Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-18

WASHINGTON, March 17th.-The House went into
Committee of the Whole on the Deficiency Appro-
priation bill.
Garfield criticised severely the purpose of the
Democratic party in refusing to appropriate money
for special Deputy Marshals. but appealed in colcu
sion to the Democrats prevent the disasters which
their party leaders were bringing upon the country
and expressed his belief that such vote would be
had this bill would set at rest the poor dregs
of the extra session.
The discussion was continued by Burrows, who
declared his conviction that the purpose OF the DEM
ocratic party to steal the next Presidency, to
which Springer replied by charging the Republican
party with stealing two or three States in the last
Presidential election.
Mcmahon replied to Garfield and Burrows, and
then Warner took the floor. At the conclusion of
his speech the general debate closed and the bill
was read by sections.
In the debate on the Deficiency Appropriation bill,
Hayes, from the committee, defended the Public
Printer from the attacks made him, charging
that the Democrats were trying to gain possession
Of the printing Office by raising cry Of fraud
Garfield compared the present printing arrange
ment with that before the war, when in four years
$780, 900 had been contributed out Of the printing
fund for political purposes. Mcmahon had made an
uncontradcted statement that the Democrats would
appropriate nothing for special Deputy Marshas,
and that they cared nothing whether the law was
constitutional or not thus throwing contempt on
the Supreme Court which had declared It constitu-
tional. Mcmahon had not declared for his party
that the law unconstitutional, butthat his party
would not obey it. Congress, sworn before God 70
support the supreme law of the land, was invited
by the gentlemen to lead the laW-breakers
of the land By far the greatest danger
to the Republic to-day was the spread Of
law. breaking. 1t was hardly tolerated on the sand
lots of San Francisco, and the chief law breaker
there had taken Yesterday his sentence to penal
servitude. What dare Congress say 10 Denis kear-
ney and his associates, if it itself the
leader OF the law-breakers OF America His col
league had set the example before the people of
I,.ith aolaa
pose ahead, to violate the law Of the land He
hoped to nulfy the law. Did his colleague reflect
that he must vitate every election when he sue
ceeded in breaking the law? Suppose his lead were
followed and the demand of the people for Special
Deputies was refused? Did he not possibility
of vitiating every election in that way-and yet he
would destroy the validity of all Congressional cleo
tons rather than not enjoy the pleasure Of being
leader Of the lawbreakers vi the land. He Gar
field should deem it cOwardly and dishonorable OF
him if he shirked behind his legislative privilege
dis hey provision of the supreme law Of the land.
The issue had been Somewhat toned down from last
year, but it was the less dangerous. He would
gladly waive all party advantage for the sake Of that
sweet calm manful peace that ought reign in his
hall if everybody obeyed the law. Buff the leaders
on the other side answered that they would still
rush on their fate, still push upon the American
people this issue, because they happened not to like
the law, because they could not approve the charac
ter OF the law they would not let it be carried out
it was high time that the American people Should
know it. Here came in the Democratic party and
said, ANY part OF the law which We cannot repeal
and do not Ike, We will disObey." The Constitution
said that the law should standi majesty in dignity
and in authority. Would the Democratic party, in
spite of the Constitution, say that the law stood
it should be waste, ruin, an obelisk crumbling
under its displeasure but which could not be re-
moved by its power.
Mcmahon said Hayes and Burroughs had insuted
the individual members of the Democratic party,
and these insults base lies. He referred Gar
field to the notification record of the Republican
party in Ohio on the fugitive slave law. [Derisive
laughter on the Republican side. He warned the
Republicans that it would be useless for them to
faunt the bloody shirt before the American people
He wished there was a statesman on the o her side
willing TO rise above party strife, who could, like
the PRESIDENT say there was something else IN the
country besides party, who could overlook the
past for a little while and let the country prepare
for the great trials of the future He alluded to the
Monroe doctrine in connection with the nteroceanic
Canal. No one could tell where the resolution which
Congress would adopt that subject would lead the
country, and yet gentlemen of the other side
charging Representatives from the South as being
here only through fraud and violence. Instead of
that, they should cultivate good feeling between
the sections, that when trouble came it could be
met by united country. These intestinal divisions
only invited attack which would come sooner or
later from the combined foreign powers, and in the
meantime the ports of Boston and New York, and
every other seaport of the country were open to at
tack from the ironc ad fleets of any European power
Coming back to the immediate discussion of the
Dlli ne remarked tnaJ tine mere 12cJ OF the super
visor law having been declared constitutional by the
Supreme Court did not necessarily make it incum-
bent Congress to make appropriations carry it
out. Garfield had misquoted him.
Garfield-Are you in faver of executing the elec
ton lawsi
Mcmahon said not ia the present shape Of these
laws; but the Republicans would have chance to
prove their sincerity this session by voting bill
for the appointment by Judges, not Marshals of one
Republican and one Democrat at each polling place.
and also a Greenbacier where theyhad showing
Garfield said the Republicans had made stand
ing offer of that kind.
Warner defended the power of Congress to con-
troll legislation through the purse
The general debate closed and the bill was read
by sections for amendments.
Singleton, Chairman Of the Committee on Print
ing offered amendment changing the method OF
eleeting the Congressional Printer.
Mcmahon antagonized it by point of order.
The Speaker discussed thoroughly the points Of
order involved, and decided the amendment out of
oruer
This was the first decision under the new rules
Mcmahon moved to amend by appropriating
$4,000 to pay the salaries and expenses OF agents
and surveyors fees and the expenses of gauger and
storekeepers. Agreed to.
Atkins offered an amendment authorizing the
Secretary Of the Treasury to employ one Of the
revenue steamers OF the revenue marine now on the
Pacific coast for the relief OF the officers and crews OF
the whaling barks Mount Wollaston and Yigilant,
now imprisoned in the Arctic ocean, and appro-
priating 81, 900 for that purpose
Mcmahon, from the Appropriation Committee
offered an amendment appropriating s5,50o,000 for
the payment Of pensions to army pensioners. S140,
600 for the payment OF pensions of navy pensioners
and SIS, 600 for the preparation Of vouchers, etc
Reagan offered an amendment to the amendment,
providing that the provisions OF that section shall
extend to all pensioners Of the classes referred to in
this section and that the provisions of Section 4716
of the Revised Statutes shall apply to the exelu
sion ofany from benefits OF its provisions.
Hiscock raised point OF order against Reagan's
amendment.
Reagan supported his amendment He desired
that McAiahau's amendment should apply to all
alike, notwithstanding the provisions Of the Re-
vised Statutes Certainly Congress would not pur.
sue further the aged and decrept, and deny them
the bounty OF the Government they served in the