Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-15
CONGRESS.


The House of Representative on
Tuesday passed as an Independent meas
ure the bill forbidding the use of troops
at the polls. and nearly similar bill was
introduced in the Senate, with the no
tice that it would be called up the fol-
lowing day for consideration. Mr..
Robes0n offered substitute that all the
Republicans voted for, with view of
placing themselves fully ON the record,
but it was defeated by party vote. The
Senate spent great portion of the day
in discussion over the proposed re-
opening of the Louisiana senatorial case,
and the Democrats were accused of
planning to oust kellogg to secure their
own majority in the chamber. Among
the bills introduced was one for the adj
mission of Utah territory as a State of
| the Union. cW E2l
Representative Chalmers made long
personal explanation in the House on
Wednesday to clear himself from charges
of completely in the Fort Pillow nlassa-
ere. The question of the enforcement
of the Eight-hour law was then taken
up, and afterward the Silver bill was
again debated at length. In the Senate
the resolution authorizing an investiga-
ton of the KellOgg-SpOffoId contested
election case was taken up, and several
amendments offered by Republicans
We're rejected. Every vote taken on the
question was divided on strictly party
lines. The House caucus bill to prevent
interference of troops at the polls was
taken up, and Senator Blaine offered an
amendment, without voting on which
the Senate adjourned.
The monotony of the debate on the
Warner Silver bill in the House Wednes-
day was relieved on Thursday by fierce
attack by Mr.. Chittenden, of New York,
upon De La Matyr and other Greenback-
ers and their outrageous schemes. De
La Matyr was denounced as praying for
honest government and voting for dis
honest money A vote was not reached.
In the Senate the day was devoted to a
speech by Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama, on
the troops-at-the-polls bill. He was lis
fened to more attentively than any pre-
ceding Democratic speaker, and Mr..
Conkling, who rarely does such thing,
took notes. From this it is presumed
that there may be considerable debate
on the question vet. So far, this week,
not one step has been taken toward the
legitimate object of the extra session
the passage of necessary appropriation
bills, and they seem not so near their
passage as they did seven weeks ago,
when the extra session convened.
The Senate on Friday passed the DEM
ocratic caucus military interference bill
by vote of % to SO. No Democrat
spoke upon the bill. Senator Edmunds
gave long legal dissertation. Senator
Blaine marked the passage of this bill
as the high tide of the ancient doctrine
of States Rights, and said the Democra-
cy of to-day were the lineal descendants
of Calhoun and Breckenridge, not of
Jackson and Douglas, and if the tide
rose higher it meant a more serious re-
belliOn than the last. Mr.. Chandler said
the Democrats of the Senate were diVi-
ded almost exactly as they were in 1851,
and the same elements were ruling
them. He became very much excited
in belaboring the Democracy, and finally
said all Republicans believed that II
Democratic Senators had poorer title
to their seats than Senator Kellogg, of
Louisiana, and held their seats by vio-
lence and fraud The Legislative bill
was taken up. In the House, during de-
bate upon bills for the removal of politi-
cal disabilities, Mr.. Cox referred to the
.'so-called" rebellion. Several bills of a
private nature were passed, and debate
ON the Warner Silver bill was continued.
On Saturday in the Senate, the Legis-
lative bill WAS discussed, and this was
the only business of the day; several
amendments of an unimportana charac-
ter were voted upon; Mr.. Hill of GeOr-
gia, made an extended speech, and Mr..
Chandler replied to him.
In the House, several new bills were
reported; the Warner Silver bill was ta-
ken up, and speeches We're made by Mr..
Kelley in advocacy of it, and by Mr..
Haskell and MIR. Bowman in opposition
the Burnside Army bill was re-introdu-
ced.
In the Senate on Monday, the consid-
Grafton of the Legislative bill was re-
sumed, Messr5. Window and Coke speak
ing at length, the former opposing, the
latter fav0ring the bill.
In the House a large number of bills
was received and referred; the Presi-
dents veto message was received, read
and spread upon the journal; a resolu-
ton to adjourn i'll May was referred to
the Ways and Means committee; mo-
tion to pass the Army bill, with the sixth
and ninth sections out, was lost.