The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-02
washingtoa Letter.
PROGRAMME OF THE JOINT oAU

COMPROMISE THE QUESTION
or GENERAL TON
STILL UNSETTLED = Mr.. RAN
DALI HASTENS SLOWLY WITH
THE COMMITTEES - 6ENAT TOR
HOAR MAKES a SPEECH WHICH
PRODUCES CONDITIONAL BILL
TO GIVE CABINET OFFICERS d
VOICE IN TY0N.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March %, '79.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
The present Congress evidently be-
Iieves in the old Latin maxim '.testSna
lente." Not until yesterday did the joint
caucus of the majority agree upon a
programme of action in regard to the
special legislation for which the extra
session was called. 1t has been agreed
to allow the law providing for the ap-
pointment of two supervisors at each
voting precinct, in cities of 10000 in
habitants and upwards, to stand, but
taking from the supervisors all authori-
ty to arrest, or in any manner interfere
with the election, and requiring that
they shall be bona tids residents of the
precinct in which they serve; that they
be authorized to remain beside the bal
lot boxes during the entire election, and
! supervise the count; that. they may wit
ness the registration of voters, if they
choose, but they shall not have the pow
er to challenge or in any way interfere;
they may watch every proceeding, and
acquaint themselves with all that is
done; they may make memoranda; the
idea being that these supervisors may
be used before the court as witnesses,
or, in cases of contest, before Congress.
The assertion has been made that the
President will sign the legislative bill
with the compromise repeal of the
! supervisors law attached thereto,
but there is good authority for saying
that he will not approve the bill
with the proposed legislation attached
1t is also understood among those cog
infant of such matters that the Cabinet
is unit in holding the same view of
the question. 1t, would appear, from
SAAAON blob bAC AAOPO Va q COL4PAO-
mise" is the possibility that the Demo
| Gratis may conclude to content them
! selves with the repeal of the obnoxious
jurors test-oath law and the statutes
authorizing the presence of troops at
the polls, and allow the supervisors law
to remain in force. 1t is doubtful if the
Democrats will consent to this. It is
asserted that the majority will stand by
the action of the caucus until the last,
and in case of veto, that the appropria
ton bills will fail again. The repeal
will divest the National government of
all authority to appoint chief supervis-
ors and marshals, and in order to make
the act cover all possible laws, it is
provided that, ''all laws and parts of
laws, all sections and parts of sections,
authorizing the appointment of any su-
pervisors or marshals, beyond the two
described above, are repealed.
The question as to a short or long ex-
ira session is still undecided and will
doubtless be controlled by future devel-
opponents. The majority in the Senate
is strongly in favor of adjourning as
soon as the legislation, for which the
extra session was called, is finished; but
there is disposition, on the part of the
House, to undertake legislation on
large and general scale. Not only are
all the Greenbackers in favor of general
legislation, but also large number of
Republicans, as well as Democrats, who
have similar financial views.
Mr. Randall is proceeding very leis-
urely and with great care, in the organ
ization of committees, in a hopeless eff
fort to please everybody, and, at the
same time place every man where his
peculiar talent, or want of talent, will
do the most good and least harm. There
is no occasion for haste in committee
making, since it will be at least a week
before the appropriation bills, in any
shape, will pass Congress. The Repub
lican Senators are evidently prepared to
debate these bills and oppose them to
the last, and some fine Senatorial ora
tory may be expected, Indeed, the i'm
patience of Senator Hoar led him to an
ticipate the bills, and make long and
bitter attack on the proposed policy of
the majority, which he said was revolu-
tionary, unconstitutional, and without
precedent in the legislative history of
free governments. Senator Beck re-
piled that Senator Hoar's speech was
evidently made with desire to persuade
the President to veto the proposed legis-
lation, and that coming before the bills
were properly before the Senate, it was,
to say the least, indecent. There was,
at this point, a commotion among the
habitually dignifed Senators that made
the usually decorous chamber resemble
the hall at the other end of the capitol.
Edmunds, Conkling, Blaine, Hoar, Beck
and Wallace were all on their feet speak
ing at once. Senator ex-Justice Davis lift
ed his avordupoise from his chair and
blandly asked if motion to go into ex-
ecutive session would be in order, Sen
ator Edmunds, forgetting that there was
a Vice-President to decide such cues
tions, told him no. A molten to adj
iourn was carried by strictly party
vote, and the crowd from the galleries
poured down the marble stairway re-
GREETING that thing had ended at the
moment when it was growing lively.
Notwithstanding the professed inten-
ton of the Senate to avoid general leg
islation, many bills of that character
have already been, introduced, the most
important of which is the one presented
by Senator Pendleton, to allow Cabinet
officers seats On the floor of the House
and Senate. c. A. s.
DEATH OF MRS. II p EVA MS.