Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-05
TELEGRAPHIC.
Termination of the Long-Wlnded
Debate on the Army Bill.
Several Greenbackers Participate
in the Discussion.
They Predict Democratic Defeat
in 1880 on this Record.
Vote to be Taken on the Army APP
preparation Bill Monday.
Thermometer at 81 in Atlanta, Ga.,
and the Fruit Ruined.
XLVI CONGRESS.
XLVI CONGRESS.
HOUSE.

1n6 House met an nOur carrier
than the usual time for meeting so
as to give that extension to the
general debate which closes at three
o'clock to-day.
The first to address the House
was Mr.. Singleton, of Mississippi,
who stated the question to be
whether the House had the courage
and determination to repeal per-
nicious laws or would falter and
fail in its duty to the course. He
admitted that under the present adj
ministration no troops had been
stationed at polls, but no one could
fOreten whether the course of the
last administration in that respect
might not be followed in the next.
He thought that the return of GER
tain gentlemen to public life (mean-
ing perhaps Senators Chandler and
Logan, bOded no good to the Re
public. In the face of the disgrace
full law which it was now proposed
to repeal, the boasted freedom of
America was a mockery and a lie.
In conclusion Mr.. Singleton stated
(in reference to the Supervisors law
that party fealty taught him to sub
NIT to party dictates. He there
fore accepted the partial repeal of
the SUPERVISOR law, with notice to
all concerned that he accepted it
only as a first intallment of a long
delayed justice to an oppressed peo
pie, and that he should in all time
to come labor in season and out of
season to secure the repeal of every
line, word and letter of that law.
The next speech was made by
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, Zone of the
Greenback Representatives, He
deprecated keeping open sectional
animosities. He ridiculed the pre-
tensions put forward yesterday by
M. Knott, of Kentucky, as to
Providence guiding the Democratic
party, as of old the chosen people
through the desert, and suggested
that the gentleman confonnded the
two things, and that it was to the
army of Pharaoh that the Demo
cratic party was to be likened. He
predicted that in 1880 the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presi-
dency would, instead of reaching
that goal, meet his doom as Moses
had met his on Mount Nebo. IN
less that party would give relief to
the country in financial measures it
would have forfeited its opportuni-
ties for victory in 1880. He raised
a laugh by describing how two po-
litical parties in the House, after
waging bitter partisan war during
the week, met together every Sat
urday and voted like brothers to
carry over the session till Tuesday,
so as to prevent "the par
ty of the Center" from intio~
ducing measures oc financial relief.
Old parties, he said, were powerless
to give relief. They were parties
of blood; and as David, being man
of blood, was not permitted to build
the Temple at Jerusalem, they
would not be permitted to build the
temple of American liberty. The
new party, which was the only
healthy and growing party in the
country, wanted no soldiers at the
polls; it wanted no test caths for
jurors, and was opposed to the con-
centratiou of power in the hands of
Appropriation Committees. His
speech is a great success, and is oc-
casionally applauded on both sides.
Mr.. Weaver was folio sed by three
other GreenbackerS, De La Matyre,
of Indiana, Jones, of Texas, and
Wright, of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. De La Matyre expressed his
to vote for the bill as 1t
stands.
Mr.. Jones opposed the placing of
political legislation on an appropria-
ton bill. A right condemned the
re-opening of the dead issues of the
war and predicted defeat in 1880
for the party that raised them.
During long course of service in
,he House, he had never heard dis
outed the right of the House to en-
yrrft on appropriation bills other
necessary measures of legislation.
Mr.. Hawley, of Connecticut, fol-
owed, denouncing the purpose of
he majority, which would leave the
Government to be carried on by