The Portland daily press., 1879-04-02

dom from social criticism and restraint which New
York society fails to grant.
XLVI CONGRESS--lST SESSION.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April /.
The Senate passed bill approprating $500, 900 for
vessel provided with apparatus for disinfection of
vessels cargoes from supposed yellow fever ports.
The Senate went into executive session at 1.SO.
HOUSE.
The legislative appropriation bill was ordered
printed and referred to the commit tee of the whole.
During spirited and extremely partisan debate in
Committee on Whole, on the army appropriation
bill, Mr.. Frye said the other side did not dare to
meet square in the face the issue whether or not a
majority were attempting to coerce the Executive.
They preferred to go back to the merits of the ques
ton as to whether not soldiers be allowed to keep
the peace at the polls. He did not know how long
Republican members would be compelIsd to sit still
and listen to the charge that they had for eighteen
years made OF the republic drunken dsspotism,
and to the declaration that this military des-
potism and that it was for the Democratic party
restore it to the millennium of peace. He did not
know how long they would have to submit to being
told they were the men to be forgiven and to hold
their voices for fear they might offend some gentle
on the other side or else they might arouse the
ghost of the old "bloody Shirt He did not know
but they ought to sit quietly and submit to the
charge that they had become military despots be-
cause troops had been sent New York City to keep
the peace, did not know but they should keep ST.
lent as to the fact that the Democrats of New York
City murdered scores of black before any troops
were sent there to keep the peace. Perhaps they
ought to submit to being called remorseless hyenas
and make no reply. Two gentlemen from Mississippi
hal spoken and now he proposed to have read what
the Mississippi newspapers said
He sent to the clerks desk and had read an ex-
tract from theOkalona Southern States thanking God
that the South had captured the capital; that in 1881
its man would walk up to the White House steps
and take his seat in the Presidents chair that then
the glorious triumph of the South would be COM
plete, &c.
Mr.. Muldrow said the paper represented no re-
spectacle element Of the Mississippi Democracy,
One gifts editors was man who carpet-bagg from
Ohio to Mississippi within the past four years.
Mr.. Frye-I have heard again and again that CRY
as to the capture of the capital. You have been
nearer to it than you today but you never have
put your hand on the capital, and under God you
never will applause the Republican side and ex-
element throughout the haD. This was not the first
time the attempt had been made to capture the CAP
iLal He quoted from the of the fugitive slave
Burnes, in Massachusetts, in 1851 when HOO soldiers
mustered into the United States service to take
this man. and after he had been landed in Virginia
bonfr had been built and huzzas filled the air all
over the South in honor of the triumph which had
been achieved The Southern heart had been filled
with joy because the constitution Of the country had
been supreme and the law Of the land indicated,
There never had been a time when the South was
nearer capturing the capital than that time, and
hundreds and thousands Of men in the Republic hat
come to believe that when Massachusetts had beer
thus Inundated and placed her face in the dust tina
the capital had been indeed captured. Gentlemen o
the South had believed it and turned upon the Nortt
and made demand after demand in rapid succession
and the North, in its humiliation, had responded a.
rapidly yielding point on point until in their pride
OF power, they asked too much, and then the sole
North said, SHOT one single step further. When YOU
demand this thing of us, is thy servant dog that hi
should do it?" and then had come war; not brought
on by poor old John Brown at HaIper's Ferry, who1
l he frightened Virginia with Is men and some ole
muskets, but serious war.
At another time the South had its troops on its
heights above the Capital Why had they not taker
it? He could tell his friends on the other side that
there was God who ruled the affairs of nations
as well a. the affairs of men. That war had logic
and by that logic Burnes became tree man and ar
/ American citizen. But then the Ku Klux and White
Leagues sprung up and hundreds Of poor black men
had been murdered. Then troops had been sem
down and peace restored. But the troops were soo1
| withdrawn and the result was solid South. There
had been halt a dozen dusky faces in the last Con
Il WherA thosa sku
South had said that the places that once knew then
| should know them no more forever
Gentlemen Of the South thought because thew had
the two houses of Congress they had captured the
Capital of the country. The Democracy had the
House, but had to keep it very we'll and attend to
business to keep even the House. They had the
Senate. but they did not have the executive vet
Applause on the Republican side) When the DEM
ocratic party thought they would have him BY
threatening him they were making an entire mis-.
| take. They had begged Of him on Bonded knee the
withdrawal of troops. Because they had done that
they should not presume that they could 90 to him
with pistol in hand and demand all they wanted,
daughter on the Democratic side.)
House-Are you in favor of keeping on the statute
book law which permits an army to Keep peace
l at the polls? Do you advocate that law?
Mr.. Frye-I have not shadow of doubt about its
consttutionaiEy, and until have been satisfied that
the South will not murder negroes when they 20 to
vote shall be in favor of keeping it there and keep
ing troops near the polls
MIR. Steele-The gentleman is talking about muir
der in the South. Will he specify any special section
of the country where This has taken place?
MIR. Frye-Does the gentleman desire me to writ q
book? 1t would take book to inventory til @
political murders there.
Mr. Steele-Do you charge that this thing has
taken place in North Carolina?
Mr.. Frye-I am not certain about North Carolina,
Mr.. Davis of North Carolina-There have been
more political murders in Philadelphia than have
occurred in North Carolina since its organization az
a state
Mr.. Frye-I am not certain about North Carolina
because it is very much Republican state. 1t is
dangerous to shoot men where there is good large
party Of white men on the other side.
Mr.. Steele-Does the gentleman allege this thing
does net occur in North Carolina because thew are
afraid to do 1t because there are white Republicans
there?
Mr.. Frye-I should not wish to say that because I
do know there have been murders for political Dur.
poses in North Carolina.
Mr.. Hooker said that Mr.. Frye expressed regret
that the half dozen colored men who had sat in the
last Congress were not here now. Would he not ad-
init that in the states of Maine and Massachusetts
there had been reared and educated some of the
most intelligent colored men in this country, AMI
how did it happen that in the history of this country
the people of those States had never thought
enough Of the coored man to elect him to Congress
Mr. Frye-The people simply preferred to elect
some body else daughter on the Democratic
side.
Several speeches followed, and the committee rose
and the House adjourned.