Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-24
cus-not merely the army appropriation;

merely the army appropriation:
they did not stop there, but in the legis-
lative bill as it came from the caucus
there was an appropriation for defrayinp
the expenses of the Supreme Court. Cir
cult Courts and District Courts Of the
United States, providing that certain
sections of the revised statutes be re-
pealed. He had always understood that
the government was divided into three
distinct OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, execu-
tive and judicial-but now the legisla-
tive branch struts forward and says if
the executive does not sign the bills it
offers, it will starve the judiciary. This
was carrying the matter further than he
had ever known it to 20 before, and be-
sides starving the judiciary, the other
side would refuse to appropriate dollar
for the expenses of tie capitol buildings
and grounds, for public printing or for
the congressional library. The depart
ment of state. Of which the country had
s reason to be proud for its conduct of
its foreign affairs, was to be disabled and
our diplomatic relations must cease I'M
less the president signs these bills. The
beacons and warning lights on 1900
miles Of coast must 60 out. The minis
of New Orleans, Denver, San Francisco
and Philadelphia must stop. The
pension bureau must suspend opera
tons. All executive functions of
the government are taken by
the throat in highwayman style and
commanded to stand and deliver in the
name of the Democratic caucus. A
leading Democrat, an eloquent man, who
has courage, frankness, and many good
qualities, boasts publicly that the Dem.
ocrats are in power for the first time in
eighteen years, and that they do not in
tend to stop until they have wiped out
every vestige Of the Republican war
measures. Forewarned is forearmed.
The Democrats began properly on a
measure signed by Abraham Lincoln.
The picture was striking one; the
strange time had come when men fresh
from the battleields of the rebellion
took their seats here and proposed to
repeal laws enacted while they were
trying to destroy the Union. The vice
president of the confederacy had stated
that for sixty or seventy years preceding
the rebellion, or from the foundation Of
the government, the South, though in a
minority, had, by combining with
what he termed the anti-centralists in
the north, ruled the country; aud in
1866 the same gentleman said in a speech
before the Georgia legislature, that by a
return to congress the south might
repeat the experiment with the same
success. He (Blaine) had read that
speech at the time Of its delivery, and
had little thought he would live to see
the prophecy fulfilled; but now we see
these measures matured in a Democratic
caucus in which the south has an over
whelming majority of two-thirds in the
house and thirty out of forty-two senator's,
of whom positive and pronounced
majority participated in the war against
the Union, either in civil or military
situations, SO that our legislation isshaped
and fashioned by caucus in which
the ex-Confederates have majority, and
Mr.. Stephens prophecy is realized.
Very appropriately, the congress con-
trolled by the south says to the presi-
dent, the remaining baanch of the gov
eminent elected on Republican princi-
pies, in opposition to the party now in
power, that he shall not exercise the
power to veto a bill.
They asked if we call it revolutionary,
continued Mr.. Blaine, to put amend
ments on an appropriation bill? OF
course not. There have been a great
many amendments put on such bills.
some miscellaneous and some harmless !;
but I call it the audacity of revolution
for any senator or representative, or any
caucus of senators or representatives, to
get together and say that they will have
certain legislation or stop the depart
ments Of the government. That is
revolutionary. I don't think it will be
a revolution. 1t will be a revolution
that will not revolve. It won't work. 1t
is revolution if persisted in, and if not
persisted in it must be backed out from
ANONYMOUSLY, and the latter will proba.
bly, be the result.
Mr.. Blaine concluded as follows:
I do not profess to know, Mr.. Presi-
dent, what the president Of the United
States will do when these bills are pre-.
sented to him, as suppose in due course
of time they will be. I certainly should
never speak g solitary word of disrespect
of the gentleman holding that exalted
position, and I hold I shall not speak &
word unbetitting the dignity of the Office
Of senator Of the United States, but as
there has been speculation here and
there, on both sides, as to what he would
do, it seems to me that the dead heroes
Of the Union would rise from their
graves if he should consent to be intimi.
dated and outraged in his proper ccnsti-
tutional powers by threats like these.
"All the war measures OF Abraham
Lincoln are to be wiped out" say the
leading Democrats" The Bourbons of
France busted themselves, 1 believe,
after the restoration, in removing
every trace Of Napoleon's power and
grandeur, even chiseiing the IN" from
the public monuments raised to perpet-
urte his glory. But the dead mans
hand from St. Helena reached out and
destroyed them in their pride, and in
their glory, and I tell the senator's on the
other side of this chamber, I tell the
Democratic party, north and south,
South in the lead, and North following,
that this slow unmoving finger of scorn
from the tomb OF the martyred presi-
dent, from the prairies of Illinois, will
wither and destroy them. "Though
dead, he speaketh." Great applause in
the galleries. When you present these
bills with these threats to the living
president who bore the commission Of
Abraham Lincoln, and who served with
honor in the army OF the Union which
think only of one appropriate response
from his lips, or his pen. He should say
to you with all the scorn beftting his
station: els thy servant q dog that he
should do this thing?"
Boy Shepherds in Nebraska.
One pleasant day we rode twenty
miles over the Laramie plains, from
Laramie City to the Little Laramie
rivar whore we fnund q 1,rOsnerOns sheen