The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

CoNGREssIONAL.-Was Washington June 27--
The morning hour was dispensed with and the
House went into committee of the whole on the
bill appropriating SGOO,00 to pay fees of Uni
ted States marshals and their general deputies
the general debate being limited 10 one hour
The debate was opened by Garfield. He
grouped together some of the leading points
made during the present session on the Dem
oeratic side, particularly by McLane, of Mary
land, and Carlisle, of Kentucky These prop-
ositlons were that there are national cleo
tions; that the United States have no voters:
that the States exclusively have the right to con-
troll the election of members of Congress: that
Senators and Representatives are State officers,
agents or ambassadors that the United States
have NO authority to keep the peace within a
state, and have no "peace' to keep that the
United States is not a nation, but q confederacy
of States and, finally, that the States are SOW
eregn. lie declared these propositions consti-
tuted body of doctrines more extreme than
has ever been heard before, except at the very
rise OF secession. He believed that doctrine to
oe erroneous and vicious, and proceeded to lay
down and support, by argument, counter prop
ositions.
At the conclusion of Garfelds speech, Hurd
of Ohio, took the floor and replied on behalf of
the Democrats. lie recapitulated the points for
which the Democratic party has been contend.
Ing, reviewed the debate of the past three
months and declared that tho arguments of the
t
has been said that the Democratic party had
backed down, but it was not true. When they be.
gan the fight they did not ex pect to win In n day.
In the Forty fifth Congress they had said the
army, their army, should not be used as a po,se
eomitdtus. In the .Forty-sixth Congress they
had said it should not be used as q police force
and before the Forty-sixth Congress adjourned
they should have taken from the statute book
every law that proposed the use of this creature
of theirs at the polls to intimidate American
citizens in the exercise of their rights IAN.
plause.) There had been, he said no surrender
OF the great principle that Congress can with
hold supplies as O means of redressing priey-
ances; aad so long as the Democratic party was
in the majority in the House it never would be
surrendered. The present extra session, he
said, had made up an issue between the parties.
The Democrats had declared that the army
should be kept from the polls, that the test oath
should be repealed, and that the Federal au.
thority should not intervene in elections in the
States. Upon these points the Republicans took
issue; and if with this issue the Republican
party should be successful it would mean the End
Of the republic and the upraising of an empire
Could there be any doubt as to a controyersv
like this. and should civil liberty perish on its
own Threshold, at its own ireside? The past
and the future protested against it /: the hopes
and fears Of the world protested against it and,
what was practically Of more value, the Demo.
cratic party, with its majority Of half . million
of American people; protested against it. Zap.
plause.
Reagan then replied to Garfield's argument
on the question Of State sovereignty, and the
hon and Hawlcy.
The committee then rose and reported the bill
TO the House and it was passed--ycas SO, nays
90. Only one Greenbacker voted, (Stevenson.
OF Illinois, and his vote was in the affirmative