The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-24
Last NIGHTS Dispatch IS.
XLVICONGRESS.
SENATE.

w ASHINGTON, April S3.-S0nator Will
hams said the Democrats had no doubt of
the success OF the recent war, and its sue
cess was evidenced here by the success of
the brlgadiers. lie wished the Republi-
cans had sent their soldiers back to Con-
gress, because they would have solved this
question IN coneliiatory spirit and peace
would have been hastened. Those who
have stayed at home were making trouble
He had opposed secession until it was in
evitable, and when the bonnie blue flag"
went down he accepted the situation aud
renewed allegiance to the union of States.
The confederate brigadiers regretted not
their part in the war, and they doubt
ed not now their duty to support and cher
lsh the government, and were the most
conservative men in Congress to-day.
Nothing could again stir them into q con-
fict of, as Wendell Philips says, the next
rebellion, to come from New England.
IConfederates will rally round the old flag
to bring seeding states back He did
not desire to refuse the necessary supplies.
but Congress had right to dictate the
use of money voted by them. His party
ervisors and marshals of elections, and the
whole ingenious machinery by which the
people we're harassed IN franchise. The
election of Congressman was State affair
The war freed the negro and determined
that the Union of States should be per
petuai, beyond this it gave the govern
ment no new right nor took away any
| from the States,
Senator Jones, of Florida, argued that
| there was nothing revolutionary in the
proposed legislation.
| The Chair appointed Senator Hampton
to the vacancy on the committee Of militia
ry affairs, mines, and transportation to sea.
boards.
Senator Blaine withdrew his amend
ment TO the army appropriation bill 81
that the sixth section might be voted OF
separately. but said be would submit i
again as be desired to test the sincerity o.
the desire of the Democrats to have N
coercion at the polls, for be believed tht
tear OF the army was mere chimera, Will,
the other menace was fruitful Of DANCE
to the ballot 10 the South. Heread from
the testimony before the Teller Comnitte
: taken in South Carolina, showing tha
numbers of white men came around th
polls, firing guns and frightening coIore;
: men away. This, said Blaine, occurred a
> divers polls, in South Carolina ats whic
there was no more freedom of election
than there would be in any mob.
, Senator Butler asked Senator Blaine
it we're not true that within the last thre
: days an acquittal had been ordered by tn
n presiding Judge in Charlestown county, j
case depending on just such evidence 9
p that just read.
q Senator Blaine said be believed ther
q had been dismissal upon a flaw 10 th
. Indictment, but Senator Butler insiste
Oh it, on the evidence.
a Senator Blaine said he would recur
,s that hereafter and went on to allude to tt
q idea that this amendment was contrary
q the clause of the constitution giving ever
man right to carry arms. Would it
q said, he asked, that arms could be carrie
=. everywhere and always, in the jury bo
4 on the bench or In the SenateP The
m has never been free election, he CO
70 tinued, in FIVE Southern States be cou
10 name since the Democratic party got in
~ power. There was no more free electi
ir in South Carolina for this Congre
A than there would be iu a mob of roug
a. who should capture the polls in t
m lower districts of New York City. Il
i elections 10 that State had been me
travesties on the elections. Ben. Butt
asked if the election laws were not on t
statute books when these trayesties we
=. lcarried on2
- Senator Blaine said yes. but the supe
,;s Visors aud marshals were mobbed and fe
II II eral authority deied.
a1 ~ Senator Butler denied that evidence
"a this existed, and said that South. Carroll
- Ijuries sustained bis assertion.
- Senator Blaine said yes and peacei
= election in Louisiana resulted in t
, slaughter of 40 or so men, and jury 9
y bo quilted some of the murderers.
~ Senator Jones said that the jury was
GO tanned by the use of the test oath. I
IA United States District Attorney conduct
~ the cases on the evidence of the Tel
Committee, aud yet the accused were
he quilted.
I.s Senator Blaine said that acquittal did
~, az alter the fact that numbers of men W
&c murdered. Senator Jones logic was
AZ that OF the accused thief who brou
1as witnesses to swear they didn't see
10 10 steal Somebody committed murder e.
Co. if they were innocent. Ie then read
-. 80 evidence that Hampton did not fairly
ee .eso poiat the Commissioners of the electi
~ in South Carolina and that persons
pointed as Republicans we're really Del
Gratis.
day Senator Butler asserted Montgomery
ion, Charleston, was Republican conn
and sioner.
tive Senator Blaine gave way to Senator
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