Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-17

best men Of his party, and others, when the
lamentable time came, as to what his own
duty would be, and they would act as the
best interest of the American people required.
He hoped the emergency would never
arose. It should not, but if it did, he hoped
there would be patriotism, integrity and in
tellieence enough among them to devise
ways and means to remove the troubles out
of the way. He repeated he never made a
threat. He said the responsibility would
rest on the President and his party friends,
who in advance are endeavoring to make the
| President step out of his way when there
was no purpose to interfere with the Presi-
| dent or judiciary. The utterances as to
| what the President would do were individual
opinions idea words. The Presi-
dents duty was to consider bill fairly and
deliberately, and act accordingly.
| Senator Hoar replied. The Senator from
Kentucky avoided-he would not say evaded
reading substantial and important SEN
fences of his speech. Now the Senator said
that if the President should veto the bills
he would consult the wise men, not from the
East, but from the South.
Senator Beck-I shall not trouble the
Senator from Massachusetts.
Senator Hoar resumed, and after briefly
stating what the Senator from Kentucky had
said, repeated his question whether the Sena-
tor adheres to his purpose to refuse to
make the necessary appropriation to carry
on the government should the President
disapprove or veto the legislation proposed.
He (Hoar) had denounced such purpose as
revolutionary, but he had not denounced
the mere putting of legislation on appropri-
alton bills. The programme of the Demo-
Gratis said in effect to the President: You and
the judiciary shall have no pay; there shall
be no post Offices, courts and army if you do
not approve our measures.
Senator Beck replied that the difficulty
about the speech of the Senator was from
what he did not care to say till now, name
~, simply not the truth. He never said the
Democrats would block the wheels of the
government if the President thought fit to
veto the bill in the exercise of his power
What he said last session was to show what
would follow if the Senate should refuse to
assent to the amendments of the House to
the two bills which failed to become laws.
He never uttered the words the Senator from
Massachusetts endeavored to put
into his mouth. What he said
was to induce the Senate to recede and not
to force an extra session. The visitor from
Massachusetts was trying to make it appear
that he (Beck) would refuse to pass appro-
priation bills if the President should not ap-
prove the business presented to him. The
Senator was trying to make false I'M
preston.
Senator Hoar remarked that he did not
propose to be diverted from making his
point by plantation manners, here or else
where.
Senator Beck-As that remark is so orig
onal it ought to be noted.
Senator Hoar, inreply Sto Beck's speech,
omitted essential parts of it.
Senator Beck, interrupting, said he had
made his final reply.
Senator Hoar remarked that the Senator
had to-day read from his speech in tone of
voice and manner which had alarmed nobody.
Senator Beck-Read it again. 1t is good
speech, and you can read we'll.
Senator Hoar-The Senator was speaking
of the purpose of the House in case q ma
jority of the Senate refused to accede.
Senator Beck-And the Senator said was
speaking of the purpose of the Democrats
in case of the Presidents refusal to approve
our bills.
Senator Hoar, resuming, said he would
not extend to the Senator the same treat
ment no did to him by asking him to set
down. The purpose which the Senator I'M
der,ook to report from the House was two
fold. First, what the House would do if the
Senate disagreed with them about the mat
ter of general legislation. It was that under
their constitutional right they would refuse
to make appropriations to carry on the gov
eminent if the dominant party should insist
on their disagreement, and further, the Sen
ator said under the view he presented, that
it was for the President to determine wheth-
or the wheels of government shall stop. The
Senator from Ohio CThurman) regarded the
matter in the same light, saying they
claimed the right exercised by the House,
right had adopteda new plan of reconstruc-
ton and reconciliation. What had been the
result? The promise made by the South had
! been broken, and the co.ored men to-day
had not q single Representative in the
and would not vote the money of the people
unless coupled by measures for q. redress of
grievances. Did the Senator from kentucky
mean that they had the right under written
constitution to wrest the veto power from the
President? He (Hoar had read the language
of the Senator, and had asked the Senator if
the position he took at the former session had
been abandoned, or was it his purpose to
abandon it
Senator Dawes then addressed the Senate.
| He said the measures under discussion were
not the cause, but an incident of great popu-
lar feeling among the people. The present
administration had taken the South at its
word and promise that, If left to itself, it
would restore peace and harmony within its
borders and protect colored men in their
other house, where formerly they we're rep
| 4nl lx,o Ne hoSn IL
declared the South had obtained exclusive
control of affairs within its limits under false
pretence, and instead of seeking to harmon
prlve the negroes of the right of suffrage
the whites taking every advantage of their
numbers to secure for the South a repre-
sentation in Congress sufficiently large tc
control the policy of the dominant party
and gradually but surely bring back the state
of affairs existing before the war. Senator
Dawes referred to the dangerous theory O.
States rights which could be seen nnderly
ing the attempts to deprive the genera
government of the right given it by the con.
stitution to regulate actions for representa-
tives. He denounced that theory, ant
held that we are a nation, not q confedera
ton of States.
Senator Eaton inquired of Senator Dave
whether Daniel Webster had not called thi
confederacy of States.
Senator Dawes replied that he was no
aware that he had, but he was aware that tn
constitution called it nation.
At this point Senator Dawes yielded t
Senator Butler, who stated that his col
league, Wade Hampton, was present an
ready to take his seat.
Senator Hampton, on crutches, was lie
forward by Senator Butler and sworn in
the president pro tenn. (Thurman), takin
the modified oath.
. Senator Dawes, resuming, said his FRIEND