The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-20

credit tiobelier, no returning board
frauds, no electoral commission, no Belk.
nap. The other rside wall at the approaching
end Of all things, but the only thing COM
Ing 10 an end Is the corrupt Republican
party. The Southern men act with the
Democrats Of the North to restore good
government. Whenever the Republican
Senators abandoned vituperation and ven.
tured to touch on the merits al the Qdes.
tion, they were very Illogical. One sena.
tor asked II we fear thirty soldiers in
North CarolinaP We do Just as the Hol.
lander fears the first crevasse In the dixie
that may lead to an inundation; Just as
the physician breads the first speck Of
gangrene in his patients wound, which
presages danger, =
Just so, IF YOU PLEAsR.
The logic OF the Republicans is "elec.
tons shall be free II we have 10 surround
the polls with bayonets.n They shall be
according TO the State laws II we have to
overawe civil authorities by force 10 have
II our way; they shall be pure II II takes
John Davenport and every criminal in our
cities to manage and give them purity;
they shall be conducted without violence
" hlktlOly llho W pG ull eHGTY DHIs
lot box, aud they shall be fair II we have to
arrest every man offering to vote the Dem.
ocratic ticket, unless we can use the army
at the polls to count in the next Presi-
dent welwill abandon the defenCes Of the
country Z 49, ~ Eas3. ~ ri y Z
YES, GIVE Us a REST.
What the people most need Is rest, con.
Cluded Vance. The residents OF his sec.
tion desired 1t above their chief Joy. The
policy OF concilliation pursued by the
Democracy Of the North would alone Sc.
cure this rest. Let Ils not mistake nature
who has covered the battle fields OF the re-
bellion with her robes OF green. Let us
throw a mantle over the memory Of the
past.
Mr.. Logan, in reply to the assertions
that under the Democrats the army was
not used to keep the peace, read an ex-
tract from speech Of the Hon. Geo. H.
Pendleton in the House OF Representa-
tives in 1858, defending the President in
the use oil troops in Kansas and Utah for
that purpose, and the tenor OF which Is
that the Government has never been over.
thrown by militaryapower, unless evil,
weakness and corruption had preceded.
AMENDMENTS OFFERED TO THE BILL.
Mr.. Logan offered an amendment to the
effect that persons honorably discharged
from the military or naval service OF the
United States because OF disabilities re-
sulting from wounds or disease received
therein, shall be preferred for appoint
lnent to civil Offices aud positions in the
Government departments II qualified to
discharge tho duties Of such positions.
This amendment was ruled to be not in |
order, as changing the existing law.
Mr., Teller offered an amendment in
tended to insure the prompt payment OF
claims for arrears OF pensions when al
lowell out Of the money directed by the
bill to be used iorthat purpose. He stated
that bis object was to render delay In
prompt payment impossible after a, claim
was adjGdicated.
The amendment was ruled to be out Of
order US new legislation.
The bill was then reported back to the
Senate and the amendments made in the
committee Of the whole agreed to, except
hat authorizing the employment OF three
additional clerks in tho Postotlioe Depart
nent, which was disagreed to. Yeas, %;
nays, %.
1t was agreed that a vote on the So
called political part of the bill should be
taken tomorrow ut 4P.M.
After Executive session the Senate adj
Iourned. ! 81 ~ n + 4