The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-11
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,1,Aa .1nrr-L,aw Debate.

whenever VIE sVoa - ~ - 80 nv
.;on chooses to exclude them. " QUA
sha, xve had room sof IL. We have read IL
In The ofl,oisi Record because the New 1ors
-..nars had represented that the Repuoa-
cans had gained q great victory In that ue-
.,,,c. and had shown up the bill in such a.
manner as to make the Democratic senators
sicE OF IL. We'll, as usual, these statements
were Republican falsehoods. There was
some plain talk. Hear the Senator from
Rentuckys
Mr.. BECK: do not like to vote against
Che Inot;on made by the Judiciary Commit
see, but It seems to me that Wnen We ha'e
hator. ia bill whose purpose IS 10 aDnui
= "a ~ chat was trau5ulent'y inserted into INC
pcris.si Statutes we can act on 1t dircct9s.
! nsn the word fraudulentiy' on purpose,
aecar,se 1t was done fraudnlept'y. The man
who nut it there, whoever ne was, knew
wl,en he inserted section $40 that IL was a
reneaIed law, and there was no possiefity
sof his not knowing 1t, and any man VINO
reads the statutes is obliged to seq IT,
Mr.. BECK does not seem to have been con-
scious that his party friends had come OUT
sat the little end Of the horn.
But let the Ohio Senator sound bis bugie.
He raped CoNKLING over the knuckles ss
follows:
1--WE are earnest men in this business
we know that the jury laws as they now
exist are used for partisan purposes. we
know that as they arc administered
they are disgrace to the so-called admins
tration OF Justice. We are in dead earnest
that that evil shalt be remeded, even * 1T
he necessary 10 suffer the notification OF
the taunts OF the Senator from New York.
hone we can survive plenty OF that kind
Of medicine. Even il it be necessary to do
that. we, az practical men, are willing to
see that mere sophistTy at this end OF the
avenue shall not be rcechoed from the other
end OF the avenue. That is all there IS OF
il. II the Senator from New York thinks
that God has crowned him with such SUR
passing intellect, and that the study OF the
law has made him the very embodiment OF
the code OF Jus,inian. Coke's Institutes, all
the English statutes, and the American stat
utes. too, that he has breakfasted on Black
stones Commentaries, taken lunch on Kent,
dined on Story, and taken as slight re-
lection before he retired to bed John Mar
sbaIps decisions, let him live in that happy
atmosphere OF seIi.e>teem; | will not at
tempt in the slightest degree to mar one
single particle OF his Sclf-satisfaction. /
even agree that he may loom over me,
much cider lawyer than he is, like one or
those genii in the Arabian Nights, who
when the cork was taken out OF the bottle
rose out, away up TO the clouds, to the utter
amazement aud establishment of all behold
ers. Let it be so as long as be Dleases, but
he shall not prevent me as practical !egls-
lator from attempting to remove the peb-
bles that he throws in my path when have
4 march to make"
or course these extracts do not touch the
merits of the question. We give them as
part OF the 5y-play. .-...
Mr.. EDMUHDS7s speech is one OF the sharp
est, brightest, and most ingeniouslv diaholi-
cal that we ever read. Why, he is very
MEPuIsToPHILEs. And, witha, he is the
mildest.mannered man that ever cut throat
or scuttled a ship. Such demonstrations OF
respect for Democratic senators, such apol-
ogies, il anybody so much as imagined that
he had uttered an unsenatorial word; such
mock courtesy as was never before shown
in the Senate chamber-these are the char
acteristics OF the Vermont Senator's speech
these, coupled with the most outrageous
attempts to misead the country "a to tho
southern people and the southern laws.
And this reminds us that Mr.. THURMAN
skinned the President. We quote:
"Mr. President, some time ago, when the
bill prohibiting military interference with
elections was under consideration, the Sem
ator from Vermont delivered an elaborate
and carefully prepared speech. For rea-
sons beyond my control was compelled to
be absent from the Senate while he was
speaking. but carefully read his speech as
soon as il appeared in the Record, and
when read it, it did seem to me, to my poor
comprehension, that his misinterpretation
of that bill, his misintcrpretation of what
would be the effect of passing that bill
which simply biotted out from the statutes
\ the power Of the President to use the army
to keep the peace at the polls, and did no.
thing more, was intended for nothing more,
and upon no fair Interpretation could
be made to effect anything else-his
misinterpretation of that bill, by which
he made it to appear, as it seemed 10
those who believe IN everything he says,
that IL that bill passed the President could
: not even defend the public property in the
city of New Y ork, the cnstom-house or the
post-office, on the day Of election, that he
could not proteet any public property any
where, at any crossroads in the country on
the day Of eIection-I say when read that
i did think that he sophistry lit may use
that word without offence) Of that speech
was so Transparent that it could impose upon
nobody. But vet to nv amazemert found
that that was the substratum, the bedrock,
the everything, caa'ut et pedes, and corpus
too, Of certain document that we got from
the other end of the avenue in few DAYS.
.sNow. Mr.. Presi dent, the Senator from
Vermont is repeating the same performance
ifear. He is generating a new veto mes
sage. That Is the whole meaning of it. He
Is furnishing sophistries for the people who
are not smart enough TO invent them them
selves. in order that tn may come back
here by sort Of game OF battledore and
shuttlecock from the other end of the ave-
nue. That is all there is Of it, in my
humble Judgment"
Again After being called to order. Mr..
THURMAN said:
81 said that bills have been vetoed be-
cause in my opinion the President has been
coefced. Coerced how2 By duIess, winch
i need not tell the Senator from Vermont
means personal violence? No, Sir, nobody
understood me go. Coerced how? Co
creed because, In my Judgment and / am
willing to 60 10 my death upon it, the Sem
ator from Vermont and the representatives
In this chamber on the Republican side by
the course they took on those bills, by leay-
Ing the merits OF The subject by raising the
dag Of the revolution, by waving the bloody
shirt, By talking about this being question
between secession and the Union, and by