Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Army Appropriation Bill
Passes the House by a Strict
Party Vote
After the Rejection of Numerous
Amendments and Agreeing
to Others.
The Greenbackers Vote with the
Democrats, with Two Excep-
tions.
The Senate will Grapple with the
Bill this Week.
The Fruit and Early Vegetables
Killed in Georgia and South
Carolina.
XLVI CONGRESS.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, April 5.

The House met at IL o'clock in
continuance of Fridays session,
and Immediately went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the Army Ap-
preparation bill.
Mr.. Sparks, of Illinois, called at
tention to an article in the Chicago
Inter Ocean containing an account
of an interview with President
Hayes by MIR. Davis, of Chicago, in
which the latter gave assurance that
that the President would stand firm
ly by the Republicans. That he
had waited upon the President as
requested, and that there is no rea-
son to believe that the President
will disappoint the loyal people of
the country. For himself Davis
he was enlisted for war. Mr..
Sparks went on to say that it
seemed that the President seemed
to have some spinal disease which
rendered it necessary for the stall
wart members of his party to try to
cure it. He asked fair minded men
to read thu articles published
in the great metropolitan
journal of the Northwest and say
whether there was not an effort
made there to coerce the President
into the extreme measures of ex-
treme members of the party. And
yet, in spite of all that, the city of
Chicago had just given Democratic
majority of 1878 to Carter Harrison
(our own Carter, he called him), and
that was characterized by the
Chicago Inter- Ocean as ga victory
for the Democrats and the bowling
rebels" Laughter. In the place
of putting ram-rods in the Presi-
dents backbone, all the marrow and
stiffness had been taken out of the
Republicans. That the Democratic
victory in Chicago was the first
popular response from a Republican
city, and it was startling in its char
acter.
Mr.. Caswell, of Wisconsin, re-
minded Mr.. Sparks that on the
same day Wisconsin had given an
increased Republican majority of
over 5000. To that Mr.. Bragg, of
Wisconsin, responded in a manner
that elected loud applause from the
Democratic side. Then Mr.. Chit
tenden, of New York, made an i'm
passioned speech, sneering at the
Greenbackers, and telling the Dem
ocrats that their present policy was
in favor of desperadoes, bulldozers
and blacklegs at the polls.
The amendment offered yesterday
by Mr.. New, of Indiana, that the
repeal shall not abridge or effect
the right and duty of the Execu-
tive to respond to the call of a
State Legislature or Governor, was
agreed to by a vote of IS to 4,
the Republicans refraining from
voting on either side.
Mr.. Lowe, of Alabama, moved to
strike out section six from the bill,
and Mr.. Conger, of Michigan, sug-
gested to the other side of the
House that if that were done his
side would aid them in passing i'm
mediately, without debate, a sep
arate bill repeating entirely the So
called Objectionable sections of the
Statutes.
Mr.. McMahon, of Ohio, speak
ing for himself, repudiated the
proposition.
The House Committee on Rules,
who have had under consideration
the proposition to increase the
membership of the most important
standing committees of the House,
met this morning and authorized
Mr.. Blackburn to report to the
House in favor of increasing the
Committee on Elections, from
eleven as at the last Congress, to
fifteen; Ways and Means, from
eleven to thirteen Appropriations,
from eleven to fifteen; Commerce,
from eleven to fifteen 4; Judiciary,
from eleven to thirteen +; Agricul-
ture, from eleven to ff-
teen, and fixing the member,
ship Of the Committee on Enrolled