The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-02

| WASHINGTON, April l.-Senator Davis,
oil West Virginia, moved the question of
joint rules for the government OF the bu5i-
ness of Congress be submitted to the Com
mittee on Rules The resolution was agreed
to, with amendment to except the general
appropriation bills from the operation OF
the former 10th and l7th joint rules.
| The Senate went into executive session,
pending motion By Senator Edmuuds to
take up his resolution declaring that busi
ness and other interests of the country re-
quired that legislation should be confined
to the objects for which the extra session
was called
When the doors reopened adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, April I.-Mr. Belford
said: Having captured both Houses Of
congress 1t is proposed to complete your
conquest, anu to force Tiiden into the
White House 10 1880, by tackipg him on
TO an appropriation bill To accompIish
this object the army like the Indian IL to
be placed on a reservation. His side Of
the house only asked that the government
should be armed with power to protect
citizen IL the exercise OF his elective fran
chise, and any government that was re-
strained 10 the execution OF that power
was disgrace to the civilized world, and
unworthy to be ranked among the family Of
nations. I0 the present great struggle the
President might yield; the Republican
party never. The nation could not en-
dure, it sectional bitterness we're perpetu-
ated. lie warned the South that it had
nothing TO hope from the Democracy Of the
North; that the Democracy was coWardly;
it would incite its Southern brethren on to
mischief and abandon them when the cri-
sis came. During late years the penGu-
lum of power had been swinging toward
the South, and it might be that the stat
ues of Lincoln and Grant would give place
to those of Jackson and Lee, but it would
swing back again, and when 1880 came
around and the millions in the North who
! had fought for the Union had rallied un-
der the leadership Of the great captain, the
revolutionary purposes of the Democratic
party would retire to the rear as they had
IN the past.
2 Mr.. Humphrey warned the Democrats
that the country would submit TO their
party whip only uutii lis voice could be
heard. The North was massing and would
present solid phalanx, anl as sure as the
; Democratic party continued in its present
r course, so sure would the election of 1880
leave that party 0verthrown.
Mr.. Mudrow made speech in reply to
: Mr. Gar6eld's speech of Saturday as to
the seriousness Of the crisis. He thought
the underlying question would be regarded
t by the people as still more serious, and
that was the right OF citizen to cast his
= ballot unawed and uniDtimidated. He
e quoted against Mr. Garfield and the Re.
= publican party the precedent set by that
a party in Congress in placing on the army
appropriation bill of 1868 a provision
which President johnson in signing the bill
had protested against, and also the ureco.
l. dent by the same party in placing on the
a sundry civil bill OF 1872 one of the meas
1t ures which it was now proposed to repeal
J. Ii after the Democratic msjOrity in both
.e Houses had exercised its constitutions
Is rights, the President took the responsible
~ ty of stopping supplies for the government
IN he thought the responsibility would be or
le the President and not on Congress- III
er hoped the President would not attempt t,
ID coerce Congress. He hoped that in Re
ID publican America the spectacle would DO
at be presented to the highest officer in tn,
g. land putting himself between the opera
a tion Of the government and the people.
ur Mr. Chalmers, referring to Mr. Gar
fields speech, said the remarks made b,
lu that gentleman had shown that he had fol
gotten the history of the laws which it wa
b. proposed to repeal. In the last cougres
be had admitted that bis party had enact
b. ed those laws and was willing to have tber
mustered out OF service. Iu 1867 til
democratic party had waited suspeneio
Of military domination, and they had aske
w. for it in the very same language whic
he was now in the appropriation bill. He del
ed recated the attempt made to biacken th
names of Senator Powell and Reverb
.as johnson, by saying that they had been az
re- v0cates of using the army to keep peace
o. the polls. In reference to MIR. Garfield
MS statements, that southern democrats {
for 81 threatened 10 shoot the Union to dealt
s. be declared they had made no such threa
or The South had claimed the right of peac
,rk full secession, and had attempted peac,
fully to secede. The South had not on
his made no threat to shoot the Uni0n to deaf
T., but it had said what Abraham bad said
me Lot, Let there be no strife between U
Ii you go to the north, We will 60 to t
Re- SOUTH" 1t was the North that said, 'yc
ent shall not &C" You sent grand armies aft
ted US. You hemmed US in by land and Sc
8, You not only threatened to shoot, but y
shot US to death, with the battle cry
The Constitution as it is and the Uni
as it was" You rallied the whole Mort
ort, without distinction to party, in defense
ara the old flag.
Inal Mr.. Price-Where was the first &
Tor fired? Applause on the floor and in t
TOR galleries
Mr.. Chalmers-Tho first gun was fir
ltc- near Harper's Ferry, when southern bic
uc- was shed on southern soil Loud applat
on the democratic side and in the gal
rles.
The chairman gave notice that if ST
reat demonstrations were repeated, he wo
Sall- order the galleries cleared.
Ex MIR Priee-The gentlemen must ku
Of that John Brown and his sixteen men W
not fighting to destroy the Union, and I
first gun fred against the United Sta
was at Sumter.
for Mr. Chalmers went oO to say that If t
val proposed legislation was revolution Il
wed the republican party had accomplish
hiit- revolution after revolution. Que OF
-auy most iniquIt0us acts of usurpatl0n e
perpetrated by the republican party to '
late the constitutional right of the presid
was the act which President johnson 7
cted tested against.
10 is Mr. Hawey asked Mr.. Chalmers whe
'mo- er be was not aware that the republic
had then more than two-thirds majority
peo- congress, and could pass the bill over
presidents veto.
Mr.. Chalmers admitted it.
Mr. Beiford-You say that the repu
craft can party has been repudiated.
lace Mr. GhalmarS-T do. and thank G