Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-04-24
Ewing On the Army Appropriation Bill.
On the 18th the House had under con-
sideration the Army Appropriation bill,
and was addressed by Mr.. Ewing. He

Ou Une 1Otn tuo house ndu uuucT COu-
sideration the Army Appropriation bill.
and was addressed by Mr.. Ewing. He
said;
criticised for not having taken part in this
discussion. He was surprised at that. the
pending amendment was practically q Repub-
fican proposition, as at the extra session only
twelve Republicans had voted against it, and
fact that more Republicans than Democrats
had voted for it. 1t was practically their
supposed that it was expected to answer their
prepared TRADES against the very amendment
which they had so unanimously and emphat-
icaly supported. Now their objections come
in Babel of cries. All were distressed at
this amendment, from the vacant chair on the
Republican side (Mr. Garfeld). which was an
eloquent protest against the sudden somer-
sault Of his party, down to the gentleman
been absent at the time of the previous adop--
tiOn of the amendment, was uncOmmitted and
free to dip his pencil in the backsst + OF eoi9rs
amendment In twelve years tho Repub-
iGan party had placed @ on Apprepraf1Gtn not
ical riders. The gentleman from Connecticut
MIR. Hawleyl arraigned the Democratic party
for placing riders on appropriation bills. That
gentleman had been member of the Forty
third Congress, which had tackled forty-four
four rebellions in one Congress. [Laughter.]
He (Mr. Ewing) was not much Of an advocate
tremble at the idea that the Republican party
would arraign the Democracy before the peo-
s f M Were the rdep m %hose
interest? In the interest of monopolies or
tyranny No, the Democracy had put on
three riders. The first had been prohibition
had been put, of dispensing it into little squads
at at the beck W and can Of Deputy Marshals. The
| next rider had been proviso that as long as
should at least be chosen by United States
Judges. whose high character would give the
country an assurance that the MarShals would
1 not he uSR0 Instruments of DartV
| triumph. Many Republicans had voted for
had II t me mosI snd had d
| clared he would vote for it if he was the only
man who did so. But under the pressure of
party exigency when he felt that his party
must get up a little political clap-trap and sec
tional agitation, that gentleman, when the
against the amendment which he had framed
and swore to stand by. The third rider was
quoted from the speech made by Mr.. Robeson,
to the effect that this amendment "bound our
I'd sa hand and foot and the ag
statute books in the very words of this amend
ment. The party of the gentleman from New
| the Democrats had. Where had the gentle
man been when his party had been binding
s'our defenders hand and foot He could not
have been OF junketing, certainly, at such an
hour of peril. [Laughter.]
MT. It. Robes9nI was PI pared a. Win @ NE V leader
Mr.. Ewing-That pair did not save the flag
staff of our country.
/
lican party, binding 'our defenders hand and
foot" 1t was a case very much like that of
| Whitaker, at Vest Point. Inc Suspicion was
that the party complaining had bound itself
/ Laughter Some gentlemen on the other side
haa said that the Democrnie pa party t omgnt not not
lawfully. If George Washington Were Presi-
dent he (Mr. EWING would not be willing that
| he should have the power to use troops at the
polls. Possibly hayes might not make bad
use of that power. Another President might
/ come in after him who might not be so goody-
| QOO0V as HaVeS, He might be q man OF am DI-
| ton and of willfulness. 1t might be General
sde and eees of e9 said in
1876 in message to the House, that it was
well understood that the presence of United
States troops at polling places never interfered
with the franchises of any citizen. Over one
hundred years after this independence had
Iowa (Mr McCoid) had stated that American
troops at American polls had no alarm for
the other side of the House if he believed it
could calmly utter and feel such sentiment as
that Had the Love Ct liberty d yl died as arts and
| vance of thecountry in arts and sciences, this
power which enabled the people to explore the
tent and Invisible powers of nature, been ac-
companied with the decay of love OF liberty in
the American heart? If he felt that it had, he
would pray to God that the people might give
up steam and lightning and go back to the
Mo beri pn@ sires. ii appla9se % on the Demo
cratic side.] He did not know but that the
Republican party might succeed in breaking
|
handing over term after term and term after
| term to the gentleman whom it was pleased to
call Cignoring the million and a half of soldiers
who had done the fighting) the savior of his
country. But whether it could or could not
succeed in that, those who believed that the
use of troops at polls should not be permitted,
| could not excuse themselves for failing to
make this fight, and he could tell gentlemen
on the other side that if they proposed to carry
it before the people on the stump, and put
| themselves in the position of opposing that
prohibition, the Democratic party would meet
them upon it, and it might be that they would
not come off with quite as flying colors as they
did last fall.
Mr.. Humphrey-If do not succeed, we
will not turn the Government over to you with
| a war and rebellion on your hands.
! [Laughter]
Mr.. Ewing, in conclusion, declared that ON
| whatever side the troops might be at election
| precincts, bayonetS would become the base IN
struments of the petty despot who sent them
to the polls. [Applause on the Democratic