The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-03-13


voted down. Test vote, by test
vote, three of them by roll call, had
settled the Judgement of tho House.
Garfield and Butler began to take
their shares in making delays.
At length, after two weary hours
of debate had gone by, and not ten
hours of the session remained, tho
question came on the adoption of
the resolution Of impeachment.
The vote was Yeas, 100 nays, II.
Not twenty Republicans had voted.
pRoRHET OF THE LORD.
Randall had just taken up his
gavel, when q shout was heard from
the gallery opposite. Behind the
spreading eagle in tho gallery an
old, gray-haired man, with white
beard and rude clothing, was stand
ing. Men, looking up, remembered
him as a street preacher heard in
summer afternoons on tho avenue
n man of much earnestness and
some eloquence "The Lord will
avenge His holy day" the old man
shouted, "nor can any good thing
come from this desecration OF His
Sabbath" Randall looked up in
surprise. Religion is ordinarily left
to a paid chaplain in tho American
House. The man went fuently on
to heap one prophetic curse after
another on Sabbath breaking, when
q doorkeeper rushed down and took
him by the elbow. 81 am but doing
my duty" he said, and broke away
from the man to 60 on with his sin,
gular Sabbath cry. He was dragged
out at last.
TIE CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
The great appropriation bill,
whose pages bear the united sala-
ries of the civil establishment Of the
government, came before the House
Monday morning. Two piles of
bills were set atop of each other on
Atkins desk. They made reading
desk two feet high, and OH them lay
the Legislative bill and tho disa.
agreeing report. EARLY in the ses-
sion, when the House met at 8,
report of a disagreement was made,
and new conference committee
was appointed but the report Of
this latter disagreement, made at II
o'clock, with not an hour left of the
session, meanta final rupture be-.
tween the two chambers. Atkins is
man of nervous motions too
nervous to be dignilied. The most
he can do is to be impressive. In
spite of the surroundings he was
that to-day. Ladies had been adj
mittel t, the floor. There were two
OF three little girls, quite ut their
case, just Il front of Atkins. Ono
little girl in blue dress, her hair
tied up with spreading blue bow
behind, leisurely walked past Atkins
ut the climax Of his remarks. When,
in addition, man gestures by
holding his spectacles in one hand,
one must not expect too much from
the audience. "The Conference
Committee" said Atkins, and this
was the point of all his speech,
''have utterly failed to agree
(bringing his clenched fist down
with blow that set the desk to
quivering) "because," and Atkins
turned in appeal to the Democrats
around him, "the House insists on
free elections, unfettered elections,
and intelligent Jurors, and the
House conferees could not yield"
Foster opened a book containing
the resolution offered by Randall in
1877 to continue the appropriations
for the next year. He offered the
resolution at this time. It would
have obviated the necessity of an
extra session. Southland was on his
feet instantly with formal obiec-
tion, and there wasa general cry of
the same order along the Democrats
ic line. "On your heads then be the
responsibility" said Foster, waving
his arm as though he were tossing
ball feross the aisle, and cry came
back: We accept the responsibility
ty."
With equal tact Hale, slender and
self-possessed, stood up, holding
the Senate bill repeating the jury
test oath, passed seventy-six days
ago, and on W. i,h the Hou had
had never acted, and he charged
the longer, instead of the shorter,
way of selecting this repeal was
taken to force an extra session.
Two or three men sprang to their