Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-26

SCHAP OF REC1X1T HISTORY.
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offered . resolution that tbscretary of the
coed to the ele~ctionative clerk and ser
senate, chief clerk, :
. geant-at-aIms. itical discussion ensued,
lengthy fSy Messrs. Anthony, Ham
PartieIpeted Jonkling, Bayard, Beck, Voor.
I'm, Wa!iSe and Eaton.
: neg, bllsFthe course of the debate Mr.. Beck
, D1grcircular issued during the campaign
reeeS77S, signed by Sidney A. Austin, BY or
Isl Of The committee. George G. Gorham,
secretary. The circular says that it is almost
certain the next senate will be democratic,
|sndunArtsfhat foesmoa among the schemes
of thAs partyiissan intention % attempt rev
|olutionary S%expulsion from his ONCE OF the
president.
Mr.. Eaton referred to the circular read
and askedifA was true that IN democrats
contemplated the ousting Of the president
as thsrs stated. Now ! have not he said,
any Sysry high respect for the mar that &C.
cuniee the presidential chair. l think he is
fkeeoSfhrough fraud; that he has no bust.
nsDstkere ; that q msjority Of 100000 free
Of this country say he has no business
there. But when the secretary. of this CON.
mittes says that foremost among their
the opposition already announce
their intention to attempt revolutionary ex-
pulsion of the president from his Office, I,
e . democrat, deny it az false. No body of
men, respectable either in numbers or in
eyes1 announced such q policy.
Therefore, ven we're it not right and proper
for. other reasons to make this change, l
would Adyise achange in the secretaryship
Of the senate because of this issue.
Nj. Blaine saidthas pretext that the sec
rotary was to be removed BECAUSE he issued
thisctfcular might 60 for what itswas worth.
he would have to 60 just the satnsS IT he
man from Connecticut tEat0n9 had ssid
the circular when he said II Was the design
president now. The struggle in both
branches of}the last congress which culmi.
mated in the Potter committee was In the
plan. The Potter committee was evidence
of the sentiment in the democratic party
which justified the assertion made in the
circular. The Potter committee was organ.
lied for the purpose of obtaining, if posi-.
Die, evidence on. which to base proceedings
to remove the president.
Mr.. Wa!lace-Does not the senator know
that in q week from the issuance of this
circular the democratic convention of Penn
sylvania declared that4!t was unwise anG
impolitic to make an attack upon the title
of the president.
Mr.. Blaine-Why did they make tina
resolve If there wassnnt soma danger in TIL
air?
Mr.. Wallace-Bccsuse that assertion wa.
false.
Mr.. Blaine-Tbat document had .neye
seen light then. 1t did not come out unit
some sneaking federal Office holder betrayet
the secrets of his party, and he is probabl,
now waiting in the corridors for some word
| The senator cannot base his action in Penn
~slyvania on that. He went up to Harris
burg to make it certain that no such rasl
step should be taken by the democrat,
party.
Mr.. Wallace said he would concede thal
there was some such agitation then, but
was also true that the assertion on the circu
lar was that of a man who declared wha
was untrue and was unsustained by an,
word or act of men worthy to represent tn,
democratic party.
Mr.. Blaine thought there was an immense
exhibition here of virtue after the fact. Il
anything was in the air at the time of the
appointment of the Potter committee it was
a conviction that it was organized to fish for
testimony on which to proceed against the
title of the president.
Mr.. Kernan-My recollection is that con-
-temporaneously with the organization of that
committee the house passed a resolution thai
there was no intent TO question the title o.
the president.
Mr.. Blaine-Some weeks after there came
up from the country a cry of indignant pro
test. After business communities everywhere
discountenanced such action, then the house
on motion Of a republican, did adopt such {
resolution.
Eaton reiterated his assertion that the
charge contained in the circular was baseless
Blaine said they we're still echoing in his
ears the words Of the senator from Cennecti'
cut, (Eaton) himself ~denouncing the title O
the president to his Office.
Eaton-I say SO now.
Blaine-Then is not the senator denoun.
cling the republican party that is answerable
for the situation.
Eaton-I do but a great many Of the re.
publicsns feel as l do about it. The best OF
them agree with me that the man at the
w%hitehouse has no legal title to his place as
president of the United States.
Mr.. Blaine-I will answer the gentleman
with my views of the case. 1t is that the
president of the United States holds the
Office to whick he was elected by as fair and
honest a vote as George Washington did,
but that it took a singular departure from
the constitutional methods to make that vote
good, and that he was entitled to the votes
Of three southern states of which he was de.
prived of by bulldozing democrats. lap
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