Senator Iugalls-For the payment of
Indian war bonds of the State of California,
and bills to establish a judicial district in
Indian Territory.
Senator Carpenter introduced bill to
amend the revised statutes in regard to the
election of United States Senators. The bill
is designed to remedy defect in the exist
ing law, which was recently brought into
public view by the New Hampshire case.
w1NNEBAGo INDIANS.
Senator Cameron address sed the Senate
until the expiration of the morning hour on
dams in Wisconsin, and to aid thom to OBJ
tain subsistence by agricultural pursuits and
to promote their civilization. The bill was
referred to the committee on Indian affairs.
BLAINE.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
army appropriation bill, the pending ques-
ton being on Senator BIaine's amendment
prohibiting the appearance within mile of
polling place of any person armed with
deadly weapons of any kind, and Senator
Blaine addressed the Senate.
BLA1NE's REMARKS.
He said the method adopted in the pending
section to get rid of the eight closing words of
the section, and the revised statutes proposed
to be repealed, namely, the one to keep the
peace at the polls, was an unusual and extra
ordinary method. Tho ordinary way to repeal
single sentence is to strike out the particular
words objected to, but the mode chosen in this
bill is to repeal and reenact the whole section,
except the last eight words. He was persuad-
ed this unusual course was not taken
accidentally, but desiguedly. If he so might
speak it came OF cunning, the intent being
to create the impression that the Republicans
in the administration of the general govern
ment had used troops right and left in every
direction, ard that as soon as the Democrats
got into power they proceeded to enact this
prehibitory sixth section, and Democratic
stump speakers would doubtless make great
political capital out of this idea, whereas,
| every word of it from first to last was the en-
actment of the Republican party. Whether
Intentionally or not, the issue thus presented
was desperate one. The law was passed by a
Republican Congress. There were forty-six
Senators sitting in the Senate chamber at the
time, of whom only ten or at most eleven were
Democrats, and the House Of Representatives
was overwhelmingly Republican. We were in
the midst of war. The Republican admins
tration had 100000 or possibly 1000, 0c0 at
its command and under the circumstances with
| am plest power to interfere with elections, had
| they so chosen. With soldiers in every hamlet
| opd county of tho TTnife1 Stated tho Ram hi.
can party themselves placed that on the statute
books and Abraham Lincoln signed it. He
asked attention to the fact that this was the
first instance in the legislation of the United
States in which any restrictive clause whatever
was put upon the statute books in regard to
the use of troops at the polls and that was
passed by the Republican party and signed by
| Abraham Lincoln when he had more troops un-
der his control than Napoleon Bonaparte ever
had.
But the point, said Blaine, is to strike out
the few words authorizing the use of troops t.
keep peace at polls and the country is alarmed
or he would rather say, amused at the effort
made to create the i'm preston that the Repub
lican party relied for its popular strength upo1
! the use of bayonets. This Democratic Congress
, has attempted by raising an issue, false il
every detail, to create the impression, not only
in America but in Europe and throughout tn
civilized world, that elections in this countr,
are attempted to be controlled by the bayonet
He Denounced the iss.ie as false, and thougl
not at liberty to say that any gentleman max
ing it know its falslty, and though he hope'
3 they didn't, he proposed to prove it's utter lac
of foundation. He held in his hand an abstrac
, of all the troops of The United States west O
Omaha, including States bordering the Mis-
, sissippi river on the west, embracing territor
populated by 41,00O,0O0, at least of the As
I, 900, 900 supposed to be in this country to day
Q By this statement he showed that in all th
| 1x, q
: Within this domain forty-five Notifications al
/ manned and eleven arsenals protected. T
h every million people there are about sixt
- ,ldiers.
The honorable Senator from Delaware wa
E alarmed about the overriding of the popula
r ballot by the troops of the United States, bu
9 there is not single federal soldier in Delawar
The honorable Senator from West Virgin
|, (Hereford) had spoken of his State being trol
j. den by the iron heel of military despotism br
! there is not a solitary man in the United State
uniform on the soil of West Virginia. l
% guard the entrance to Baltimores beautiful ha
!, Dor. In Virginia there is a school of practit
Is at Fortress Monroe. Outside of that schot
10 there is not federal soldier in the Stat
10 There are but thirty soldiers in North Caroliu
IA guarding fort at the mouth of Cape Fe;
~ river. In South Carolina there are 100 arti
- lerymen 10 guard the entrance to Charlesto
10 harbor. There 20 soldiers in Georgia an
IS 1872 in Florida. There is not one in Tennessee
q, Kentucky, or Missouri. There are 81 in A
, kansas, 80 in Alabama, and S29 in Loussian
The great State of Mississippi has not one
its soil, nor has Texas except those guardlr
the frontier on the Rio Grande
III the entire South, said Mr.. Blaine, the
r. are ], l55 soldiers to intimidate overrun o
;. press and destroy the liberties Of 100000
ID people, in 1923 counties, or not quite one sc
in der to each county one soldier to about u
SCr0 aV1oVI 90 r fnrr IfNru
saying, he continued, that there were SCOT
D sayers in Rome, who could not look each 9th
r. in the face without smiling; and no two Dem
D. cratic Senators on this floor can 90 into Il
ce cloak reom and look each other in the ia
=. without smiling, or rather blushing, over tt
n talk, the whole thing was such miserat
g pretense, such a miserably manufactured fal
y. issue.
~ In New England they had $50 soldiers,
at about 12O to every million of people, where
er the rates in the South was not quite sevent
as Yet the people Of New England never COZ
a. planned of the military power. The tender
-, of this talk was, he had said, to misreprese
10 :. us abroad, and the Democratic party stood
- dicted, and he hereby charged them with
~ public SANDER of their country creating
a" impression in the civilized world that we .
under military despotism.
But, continued Senator Blaine the real n
tive of the Democrats must be looked for ell
where. 1t is simply to get rid of federal {
pervision at elections, to get rid of the CT
'e- power of the United States in the election
:. Representatives. to Congress, and therefore Z
bill connects itself directly with the bill VIII
was before Congress last session known as
OF legislative, executive and judicial appropr
ia, ton bill. He was aware that parliaments
,ed rules forbade him to discuss bill pending
fore the House of Representatives, but
knew also that nothing forbade him to speak
ch what was not done in the House. but in
lily Democratic caucus, where this legislation '
performed.
les Senator Blaine discussed the legal questie
in involved, and, continuing. said the design n
is to get rid of all civil officers of the Uni
States, under the nretanse of keeDino fro