The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-25
FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS.

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THE POLITICAL DEBATE CONTINUED
in 10th HOUSES.
ConkIiuE Occupies the Time or the sem
atc on the Army DilI-A score Or
Members Discuss the Appropriation
RIll In the Mouse.
THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Chair laid be-
fore the Senate Q communication from the
Postmaster General IN regard to the deicieLl-
cy LII the appropriation for the pay q the
professors In the Military Academy for the
present fiscal year. Also, the annual report
Of the National Academy of Sciences.
bill asking for pension Of $50 month for
the widow OF the late Col Fletcher Webster
son of tho late Daniel Webster. Mr.. Dawes
gave d brief history Of this family, and hoped
Mr. Blaine said he should ask to have the
hill considered ut once but for the habit Oh
Mr.. Edmunds In objecting.
Mr.. Edmunds objected, and the bill was re-
By Mr.. Paddock. A bill In regard to the
| appointments for Representatives In Congress
| In 1880.
The Wallace resolution, to set aside the
standing order Of the Senate governing ap-
pointments, came up as the first business
| after the morning hour.
| Mr. Wallace defended his resolution by
showing from a number Of precedents that
the Republicans In the Senate had In 1861 and
afterwards made removals at the caucus die
case In point, and was worthy precedent for
the present action of the Senate. He showed
also that about that time rule had been
adopted giving the Sergeant-at-Arms full
power to make his appointments without any
reference to the Vice President. All the old
employees Of tho Senate. but few In the
office Or the Sergeant-at-Arms and two In the
Clerks Office, were discharged without cause.
Mr.. Wallace said that Clerk Fitz, spoken OF
yesterday as the wounded veteran. had been
In the army, but only US musician. He
wac never wounded, but was discharged for
disease.
Pending discussion on the Wallace resolu-
| Ion the morning hour expired and the disc
cussion on the army bill was resumed.
Mr. ConklinR called attention 10 some statis-
tics by which 1t appeared that during the last
fiscal year there were paid into the national
treasury 1894 1891 .46l. or this, $13O,OOo,000 was
collected under the tariff laws. Or this total
of 1885 900 600 twenty seven loyal States paid
$22l. 254. 26s. Eleven dsloyal States paid
1892 1872. or this last large part was the
result Of the tax on tobacco. Deducting this,
the eleven dsloyal States had paid Iii
tax taxes s712s,4s2, and an IT. this represents 1t
two sections yield IN maintaining the
government These revenues are raised
| under laws passed under constitutional pro-
visions, and which have been IN existence
some Of them from the time OF Washington.
Does the Democratic Congress propose to
make those laws inopeIative2 This vast
revenue Is to be used In three ways: First,
To pay the war debt; second, pensions to
widows and orphans Of soldiers, and to Grip
pied soldiers themselves, and, third. to be
available In times OF great public distress.
These supplies can only BIO voted on ap-
Precipitation bills. \ The constitution has
80 ordered IL It commits no
discretion to the majority ~ CONGRESS. Il
certain how much is needed for these pur-
poses, but the command to appropriate
money IL positive and absolute. To refuse to
make these appropriations ID revolutionary
to perform his duty he should be- convicted
and impeached. but Congress is responsible
to no other power except public opinion.
The very safety from coercion which
attends Legislation exalts the obligation
which they owe, and renders more enormous
the greater turpitude OF o violation Of any
laws or provisions OF the constitution. There
Is no parallel In English history to what the
Democrats propose. Ii there was it was not
to be initiated. Our fathers fled from Eng
land especially to found republic which
would be free from the evils which stained
the old monarchy of England. Mr. Conkling
spoke Of the arrest Of the MARYLAND
Legislature in 1861 by Gen. Mcclellan,
and said that years after the war he was
nominated for President, and no Maryland
Democrat demurred. He said the election
law had been passed In 1865, not only with the
concurrence, but at the instiRation of Sena-
tor Powell, OF Kentucky, Democrat He
characterized Mr.. Davis speech of Tuesday
as soothing syrup for the Democrats, but
the law was not war measure, as that Sena-
tor had declared. It was passed at time
when Grant had choked the life oath out OF
the rebellion. 1t was In the hour of death,
and Sherman had made his glorious march
to the sea.
Gen. Sherman occupied seat directly in
front Of Mr. Conking.
After Mr. Conkling concluded the Senate
adjourned
The House met at 10 o'clock for debate on
the legislative bill.
Mr. Scales, OF North Carolina, reviewed the
history OF this bill In the last and present
Congress, and held the Republican party re-
sponsibe for the failure Of this bill and for
the extra session.
Mr.. Davis, OF North Carolina, said there
was no question Of the right Of the majority
to enact this legislation, and it was resisted
only BECAUSE the tendency OF the repeal was
to deprive the Republican party Of It's power.
Mr.. Cobb Of Indiana, said. with reference
to the proposed legislation, he had no doubt
supervisors law should be blotted out
Mr.. Gillette, Of Iowa. said he would vote
with his party (the Greenback parity, on this
bill, as he had done on the army bill, viz: In
the first instance, to strike out the independ-
ent legislation, but II it was retained they
would then vote for the bill as 1t was, but
with no idea that they were thereby coercing
the President into approving 1t. Referring
to the charge that the government was to be
starved to death, he said that that charge
came with a bad grace from any member Of
the Republican party, which, by Its legisla-
ton In favor Of usurers, bankers and monopo-
lies, had done more to starve its prosperity
than anything else What the country need
ed, he argued for prosperity was to wipe out
the national banks and to do away as rapidly
as possible with the bonded debt Of the coun-
try, and to strike down monopolies Of all de-
scrptions. An improved financial condition
was required to give the country relief.
MIR. De la Matyr denounced the cry Of revo-