Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-01

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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 21st, the considers
ton of the army appropriation bill occupied
the day. Speeches were made by Messrs.
Bayard and Maxey advocating the clause in
the bill prohibiting the use of troops at the
polls.
The business of the House was confined
to the introduction of bills under the call of
States, the unprecedented number of 1885
being offered.
In the Senate on the 22nd, Mr.. Garland,
of Arkansas, and Mr.. Davis, of Illinois, spoke
in favor of the pending army appropriation
bill and Mr.. Allison, of Iowa, spoke in op-
position to it.
The House passed the subsidiary silver
coins bill. As passed, the bill provides that
silver coins of smaller denomination than
one dollar may be exchangeable into lawful
money when presented in sums of twenty dol
lars; makes lawful money exchangeable into
silver coins in like amounts; make subsid-
iary silver coins legal tender for all debts,
public and private, in sums not exceeding
twenty dollars, and makes minor coinage re-
ceivable at post-ofices to the amount Of three
dollars. Discussion was resumed on the leg
islative bill.
In the Senate on the 23rd, the army appro.
priation bill was discussed to the exclusion of
other business. Mr.. Williams, of Kentucky,
spoke in favor of the bill, especially of the
section forbidding the use of the army at the
polls. Alluding to the presence Of Confeder
ate soldiers in Congress, he said as to these
brigadiers, he wished the people of the North
had been animated by the same wise policy
as their Southern brethren, and had sent their
gallant soldiers to be their representatives,
because if questions growing out of the war
had been left for solution to the brave men
who fought the war, the return of prosperity
and approach of reconciliation would have
been hastened.
Mr.. Jones, of Florida, followed in support
of the bill. The South having been restored
to its place in the Union, its people were anx'
ious to cooperate with other sections of the
country in restoring complete peace and pros
perity everywhere. Its representation being
on terms of equality with representatives Of
other States they have, from time to time,
manifested their interest in the affairs of the
nation, and after long night Of estrange'
ment they have come into the light and en-
joyment of the rights conferred by the Con
stitution. Referring to the use of the army
at the polls, Mr.. Jones said he had seen sol
diers marched and countermarched over his
little State. He stated as fact that COM
pany of troops was marched from Fort Bar.
rancas to Moravia, in 1877, to attend an
election, and after the election he saw an Of
icer in his own town remain with the State
officers until the returns from the voting polls
were canvassed. There was no necessity for
troops at the polls. There was no indication
whatever of trouble and none was appre
hended, and when there was so much interest
everywhere concerning the electoral vote Of
Florida, troops were present to sustain the
villainy of the returning board, which de-
frauded the people of their President. Mr.;
Jones spoke of the changed condition of the
South under Democratic rule. There was
now more thrift, the public credit had been
restored and there was more enterprise
than under the domination of the Republi.
cans. All people had been stimulated in the
improvement of their condition, and they had
awakened to newborn zeal for public lib
erty and determination to preserve it. The
people were now satisfied with their State
governments.
Mr.. Blaine gave notice that he would re-
new his amendment to the 9Th section. He
then read from the testimony before the Tel
ler Committee, taken in South Carolina, that
numbers of white men came around the polls
firing guns and frightening colored men away.
Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina, asked Mr..
Blaine if it was not true that within the last
three days an acquittal had been ordered by
the presiding Judge in Charleston county in
case depending on just such evidence as
thst just read?
Mr.. Blaine said he believed there had been
dismissal upon flaw in the Indictment
But Mr.. Butler insisted that it was on the
evidence.
MIR. Blaine declared that the elections in
South Carolina had been mere travesties on
elections. He also characterized, unfavorably,
the elections in Louisiana.
In the House, on motion of Mr.. Wood, Of
New York, resolution was adopted, request
ing the President to consider the expediency
of entering into convention with France
for the negotiation Of treaty which shall en-
sure more equal interchange Of products and
MANUFACTURES of each country. The Legisla-
tive appropriation bill was then resumed and
discussed until adjournment.
In the Senate on the 24th, Mr.. Conkling
made three hours speech in opposition to
the pending army appropriation bill, his eff:
fort in the main being an arraignmeut of the
Democratic party and an earnest support Of
the Federal election laws. Apparently for
the sake of little variation in the monotony
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