The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-07
TINE Army BILL.
Passed, Rider aud All, BY l4s Yeas 10
Iaa Nays.

Passed, Rider and All, by las Yeas tG
Ia2 Nays.
WAsnlSaToN, April 6.-The amendment
offered, yesterday, by Mr.. New, that re
peal shall not abridge or effect the right
and duty Of the Executive to respond tc
the call Ofa State Legislature or Governor
was agreed to, IS to A. The Republicans
did not vote.
Mr.. Lowe moved 10 strike out Section Q,
MIR. Conger suggested II that were done
his side would aid in passing Immediately
without debate, separate bill, repeating
entirely the so.called Objectionable sec
ttons OF the statutes.
Mr.. McMahon, speaking for himself, re-
pudiated the proposition.
Mr. Sparks called attention to an ac-
count In the Chicago Inter. Ocean OF an In
terview with President Hayes, by Mr.
Davis, OF Chicago, and said there was an
effort made to coerCe the President into
the extreme measures OF extreme mem
hers OF the party; yet Chicago had just
given Democratic majority OF 4,S23 to
Carter Harrison. In place OF putting ram.
rods into the Presidents backbone, all the
marrow and stiffness had been taken ont
Of the Republicans. That Democratic vic.
tory IN Chicago was the first popular re-
Spouse from Republican city, and was
startling in its character.
The issue was whether or not in this
country, this free country, this great Re-
public, the armed soldiers, the paid SER
wants OF a sovereign people, were to come
to the polls to drive sovereign people
away. That was the issue.
Gentlemen, (Mr. Sparks said, address
ing the Republican side) you make the
issue. We go 10 the country upon 1t. We
mean to stand upon it. We know this
sovereign power that stands behind us,
stands behind you, and toit President and
Governors and Congress must all yield,
and the sovereign people we know are
with us.
Mr.. Caswell inquired whether Wiscon-
sin had not shown an increased Republic
can majority OF G,000 votes.
Mr.. Sparks replied that Wisconsin was
hardly important enough to consider; lie
was talking about the Republican city OF
Chicago
Mr.. Caswell inquired whether his friend
did not recognize that the Greenbackers
had helped the Democrats to carry the
election at Chicago.
MIR. Bragg, in answer 10 the first ques-
ton OF his colleague, said the Judge OF the
Supreme Court who had been elected in
Wisconsin by. 10000 majority had not
been the nominee Of the Republican party,
but that every Republican newspaper In
the State had discarded the idea that there
hn ktau ttNk Al 4
members Of the bar belonging to the Dem.
ocratic party had supported him. And
now he would like to ask his colleague
why it was he and his colleagues on the
Republican side Of the House, were sus-
tanning the right to maintain troops at the
polls, when in Republican Wisconsin,
where the people were free, they had
law which prohibited military from being
reviewed or called out, or organized for
two days prior to the holding Of an elec.
ton, under penalty Of fneof $500. Ap.
plause on the Democratic side.
Mr.. Caswell admitted the Judge had not |
been elected by party caucus, but would |
his colleague deny that his opponent had |
been the choice Of the Democratic caucus
OF the Legislature OF that State? That |
issue had been made squarely between Re- |
,publicans and Democrats.
Mr.. Chittenden followed and said:
When you repeal these laws you disfran.
chise not only the weak and ignorant in |
every part OF the country, but in all the |
large cities you disiranchise men who
have not the courage to meet the despera.
does and bulldozers and blacklegs at the |
polls. ! hold in my hand letter from
the last Democratic Candidatefor the Pres. |
idency, now dead, to the present Demo. |
cratic candidate for President, who still |
lives, and | ask every man on this floor, |
without regard to party, TO read it. It
ten years old, but It is perennial, "a living
fire OF truth, which lies at the very bot.
tom OF our free institutions, and It will |
last and endure while honesty and ballot
boxes are sacred" He then sent to the |
CLERK desk and had read extracts from the |
letter sent to SamuelJ. Tilden, Chairman OF
the Democratic Committee, by Horace
Greeley.
With MIR. Springer in the Chair, the leg.
latlve day of Saturday began.
MIR. Lowe moved to strike out the sixth |
section of the bill, and to instruct the
committee to report 1t to the House with
the recommendation that it be introduced
as separate bill. After some discussion
vote was taken on Mr.. News amend |
ment, and it was agreed to-ycas S5, nays
4, the Republicans relraining from voting.
Mr.. Gillette offered an amendment pro-
yidtng that no appropriation made by this
or any other bill, and no deficiency occa-
stoned thereby shall be deemed by the
Secretary of the Treasury as ground for an
increase OF the interest-6earing debt OF the
United States. Ruled out on point OF
order,
Mr.. Lowe moved to strike out section @
OF the bill, which contains the proposed
repeal.
Mr.. Conger suggested to his friends on
the other side that they should agree to
strike out tho section, and thOn, so far as
the committee could recommend to the
House, should recommend the passage OF
the bill, repeating entirely the two sec.
tons OF the statute. He thought he was
authorized to say that il, on the committee
rising and recommending to the House
the Introduction OF separate bill repeal |
ing those two sections Of the Revised
Statutes, so far as his side Of the House
was CONCERNED it could he passed without
debate and without delay, leaving the
Army Appropriation Bill without any OBJ.
jectionable feature.
Mr.. McMahon said: in 1865 the party
which was represented by his friend from
Michigan had claimed almost unlimited
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