Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-27

time. am not well enough to do so but I
| shall before the adjournment. probably, take
occasion to repei the accusation which he made
against the people of my State.
About an hour was then occupied in discus
sion between Cameron (Wis.), Hampton, But
Ter, Teller, Mcdonald and Kirkwood, as to
whether the honor of inventing and first using
tissue ballots in South Carolina belongs to the
Republican or Democratic party, and az to the
manner and effect of their use as shown by the
testimony before the Teller, now Wallace, COM
mittee.
Sen. Teller made speech upon the evidence
as to frauds In elections.
Sen. Thurman said that fortunately for the
Senator from Colorado there was no rule com.
pelling a Senator's remarks to be germane to
the pending bill. Not sentence of his re-
marks had been to the point. He had not
shown that the bill weakened the laws III any
respect, but he had started the campaign of
1880 by Haunting the bloody shirt and digging
up his miserable old report..of Southern out
RACES. This bill did not take single power
from supervisors. 1t simply limited their term
of Office.
Senator Edmunds said the Senator from Ohio
forgot one point in the bill, it took appoint
ments from the courts and rut them in the
hand of the Senate.
Senator Thurman-No, it does not. 1t puts
them in the hands of a man who holds his
office by the greatest fraud in American his
tory.
Senator Edmunds-Is tina. the reason you
vote for it?
Senator Thurman-No, sir, the honorable
Senator knows very we'll 1t is not, but that
stops him from objecting to it.
After this discussion Turman's amendment
was agreed to by party vote: yeas ~, nays
15. The bill was read third time and passed:
yeas 81 nays IA; party vote.
Tho 1Oun m ittoa ranOrfed an .amandmant tn
to the title to make it read "a bill to define the
term of office of chief supervisors of elec-
tions," instead of Certain officials of the
United States.''
Sen Hoor moved to amend this amendment
SO as to make the title read: "a bill to deprive
chief supervisors of elections of their powers
and to remove them from Office"
Senator Beck moved to amend the amend
ment, SO as to add "and to break up the iron
cages of John Davenport"
An amendment in the third degree not being
in order, this was voted out by the president
pro tenn.
Senator Hoar demanded the yeas and nays
on his amendment which was rejected, and
the committees amendment was agreed to by
a party vote.
The following is the text of the bill:
Be it enacted. etc.-That the term Of Office
of the chief OF supervisors of elections pro.
vided for by sections 20 and 25 of the revised
statutes shall be two years. Such term shall
begin on the first day of May in each even
numbered year. The terms of those now in
office shall expire on the first day of May 1880,
and their successors shall be appointed, from
among the qualified electors of the proper
judicial district by the President of the
United States, by and with the
consent of the Senate. The President may
appoint such officers during recess of the SEN
ate, who may hold and exercise their Office un-
til the next session of the Senate, and it shall
be the duty of the President to send in such
within thirty days after this next
ensuing. session of the Senate; provided that
no person now holding or who has held the
office of chief supervisor of elections shall be
: After an executive session adjourned