New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
THE NEW POLITICAL DEBATE.
IT Is BEGUN IN THE HOUSE BY TIE TWO MEN WHO
MANAGED TO GET on THE SPEAKERS LIST FIRST
KELLEY AND CARLISLE.

IT Is BEGUN IN THE HOUSE BY TIE TWO MEN WHO
MANAGED TO GET on THE SPEAKERS LIST FIRST
KELLEY AND CARLISLE.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCNEl
WASHINGTON, April 17.--Judge Kelley and Mr..
Carlisle Of Kentucky, opened the discussion Of the
political sections of the Legislative. Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill IN the House of Repre-
seutativcs to-day. after vote had been taken to
close the debate thus begun at o'clock on the
afternoon of Friday of next week. About 100 mcn-
bers have indicated their desire to make speeches
by entering their names on the list kept by the
Speakers clerk, and not more than five can be de-
livered in any single day unless an evening session
is held 1t follows, therefore, that more than half
of the would-be orators will find themselves cut off
by to-day's agreement aud will be forced TO have
their unuttered eoquence preserved in The Record
for the benefit OF their constituents.
Judge Kelley represented nobody except himself
IN the speech he made to-day. He spoke first be-
cause he reached the Speakers table first one day
last week when Mr.. Blackburn, chairman of the
Committee Of the Whole, announced his purpose of
making new list. Ii IS needless to say that he did
not lay down the ground on which the Republicans
Will oppose the sections of the bill now under con-
sideraton nor is il necessary to add that nothing
except a curiosity to learn how far away from Re
publican doctrines his association and sympathy
with Democratic GreeubackeTs had led him, gave to
his speech real importance.
Judge Kelley turned out to be substantially in
accord with the Republicans on all the points in
volyed in dispute. The only ground on which he
criticised his late party associates was one which
exists only in the imagination of himself and the
Democrats. He warned the Democrats that they
could not afford TO stop the wheels of government
whether the political sections of these appropriation
bills caused them 10 be vetoed not; and that If
they tried such revolutionary experiment, not
only the solid North would rise up againsa them,
but that the South would not remain solid in their
support. OF course Judge Kelley could not close
his speech without speaking OF the financial ques-
lion and airing some of his peculiar theories on cur
Tency.
Mr.. Carlisle, of Kentucky, who occupied the last
hour Of the afternoon is certainly one of the lbcst
Representatives whom the Democrats have. LocI-
cal ard stra ghtfOrward III his arguments, moderate
and dscreet IN his language, he deals with public
questions a statesman. and not as demagOgue or
petty politician. There more brilliant orators
the Democratic side of the House. but there is no
man IN the majority whose speeches more
worthy of attention more difficult to answer.
He made the best though not the most snowy
speech made by any member of his party on the
Army bill, and today he set out the arguments in
favor of the political sections Of the Legislative bill
in their strongest light.
After arguing that the practice Of attaching new
legislation to appropriation bills is not revolution
ary OF unconstitutional, and that the Democrats
are as much justified IN resortug to this practice
now az the Republicans were when they were in
power he attacked the sections of the revised
statutes which it is now proposed to repeal sustain
ing bis attack by an exceedingly strong chain Of
reasoning. His chief argument was that the clause
of the Constitution authorizing Congress g to make
or alter" the regulations made by the States {" to
the times places and manner of holding elections
Tor Senators and Representatives does not give