Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-24
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Senate and House Still Dis
cussing the Appropriation Bills,
Without Any Nearer Approach to
a Termination.
The Eads Jetty Claim About to
be Brought up Again.
XLYI CONGRESS.
XLVI CONGRESS.
s SENATE.

ton relative TO removals and ap>
pointments of the officers of the
Senate, but without final action
went over, and the Senate resumed
the consideration of the army bill.
Mr.. Williams spoke in favor of
the bill, especially of that sec>
ton forbidding the use of an army
at the polls. Abiding to the pres
ence of the Confederate soldiers in
Congress, he said of these Briga-
dier8 that he wished the people of
the North had been animated by the
same wise policy as their Southern
brethren, and sent their gallant sol
diers to be their representatives,
because if the questions growing
out of the war had been left for So
luton to the brave men who fought
the war, the return of prosperity
and approach of reconciliation
would have been hastened.
Mr.. Jones, of Florida, followed
in support of the bill. The South,
having been restored to its pace in
the Union, its people were anxious
to cooperate with the other sec
tionS of the country in restoring
completer peace and pros
perity everywhere. It's repre-
sentatives being on terms Of equals
ity with the Representatives of
other States, they have from time
to time manifested their interest in
the affairs of the nation, and after
long night of estrangement they
have come into the light and enjoy
ment of the rights conferred by the
Constitution. Referring to the use
of the army at the polls Mr.. Jones
said he had seen soldiers
marched and counter-marched
over his little State. He
stated as a fact that a company
of troops was marched from Fort
Barrancas to MoriaYia in 1877, to
attend an election and after the
election he saw an officer in his
own town remain with the State
officers until the returns from the
voting polls were canyassed. There
was no necessity for troops at the
polls. There was no indica-
tion, whatever, of trouble,
and none was apprehended,
and when there was so much inter-
est everywhere concerning the
electoral vote Of Florida, troops
were present to sustain the villainy
of the Returning Board, and which
defrauded the people of their Presir
dent. Mr.. Jones spoke of the
changed condition Of the South
under Democratic rule. There was
now more thrift, the pub
lie credit had been restored,
and there was more enter
prise than under the domination of
the Republicans. All people had
been stimulated in the improvement
of their condition, and they had
been awakened to a newborn zeal
for public liberty and determina-
ton to preserve it. The people were
now satisfied with their State gov
ernment.
Mr.. Blaine gave notice that he
would renew his amendment to the
sixth section. He then read from
the testimony before the Teller
Committee, taken in South Carolina,
that numbers of white men came
around the polls firing guns and
frightening colored men away.
Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina,
asked Mr.. Blaine if it was not true
that within the last three days an
acquittal had been ordered by the
presiding Judge in Charleston
county, in case depending on just
such evidences as that just read.
Mr.. Blaine said he believed there
had been a dismissal upon a flaw in
the Indictment, but Mr.. Butler in
sisted that it was in the evidence.
Mr.. Blaine declared that the cleo
tions in South Carolina had been
mere travesties on elections. He
also characterized unfavorably the
elections in Louisiana.
HOUSE.
A resolution has been adopted
apprOpriating $4,000 to meet the
expenses of the Labor Committee,
and granting that committee leave
to sit during the recess.
On motion of Fernando Wood,
of New York, q resolution was
requesting the President to
consider the expediency of entering
into a convention with France for
the negotiation of treaty which
shall secure a more equal inter-
change of products and manufac-
lures of each countrV.