The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-24

| ~ A>hlNIloS; nj III To- lie Hit'Hila
hour WAS dispensed with and the Sub-idi
AIRY Coin Bill was not taken up. The Hous
then went into committee Of the whole OF
the Legislative Appropriation Bill.
Mr.. MCKINLEY spoke in opposition t,
the proposed repeal of The election laws
tie i. nources such legislation as bo!G
and wsntDn attempt 20 wipe from Law every
protection of the ballot box, End 10 surren
der it Into the unhGly bonds OF hired r.,
pesters and ballot-box suffers at the Norta
| aud of li-sIre ballot cheats at the S1nrh.
ar. MCKINLEY having read that Mr.
Blackburn, 10 the last debate, said that the
democrats meant 10 wipe from the stat
utes all war measure, NJ. Blackburn left
he ch air and denounced The want of fair
less and truth in presenting from his
speech incomplete extracts.
The gent 'aman from Ohio, Mr.. Mckin-
ley, had told the committee that lie Black
burn) had said, speaking for his psrfy, that
that party did not intend TO stop until il
had stricken from the statutes the last YES
tige OK war measures. That uttersnce was
not warranted; that utteraBce WAS not true
and the record showed il He had asked
that g ntleman 10 reai the whole sentence
aud he had declined, saving that h. had no;
The speech there. He (Blackburn) had
then sent the gentleman the speech, With
he remainder o. the sentence underscortd
He had also VIII ten a marginal note, ask
ing whether il " : not unfair so to quote 3
sentence, and ne gentleman had taken
The speech pitched it on his
fesk ard declined to DO bin Justice.
The sentence in tull was: THE
Democratic party would not stop until il
had stricken from the statute books the
last vestise Of the war measures like these
election laws. which had been born OF the
passion incident to civil strife and
looked alone TO the infringement Of The lib
Hrty Of citizen" Let the gentleman from
Ohio take that and gnaw upon it TO his
hearts content. Was any man so ignorant
~ to go to the statute book 10 find the con
stitutional amendment ? 1t was above the
statute lew-it was organic law. He rec
oSnized the binding force Of every smend-
ment 10 the constitution. Applause.
He recogniz=d their validity "a par
ot the organic Law 0f the land and he held
Il 2 neglect 70 his duties Of citizenship
who refused TO give them full force aud
feet. The remarks OF the gentleman from
Ohio had been wanting in truth and fair
ness, in attempting 10 put him-slat K
burn-in an improper and unfair light be-
lore the country
Mr.. MCKINLEY said he rneant no dis
courtesy TO the gentleman from Kentucky
He had said distinctly, in the course of his
remarks, that he would read the remsinder
Of the sentence of the speech which was
sent TO him. II he had observed the psge
who had brought him the speech, he would
have stopped snd read what the gentlem an
hsd asked. He only made the statement
for the purpose Of placing himself right 10
The respect due to the gentleman from Ken
lucky, not for the purpose of taking back
or modifying anything he had said He
did not think thst the remainder Of the
sentence modified it.
Mr.. MCKINLEY continued: The KEY 10
the assault upon election laws might he
discovered in the desire OF the Democratic
party to secure the Presidency in 1880.
Fraud and force, the grest weapons OF the
Democratic party, must go on unrestrained.
and the pathway of that great party to alb
solute control must not be ohstructed
His colleague from Ohio, Sr. G.rfie!d.l
had been criticised for uttsring the threat
that the President would veto the appropri-
stion bill, il the legislation was attached.
The threat had come before this Congress.
L hsd been torn in the Forty fifth Con
gress Mr.. Mcmahon had stated this
legislation would be placed upon the ap-
preparation bills, because, if presented
the President would veto il. |
There was threatened revolution and |
it had come from the other |
side of the Chamber. The Demo-
cratic party was restored, but !
not reconstructed. 1t was "a intent on
this Government in its own
way, snd in defiance of the constitution to-
isr, a. il had been in the old DAYS of
slavery But il had had executive then
hsnk God, it did not have the executive
o-dsy
Mr.. HOUSE made a strong speech
gsiost the reteation of the federal election
sw OF the statute book; then, commencing
In .xirsct from Mr.. Garfield speech, he
any Ii an TO point 40 the tine
nd occasion when any SSuihern
representative hsd proven false and rec
esnt TO his obligation as a Representative.
low and wherein had they been unfaiihful
o their plighled honor, or di-loysl in .py
espec, 10 the constitution and the Govern
neni? If they had horne secret hostility
D the Government. why did they rot, in
be excias meut Of the electoral count, rueh
D tie ifoat on that occaion, precipitate ,
y eoantzy into . vortex Of snarcAy snd I
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