Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-21
TELEGRAPHlC.
The Legislative Bill Passes the
Senate by a Party Vote.
Several Votes on the Coinage Bill
the House.
Consideration of the Adjournment
Question Indefinitely Post
pOned.
The Brigadiers Still Squirming
Under the Effect of the
Last Veto.
XLVI CONGRESS.
XLVI CONGRESS.
SENATE.

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introduce a bill authorizing the
President to employ the militia and
land and naval forces of the United
States to enforce the laws whenever
their execution is obstructed by
combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by judicial authorities,
etc, and preventing the military
from being used as posse comitatuS
except in cases authorized by the
Constitution and laws.
Mr.. Edmunds objected, on the
ground that previous notice had not
been given.
Mr.. Mcdonald then withdrew the
bill and gave notice that he should
ask leave to introduce it tomorrow.
The Senate resumed the consid-
Grafton of the Legislative, Execu-
tive and Judicial Appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Saunders read short speech
in opposition to the bill that the use
of the military is necessary to secure
fair elections in the South.
Mr.. Whyte said that the political
clauses of the bill were not extern
sive enough to meet his views, which
were opposed to all Federal inter
ference, civil or military, in State
affairs. In his Judgment, there is
no such thing as national elections.
Elections are either State or mu-
nicipal. Senators or RepresentaS
tives are agents of and responsible
to States. There has been no pro-
totype for our form of Government.
Mr.. Whyte made a constitutional
and historical arguement to support
these views.
Mr.. Jones, of Louisiana, followed
in a speech, warmly defending the
people of Louisiana from the
charges made against them of vio-
lence and disloyalty, and insisting
that they respected the United
States authority, and were united
in their efforts to secure good gov
ernment. At four o'clock the vote
was taken.
Mr.. Edmunds' motion to strike
out the clauses repeating the
statutes relating to the test oath
was lost; yeas 26, nays 81. Mr..
Edmunds then moved to strike out
the clause establishing a mode of
drawing United States jurors. Lost,
yeas 27, nays 81. He then moved
to strike out the clauses repeating
the statutes relating to United
States Deputy Marshals and Su-
perYisors of Elections. Lost, yeas
27, nays 81. He then moved to
strike out the clause repeating section
5522 of the revised statutes which
Furnishes interference with or OBJ
of Deputy Marshals and
of Elections in the per-
formance of their duties, which was
lost, yeas, 27, nays, 81. The bill |
was then read a third time and |
passed, yeas, 81, nays, q. The
Senate then proceeded to consider
the Contagious Diseases bill, and,
without action, adjourned until
Thursday.
HOUSE.
The House resumed as the busi-
ness of the morning hour the laws
relating to the transfer of cases
from the State to the Federal
Courts, and Mr.. Urner concluded
his argument against it. He asked
if an officer in executing
If the fugitive slave law had COM
nitted homicide that officer would
nave been left (as he would be un-
Ter this billy to the tender mercies
Massachusetts jury, and he as
serted that the protection of the
should be guaranteed
o Federal officers. There was but
ne power sovereign and supreme in
his broad land and that was the
IOWer of the United States.
Mr.. Frye moved to lay the bill
n the table.
The Silver bill was further CON
idered. A motion to lay the pend
lg section on the table which the
peaker said would be to carry the
i'll there was also defeated. {,
A substitute for the third section
f the bill providing that the owners
I any silver bullion may deposit
ne same in quantities of twenty I
unces and over at any mint at its
etual market value in the United /