The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-04

,ut under the influence Of this hot weather you
eem to have got of your balance.
Voorhees, asked them to name any question
It all that they have desired to discuss and In
he absence Of response by senators who made
Inc charge will denounce 1t III not true.
Edmunds--Wcll, take the marshal bill
Voorhees-IIave we not discussed 1t fully?
Edmunds-NOt very much. And then take
lac other thing?
Voorhees-The other things. That is al
deal expression for the scholarly senator from
Vermont.
Edmunds-I borrow it from the senator from
Ohio, who said once we were all things to all
men.
Voorhecs-Oh, no. The senator il trifing.
Edmunds-Will my kind friend, who il III
IF the "Big Injun" OF this Democratic wig
VAN (referring to Thurman) that it il the bust
ness Of the Republicans to talk and Of the
Democrats to voter
Voorhees, challenge the senator from Colo
RADIO, the senator from New York; and any other |
10 discuss; and you need not suppose will 90 |
away from this question until have an answer. |
Kirkwood stated that he had asked the Demo- |
Gratis when the army appropriation bill was |
pending whether the people were to understand |
by the rider to that bin that the president to
invitation OF the governor Of u state, and they
had made no response.
Northeastern can get an answer now. The |
wide difference between the senator from Iowa |
and the school of politics he represents, and
mine, is that believe, and those who act with
me, that we can trust the people, and you don't.
Voorhees, proceeded to elaborate this
idea, and then wanted to know why the
were "dumb as oysters"
on the electoral count bill. Edmunds
replied: 81 am merely in your position
myself; / am dumber than an oyster"
Voorhees, again demanded to know what
the Democrats had declined to discuss.
Edmunds said; "Suppose you come
to the discussion of this very philosoph-
ical bill now pending" Voorhees, con-
tinued to re-iterate his question, and
appealed to Conkling for an answer, and
that gentleman replied that he had no
objection to answering except the
"brevity of life;" yet he would name
one subject which the Indiana senator
himself had promised to discuss, and
had not-the currency question.
This reply rather I'M balanced Voorhees,,
and he retorted by asking why Conkling
had not discussed it, and then wanted
to know if he wished to discuss the third
term; when Conkling retorted i'll this
amusing manner:
No; because observe that nobody is 30 wor-
ried, nobody has such st. Vitus dance and
delirium temens Of anxiety about third term
as those hopclessly longing for first term
Ilaughterl and the dupes they have made; and
therefore / would not like on hot day like this,
when / see the honorable senator from Indiana
is already considerably animated, to introduce q
thing which think would be so disturbing and
so likely to disgruntlc him as that. Moreover,
hat tod
but what the gentleman's party had omitted or
refused to discuss.
Further badinage followed, when
Voorhees, proceeded to denounce the
election laws and John Davenport, and
to raise terrible picture'Of brute force
at elections under the forms of law;
when Edmunds shut him off with the
following sentence:
l am SO much impressed with horror and fear
at this moment by what the senator has said
that | ask him if he would allow lis to ad journ
until we can recover from the state we are III.
The senate then adjourned without
coming to vote on the bill.
The senate on Wednesday, resumed
consideration of the bill defining the
terms and providing for the appointment
Of chief supervisors of clcotiun, although
an effort was made by Window to have
it laid aside in order that the senate
might proceed with the appropriation
bills. Edmunds was the first speaker,
and said that for the first time political
measure had been permitted to crowd
out an appropriation bill, i'll order that
the Democrats might make haste to
grasp power for party purposes. He
then proceeded to discussion Of the bill,
saying:
If the people of the United States desire to
sweep away every ycstige of national control
over national elections they have very easy
way to accomplish that object. They have only
to give voice to the Democratic party i'll the
coming election. II they are not quite ready to
do that they would also know what other action
they should take. He admired the courage of
the Democrats i'll bringing forward this and
chain of similar measures III this presidential
year; though, rs had been said yesterday, the
silence with which they were attempted to be
carried through was Ominous. bill recently
passed which took away from the executive the
appointment of purely executive officers. the
deputy niarshals, and placed it in the courts. 1t
was argued that judicial calmness was requisite
in the appointment of executive officers, and
that they must be of different political parties.
Now the argument is that judicial officers (su-
peryisors) shall be appointed practically by the
senate, that il, by majority OF one or another
political complexion. In other words, while en-
ecutive deputy marshals must be iudicially ap-
pointed, the judicial supervisor must be polite
ally appointed. If they should be appointed by
the senate why should not receivers, registers in
bankruptcy, and all court officers be appointed
by the senate. The effect of the bill was that
the senate might appoint the chief of Tammany
as chief supervisor of New York city, and then
there would be no supervisors of election ap-
pointed in that district unless they were agreea-
bic to Tammany because the court must ap.
point them, if at ALL from those recommended
by the chief supervisor.
The plainness of this design of the bill was
something admirable. The proposed amend
ment of the senator from Ohio CThurman),
which, of course, would not go in, forbade the
reappointment of New York man who now
holds, or who has ever held the Office. When
called on to show precedent for this dlsqualify-
ing of citizens for Office, the senator cited the
law that no importer shall be made secretary OF
the treasury.
Mr.. Edmunds not only regarded this az non
seqtth1, but thought this decree, which might
lust az logically say that no man should ever be
a senator again, would have been thought
rather stiff for an edict by Roman emperor,
or king of Spain, two hundred years ago. II it
could be made concerning one office, it could be
made concerning all offices. 1t would be as
competent to amend the bill by saying no man
who had once been president should be eligible
for reelection. He wanted to see the yeas and
nays on the amendment. He would not believe
until he saw it that this ukase OF the grand
sachem of the majority would be obeyed. The
members of the majority were American citi-
zens and would hesitate to thus, by legislative
stab, take away from large number OF their
fellow citizens, without even giving them hear
ing, the right to hold Office under the govern
ment.
A running debate followed, in which
Rollins aud Teller made some sharp
thrusts at the Democracy for their en-
dorsement of frauds upon the ballot box
and personal outrages in the interests Of
their party in the South. Thurman
made weak attempt to break
the force of Edmunds' remarks,
but was finally silenced by the Yer
mont senator charging that the only pur-
pose of the bill was to get control of the
appointment of supervisors to the end
that there might be no etiectual bar to
fraudulent voting. The bill then passed
as already reported with the addition
that no person who has held the office OF
supervisor shall be re-appointed, the
vote being yeas 81, nays IA.
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