The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-05-16
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AAV AhhouHt VI ealh bHub hHA bSGh ~
dulged in over the army bill in House
and Senate is something really enor.
nous, as any GAO viii be prepared to
certify who has seen the Congregational
RecO1d every day for three weeks past.
Streams Of eloqucnce and rhetoric Of
every degree and quality have flown as
freely as the waters of great food;but
to patient listener or reader, who
know long ago how every vote would |
be east, the thing has grown monoton-
Gus. IL was brother Of that iurist !
Ia the Senate from Vermont, vino, when
sitting as judge in case afflicted with
long winded counsel, rose and said:
"Wben you gentlemen get through
with your speeches, you will find my
decision in this drawer. The Court is
going to dinner" The closing aspect of
this discussion III the Senate reminds
one Of this anecdote. Tho sI'eecher may
be ever so good, and many are exceed
insly able; but when they 80 over the
precise ground 80 exhnustiycly can
VAssed IN tho HouNc. il is hard 10 avoid
the conviction that il wovid bc Just rs
we'll to cut it short Judge Davis came
nearer reViving the interest OF daily lis
tsnera than any other Senator this
week. His short speech was Il surprise
to the Republicans, who were led to be-
lieve that lie would occupy hnlEwny
ground and advocate compromise.
Instead of that, he went as far a. any
Democrat in insisting that the objec-
tionable clause should be repealed, and
in ridiculing the absurd cry Of revolt
ton. Sir Blaine, apparently antici-
patiug AZ least a crun.b OF comfort from
the Judge, took his scat Immediately in
front OF ia" latter, aud looked right up
into his face When, in the courso OF
/ hin speech, after having condemned acc
/ lionnl strife, Judge Davis said that
sound policy dictated peace and good
/ will between the Sections.an that nome
bus those who put party above patriot
lain, and wcrc seeking I" 10 harm.
opened up the past, hn stopped FOR nu
instant and looked Hquar.,v and very
suggeAtivcly down into Air El4in'.
face.
Probably no man living has I, better
warrant 10 speak Tor Abraham Lincoln
than Judge DAVIS. and there Is i,o: -
particle Of doubt that the drciaution
made by him that. if Mr. Lincoln were
alive, he would heartily favor the ry.
peal Of such war measures as author
lied tho interference Of the army or ANY
other Federal authority. with elections
Is absolutely true The rEntiug OF
Black Jack Logan in taking EXCEPTIONS
To what be said, annoyed Judge Davis
very much. and he made no eiioIt to
conceal il. he tried TO avoid any dis
cuksion with Logan, and even went 50
lar as to ignore him for time, but the
latter made himself so obnoxious that
the Judge was obliged to shut him up.
lie objected 10 Mr.. Davis assertion
that there was peace in all the land. aud
that the laws were obeyed alike North
and South. To controVert this he read
from the last report of the Revenue
Commissioner figures showing that a
thousand or 80 more arrests were made
last year ia tho South for revenue
frnuds than in the North. Judge DA-
Wis replied that that was no indication
of n lawless spirit, AZ the entire South
was not responsible for violations Of
law committed in the mountains OF one
or two States. Logan persisted, and
finally the Judge tartly replied that he
knew there were numerous violations
of the revenue laws in Illinois, and all
over the North, where illicit distilling
aud smuggling was going on all the
time. He had no doubt the revenue
officials were much more energetic in
hunting out frauds in the South. John
A. Logan ought to be the last man to
!, talk about violations Of the internal rev
enue laws. He owes his present posi-.
, ton in the Senate to the fact that, dur
! ing Grants term, he could jerk whis-
ky thief out from under charge, in
dictment or sentence, quicker than all
the lawyers in all the States of the
Union. He knows very well, too, that
the Government was defrauded out d
more money in Illinois during the eight
years of Grants Presidency and hi'
Senato-ship, than in all the Southern
4 States put together.
3 All talk of short session has van
a ished and the food-gates of general leg
: islation were thrown wide open las
Monday, when nearly fourteen hundred
= bills-l 1886, to be exact-were intro
duced. The Republican members, VIII
had made such pretence of opposition
}. to general legislation, were as anxiou
as Democrats to get in measures, an
introduced about half of the total mum
= Der. Their leaders, Garfield and Frye
took willing hand in the exercise, an
: got in bills 10y the bunch. Mr.. Thoms
Turner, of Kentucky, was the champ
on introduccr of the day. He got j
45, and didn't seem at all fatiguet
j. Other members put in as mary as =
and 80 apiece. aOf the whole numbt
of bills, $50 were for relief, in or
no shape or another, either for private il
~ dividuals, for whole communities, I
for the distressed country. Very fe
: war claims were offered, but, on ii
other hand, several propositions to c.
a. off such legislation were presente
About 90 per cent. of the bills intr
dncad xvara befate the last COrpres