Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-18

of the voters of some of the border States,
at least one of them, had been disfranchised
by the State constitution. But he would
not vote for the repeal or essential moditica-
ton of the law authorizing the appointment
and fixing the duty and power of supervisors
of elections. As he understood the consti-
tuition, it vested the ultimate control of elec-
tions relating to national officers in the Con-
gress of the United States, but he would not
vote for any one of those provisions as riders
to appropriation bills, and disclaiming all
knowledge of the purpose of the President, he
would say here and now that if bills were
sent to the President in this present form,
and he should, in his wisdom, see fit to veto
them, he (Kelly) would sustain the veto with
all his power. If the President disapproved
either of those bills it was his duty, under
the constitution, to veto them, and he warned
gentlemen that the party who attempted to
override veto by any other means than
those provided by the constitution, would
be trampled out of existence. The Ameri-
can people
LOVED THE CONSTITUTION
and neither North nor South will sustain &C.
ton outside of the constitution for subvert-
ing the powers of any department of the
government. Within two years the people
would have it in their hands to determine
whether the rule was right or wrong. If right
to maintain it by the sovereignty of the ma
ton, if wrong to send q Congress here, (which
in conformity with the provisions of the con-
stitution, would redress the.executive action.
As to the point of riders on apPropr iation
bills, he did not charge that putting such
provisions in was revolutionary. It was not,
and such an assertion was simply preposter.
Gus. It was not unconstitutional nor did it
contravene any rule of Congress, and if that
which wastvicious could be justified by pre-
cedent and the usage, it had been abundantly
justified by all parties FROM the foundation
of the government. The whole:system ofput
and ought to be repudiated, but.
IT WAS NOT REVOLUTIONARY. -
as had been said by the gentleman from
Ohio, Garfield, whose speech laid before
him under the title of s.Revolution in Con-
gress.'' That gentleman had experienced a
thorough rev olution in opinion since 1872,
if he believed this action to be revolution
airy.
Mr.. Garfield had supposed that there
was nobody in this house that at this late
day would say that had ever asserted that
it was revolutionary to put rider upon an
| appropriation bill. I never said so in my
life. It is not in any printed, written or
spoken remarks that have ever made.
Mr.. Kelly gentleman shall speak for
himself, in the language he then used
Mr.. Kelly then quoted from the speech
in the course of which Garfield said: "When
majority undertakes to say this thing
(the attacking of legislation upon appropri-
alton bills) "shall not be done, it is simply
an end of parliamentary government
Mr.. Kelly continued: 81 say to the gen.
tlemen on the other side OF this House that
they have but to adjourn, leaving the light
houses on our coasts unlighted, the courts
and all other branches of the government
dependent on these bills unprovided for to
make the North as solid as it was from 1861
to 1865. It will, irrespective of party, stand
by the constitution as it stood by it when it
was being applied to maintain the life of the
nation and the unity of the country.
Nor, addressing the Democratic side of
the House,) are you sure of solid South OH
80 unconstitutional matter. Your South is
not solid to-day, if those who constitute
what you sneer at az the center-one comes
from Texas and one from Alabama, repre-
senting Democratic districts. You have on
your side three Independent Democrats who
beat regular nominees, and there are among
you score of gentlemen who, although en-
joying the right to 60 into the Democratic
caucuses, know that but for the Greenback
vote in their districts Others would have oc-
cupied their place. No, gentlemen, the
SOUTH Is NOT SOLID,
and you have but to threaten war by invading
the constitution to find your party crum.
bling in the South, as it will crumble in
every Northern State. 1 have no fear of wal
or threats of war. Behind US all lie the
people, the depository of power, and they
will see to it that if they have mistaken their
man for once they will not make such mis-
take in the future. Nay, they will see to il
that our voice shall illumine the light houses
along the coast, and set the government in
all its branches in motion again. Our coun-
try is filled with disconten,
and murmurs, capital finds
no profit, and seeks shelter in the vaults of
your treasury, at 4 per cent. per annum
while labor, ill-requited, wanders through
the country seeking work at any price. The
country needs repose. Nothing can be NOR
baneful to it at this time than agitation.
nation cannot prosper in the midst of i'm
FASHIONED agitation; nor in a great countr
| like this can you prevent party degeneratinl
, into faction, when you propose to entertain
the people for two years on the simple ques
, ton as to which is blacker, the
DEMOCRATIC POT Or THE REPUBLICAN KEITH
Laughter. The people are feeling til
pressure of unusual want and are asking fc
elief. They find themselves passing yes
r by year, month by month, day by day, frol
: comfort and decent homes to want an
}, vagrancy, and you can't feed them fat O
: any such lost wind as has been INDUCED i
!, these halls during this session. The era
one filled with instruction and difficulty, an
> one which will work an epoch in the histor
of mankind. Not alone do our people su
9 fer, but the suffering is worldwide, wit
J rare exceptions, which, if studio.
g would be marvelously instructive. Look
|, the condition of the United States, German
: and England. Free-trade England is Il
workshop of the world, the mistress of Il
It sea, the nation whose ships do the carryi1
Z trade of the world. Where is size? III
best statistlcians tell Us that from the
monetlzation of silver alone she 10
10 81 ,OOO, 900 900 of her accumulated capital
= three years, and she is losing now more ra
;, idly than any of them. Her factories a
closed. She looks to Us and other matt o
r. for her food. Turn from her
TO GERMANY.
In 1872 she seized the most valuable pro
inces of France, and assessed France wi
,f warfare which it was be lieved would ban
n rupt that nation, and yet where is German
now? She adopted the British fetish and Fl
70 down and worshiped it. She banished b
n silver money, she established gold coinae
q she opened her ports to free trade, and if pc
u sible her condition to-day is worse than til
of England. Look to France, stripped
/ her most valuable provinces, and doomed
Re pay war fine of thousand million. She
Id proceeding to hnild mn and came