Daily globe., 1879-04-24
House of Representatives i.


WASHINGTON, April 23.-Mr. o. Turner com
planned Of correspondence which represented
him exhibiting great excitement in the debate
of April 18th. He presumed it was his col
league MIR. T. Turner, who was meant and
hoped the correspondents would recollect there
were two Turner's from Kentucky, both Demo-
Gratis, and would Indicate what Turner they re-
ferred to-. Thereupon Mr.. T. Turner remarked
that when his colleague and namesake had the
same experience as himself he would not show
SO much sensitiveness in regard to the stric-
lures of newspaper correspondents. He ad
mitted that he was the Turner alluded to. He
denied that, as alleged, he had called Burrows
a damned liar. If that had been, however, he
would rather be the denouncer than the pol
troon who submitted to it. Uaughter.) He COM
planned also of structures on him last session
and said that on an occasion when he had been
charged with intoxication he had not tasted
drop of spirits for three days. daughter
LABOR COMMITTEE.
resolution was adopted appropriating
$4,000 to meet the expenses Of the labor COM
mittes and granting the committee leave to
sit during the recess.
CONVENTION WITH FRANCE.
On motion of Mr.. F. Wood a resolution was
adopted requesting the President to consider
the expediency of entering into a convention
with France for the negotiation of a treaty
which shall secure more equal interchange IF
the products and manufactures of each cUun-
try.
The House soon afterwards went into COM
mittee of the whole and Mr.. Frye addressed
the House.
Mr.. Frye based his opposition to the repeal
of the federal election laws chiefly on the good
effect in he citv nf Noyv
York, where he said false registration, repeat
ing voting on names of dead men and regis
| tration of conyicts, had been pretty efectually
| stopped by those laws. BE argued that in that
| city interference by federal authority was nee
essary so far it could consritutionally be
had, and that it had purified the elections
there. Why, then, was this hoarse cry for the
repeal of those laws? Was it because their en-
forcement operated against the Democratic
party rather than against the Republican?
| Of course it did, but so did the enforcement of
any law against crime. II the whole criminal
| jails thrown open, the Republican party would
| soon be in hopeless minority. In conclusion
| he said, What spectacle do we behold to-day,
a union between confederate Democrats OF
the South and the Tammany democracy of the
North. Have they forgotten history, and that
it repeats itself? They have worked togethe,
before, worked for slavery and against the
rights of man, worked for despotism and
against the republic. The one finally made
! mad, attempted to destroy the government, the
| other cheered it on. The one fought for years
| to achieve its terrible purpose, the othel
sympathized, but coward-like dared not help
The one sowed the wind and reaped the whlrl
| wind, the other lamented only the loss of politi
| cal power and now once more the clasped hands
| NAVY RoBBER robson.
Mr.. Robson next addressed the committee
1t had been stated, he said, on the Republica,
side of the House, that they would vote for re
peal of those laws provided repeal was repre-
sented in an independent section. That dec
laration had, with or without authority, beel
perverted to mean that they we're willing t.
vote for tho amendment if it were presented q
a separate proposition. That was not only
different proposition, but exactly in opposition
because this amendment did nothing NOR
than repeal section to an existing law. Gen
tlemen on the other side seemed to argue, an
he believed they 80 thought, such was the infu
ence of early education and habit, tina
the people of this country wer
living not under the constitution of the Unite
States, but under confederation of separat
sovereignties, whereas he thought they we1
members of government established for th
, government of the people and not of States,
government that had all of the attributes of
, government including sovereignty, and tbs
acted directly the people, on their ri ghts an
on their property. He admitted and said thu
he should never deny, no matter what was th
, end or object to be obtained, that all tt
| powers of the federal government We,
and must be found within Il
WRITTEN CONSTITUTION.
That is the source from which the river o