Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Army Appropriation Bill
Passes the Senate.
The House Still Engaged in Discus
sing the Legislative Bill.
Death of Bishop Ames of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
Poindexter, the Richmond Murder
er, Sent Up for Two Years.
XLYI CONGRESS.
XLVI CONGRESS.
SENATE.
SEN ATE.
WASHINGTON, April %.


the resolution relating to appoint
ments to office by the Secretary and
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.
The amendments declaring that no
Union soldier shall be removed ex-
cept for cause, and also that no
Confederate soldier shall take the
place of any dismissed soldier was
defeated by a strict party vote, %
to 81.
The resolution giving the Secre-
tary and Sergeant-at-Arms absolute
power over removals and appoint
ments in their respective depart
ments was agreed to.
Senate passed the Army Appro-
priation bill, as it came from the
House, without amendment.
The House went into Committee
of the Whole on the Legislative Ap-
preparation bill.
Mr.. Richardson, of South Caro-,
lima, spoke in favor of a repeal.
The opposition to the repeal seemed
to be an effort on the part of the
Republican party to array a solid
North against solid South-a solid
South only in its adherence to the
Constitution.
Mr.. Van Voorhis, of New York, ar
gued that the election laws were
constitutional and necessary for the
maintenance of an honest ballots
box.
Mr.. Hooker, of Miss, said that
had a stranger been present during
the debate, from Mr.. Garfeld's
down to the last speech, he would
have supposed that, instead of the
simple proposition to keep the
troops from the polls, it was ques-
tion as to whether or not the South
ern people were liable to be indicted
for murder, arson and other
crimes. He had seen for
five years after the war
closed negroes marched to the polls
in Mississippi headed by leaders
between drawn swords and that
never had been regarded by the
Republicans as an invasion of the
rights of the people and of the free
dom of the ballot box. This outcry
of free ballot for the negro was
therefore all pretense. In the last
two elections in Mississippi there
not a single colored man who had not
been absolutely free to cast his vote
as he chose.
Mr.. Hooker then sent to the
Clerks desk and had read the pro-
test of the inhabitants of Wyan-
dotte, Kansas, against the colored
immigration, and said that it was
only when the negro was at safe
distance that the Republicans were
his friends. They never had any
use for negros, except to keep them
ike sheep in shambles and run
them to the ballot-box in the inter-
est of the Republican party.
Mr.. Haskell, of Kansas, denied |
that the people of that State were
hostile to negroes, but said that |
they did not consider it wise to
have thousands of poor people cast
upon one point, destitute and home
less.
The session of Wednesday was
here brought to a close and that of
Friday commenced.
The debate was continued by |
Messrs. Manning, of Mississippi, |
Goode, of Virginia, Hiscock, of
New York, Finley, of Ohio, and |
others.
Mr.. Goode said he would not
speak from a partisan standpoint
Or indulge in any threats, but should
advocate the repeal of the test oath
because it was stigma on the peo-
pie of the South and a standing re-
oroach on the American Statute
Book. He said he had sometimes,
While listening to gentlemen on the
,ther side been almost disposed to
despair of the Republic, and to
hink that the prejudices and pas
ions engendered by the would never
ease, but he preferred to believe
hat those gentlemen misrepresented
heir constituents, and to submit
he issue to the grand nation, with
ull faith that ID would decide that
he war was over and its questions
ecided.
Mr.. Hiscock, of New York, said
he object sought in repeating the