The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-17

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WASHINGTON, April 10.
SENATE.
MIR. kellogg introduced bill providing
for the establishment OF steamship mali
service between the United States and
Brazil. Referred.
The Senate resumed the consideration
ofthe Army Bill. fff
Mr.. Beck continued his remarks from
yesterday. He read q resolution hereto
! fore offered by Mr.. Hoar, denounclng the
alleged Democratic programme as uncon'
stttutional and revolutionary, and then
said that the Democrats were not propos.
ing either TO coerce the President or to
preventive President from coercing them (;
nor were they setting up revolutionary
measures or endeaVoring to pass acts
which would deprive the President from
using thearmy for constitutional purposes.
All they proposed to do, as would be seen
BY the 9Th section OF the bill, was to say
to the President that he shall not recall
troops from the frontier, or where they
were placed to prevent invasion from
abroad, to be used merely for political
purposes, and that while the courts were
open and all the judiciary machinery
working in harmony With them, he should
not use troops except on the call OF the
Governor or Legislature OF State IN an
emergency contemplated by the Constitu.
ton; nor should he use troops against the
public will. The Democrats further said
chat the money Of the taxpayers should
not be 50 expended as 70 enable the Presi.
dent TO use troops for political purposes.
"ltthis," Mr.. Beck said, "was revolution,
let the Senators make the most Of it."
MIR. Beck retorted upon the Republican
charge OF revolutionary action by re-
terrlng TO the law OF 1868, which he
said was so framed that-the acts OF Con-
gress were declared by any Circuit Court
0t the United States, null and void, were
sustained unless two.thirds Of the Judges
OF the Supreme Court should agree in pro.
nouncing them unconstitutional. He also
referred to the manner 10 which the
thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery
was ratified as atfording another example
OF Republican revolution. He quoted the
numerous precedents TO show that II was
not unusual to attach legislation on gen.
eral appropriation bills. Among them It
was seen that the law relating to the
supervisors and deputy marshals, was
amended on an appropriation bill by
Republican In Congress and that celebrat.
ed Drake amendment which annulled
the decisions Of the Supreme Court was
made part Of an appropriation bill. In
concluding his remarks he said the history
Of the Republican rule showed it to be the
duty OF the Democrats TO curtail the
military power Of the country.
MIR. Hoar said the Senator from Ken.
tucky yesterday stated that his reason for
addressing the Senate was TO reply toa
charge made by him (Hoar.l The Senator
had touched on many topics, but had
avoided with great care to answer the
charge regarding the previous utterances
IN the Senate, that the Senator had CON-
planned that he was charged with being
revolutionary because Of purpose TO re-
peal or revise certain section OF the Re-
Vised Statutes with regard to the use OF the
army. Now, said Mr.. Hoar, no one had
characterized such purpose as revolution
aary, because general legislation had been
attached to appropriation bills thousand
times. The Senator had declared that II
the President did not sign bill of which
he disapproved he would refuse TO make
the appropriations necessary to carry on
the Government. The question which he
Hoar) wished to put was this: "Did the
Senator now stand by this position or did
he abandon it? Did he stand by the de-
claration or back out?"
Mr.. Beck replied that he had no more
right to assume that the President would
refuse to sign bill than the Senator from
Massachusetts. He had no knowledge OF
the Presidents views on the subject, but
he had in every speech he made expressed
his belief that the President would sign the
bill as he ought to do.
Mr.. Beck continued at length, when
Hoar arose. Beck told him to keep his
seat, TO sit down until he was through
with what he has to say. He said the
language OF the Senator from Massachu-
Sstts was almost impertinent. He had never
threatened the President. He had said
that the Democrats would tender the bills
to the President fairly and honestly, and
he thought the President would sign them.
II not, the responsibility would rest on
his head and on the heads OF those who
were asking the President to veto them.
If the President should veto them he
Beck would consult the wisest and best
men OF his party, and others, when the
lamentable time came, as to what his :own
duty should be, and they would act as to
the best interests.
Mr.. Hoarreplied that the Senator frank
ly,avoided, he would not say evaded, read
ing substantial and important sentences OF
his speech now. The Senator said that il
the President should veto the bill he would
consult the wise men not from the East,
but from the South.
Mr.. Beck-I shall not trouble the Sena-
tor from Massachusetts.
Mr.. Hoar resumed, and alter briefly
stating what the Senator from Kentucky
had said, he repeated his question, wheth.
er the Senator adhered to his purpose to
refuse to make the necessary appropro.
priation to carry on the Government,
should the President disapprove or veto
the legislation proposed. He (Hoar) had
denounced such purpose as revolution.
ary, but he had not denounced the mere
putting Of legislation on the appropriation
bills. The programme Of the Democrats
said in effect to the President: "You and
the Judiciary shall have no pay there shall
be no postoftices and courts and army, il
you do not aparoYe our measure"
Mr. Beck replied that the difficulty
about the speeeh Of the Senator from
Massachusetts was what he did not care to
say till now. namely, simply not the truth.
He never said the Democrats would block
the wheels OF Government il the Presi-
dent thought fit to veto the bill in the ex.
ercise Of his power. What he said last
session was TO show what would follow II
the Senate should refuse to assent to the
amendments Of the House to the two bills
which failed to BECOME laws. He never
had uttered a word that the Senator
from Massachusetts, endeayored to put
into his mouth. What he said was to in.
duce the Senate 10 recede and not force an
extra session. ..a t,....s
The Senator from Massachusetts was
trying to make it appear that he (Beck)
would refuse TO pass the appropriation
bills II the President should not approve
the business presented to him. The Sena.
ator was trying to make q false impress
sion.