New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-03
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
thr HDnsn. Mr.. KING Oem., La as


leave TO offer rooutlon calling on tue President Tor
Information TO tac preparations made 20 prevent tue
threatened invasion OF sitting Bull
Mi COSGER (Iep, M.cu) objected.
Mr. GOODE (Dem., Va) asked leave to take from the
Speakers table, for consideration, the Senate bill FOR
the purch use construction OF retrserainG ship for
the dIsiHfectIOn OF cargoes
Mr. CONGER objected
MI GOODE-The Senate should have passed a bill to
patent the gentleman a. a refrigerator.
Mr. CONGER said that he did not care ANYTHING about
the vulgar sneers him CijcctOr considering the
source IRON winch they came.
Mt. GUODE dlscaimed any intention Of personal
oGeuce $1,000, eD,pr.s ~. w, -
have time fixed for closing the debate on the Army Ap-
Precipitation till suIges IONS "ie made 10 I'd e u l'iS
session. 20 restrict speeches % nlccn minutes ttc anu
10 close tue debate tomorrow. Direction NaS made To
all these propositions, NJ, CONGER (Rcp.; NicuJ STAT
ing that number Ot gentlemen on p"th SIu'5 H, gwen
notice OF tueIr desire 10 speak also mat many yea
prepared spccches, and Won not IKE 10 DE- 10
hfteou minutes; and also, mat few members would DC
present at the night session. ,., - 49,.
On both sides II declared that there was no desire
to smut on debate; ana Tue Sptahci Ea't a. NE "a
perence that unlimited debate was the shOries /.
debate. -, 80, ,,.,.
PennJ v no quoted the pfUyerb that "the longest way
tt"fgs ms session wasa ,elfiupo,ed luxury. there
was no reason why that luxury should ne cut short
that as the subject % the most important charac-
ter il woud De -TacOus TO cut deba 's short, or to
A motion b, Mr. STEPHENS Dem. Ga)lhat vote be
Tinaiiy- on motion Of NJ. OCNYELL (}cr, Mimi, all
general debate ord ted 10 he closed al O'Clock Oh
Eri'ftr ,r,ylug thr five minute debate still open.
The House then, f2:3O, went INTO Committee 0f the
Whole, with Mr. SPRUCE tDcm, l.i) N tAe c1ar' on
Mr. WILLIAMS rep. WIS., said that under whatever
jurisdiction, Wietacr c,atc or NaEondi an election
sI%u.n Mt he 1alIooox ana pc1ce at the
polls, Every effort 10 srcure al St Two ihluAs must 0e
dy,rcis-d, or representative government would be
an end He had heard good deal OF nousensicli talk
about bayon"t rule IN ms country. He had read OF no
government in history wnich ana not rest ultimately
Tor It's prrmaueuCe and authority upon the bAyO-
net. Whoever talked. about such government
aked about UtOul H. knew o, no bSyonrt rue Al
tins country except that which mad put down one Of the
most walked and cruel reOclions that had ever DIS
friends The u+i,ctabr pa>tmc Of shooting negroes.
Ever since 1874 thc Republican party had been trp-
ping over emp because th'h Ioi tht nr-t lmt 'hdt
patty had begun to a'quicsce IN Tue nOnpetOIhaEv6
Of the laws oI th@couAIy re on'enaSd th9l tnete -
tlo1ps whether 10 the Iois or 10 the Church of Christ
He Admitted that 1t would not BE- pleasant sSht 10 see
voters mass ~ TIE pOlS "llLh me OF payOgi, Dut
neither wOI ~ bf pleasant 10 sc voters assal"d By
rougns with bONIe-kniVcb and rcvOVerS lie differed
from The gentleman from ONO our 'a4ueiul ia MS
opinion that the attempt 10 1orbld tHe Presence or
troops the polls is fight on the shlTmlsh ines Mr.
Williams regarded IL d. we centre OF ine "nDo q.'a-
ton, hecause upod IL would pend tie Whole question
OF 4 arra authority and national perpe'ulty.
Mr. TOWNS lIEND Dem HI proceed, 10 reply 70 The
charge made satu 10y MT. Garfield Rcp., OAiO),
the Democratic parry Is attempting TO starNt the
Government 10 dcdth' ne drEueH VA II tHe Govern,
meut starving TO death the responsibility womb
consideration bill appropIatimg $26,OOO,0GO for the
support VI the Army. That bill would pass the Demo
where would tue Responsibility DO Ii the
President vetoed the phi II you'd nor be
Gratis sought repeal some sections OF the statutes
lie believed That the President would be guided by he
precedents ia the past, aud by the precedeuts
the Republican party IN Congress. II the gentle
would have look the record Of Joshua GnulDgs
S tSe cnp1c c6s16ap of tine President aud select
Jpflu u1u
legislation mad been placed Oh the ClN SIndry ApprO-
prIaiion tl When that gentleman talked about lovO-
tuUnists his mai, dicIOn would fall the heads or
Wilson and Slmner hnd other kepneIcan Leaders ~ Tue
senate ~ 1867. Nj 1Ownsheud Sld that in 1872 the
very laws winch It Wa. proposed 10 repeal had been
passed appropriation bnl, aud then the gentleman
IRON ONO SIR. Garirl0) had HrIOgdnty stated
that IL revolutionary Tor the minority 10 oppose
the Will oi the majority Ia le72 that gentleman h4d
blown hot; III 1879 c)d. Mi 1Owhshend called at en-
ton IN TIE election Ia CAIcEO yesterday
the question Of the repeal OF thi. law had been made
lssue, and for the 1rat time ~ twenty years Democrat
had been elected Mayor OF Chicago TINS revolution
Mr. WEAVER rep. IoS ALE was a Greenback iuau
Mr. LOUNSBEkY Dem, n. " spoke III favor OF The
MI CALKINS Rep., Ind1 said that as a Republican
and lOJAiug at the question ~ policy, did
patIc whether te sAth section OF the bill were
passed independents measure but hc did Oh
ject to the runueri winch II was proposed 10 pass
speaking for himself alone, he took position that
ever, whore Siatc uses falls ueglectS 10
protect the citizen fully, Il T. the right Of that clzen To
can on the Government tor protection. He did not
know Whl ne lrthldcut would do III regard 10 the bill
Nobody kucw; II there anything the President
celebrated Tor II was lul beeplnE Ills CUunSIls
No could find out what lac was going 10 do. But
he Did know that IL the bill vetoed. The
Try would Lnd out IN short time that IL &, uractiOn
had taken place before, II would be multiple by
Of the stOppage OF supplies because money would
continue To How into the Treasury ana none could be
paid OuI.
Mr. HERBERT Dem. Ala.l lectured Mr.. Garfield
uep OhiO) Oh his authority To- threaten the majority,
aud he advocated the repeal OF Ihe law.
M PHlSrEk dem, NJ spoke IN favor VI the pro
posed repeal did also Mr. BUCKNER DEEM, Mos
Mr. WHITE k,p., PENN said tuat he knew nothing
about what would occur II the bal shOud pas In ITS
present shape. lie had not the confidential ear
OF the Executive, and did not know whether
II would be vetoed or not but that the PIesdent bad
The Constitutional right to veto IT, nobody could ques.
zion. lie gave history Of the passage OF tie whieh
IL proposed repeal snd called attention Ia no
fact that Senator Powell voted for he mn