Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-05-12

grOes were taken out OF Ial ana hanged
on Sunday morning. This is the second
case of lynching in the State since the call
ing of the convention
The Military Interference Bill.
From Special to Boston Journal
WAsmINGTON, May 9.
Mr.. EDMUNp's SPEECH
In the Senate to-day on the House bill to pre-
vent military Interference at elections is just
" regarded as one of the most complete and
forcible presentations of case ever heard at
the Capitol. He commenced by sending to
the Clerks desk to be read those sections of
the Constitution which relate to elections and
to the powers of the Executive, followed by
the statutes authorizing the appointment Of
Marshals and defining their duties, and those
which authorize the President to repel inva-
sion. to suppress iuSurrection and to execute
the laws He then proceeded to demonstrate
the principles involved in the citations as ex-
pressing the sovereign power of the Federal
| Governments and showed that the enactment
of the bill before the Senate would be in
glorious surrender to the advocates of State
rights and secession. Gifted by nature with
superior talents and endowed with n to-
! nacious memory. Mr.. Edmunds had thus
/
tiles and derived from them series of com
pact logical conclusions, which he presented
with great cloquence, occasionally giving his
opponents a sarcastic rap, and As sharp and as
ready as a Damascus blade. He was listened
to with great attention by the Senators on
both sides Of the chamber. but his speech will
be the greatest service in guiding the Pres
idcnt into the right path
SENATOR BLAINE's SPEECH.
Senator Blaine spoke for about Ave min
utes with his usual intensity and impctuosity
saving that he merely desired to punctuate
events as they were unrollcd. 1t was now
high tide in the opposition to the Union Gov
eminent. All that was bad in the nullifica-
ton doctrines of Calhoun and in the State
rights doctrine Of John q. Breckenridge had
been cherished and concentrated in the bill
before the Senate.
Ben Hill HELD BACK.
Ben Hill evidently desired to reply to
Blaine, but was restrained by the older dem.
ocrats on the democratic side, who evidently
dreaded Il collision.
SENATOR CHANDLER
Then took the floor to figuratlvcly toss up
the Northern democrats on his oratorical
horns. He told them that of tortv-four dem
ocrais who were Senators when he took his
seat. sixteen were from the Northern States.
When the war which they had helped to bring
about came on not solitary one of
these sixteen came up from the waters Of
oblivion. They were crowded off the bridge
when they were compelled to vote for a mat
ter obnoxious TO their people. Now of the
Al Democrats in the Senate, - are from the
North History is repeating itself, and the
Northern Democrats are again being crowded
off the bridge. They had to vote TO pension
jeff Davis, and to hear their Southern allies
culogize him as the equal of Washington.
We saw the Southern Democrats come back
after the war Mr.. Chandler went on to saw
ragged and hungry; we clothed them with
the robes of American citizenship; we killed
the fatted calf, and invited them to the feast ;
they satisfied their hunger, and then asserted
that they had always owned the calf. Now a
Republican Senator is to be ousted Gom his
seat. There are twelve Senators on the Dem
ocratic side, which, in the opinion of Repub-
Leans, hold their seats by fraud and violence
and it NAV not be well to show how seats can
be declared vacant,
Here Senator Eaton called Chandler to or
der for having asserted that Senators had OBJ
tanned their seats by fraud and violence, but
Thurman, who was in the chair. declared
that the remark was not out of order. Chan
der concluded by defantly saying to the dem
ocrats on the other side of the chamber
"Iou have your day in court, make the most
of it. Your time is short. The people have
taken this question in hand Already the
handwriting is visible on the wall"
ROASTED DEMOCRATS.
While Mr.. Chandler was speaking the
Northern democrats looked as though they
were being roasted over small fire and bast-
.,Ix Inn, L,,t 4
by caucus obligations not to reply.
THE VOTE.
Voting was commenced at 1 80, and the bill
was soon passed by a vote of 33 yeas against
81 nays. There were eleven pairs, among
them Bell and Williams, Blaine and Wallace.
Ilamlin and Mcpherson, Dawes and Hill.
The LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION Bill
Was then taken up, upon which Ben Hill will
, speak tomorrow.
WILL THE President Sign IT?
1t is now well understood that the views OF
the Pres dent as to the Military Interference
bill have been undergoing change since tn,
first announcement of the passage of the bill
by the House. When the bill had passed the
House. and before the text had been printed
the President remarked to several friends
that if it provided simply against the
use Of troops for political purposes at the
polls it would meet his approval. After tn,
bill was printed the President began to give il
careful study in connection with the debates
in the House, From this examination it is
understood he rapidly came to the conclusion
that the character of the bill was not fairly
represented by the title, and that while osten-
sibly bill to prevent military interference AT
elections, il was, in fact, "A bill which would
tend to cripple the Executive in the exercise
Of his constitutional power in many directions
, and lay restraint upon him in executive af-
fairs
Political.