Daily globe., 1879-04-26
whole Thursdays session was continued, con-
sidering the legislative appropriation bill.

to enact laws regulating their election.
Mr.. Thomas characterized the proposed re-
peal conspiracy formed to secure Demo
cratic majority at the next election at all haz
ards and at the expense of citizens having as
many rights as any member on the floor. Ir
view of the statement made that all war meas
ures are to be repealed, the Republican party
would stand upon the watch towers, and be evel
ready to meet every attack and resist every un
lawful encroachment upon the rights OF clti
zens.
Mr.. Williams, of Wisconsin, said that while
the constitutional arguments had been able
redoubled either their necessity Or their utii
ity. If fifty years of argument and foul
years of horrid war could not settle State rights
he doubted If anything which could be said nov
would do it. He was glad to see the debate
coming back to the naked facts of the last cleo
tions. On no subject was the people more
ignorant than on the awful details of the out.
RACES committed at those elections. The facts
of those elections seemed backed up in volumes
of testimony in the library as securely as though
buried in the catacombs of Egypt. The trouble
was that men who had
NEVER ouA1LED BEFORE A CANNON BALL
Shirt" and bayonet rule had dismayed more
men tn an all he dangers of war.
Mr.. Hayes charac terized the proposed rspea
as an effort to render the fruits o the war use
less to the country and of no ava il in its fu
ture prosperity.
MIR. Hooker said that stranger who hac
been present during the debate, from it's incip
iency by Garfield with gloves on, down to the
last speech by Hayes with gloves off, woulc
have supposed that instead of its being sim
pie proposition to keep away troops from the
poles it was question as to whether or not
the Southern people were liable to be indicted
Coo .lokI H1l lad
for five years after the war closed negroes
marched to the polls in Mississippi headed by
leaders bearing drawn swords, and that had
never been regarded by the Republicans as an
invasion of the rights of the people and free.
dom of the ballot boz. This outcry of free bal
lot for the negro was, therefore, all pretense
In the last two elections in Mississippi there
lutely free to cast his vote as he chose He re-
ferred to Mr.. Garfeld's speech in which that
gentleman said to the members from the South
''You have been allowed to return to power in
the two houses" What wonderful and gra-
cious language coming from a Republican.
Has the Democrats come into power by permis-
sion of the Republican party? Thank God,
they had come here by the
oMNIPOTENT POWER OF THE PEOPLE,
who were shaking the Republican party from
the stronghold of power it had so long abused.
Mr.. Rice inquired whether the Republican
party did not have two-thirds majority in
both Houses when the people of the Norsh had
been relieved of their political disabilities.
Mr.. Hooker gave the Republican party credit
for doing its duty, but if it carried out the
terms of the surrender in the spirit and temper
in which the surrender had been made, it
would have passed that law long before it did.
Mr.. Price-But we did voluntarily open the
doors and allow you gentlemen to come in.
Mr. IT, 4
but then you had solid South in the interest
of the Republican party. You never objected
to solid South as long as the solidity was in
favor of the Republican party. He said it was
only after ten years of submission to radical
rule, which had imposed heavy debts upon the
opposition to it. Massachusetts would not
have endured for twenty-four hours what the
South had endured for ten long years, but now,
thank God, the Democracy was in power, not
by the clemency of the Republican party, but
by the omnipotent power of the people, and it
intended to sweep from the statute books what
ever measures impeded fair elections and pre-
vented a free ballot.
MR. EWING
closed the debate on the Democratic side OF
the question. He commenced by remarking
that the Republicans had seized ON the pend
ing legislation as pretext for the inaugura-
tion of the Presidential campaign on the issue
of sectional hate and distrust for the purpose
of preventing their trial and condemnation at
the bar Of public opinion for the vicious legis-
expelled from power. He would not yield one
lot or title Of the results of the war at the de.
soldier, proud of his service, and
unwilling that anything won should be
surrendered, he denounced the legislation
which it was now proposed to repeal plague
spot on the body polite.
nounced the passage of the army appropriation
bill by the Senate, at which announcement
there was considerable hand clapping on the
Democratic side of the house, on which Gar.
field quoted the proverb that "He laughs best
who laughs last"
Mr.. Ewing resumed his speech, and said that
he and his colleague, Warner, who had left the
colleagues, Finley and Lefevre, who had left
the Democratic party to go into the army, had
fought not for party supremacy, but to
PRESERVE THE UNION UN1MPA1RED.
He referred to the offer made by Garfield al
the close of last session, to accept two of the
propositions which that gentleman denounced
as revolutionary.
Mr.. Garfeld-Are you willing to give up the
other?
Mr.. Ewing-I will talk to you about that
out of Congress. notice that you have given
up one of them, but a little reluctantly.
Mr.. Garfeld-Not at all.
Mr.. Ewing resuming asked what there wa!
that justified the tremendous charge of revo
luton made against the Democratic party
What changes had taken place
since the time that the gentleman,
Garfield, offered to accept the propositions
He declared that their object had been to pro
duce race antagonism SO that Congress in tha
legislation knew perfectly we'll that it was or
ganizing hell in the South, that federal inter
vention had been the great and lasting cause O.
RACE DISTURBANCES
in the South. The proof of that was that in tn,
States Of Virginia, Texas, Georgia and soutl
Carolina, from which federal power was frs
withdrawn, there had been hardly any talk O.
race disturbance. Such talk had come from
States where the federal army was longes
kept and where the eletion machinery wa
most thoroughly organized. In those State
the Republicans had kept up hateful, i'm
practicable and monstrous organization b,
color, where threats of black domination hat
been constantly held over the whites
and where under carpet-bag direction there hat
been rule Of prohigacy and corruption. ZAP
plause on the Democratic side.) The colo
line must be abolished
Mr.. Ewing was proceeding to argue the un
constitutionality of the election laws, whe1
the hour to which the debate was limited ar
rived and cut off his further remarks. Th
committee then rose and the Speaker presented
as enrolled and signed by him the army ap
preparation bill, and the House adjourned un
til tomorrow.
GENERAL CAPITAL NEWS.
MAKING CoNsPIRACIEs ODIOUs.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-The House commi,