The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-05-22

Mr., Cockrell Dem Mo- introduced joint res.
olutlon authorizing and requesting the President
OF the United States TO open correspondence with
the Republic Of France with view and for the
purpose Of negotiating proper treaty Of recip.
r0City and commerce with that Government on
terms alike honorable and just. Three commits.
sioners are to be appointed on behalf of the
United States preliminary to the making Of such
treaty their compensation to be fixed by the Sec.
retary Of State, Referred.
LEGISLATIVE BILL CONSIDERED.
Consideration was then resumed of the Legisla.
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill.
Mr.. Beck (Den. Ky.) explained the provisions
Of the bill as 1t had been amended, stating that
the increase by the Senate was S945 ,0O0 making
the entire sum 1854 900. Among the amend.
ments were $4,000 for mints and $4,000 for the
Interior Department additional to appropriations
in the bill for these figures, and he suggested
what reforms should be made, By the reduction
of the number Of store keepersa and gaugers under
the commissioner of national revenue $4,000 an.
nually could be saved He thought hundreds of
thousands Of dollars might also be saved by re.
adjusting the machinery of the Customs Depart
ment, as In numerous cases the expenses OF col
lecting the revenue far exceeds the receipts He
hoped the Committee on Appropriations would
consult with the proper committee of the House,
so that the next session of Congress should have
data on which to act intelligently. He would
prefer to have reforms made now instead of till
the Democrats come into power, which they ex
pected to do.
Mr. Beck alluded to the remarks of Mr.. COnk.
ling on q former occasion with regard 10 the
amount Of taxes and duties paid by the States
amount paid by those which did. Mr.. Beck said
Kentucky paid nine millions and half internal
revenue
M. COnkling (Rep N. " said much of the tax
which the Senator claimed was paid by Ken
lucky was or whisky. The tax was paid by its
consumers elsewhere, because no one could sup
pose enormous as the Democratic majority In
that State was, that consumption was all there
Laughter
Mr. Beck remarked the Senator had answered
his own question to his (Beck's) satisfaction,
when he said consumers paid taxes" Mr.. Beck
also noticed the remark of Mr.. COnkling that the
reduction of duty on tobacco had diminished the
receipt of taxes TO the amount OF 81 100000 and
read from official figures to show that the reve-
nue. had been increased rather than lessened,
He also alluded to the fact that Notwithstanding
the requirement of the law that the number Of
clerks in the several departments shall be divid-
ed pro rata among the States, Kentucky has not
one, while Maine had ninety. This among other
things, ought to be looked into with view to
remedy It,
Mr.. Hampton Dem. s. c. rose to personal
explanation. He said Mr.. Window, In recent
speech, stated he (Hampton) had put into the
Democratic national platform OF 1868 tn" plank
declaring that the reconstruction acts OF Con.
gress were usurpatons, and unconstitutional
and void, Hampton said he had time and again
denied he did so, and had proved he did not be-
fore the Ku Klux investigating Committee. He
was satisfied the Senate did not intend to do him
injustice,
Mr.. Window (Rep Minn.) said he did not, but
during the campaign he saw what purported to
be q speech Of the Senator In which the Senator
said: THAT was my plank in the platform. l
wanted nothing else; for, when the great Demo.
cratic party had pledged themselves to that
when they had declared that these acts were un-
constitutional, revolutionary and void, l was
willing to wait in patience until that party would
be triumphant and apply remedy IN their own
good time"
Mr. Hampton replied he could not say whether
he US d that language or not If he did, II was
in the sense he approved the words, and repeated
he did not put them into the platform.
Mr.. WindOm-The Senator does not deny he
made that speech, and this is all want.
SPEECH OF MR.. THURMAN.
Mr.. Thurm an then took the floor, and before
beginning TO speak on the pending bill said he
was surprised that the Senator from Kentucky
(Beck) had taken the trouble to treat seriously
the proposition of the Senator from New York
(Conkling) that the people residing in his dis
trict where taxes are collected are the people
upon whom the tax falls. Such statement re-
futed itself and was an absurdity not to be toler
ated by any honest intellect.
Mr.. Thurman said they had before them an ap-
Precipitation bill tor the support Of the Legislative
Executive and Judicial branches of the Govern
ment. Nobody denied that the amount was sufh
cient, but opposition had been made to the bill
because of provisions relating TO trial by jury
and to elections. Rather than agree to these, the
minority say in effect they will stop appropria.
tions and defeat the bill. Scarcely any word had
been uttered by the minority on the merits Of this
question. 1t was said these provisions had no
proper place in the Appropriation bill, and that
they were debated by the South, because gentle
men, In their Imagination supposed there was a
huge conspiracy to produce anarchy, as If the
majority here and the, Democratic people Of the
United States have not as much interest In the
order, peace and prosperity Of the country and
the perpetuity Of the Government as any men be-
longing to the Republican or any other party
The most infammatory, unfounded and uDjusti
fable attempt had been made to array one pOr
ton Of the people against the other, thus endeav-
OriDg TO make sect1Onal1sm permanent as the
point out defects Of the provisions IL they believe
thew exist7 They were told these provisions
were inserted al the command OF Southern domt-
nations but there was not word OF truth in 1t.
They were not in the interest OF southern men or
of Northern men particularly, but in the interest
of all the people of the country. These laws were
pretended, when passed, to be for the protection
of freedmen in the South against ku-kuX, but
their real object was 10 oppTess voters In the
North and especially to disfranchise, tmpTisOn
and persecute naturalized citizens Of the North,
The Almighty father, said Thurman, had given
him capacity to feel, for which he was truly
grateful though he was sometimes incOnVeni'
enced by 1t. His indignation sometin rs made
him forget that he was weak and ought not to
give way TO his feelings too much. III speaking
OF election laws there came to him piCtu! o OF
their operation in New York city, OF cage full
OF men sweltering and suffering uhuer the arDi
trary and dictaIOrial mandate Of corrupt and
contemplate Commissioner Of Elections, and he
could not suppress the thought that transaction
had taken place in this country that COulu not
have occurred in any other civilized country
Without blood being shed. But he proposed 70
speak drylysto day, hoping thus TO make DelIer
legal argument than If heexhibited feeling.
He proposed to sheap on the subject Of the con.
stitutton II that instrument may be mentioned
with iueverenee. He then argued that trial by
Jury law was the shield Of the people and safe
guard to liberty, and that laws proposed TO be re-
pealed were enacted In the interest of the Repub-
lican party. Though no Jeffries may hold his
bloody Sssizes IN this country, yet In minor de-
gree, II not 10 the full extent these enormites
should be continued. The court OF justice, as
Halman SAYS would become cayerns of judicial
murders, and mere lnstrumentalites OF party
feeling and personal advantage"
THE JURORS TEST OATH.
Mr.. Thurman proceeded to analyze the laws
proposed TO be repealed and argued they were in
the utmost degree oppressive, as they shut out
intelligence from the jury box and punished
thOee who could not take the ironclad oath be.
cause they had given cup of cold water even to
any one who had opposed the Government II
the law was jusuhable in war 1t was not so now
at time when all should unite in the pacifca-
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