National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-06-21

IAnatlOn HJ tno eud oil the last session. It is
TO compel the Executive aud 20 compel the mi.
nority to pay the Democratic party of this
country price rs the condition on which they
will make appropriations and allow the Gov
ernment to live. That Is what IL is
On what did we In theminority stand at the
beginning of this session. On two ideas, and
only two that | could ever comprehend First,
that no political party should be allowed to
take the Government by the throat and say TO
II surrender, conditions and terms, to us, or
the Government shall not exist" and second,
we stood upon the idea that the laws which our
fathers made, which their children had pre-
served, which were to be found in the statute
books were just and wholesome laws, aud that
they should not be clovcn down by any major
lty, and especially by such n majority coming
into power by any such means as mark the his
tory OF majorities in the two Houses of Con-
gross i'll tho year 1879
We went to war upon those two issues. We
took tho responsibility before the country of
confronting the Democratic party on both of
them. And now what2 After twelve weeks
of agitation, of anxiety, of disturbance in the
country after twelve weeks during which bill
after bill originated in the Democratic caucus
has struck the rock of the Constitution and
gone down where nothing but the hand of the
resurrection will reach 1t, when the time has
come that this majority dare not-dare not ad-
journ this session, leaving the Government or
the army TO languish or TO starve-now when
the whole battle has been fought, il Is proposed
by trick, by artitco, by jugglc of words, to
accomplish that which we have said aud which
the nation has said these members and Sena-
tors, majority though they be, shall not accom-
pish.
They have put in one section of this bill that
none of the money appropriated shall be used
70 maintain any part OF the army employed to
keep the peace at the polls. do not stop to
talk about what is police" 1t is what as
stronomers would call point without magni-
tude. There is nothing in it but cheat. The
operative words are ito keep the peace ut the
polls" They have said no part of the money
shall be used for that, and they have said in
another bill what statute that speaks to-day
has said already, namely, that without the
money appropriated no contract shall be made.
no obligation shall be incurred by which It can
be done. Taking the two things together, the
Senator from Indiana (Mr. VooRHEEs) said
well to-day he said wei! yesterday when he
chose the word "negation" to describe what his
associates had done. The Senator from Indiana
said yesterday having been unable to accom-
plish the repeal of these laws, this bill was to
accomplish their negation. That word is we'll
chosen.
Negation means to say no, to deny, to par
alyze, and it is for that that this sixth section
was contrived. 1t was for that that men else.
where were told and persuaded to believe that
it was harmless for two reasons first, because
1t said that troops should not be employed as a
police, when for 100 years Ia England, and al
ways here, every lawyer has known and ad =
mitted that, except as police, troops could not
be used to enforce the laws at all--never until
you get martial law rs in kentucky and q
great detucr of words has said that martial
law is the will Of the commander. Inter arma
silent teges. With martial law, troops AS troops
may act, nn army rs an army but, the civil
law SDpakinp. trDDue n rp Ia in tl,p fnrpn
ment OF laws AS an auxiliary to the police aud
were the hour earlier, / would read repeated
decisions from the highest authorities both in
England and in this country to show that the
quality of the act, be tho men soldiers or citi-
zens, is identical, and the rights, the mmuni.
ties, the liabilities are exactly tho same in
given case whether the posse be of the yeo-
manry aud the citizen or the militia or the
regular soldiers of the realm. But for that
reason it was said that this was harmless and
for another, aud what was that2 Why there
are no national elections this year aud no Con-
grcssional elections known save in California
and one in the Westchester district in New
York. True, true
Mr.. President, it has been said that tho devil
is subtle but weaves coarse web and this web
when you come to look ut il is coarse enough
to be plainly discernible.
What is the purpose of these Democrats To
induce as many Republicans rs possible in the
House TO vote for this bill with the sixth sec.
tion fpossiblc to get Republican votes for it
here but whether SO or not, if possible to Sc
cure tho Executive signature. Then what !?
Next December the same majority is to be
here, the same majority in the House, the
same occupant Of the Executive chair and
when the same words for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1881, have been incorporated In the
army appropriation bill the President who
signs it this year must sign IL next and thus
for the year when all the elections in all the
States for members Of Congress aud the Pres-
dental election, too, are to take place. the polls
are to be naked to the State troops, the rife
| clubs, the White. Laaguers, the night-ridtfs,
and the demons who infest the Southern States
and they are to be exposed to all the thugs,
the rufiians, and the mobs to be found in all
the cities of the land.
| That is the programme. That Is what this
majority means. That is what we mean 10
| resist that is what we mean to debate; aud
| because we sought the privilege Of uncovcrng
| this wrong, uncoverng this act which in eff
feet is to be a fraud If it succeeds because we
would debate it and expose it, we have been
driven to that which Senators have been
pleased to call flibustering. Mr.. President,
| call it what you will for one, claim my part
| of the responsibility for one will take il rs
| often upon II measure only half as iniquitous
aud monstrous as this is, L will take it as often
| as even half such measure comes here and an
1 obtcupp 10 ny bUculln 10 iuuuuRc III
| through Or by the brute force of numbers to
gag it through the Senate.
So, Mr.. President, think with only these
few moments for reflection, that do not agree
| with the Senator from Delaware. am quite
| content the Record should go out. would be
| glad to have tomorrow's Record go containing
what the Senator from Wisconsin, if lie speaks
like the lawyer he is, will say, what pitirul
attempt by introducing tho word police" to
cheat and defIaud the American peOplc | will
vote for extra numbers of to-day's Record and
to-morrow's Record.
So much, Mr.. President, without having had
| the slightest purpose to do SO or to say anything
l have been moved to say by the coaxing invi-
tation Of the Senator from Delaware.
Senator LAMAR then took the foor and
displayed his plantation manners much
| TO the disgust of the country.
New Periodicals.
Tho 81. Nicholas for July is well filed with