New-York tribune., 1879-04-28
THE LEGISLATIVE BILL.
THE HOUSE PASSES THE BILL WITH VOTE OF 140
TO 119-THE FINAL DEBATE-wHAT WILL BR

TO 119-THE FINAL DEBATE-WHAT WILL BK
DONE IN THE SENATE.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The morning hour was
dispensed with in the House yesterday, and the
Legislative bill was taken up Immediately. Mr..
Blackburn being in the chair
The first speaker was Mr. Ewing who defended
the bill. He declared that the Democratic caucus
had done nothing at all except determine whether
to put the repeal through as a separate bill, place
it upon an appropriation bill it did not go step
further than that Prior to that caucus. he said.
the Republican caucus had assembled and had
given notice that if this repeal be passed at
all, il would have to be placed upon the appropria
tion bis il was not the Democrats who had in
suited the President; the men who were insulting
the President the stalwarts of the Republican
party of the North. who were holding the lash
him and threatening him with party expulsion
if he dared be governed by his own judg-
ment instead of by the necessities of his
party. Mr.. Ewing asked why there were
Confederate brigadiers and soldiers in Congress
lie declared it was becaus- IN the whoe S~'.h III
the sweep of manhood from the cradle e T. yraf,
had had to enter the Confederate service in order to
meet the numbers of the North, aud the Southern
people had no othor men of experience to choose
from TO whom they were attached by the sympathy
a
common submission to the result. Applause on the
Democratic sde.l Since the Confederate brigadiers
had been in the House there had been more great
Jobs passed through Congress. Since they had been
here they had prevented, by their actions and votes
the destruction Of the war money and had remone-
tized silver. Since their advent into Congress no
Congress had ever been purer or ever guided by
more patriotic purpose Mr. Ewing said that the
Democrats asked this repeal solely to bring the
Government back to its true system, to the theory
of local self-government that the people pure
Mr. Garfield replied. He repelled an assertion of
the latter that there an attempt to arouse
tional feeling in the North against the patriotic
people of the South. Mr.. Garfield said he had taken
great risk personally and politically when he
said what he did about starving the Government.
He had pat it in the power of any gentleman on the
other side to prove that he had misapprehended
and misrepresented their purpose He had put it
In the power of the Democrats to prove him to be
traducer and to ruin him in the estimation of fair
minded men. The humblest or the greatest member
on the other side could have destroyed ed him by the
utterlng of this one sentence 1--WE do not propose
to refuse to vote supplies to the Government"
But forty-fve Democratic members had spoken and
that sentence had not been spoken by one of them.
On the contrary by their silence as we'll by their
affirmation, his accusation had been made over
with applause by the Republicans.
A five minute speech was made by Mr.. Stevenson,
of Illinois, on the Democratic side OF the question
The floor was then taken by Mr.. Horn, Republi-
can from Michigan. who made his Congressional
debut by a speech which kept the House in cOntin-
uous ripple of laughter. He took his position in the
area in front of the Speakers chair. and kept moving
with earnest gesticplations) now toward the neigh
bOrhoOd of the Greenback Representatives, and now
toward the Democratic side of the House, according
as his remarks were addressed to the one or the
other. lie paid his attention first to the Green
hackers, treating their peculiar views as a malady
of the symptoms of which he drew an amusing
sketch. He drew from Mr.. De La Matyr the state
ment: IL simply presented that bill 1.-THE billion
greenbacks bill at the request of another man; it
is not my own bill at all and do not indOrse
it," SIR. Horn said he was glad of 1t.
as the bill would make horse laugh
if he had any sense of the ludlcrous.
Mr.. Horr asked, "Who are these Independent men 2"
and said "As rule they are good for nothing,
always on both sides of every question. and on
neither side of any. lRenewed laughter.l They
are half fish and half wOman-political mermaids-
too much woman to be good for anything as fish,
and too much fish to be good for anything as
woman" IShouts of laughterl Mr.. Horr spoke for
some time and concluded by saying that it had
occurred to HIM that the Deity never had q better
opportunity to aid this country than to-day, and
that would be by turning the yellow fever into this
House. 81 would want Him, however" he said. "to
Use great discrimination in making His selections"
IShouts of laughter all around the House aud gal
leries.l
The iive-minute debate was continued by Mr..
Poehler of Minnesota, Mr. Chalmers, of Wisconsin,
Mr. White, of Pennsylvania. and Mr.. Atkins.
NJ ofI pxyaH To ctrtLa oIfa oil fha
proposed legislation except the provision in regard
10 the test OATH
Defeated without division.
Mr. Garfield offered an amendment striking ont
all the proposed legislation.
This was defeated by vote by tellers of-yeas,
123 nays, 130.
The committee then rose and reported the bill and
amendments to the House.
All the amendments were agreed to without
division. The bill was then passed-yeas lao ;
nays, 119.
although the Legislative Appropriation bill can
not reach the Senate until tomorrow morning the
Senate Committee on Appropriations has been
called 10 meet tomorrow. 1t is presumed that the
bill as it passed the House will be taken up In
formally so that it NAV be reported to the Senate
promptly after it is received.
There seems TO be prevalent opinion among
Senators of both parties that the discussion upon
this bill will be very brief, especially as the Presr
dents veto of the Army bill will be sent to the
House on Tuesday. 1t would go in tomorrow if the
House was TO DO in session. The discussion of the
Army bill has taken such wide range. covering all
the political subjects embraced in the Legislative
bill except the repeal of the law requiring test
oath to be administered to jurors, that those who
took part in that debate have very little TO add,
and those who refrain from speaking, especially on
the Democratic side, probably did because of
their desire to take no part personally in the
present controversy.
Ii is remarked that many Of the Democratic SEN