Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-10

this General Garfield took last Friday, when
he said:
Your proposed modification of the law affects not
the army alone, but the whole civil power OF the
United States. Civil officers are included In these
sections and If the proposed amendment be adopted
you deny to any civil officer OF the United states any
him enforce the processes OF the law. IL you pass
the section In that form you impose restrictions upon
tne clV autoIIes OF the United STATES never before
government began. l say, therefore, in the shape
riders.'5 In the beginning of this Jntest we I'M
deFStOOd that you desired only 10 get the army away
GERS full power to keep the peace at the polls,
thought was the least important and the least dan
gerotS Oh yoeI oeanas sqt as you nave put IL mere
shape presented 1t becomes later law than the SUI
pervisorS' and marShalS law, and pro t1ntO repeats
the latter AS it stands on the statute book is
the earlier statute and is pro tdltO itself repealed by
the marshals law OF 1Sl /, and is therefore harm
less. so far as 1t relates to civil officers. But If you
put It in here you deny the of the marshas of
the United States to perform their duties whenever
riot may require the use OF an armed posse.
It was in pursuance of this change that
Mr.. Conger, who had originally declared his
partys determination to prevent the intro
duction of separate repc ealing bills, yesterday
guaranteed that if the Democrats would
bring in bills repeating the statutes entire the
Republicans would support them.
On the Democratic side the debate deve-
oped the fact that there are two opinions
among members as to the course which
ought to be pursued in case the President We
toes either or both the bills. One part of
the Democratic members hold with Mr.
fuckers declaration on Friday that in such
case the appropriation should be allowed
to fall; another very considerable and in
creasing number hold that this course would
be unwise and improper, and are determined
that the appropriation bills shall IN any event
be passed, and that il The bills with the riders
are vetoed the political repeats shall be
brought in In separate bills. They are SO
determined on this that no doubt they vii!
carry their party with them in this direction,
but if they do not there will be enough Dem
ocrats voting with the Republicans to pass
the appropriation bills pure aud simple, to
make these secure IN snY contingency. This
fact, which is now sufficiently well known,
puts aside all the foolish Republican thunder
about revolution" and 'coercing the Pres-
dent, which has been Illuminated from here
in speeches which those VINO made them are
already ashamed OF.
The following accurate statement has some
interest in this connection. In the orr ginal
caucus to arrange the Democratic programme
Mr.. S. S. Cox moved that a bill repeating the
obnoxious statutes should be presented sepa-
rately and independently of the appropria-
ton bills. This, with other propositions, was
referred to the committee, which conferred
with like committee from the senate caucus.
In that caucus Mr.. Cox again renewed his
proposition, but Mr.. Ewing, of Ohio, offered
an amendment that the repeating statutes
should be attached to the appropriation bills.
Warm discussion on this point followed,
lasting seven hours. Senator Thurman made
a strong speech for Ewing s proposition, while
Senator Wbyte, of Maryland, and Herman. of
New York, supported MIR. Cox. Ewing's
proposition won, however, but the arguments
revealed wide debateatle ground and much
difference of opinion. Yesterday, previous to
the passage OF the bill, MIR. Cox made a sig
ni6cant inquiry of Messrs. Conger and Gar
feld-If they would accept the bills separate
ly, and he suggested that the senate would
return them as separate bills in case the
President should veto them on the approprla-
ton bills. Senator Ransom and others sitting
near Mr.. Cox at the time agreed with him
after he had taken his seat, and thought bis
plan wise. After all, however, there are
considerations of great Importance which
should make the President hesitate before
vetoing the appropriation bills, and should
make the Democratic senators extremely
careful so to amend the political riders as to
remove from them all reasonable objections
on the part of the President.
The best men Of both parties must See that
a prolonged session will wOIk very serious in
Jury to the real interests of the country. A
Presidential veto will necessarily prolong the
session-even with the most reasonable con-
duct on both sides, and will almost inevitably
open the door for general legislation-an
event which neither the President nor the
secretary oil the treasury can wish to bring
about, and which sensible men of both par
ties have so far united to avoid. Congress
has now BEEN IN extra session nearly three
weeks, and, by the watchful and persistent
efforts Of Its wiser heads, nearly all lesisa-
ton, save that for which It was specially con-
Vened, has been prevented. The house, TO pro-
onf to \
(private bill days. SUCCESSFULLY, and the
country from the avalanche of bills that will
inevitably be poured in on the first calls of
States and Territories. The speaker has so
far declined to announce the standing COM
mittees, and all general legislation has been
successfully blocked. 1t is evidently the de-
sire OF the house to eonfine its work to the
passage of the two appropriation bills, and
If these are approved by TIE President, to
adjourn, leaving all other business to await
the December session. For the President to
veto the two appropriation bills which will
be sent him, would be to make a prolonged
session almost inevitable, and would open
the door to general legislation, disturbing to
the whole country.
There is little doubt that the debate in the
senate will lead to such notifications of the
rider on the army bill as may be shown tC
be necessary to accomplish the purpose Il
keep troops from the polls in anticipation O.
disorders, and to do no more than this, and
with such notifications the President viii
| scarcely venture on a veto of a measure
which was approved by the leaders of hi
party at The last session, and now again. anC
the lacking of which to the army bill hai
| been declared by General Garfield himself t.
be an orderly and constitutional proceeding
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