Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-26
THE NEWS.
Disastrous Floods Succeed the
Long Drouth In Texas.
Passage Through the House Of the
Legislative Bill by a Vote Of
l4O to II9.
At the Walking Match In London Brown
Is Ahead and Likely to Win.
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE,.

hOUSE.
Washington, April 27-The house went
Into committee Of the whole on the legisla-
tive appropriation bill, under the five min
ute rule, discussion under that rule to close
at two o'clock.
MIR. Ewing continued his speech of last
evening. lie declared that the men who
were insulting the president were not men
on the democratic side, but "stalwar,s" of
the republican party. who now hold the
lash oyer the president, threatening HIM
with party expulsion if he dared TO be gov
erned by his own judgment only, instead of
by the necessity of the sectional issues at
the north. He classified among the "stsl-
warts" Garfld. who has said II the presl-
dent signed the bill he would be violating
his conscience and sense Of duty; Frye,
who had threatened the president by
pledging his veto in advance;
and Conkling in whose opinion the president
would be dog if he signed the bill. Ewing
then lauded the southern representatives.
Since they were here there have been no
more great jobs passed.
The speech was much applauded.
Garfield followed. He declared it had
been in the power of the humblest or great.
est democrats to have ruined him and prov.
ed him to be traitor and slanderer by sim
ply rising and saying, in contravention Of
his assertion as to its being the purpose Of
the democratic party to starve the govern.
ment, I'VE do not propose to refuse to vote
supplies to the government; we wish
to get our legislation through in refer
ence to elections and everything
else if we can constitutionally
but if we cannot get it through under all
constitutional sanctions we will pass the
appropriation bill like loyal representatives
and 60 home. But, though forty Eve
democrats had spoken, that sentence had
not been uttered by single democrat"
Ewing and Garfield each spoke is min
utes by unanimous consent. and each were
loudly applauded by his own side.
Mr.. Horn, oe Michigan, followed. He
begun by helding up to ridicule the green
back representatives., and caused great
amusement by the assertion that if all the
greenback money demanded by the bills
already introduced were to be supplied the
greenback men would have to get their
clergyman, DeLaMatyr) to ask Deity to
vary the miracle Of the delugc and to open
again the doors and windows OF heaven
to rain greenbacks for forty days. He then
told the southern democrats that what their
section wanted was more corn and cotton
and less cussedness and wound up by sug-
gesting that one of the best things that
could happen the country would be the break
ing out of yellow fever in congress, only he
he would want divinity to show great dis
crminatlon in making his selections. Horn
was much applauded on both sides.
When the debate Closed the amendment
offered by Mr.. Weaver striking out all the
proposed legislation except that relating
to the test oath was defeated, without divis-
ion. A vote was then taken by tellers on
Garield's amendment, striking out all the
legislation, and was defeated-l24 TO 130.
The result wa, received with applause by
the democratic side