New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-11
As to the second claim: The Resumptio

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AS 70 the second claim: The Resumption
Act of 1875. us it Is called, WIS agreed upon
by a caucus of Republican Senators early IN
the December session of 1874. 1t was passed
Inv the Senate on December %. by vote of
80 yeas to IA nays Every man who voted
i'm the affirmative WAS Repubhran, ana OF
fine II who voted in the negative II were
Democrats, one (Spraguc) was krpupi'ca'
who afterward became a rampant lniiationist'
and the other (ripton) was Liberal. III
the House, where. as In the oena'e'
the Act was made Republican party
measure, the final vote, taken on
January T. 1875, was 139 in favor to ~
against. Every man who voted in the alllrm-
alive was Republican,, and OF the ~ IN the
negative II were Democrats, % were KepuO-
licans, and 3 were Liberals. The act was APP
proved by President Grant on January H.
1875. The Democratic attack opened brskIy
the following year. Three efforts we're maze
IN the House on June 27, 1875, to secure a
vote on u repeal bill, bit the Republicans de-
featcd them all by making points OF order,
ordering roil-cills. and otherwise causing decay.
The Democratic National Convention was TO
meet at st. Louis on the following day, ana
the uarty leaders in Congress wished to
take such action az would force an ex-
preston on the subject into their plat
form. They were successful and the COnyen-
ton alnpted its famous declaration that the
Republican party was annually enlcting fresh
hindrancos to resumption, adding: 'As such
"a hlndrance we denounce the resumption
" clause of 1875. and we here demand its re-
m. a.. 10 fhn Fl nV
of repeal an issue in the canvass, and to put
the party more cmphatically on record IN It's
favor, the House passed n repeat Dill on
August 5. by vote of 100 yeas to 50 nays.
Of the voters in the affirmative 81 were Demo
Gratis and Republicans, and OF those III the
negative 27 were Democrats and % Repub-
leans. The Republican Senate stopped the
mischief for that year by declining 10 pass
the bill.
General Ewing renewed the attack in 1877.
He introduced repeal bill on October ~ II
came up in the House for action two days
later. A motion to bury the bill in commit
tee was defeated by a vote of JIG yeas 10
1873 nays. OF the yeas % were Republicans
and u were Democrats. OF the nays lOI
were Democrats and 81 Republicans. On No.
vpmber the bill was up again, and the
Democrats threatened To block all legislation
on the appropriation bills until vote on this
could be taken. The subject was debated al
most daily until November %. One OF the
ablcst speeches against it was made by
General Garfield. a vote was taken
on the ODD, and the bill was passed
by 10 majority. OF the 1873 votes
in favor of repeal, 1O4 were cast by Demo
Gratis and % by Republicans. OF the 100
woes against repeal, 30 were east by kepub-
leans and IS by Democrats. The East cast
81 votes against repeal, and Ii votes for it,
the West cast IL votes against repeal. and
80 for it; the South east 70 votes for rep al,
and only Is against it. and OF these ID nine
were cast by Republicans. Nothing WIS done
with the bill by the Senate during this session.
On March 2G, 1873. the subject was taken
ND in the Senate and on June IL that body
passed a substitute which struck out the re-
healing clause of the House bill. and provided
that on and after the passage of the bill
greenbacks should be receivable as coin
for four per cent bonds, and after October
81, 1873, be rec ,iyable In payment Of
duties. The vote on the bill thus amended
was 45 yeas and 10 nays. OF the yeas 81
were Republicans and 81 were Democrats OF
The NAYS, Q were Republicans and q Demo-
Gratis. This substitute failed TO secure IA two
thirds majority in the House, receiving, on
June 49, 40 yeas and 105 nays. The parties
were not divided as formerly on this vote, as
the extreme initiation Democrats and the hard
money Republicans were alike dissatisfied
with the substitute.
This ended the direct attack upon the act
itself. In February, 1879 Ewing tried to
have tho defeated substitute revived
but the proposal was received with
derision. He reported the bill from
his Committee on Banking and Currency
with the Senate substitute stricken out and
some imitation ideas of his own put in their
place, but on February "a the House tabled
the whole question finally by vote Of al
to 10. This vote is interesting as showing
that, even after the Resumption Act was al
most certain of success, the Democrats we're
eager to repeal it. OF the al votes in favor
of tabling the dying repeal measure, Ia
were cast by Republicans and 27 by Demo-
Gratis; while OF the 40 i'll favor OF keeping
the subject alive 1O6 were cast by Democrats
and only by Republicans.
In compiling this record we have confined
ourselves to direct attacks upon the Resump-
ton Act only. We have shown that that
act was of purely Republican origin, and
that for five years the Democrats were pre-
vented from destroying it solely because the
Republican party stood guard over it. Had
there been Democratic majority in the SEN
ate we should he without resumption and it's
attendant prosperity to-day. But the attacks
upon the act itself were only part of the
Democratic efforts for its destruction. For
five years there was no initiation scheme too
wild tn receive Democratic suDDort In