The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-15

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y before the House Of Representatives, bI
Q he also knew nothing forbade him [
e speak OF what was not done In the Houl
,. but in the Democratic caucus where th
!. legislation was perfected.
Mr. Blaine discussed the legal question
involved, and, continuing, said: The dC
sign now Is TO get rid OF all civil officers {
the United States under the pretense {
!. keeping troops away from the polls, an
the amendments which will be oGere
will test the sincerity OF the Democrat
9 side on that point, and show whether tn
3 Federal Government would be allowe,
!. representation at the polls at all except b
two men Of straw, without any power, VIII
can merely look on. He would go so ia
as to say that II the bill went through Ii
It's present form the remainder Of the Law
In regard to Marshals and Supervisor
would be worth nothing, since there wdulC
be no power vested in the Federal Govern
ment to enforce It's provisions.
!, We are told, said Mr.. Blaine, ant
1t Is rather novel thing, that i
We do not agree to the bills as offered We
arc not to have appropriations. That has
been announced In both branches of Con,
gress, he esupposetl on the authority OF the
Democratic caucus. Not merely the army
appropriation bill; they did not stop
there, but in tho legislative bill, as It came
from the caucus, there was an appropria-
ton for detraying the expenses OF the Su.
preme Court, Circuit Courts and District
Courts OF the United States, provided that
certain sections OF the Revised Statutes be
repealed. He had ALWAYS understood that
the government was OWNED into three
distinct departments-Legislative Execu.
tive and Judicial-but now the leg.
islative branch steps forward and
says II the Executive does not sign
bills 1t offers 1t will starve the judiciary,
This was carrying the matter further than
sides starving the judiciary the other
would refuse to appropriate dollar for
the expenses of the Capitol building and
grounds, for public printing or for the
Congressional library. The Department Of
State, OF which the country had reason 10
be proud for its conduction OF our foreign
affairs, was to be disabled, and our diplo.
matte relations must cease unless the
President signs these bills. The beacons
and warning lights on 1900 miles OF
coast must all 60 out; the mintsof New
Orleans, Denver, San Francisco and Phil.
adelphia must stop; the Pension Bureau
suspend operations; all the Executive
functions Of the government are taken nv
the throat in highwayman style, and com.
mands it TO stand and deliver in the name
OF the Democratic caucus. A leading
Democrat, an eloquent man, who had
courage, trankness and many good quail.
ties, boasts publicly that the Democrats
are in power for the first time in Is wears:
and that they do not intend 10 stop until
they have wiped away every vestige OF the
tepuDiican war measures. Forewarned is
torearmed, and the Democrats began
properly on measure signed by Abraham
Lincoln. The picture was a striking one,
and the strange time had come when men
fresh from the battle fields OF rebellion
took their seats and proposed to repeal the
laws enacted, while they were trying to
destroy the Union.
The Vice President OF the Confederacy
had stated that for sixty or seventy years
preceding the rebellion from the iounda.
tion oil the Government, the South, though
in minority had by combining with
what he termed the anti-centralists in the
North, ruled the country. And In 1865
the same gentleman said In speech be.
fore the Georgia Legislature that by a re.
turn to Congress the South might repeat
the experiment with some success. He
(Blainel had read that speech at the time
OF its delivery and had little thought that
he would live to see the prophecy fulfilled,
but now we SEQ those measures matured
in the Democratic caucus In which the
South has On overwhelming majority OF
two'thirds In the House and thirty out
OF thlrty-two Senators, 23 whom a positive
and pronounced majority participated in
war against the Union either in civil or
military situations, so that our legislative
is shaped aud fashioned by caucus in
which the ex. Confederates have majority
and Mr.. Stephens prophecy Is realized.
Veryappropriateiy the Congress controlled
by the South says to the President, the
remaining branch OF the Government
elected on republican principles in oppo.
silon TO the party now in power, that he
shall not exercise his power to veto bill.
They ask il We call it revolutionary, con.
tinued Mr.. Blaine, to put amendments ON
the appropriation bill? OF course not,
There have been a great many amend.
ments put on such bills. Some mischiey-
ous and some harmless, But l oall ii au.
daclty OF revolution for any Senator or
Representative or any caucus OF Senators
or Representatives 10 get together aud say
they will have certain legislation or stop
the departments OF Government. That Is
revolutionary.
Mr.. Blaine concluded as follows: do
not profess to know Mr.. President, what
the President Of the United States Will do
when these hillGare presented to him, as ]
suppose in due course OF time they will be,
l certainly should never speak solitary
word OF disrespect Of the gentleman hold.
ing that exalted position, and ! hope I
shall not speak word unbsGtting the dig
nifty OF the office Of Senator OF the
United States, but as there has been spec.
ulation here and there on both sides as to
what he would do, 1t seems to me
that the dead heroes OF the Union
would rise from their graves II he should
CONSENT to BIO tntimidated and outraged
in his proper constitutional power by
threats like these. All the war measures
OF Abraham Lincoln are to be yiped out,
say the leading Democrats. The Bourbons
OF France husied themselves, believe,
atteE restoration, in removing every trace
OF NaPoleon's power and grandeur, even
chiselling the IN" from the public monu.
ments raised to perpetuate his glory; but
the dead mans hand from St, Helena
reached out and destroyed them in their
pride and theirglory ;and Itell the Senators
on the other sideo this chamber; l tell the
Democratic party, North and South South
in the lead and the North following, that
this slow, plmoplng finger Of sCo.n from
the tomb Of the martyred President on the
prairles Of Illinois will wither and destroy
them. Though dead, he speaketh.h y
[Great applause in the galleries. When
you present the bills with these threats to
the living President, who bore tho com,
mission OF Abraham Lincoln and served
with honor In the army Of The Union
which Lincoln restored and preserved, |
eap think only ofone appropriate response
from his lips or his pen. He should saw
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