The daily gazette., 1879-05-02

given In letter from that city TO Ger
man papor. - -Ssegedin, which has suffer-
cd - scvsssiy from foods, has been visit
cd by . hurricane which broke down
the embanlunsnfs raised 70 protect the
city and the water Is again rising. Other
Hunearian Cities are threstcned.-The
fire at Orenburg Is now attributed to
carelessncss. Over 1900 buildings were
destroyed. colonial forces OF Natal
have BEEN repulsed in an attack on a
Basoto fort ssft as2f .ttssSi
1aysss slresee Ides si the
From the Worls.x q. = sF&8
A9leoe porsioa ,of ths people OF the
United Bates are under The belief that
the army 10 governed by the articles OF
war; that sol1ien must obey their officers
uhd thas soldien who fse upon citiz~ns
Nithoue : legal command 20 Hre, or nm
less Ia selfdefcnse. are guilty Of murder,
II they Kill any body. But President Hay.
- seems - bs under she delusion that II
. mazshal hs regiment oftroops under
4arshsl and nos their military oomman-
der. iuAsmuch IN the soldiers Win then
be not military but csvil force. His
whole voto--excepting 50 much OF it a.
Iolaees 20 those parliamentary rules
which AFFORD m authoritative test wbeth
q ~ amendment TO m appropriation
esl1 = or y not germAne--is bsaed on the
6Hgsds o. troops ordered TO aid q mar
shall or deputy marshalin making an ar
rest 10 : civil and not military force. He
eveuAdeclaros In his veto that the amend
ment forbldinR the use Of soldiers at
vOttng-plAces 70 keep the peace 'sia in no
WAY cNsnected With the uRs Of the army"
1ore strangely still, President Hayes
dshbsrassly writes, or signs what some
amsadmeat were : law there would be
.sno power" vested In any officer OF the
United States TO protec: himself in the
execution Of = civil process. Pray.
whore u she civil pose VI the marshal,s
entire judicial dissrict? II the amend
meut f0rbidding soldiers at the polls be-
cornes : law, tho President affirms that
'sthe National Governments will be
"p0weriess TO enforce its own statutes" !"
Then what power has Il now II ali the
army, ~ Nj Blaine declared, IL on the
| frontier? Will not citizens aid the mar
shals on call7 Will not the militia Of the
| States aid thom? Mr.. Hayes declares OF
section 9 Of the vetoed bill that 1t "pro-
"hibits, under heavy penalties, any per
"son engaged In the civil sersice OF the
"United States from having any force at
1.-The place Of any election prepared to
"pre~srvs order, t. make arrests, to Keep
"the peace OF In any manner 70 enforce
"tho laws."-
"Any force"? n this be not incoher-
ent ravfng, what Is 1t? Marshals have
~ much power as the State Sheri ffs have,
excepting thai, as the law stands since
1878, NO part Of the army can be sum-
moned a. aud made part OF the posse
although all civilian bystandeis must rs.
sist, ard TO do 80 may arm themselves to
the teeth. Surely this rubbish In the veto
mHst bs the work not Of Hayes or Evarts
but of Ro beson or posi- bly, OF the Tribuus
newspaper. The suggestion that the
phrase 'troops or armed men" In the Law
Of 1855 could intend any others thar
troops or soldiers in the army Is quite In
can cut up BY the roots the absurd nter
prstation by simply saying that tb'
phrase "shall only be- held to refer to g. 4.
"army or navy of the United Stairs or
"part thereof" That will permit thu
marshal. posse Of bystanders to arm
themselves - they please.
But the rebukc which the veto admir-
listers to Grant Is the most severe, II any
thing In IL Is Of consequence excepting
l
under the law Of 1855 and those seclion
of the Revived Statutes which he quotes
(all of which we're enacted before 1870
there could lawfully be no "military in
terference" with elections. What theI
did Grant, BeIknap and Robson do II
New York IN 1907 Let the military or
ders which have been republshed In tn
Will Mr.. Hayes contend that the move
ment Of all the Unitet States force
around New York upon the polling dis
tricts OF the city was an exercise OF ''cis
II" authority, "civil" force and "civil
power? General Mcdowell eviirnti
did not think so. Who can doubt TIA
Grant, if elected in 1880, will repeat
need he the same performance under th
same law?
Those were stirring and anxious day
November, 1870. MIR. II offmaD was IL
second time the Democratic candidat
for Governor Of this State. The Repul
hcals had just lost Pennsylvania an
Ohio by great Democratic mai j0rities, AN
u was felt that somethiDg must be dou
for kaaiicalism in New York. The fir'
authority gwen 10 supervise and depuf
narshals TO interfere with state election
had in the previous July been put, o
motion of Senator Conkling, as a"rider
!. on the Till TO regulate the naturaliz zatio
4 Of aliens. Judge Woodruff under it ha
; appointed as supervisors a Falstaff
d regiment of sconDdrels. The Federi
ID Marshal in this city had made Des Ang,
', "a foreigner, we believe, and deput
coll. o,or OF customs who ~ afterwa
= sent TO the State prison for official mi
n conduct-Chief Deputy! Mr.. Davis,no
Chief Justice OF the CITY Supreme Cour
10 was then he Federal District-Attornt
y and had issued orders to the supervise
respecting their duties N eleciiOn-ereI
The Marshal had gone TO the uitermo
limits Of his authority in his instruction
!. 70 his deputies about arrests at u
polls, and lad even iDtimated that Sta
election inspectors could be arr ested
his deputies aud the voting be therei
stopped.
The Bureau Of Elestions for the eli
had prepared very elaborate ani exa
- circular VI rHles to be Obsyed by Y
. State or city election officers, In whit
- among other things 1t was clearly .
plAined that undrr New York law T.
inspectors constituted an olec lion couI
that each candidate was eutitled to ha'
one challenger present, but thai the II
spectOrs could receive no evidence r
specting q challenged person beyond h
. own oath, and that IL the prrsrr, b
oaths were taken tho ballot must 60 in
= tho box. The excitement wins inten'
, The city militia were ordered to no
themselves in readiness for sudden st
vice. At this moment there appear
from Washington ~ . special plenip
]. t-n,iary fr-m the -Admi nistrati0n q