The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-26

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fore in a memorable period Of history
Applause on the Republican side.
Mr.. Ellis argued as to the eunconstitution
ality Of the election law. 3fl11lii
Mr.. Keifer referred to the mad and revo
lutionary career Of the Democratic party
and said that the party could really boas
OF nothing good that It did not owe 10 de
feat IN peace and war. The Democrats o
the South had been forced at the cannon
mouth and bayonet's point To take bal
lot in the Union.
RETURNED BUT NOT REFORMED.
The Republican party had paved th,
way for the Democratic party OF The Soutl
10 return to the Union, and now that III,
Democratic party valued free fraud at th(
polls and unrestrained violence more thar
1t valued the government when the con
cGssion OF cardinal principles was demand
ed, he, with no arrogance and without
threats, speaking as he believed, not only
Tor his party but for the whole country
warned those who made such demand,
that they would be successfully opposed
not only in debate and vote here and else,
where, but Should the final arbiter be ap.
pealed to) on a bloody theatre Of war, be
hoped the stars and stripes would ever be
an emblem Of liberty and protection fol
all the citizens Of this Republic, on land
or at sea, at home as well as abroad.
SPRINGER TAKES LEAP.
Mr.. Springer argued that as under the
constitution the House had the right to
makes its own rule, It was not for the
President to question or complain OF the
forms OF legislation. II the President
should see tit to veto q pending bill he
should have to find other reasons for his
action than the fact that two subjects were
embraced IN the bill. He quoted the
English House OF Commons as authority
for the proposition that 1t had undoubtet
and sole right to determine ION a supply
bill) the end, purpose, conditions, con
slderations, limitations and qualifications
oil grant. The same exclusive right is in
herentin the American House of Represen.
tatives, and it was fol. the House to say what
would be limitations on the appropriation
bills.
EwING's HOWL. |4 ;g
Mr.. Ewing closed the debate on the
Democratic side OF the question, He
commenced by remarking that the Repub.
licans had seized on the pending legisla.
ton as a pretext for inaugurating the
Presidential campaign, on the issue Of sec
tional hate and distrust, for the purpose OF
preventing their trial and condemnation
at the bar Of public opinion for the vici.
Gus legislation Tor which they so richly
deserved to be expelled from power He
would not yield one iot or title of the re.
suits OF the war at the demand OF any sec
ton, but as Union soldier he was proud Of
his service and unwilling that anything
won should be surrendered. lie denounced
the legislation which it was now proposed
to repeal as a plague spot on the body po-
GARFIELD ISTINATRs TIE LAUGH IS NOT ALL
on ONE SIDE.
At this point OF the speech a message
announced the passage of the army an.
preparation bill BY the Senate, at which
announcement there was considerable
hand Clapping on the Democratic side. on
which Mr.. Garfield quoted the proyerb,
he laughs best-who laughs last." "
MIR. Ewing resumed his speech, and
said he and his colleague (Warner), who
had left the Republican party to 70 into
the army, and his colleagues Finley and
Lefevre) who had left the Democratic
party to go into the army, had fought not
for party supremacy, but to preserve the
Union unimpared. He referred to the
offer made by Mr.. Garfield, at the close Of
the last session, to accept two OF the pro-
positions which that gentleman now de.
nounced as revolutionary.
MIR. Garfield-Are you willing to give up
the other?
Mr.. Ewing will talk to you about that
out oil this Congress. l notice that YOU
have given up one Of them, but little re.
luctantly.
Mr.. Garfeld-Not at all.
INNOCENT EWING. N
MIR. Ewing, rcsuming, asked whattGere
was that justified the tremendous charge
OF revolution made against the Democratic
party? What changes had taken place
between the time the gentleman Garfield
offered TO accept the propositions and the
time he denounced them as revolutionary i?
The pretext OF the Democratic caucus had
been set up, but before the bill had been
reported u Republican caucus had resoly-
ed that no general legislation should go
through, SO that the Democrats were
forced (if they wished to repeal these laws)
70 put the repeal on the appropriation
bills.
DIDN'T lie MEAN "RAIsISG2" Ftti
Referring to the reconstruction measures
he declared that their object had been TO
produce rsce antagonism, and Congress in
that legislation knew very well 1t was "or-
ganizing hell" in the South. That federal
intervention had been great and lasting
cause OF the race disturbances in the South,
The proof OF that was, that in the States
Of Virginia, Texas, Georgia and North
Carolina, from which the federal power
was first withdrawn, there had been hard.
ly any talk Of race disturbances. Such
talk had come from the States where the
federal arms were longest kept and where
the election machinery was most thor
oughly organized-in the States where the
Republicans had kept up a hateful, i'm.
practicable and monstrous organization OF
. party by color; where the threat Of
black domination had been constantly
held over the whites, and where under
carpet-bag direction there had been a rule
oil protitgacy and corruption. Applause
on the Democratic side.l Must negro
suffrage be on that account abolished? !?
Not at al! But the color line must be
abolished.
Mr.. Ewing was proceeding to argue the
unconstitutionality Of the election laws,
when the hour to which the debate was
limited arrived and cut OF further remarks
The committee then rose. The Speaker
presented las enrolled and signed BY him)
the army appropriation bill, and the House
adjourned until tomorrow.
Too Much colored Immigration.
ST. LOUIS, April 25.-Mayor Stockton,
of Wyandottc, Kansas, had a conference
with the Colored Relief Board here this