Daily globe., 1879-04-04
FORTY-SlXTH CONGRESS.
The Senate.


The Senate.
GEN. SHIELDS.
WAsHINdroN, April 3.-Sanator Voorhees, IN
troduced bill to authorize the President to
appoint James Shields, Of Missouri. a brlsa-
dier geueral in the army on the retired list.
HEREFORD TO TALK.
Senator Hereford gave notice that on Monday
hs would call up the resolution of Senator
Hoar condemns natory of the Democratic policy, |
in order TO express his views upon IL.
BELLS CREDENTIALS.
The report of the committee privileges |
and elections on the credentials Of Chas. b.
Bell, appointed by the Governor Senator
from New Hampshire, was taken up at the
opening of the Senate.
Senator Hoar argued in favor of admitting
Bell, saying there is an unbroken line of prec-
edentS for doing.
After an executive session the Senate adj
journed until Monday.
House of Representatives.
KNOTT ON FRYE.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The debate on the
army appropriation bill was continued by Mr..
Knott He spoke of the great and historical
Importance of the principles involved. be
characterized great and fundamental prln-
ciple Of republican liberty that the ballot box
should be protected from the slightest approach
of military power, and that the vote shall be
left absolutely free in exercising at the polls
the highest prerogative of the citizen. He
quoted the English statute of George H. for
the removal of troops from q place where an
election is to be held and cited Blackstone,
''That it is essential that elections should be
absolutely free and that therefore all unduein-
jl,,r.. hi fnI
expected such question would have been dis
cussed on the other side with
CALMNEss AND DIGNITY,
but in this he had been grievously disappoint-
ed. particularly in connection with the speech
of Mr. FRYE. That speech, while it might have
been appropriate for the small fry of hi
party at q cross roads or village bar room, wass
unjust to that gentleman S genial and generous
nature.
Mr. Knox concluded his speech with state
1nent of the benehcent reforms that would be
effected when the Democratic party had cap
tured the capitol, as he firmly believed it to be
in the plans of providence that the party of the
people should so triumph. He did not intend
and he did not think his party intended to be
led away from the question under considera-
ton to discussion of any collateral issue
whatever but it intended to move right on to
the accomplishment of the high purpose, upon
which they were resolved. He expressed his
astonishment at the statement that the obnox-
ious words which it now proposed to wipe
from the statue book had been inserted on mo.
ton of Senator Powell of kentucky, and said
sons, but of mono of them was
she prouder than of Powell. If he had done
nothing in his long and useful career except
stand day after day and contend manfully as
he did for the purity of the ballot box, and for
non-interference of the military with elec-
tions, that act alone would have secured to him
the affection of every lover of liberty, and a
memorial more lasting than sculptured marble
intended when it captured the capitol to throw
off the chains that had been thrown around
the people, and to plant its banner on the
dome of the capitol emblazDneu with the
legend
EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE
to all men, exclusive privileges to none." It in
tended TO protect the purity of the ballot box,
which was the corner stone of personal liberty
and of free government and to see to it that
the military shall at all times and under all
circumstances be subordinate to the civil au-
thority. 1t intended to preserve the ancient
birth right of the American citizen to treat by
jury in all its purity 1t intended that all ring
masters and jobbers and knaves who had fas-
tened like vampires on the body polite of the
country for years past, shall be driven forth as
the money changers were scourged from the
temple by the savior of mankind. 1t intended
that every abuse of power should be arraigned
not only before the great bar of public
aI;hdon 1Gnon but Deffbe tbe the conntey
intended to preserve the rights, dignity and
equality of all the States unimpaired as the
safest protection of domestic concerns, and as
the surest bulwark agaist anti-Republican ten.
denotes. 1t intended to maintain the federal
government as supreme in its constitutional
sphere and to let all the States, in the splendic
galaxy of equal republics move on forever il
their appointed orbits with beauty ant
harmony, that made the music of the sphere
when the morning stars sang together and all
the sons of God shouted for joy. (Applause OF
the Democratic side.
HANK IN OPPOSITION.
He was followed on the Republican side b,
Mr.. Hank, who argued that it was absolutel
necessary for protection of the lives and politi
cal rights of the colored and white Republican
of the South, that the authority of the militar
to preserve peace at the polls shall be main
tained. He said when the President had offere,
peace and Cancellation he had been answered
with bloodshed and riot He placed his oppo
stion to the present measure on the broat
ground of its merits 1t permitted to stant
on the statute books there would be fre
elections in the South, and Republicans woule
be returned to Congress bv the voice of fre
Others might do as they pleased, but never
while he had a vote on this floor
would he vote to repeal thos
statutes until every man in the South, white o
black, whether carpet-bagger from the Nortl
or q scalawag from the South, should have
free and equal chance at the ballot-box. (Ap
plause on the Republican side 1t might b
said that Hank was waving the blood
shirt. Well, it his friends on the other sid
had not bloodied it he would not have had it t
shake. He informed his friends on the othe
side that in 1880 the place that knew them no,
would know them no more forever. Then,
he were member of the House, he would vot
for bill providing for holding all nationa
elections under the authority of the Unite
States under the protection of the Unite
States entirely. Laughter on the Democrati
side.)
NAVY PIRATE robson.
Mr.. Robson followed. He confined himsel
to the question Of law involved in the discus
sion, and said it is proposed here to restrain tt
civil officers of the Un,ted States from keepin
peace at any election in any State, by whs
means? By civil means, not by military mean
for the right of civil officers, the marshal
the district, if you please. to summon pos
comitatus is Il right to summon the ordinal
military companies that may be within II
body of his bailiwick. The right to summt
armed troops if they be within the body
the bailiwick, is a civil, not military righ
strength of the civil law. Can that bs doubt
by any lawyer. Can it be contradicted by ar
man. The jurisdiction of the United Stat
comes within the States wherever it
any United States duty to perforl
That is not only sense, b
good law. Wherever the United Stat
has guaranteed right, wherever right CON
by tho constitution, and is guaranteed by
there, the United States has right aud mt
have right to enforce and carry out tt
power.
Mr.. Kimmel-Where has the United Sta
guaranteed the right to vote?
Mr. Robeson-It has guaranteed the right
eyery man in Maryland, who hasa right to VI
for the most numerous branch of the St:
legislature, that he shall vote at a peaceal
election for member of Congress. (Appla'
on the Republican side.
know that the supreme court has declal
that the United States has voter of its o
creation in States. I know that it has declal
that the right of suffrage is not given in Sta
by the constitution of the United States,
that does not cover the case. The constitute
provides that the House of Representati