Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-26

or from. said companies, or to any way affect
| their rights under the existing laws, It being
| only intended for the proper accounting Off
GERS of the treasury to state on the books OF
] the department transactions between the gov
I eminent and SAID companies.
Senator Edmuuds submitted an amend
| ment to that of the committee above stated,
| THAT it shall not affect the rights or duties
| of the companies or the rights of the United
States under the existing law. Agreed to.
The amendment was agreed to as amended.
The committee on appropriations asked
| that the amendment appropratlng eighty
| three thousand three hundred and thirty
three dollars to pay the Pacif3 Mail steam
| ship company for carrying the mails in 1877
| between San Francisco and China be nom
1 concurred in, and it was so ordered.
| The amendment appropriatin2 two hum
| dred and fifty thousand dollars for expenses
| of the courts and of defraying expenses in
| Cured under The enforcement act, was laid
| over until tomorrow at the request of Sena-
| tor Whyte and others, when it will be dis
| cussed.
Senator Paddock called up the house reso-
| luton announcing the death Of Frank WEIGH,
| late representative from Nebraska. Suita-
| BILE remarks upon his lite and character were
| made by Senators Paddock and Saunders,
and resolutions of respect to his memory
were agreed to, and the senate as a further
4 Lldt n VI LCoPCCt W IhC IACliOiE VI tue uC-
| ceased adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
The motion made by Mr.. Monroe to sus-
| pend the rules and pass the bill applying
| 800, 100000 of the proceeds Of the sale of
certificates of deposit, authorized to be issued
in aid of refunding the public debt, to the
payment of arrears of pensions, was defeated
yeas 46, nays 173.
Mr.. NJ Mahon stated that he voted yester-
day for the passage of the civil sundrY APP
preparation bill under the impression that 1t
| contained naught but appropriations. 1t,
however, contained legislation in regard to
! pensions which, had ne known it, would have
made him vote against the bill.
Mr. Harris, chairman of the committee on
| elections, reported resolutions in regard to
| the contested election case from the third
congressional district of Missouri declaring
that r. q. Frost, contestant, is not, and that
L. S. Metcalf, sitting member, is entitled to
the seat. Laid on the table.
The house then went into committee of the
whole, Mr.. Blackburn in the chair, on the
legislative appropriation bill question, being
on Mr.. Southard's amendment repeating the
law creating the Office Of electoral super
visors, etc.
MIR. Banning quoted from Mr.. Garfeld's
speech last Wednesday to the effect ''that as
many men had been sent from Cincinnati to
the penitentiary for election frauds as wou
take away the majority Of one of the members
from that city, He said, SO far as | am aware
this IS the first time that this infamous false
hood has found any one so reckless of truth
as to become its indorser upon this floor.
In 1872 was elected from the second con-
gressional district of Ohio over Il. B. Hayes,
by majority of 1910. In 1874 | was re-
elected by majority of 1885 over Job Ste
venson. In 1876, alter the most exciting
contest that had ever occurred In the district,
in which every appliance known in corrupt
politics was used against me, Governor Hayes
certified my majority as 70 over Stanley
Matthews. | believed then, as | do now, that Il
fair count would have given me a much
larger majority. Judge Matthews gave me
notice of contest, which | answered. Suffice
it to say that he abandoned the contest and
never took word of testimony. After the
election charges of fraud were made by both
parties and examined into by the United
States district court. with Republican Judge.
a Republican district attorney and a Rspub
lIcan marshal. What, sir, was the result?
In the whole of Hamilton county, comprising
two congressional districts, fifteen persons in
all were convicted of Illegal practices, OF
whom FIVE were sent to the peultentiary.
Ten of these fifteen were from the second
district, and three of these ten were Republl-
cans, one being a colored Republican. TINS, sir,
is the record regarding the congressional
record in 1876, in the second district of Ohio,
composed of honorable men who hate fraud
and detest falsehood. In their behalf, in the
interest OF truth, and as a matter of justice
to myself, pronounce the assertion made by
the gentleman to be untrue, and | denounce
its author, whoever he may be, as falsifer.
Before uttering this assertion the gentleman
should have been certain that it was true,
and should not lay himself responsible on
this floor and before the country for that
which the record shows to be false. | ana
informed that the gentleman was won't to
clothe himself IN the white robes of an evan
gelist, and assembled the pulpit to preach
the gospel of him who commands: Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor." Surely he, of all men in this
house, should satisfy himself of the truth or
falsity of an accusation before placing it upon
the records of the nation. One word more
| desire to be distinctly understood about this
matter. Once for all-if any person means
to assert that a single fraudulent vote was
cast at the election OF 1876 with my kuowI.
edge, or by my authority, or through my pro-
curement, here now pronounce the assertion
a malicious falsehood l might follow an illus
trious example offered me, and retaliate by
gathering all the ISLANDERS connected with
the gentleman official record, so well known
to the press and people of the country, and
pour them out on this floor; but as | know
nothing oil my own knowledge. as to the
truth or falsity OF these charges, | sc I'm to
do so. And here l leave the gentleman to
the full enjoyment of the position he has
made fer himself.
Mr.. Hayes took the floor, but he was asked
to yield to Mr.. Garfield, and he complied with
the generally expressed will of the house.
Mr.. GARFIELD said that he had no particular
desire to cay anything in reply to his col
league. He made no charge against that
gentleman. He had not named his name or
his district. He had not said anything i'm
,,lrinry hot nor. hod
rupt thing. 1t his colleague was ambitious
to get into controversy and to elevate him
self to the position of a controyersIalist, he
had failed, for he [Garfeld had not chal-
lenged either his colleagues pers onal char
acter, or his name, or his district. He had
been talking about the necessity of the law
remaining on the statute book, to protect the
purity of national elections, and after calling
attention to frauds practiced In New York,
he had mentioned election frauds practiced
In Cincinnati. All that he knew about them
was what any intelligent reader of current
history also knew. Hls only authority was
the testimony of Eph. Holland before a court
OF competent jurisdiction, and in the nature
of confession to the effect that he was an
experienced repeater, and engaged, under a
promise of pay mot from his colleague), to
carry on the work of increasing the majority
of a certain party IL Cincinnati. and that he
himself had put somewhere in the neighbour
ballot-box. Eph. Holland was sent to the
penitentiary, and it was said in the public
prints that one car took seventeen of his as
sociates to the Ohio penitentiary. If that
statement about general state OF facts had
rendered his colleague restless and troubled
him, he [GarheIdl was not responsible for It,
because the records bore him out. He had
made DO personal alluslon.
Mr.. Ewing took the floor, but ne was in
formed by Mr.. Townsend N. Y. that there
was nothing about green backs in the discus
sion. He asked Mr.. Garfield whether Eph.
Holland had not been pardoned out of the
penitentiary by Governor Hayes, and whether
he was not now an active Republican
worker2
Mr.. Foster interposed the remark that
Holland had been delegate to the last DEM
ocratic convention in Cincinnati.
Mr.. Garfield replied that as the Republi-
cans never had any success in that section,
he didn't believe Holland would prove him
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