The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-04-10
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

After 8 Dr1ef discussion, the senate, On the
list inst passed the bill appropriatng $2O0,0O to
construct refrigerating ship, to be used in dsin-
fecting yellow-fever ships.-- the House, MIR.
Atkins reported the Legislative Appropriation
BILL containing clauses repeating and amending
sections Of the Revised Statutes relating to draw
ing Jurors the Jurors test-oath, Deputy Marshals
and Supervisors of Election. The debate on the
Army bill was resumed, and several fiery speeches
were made.
Various bills were introduced in the Senate
on the I'd ult among them one by Mr. Harris, pro-
viding for treaty with Mexico. Mr.. Hoar's reso.
luton condemning as unconstitutional and revo1u-
tionary the Democratic programme of legislation
was laid on the table-yeas. 35: nays, 20. Mr..
Salisbury, of the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, made report against the adnlis-
sion of Mr.. Bell as a Senator from New
Hampshire the appointment of the Governor.
1t will come up for consideration tomorrow.
Mr.. Hoar presented the views of the minority
of the committee in favor of admitting Bell signed
by himself, Cameron (Wis.) and Ingalls.-The
House continued the discussion of the Army BILL
Speeches were delivered by Messrs Williams wis,
Townshend. Calkins, Herbert, Phister, White (Pa.)
and Buckner The Senate, in executive session.
confirmed Andrew D. White as Minister to Berlin and
DR.. Cornelius A. Logan cousin of Senator Logan as
Minister to Central America-The Greenback mem
bers of the House held a caucus, at which it was
decided that they would to strike out the po-
litical amendments from the Appropriation bills;
this motion failing, they would decline to VOTE and
leave the Democrats and Republicans to fight it out
between themselves $f
The Senate transacted no business on the Sd
inst The New Hampshire Senatorship case was
discussed briefly, there was short executive ses-
sion. and an adjournment to the 7th.-In the
House, the discussion of the amendment to the
Army bill forbdding the of troops at the polls
was continued. Mr.. Knott, of Kentucky, led off,
on the Democratic side. and spoke of the great
and historical importance of the principle in
volved. He characterized it as the great funda~
mental principle of republican liberty, that the bal
lotrbox should be protected from the slightest ap
proach to military power, and that the voter shal
be left absolutely free in exercising at the polls
the highest prerogative of the citizen. He quoted
the English statute Of George II. for the removal
of troops from the places where an election is to
be held, and cited Blackstone, "That it is essen
tial that elections shall be absolutely free, ana
that. therefore, all undue influences are
illegal and are prohibited" He was fol-
lowed, the Republican side, by Mr. Houck,
who argued that 1t was absolutely necessary
for the protection of the lives and political rights
of the colored and white Republicans of the South
that the authority of the military preserve the
peace at the polls should be maintained. This
speech. being by Southern man. attracted much
attention, and was frequently applauded on the
Republican side, and jeered the Democratic
side. Mr.. Robson Republican) followed.
He confined himself to the questions of
law involved in the discussion, and said it is
proposed here to restrain the civil officers of the
United States from keeping the peace at any cleo
ton i'll any State. By what means: BY civil
means, not by military means, for the right of the
civil officer, the Marshal of the district, if you
please, to summon posse cornitatusis right to
summon the ordinary military companies that may
be within the body of his bailiwick. The right to
summon armed troops, if they be within the body
of his bailiwick is civil not military right and
is in the interest of the inviolabty and strength of
civil law. Mr.. Blackburn Democrat spoke next.
He said he was but a poor student of his
countrys history who was not able to satisfy him
self that from the foundation of the constitution
down to the present time it had ever been held
lard that by the highest authorities in the land)
that in the power of the House to control the
employment of the army BY withholding supplies.
In the very nature of things the proposed repeal
could not be revolutionary. The constitut on did
not give the right to the President to send armed
forces into any State, even to suppress domestic
violence. Other speeches were made by MessrS.
Gibson, Turner, Barber. Hawk and Reagan.
The debate on the Army Appropriation bill
was continued in the House on the 4th The first
to speak was Mr.. Singleton Democrat, of sMissis-
sippi, who stated the question to be, whether the
House had the courage and determination to repeal
pernicious laws would falter and fail in its duty
to the country. On the face of the dis
graceful law which it was now proposed to
repeal, the boosted freedom of America was
mockery and lie. Mr.. Weaver iGreenbaeker), of
Iowa, spoke next. He deprecated the keeping
open OF sectional anmosities and SAID the National
Greenback party wanted no soldiers at the polls.
Nor did they want the presence Of any armed men
when elections were being held; neither did the