Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-27
FORTY-slXTH CONGRESS.
The Senate.
Second Session.

| N,
took the modified oath and then took his seat
as senator from Georgia in the place of Gordon,
resigned.
Senator Cockreli, from the committee on
claims. reported favorbly on the bill for allow
auce of certain claims reported by accounting
officers of the treasury, known as the 4th OF
.rulv claims. Placed on the calendar.
Senator Cockrell introduced q bill amending
the act of 1878. regarding pensions OF soldiers
off the war of 1872 so as to place on the pension
rolls the names Of surviving ofhcers ana en-
listed and drafted men, without regard TO COL
or including militia and volunteers Oh ne MIL
;tarv and naval service of the United States,
who served in the war of 1912 for a term OF IA
davs beginning prior to date of ratification OF
the treaty of peace or who were IN any engage
ment and honorably discharged, and the sur,
vivine widows of such officers, and enlisted
and drafted men. Referred
The pension deficiency appropriation pll was
taken up. On motion or senator nacon,
SI5 O00 additional for the Senate commltte
was added.
Senator Window offered an amendment ap
nronriatinp $6O, 600 for the payment OF fees OF
limited States marshals and deputies, earned
dnrinp the fiscal year ending June ., IooD.
He su0posed this had been omitted by an over
SIGHT. as the courts were being stopped all over
the country Tor WANT OIL 1Hio oPP,opAA'
Senator Eaton regretted that the amendments
had heen offered, The commissioner of PEN
sions called on him to-day, and represented the
urgent necessity of having million OF DOL
lars before June first, to pay pensions. Inc
amendment, if debated, would delay the Dill
greatly. The amendment was rejected by a
party vote, yeas %, nays 50. brown cast nis
first vote on this question, Young nay.
Amendments were agreed to arptoprIatlng
al 5OO for the propagation OF food hsh, and
$40 OO0 for fish Matching steamer and ma
chinery, $4,000 for vessels for the coast sur
vey. and Sl5. 900 for continuation OF the coast
survey. The amount appropriated Tor pensions
is 1924 coo.
Senator Cockrill offered an amendment ap-
propriatiug $4,000 for continuing the work OF
settling the claims of states under the act OF
1870 for swamp lands, including drains for
swamp lands and land indemnity, under the
acts of 1850 and 1857 Agreed to and the Dill
passed.
passed for relief of homestead ana pre-
emption settlers in Kansas and Nebraska VINO
lost crops by drought, extending Tor one year
the time in which to complete their payments
The morning hour having expired the Senate
resumed consideration of the bill dennIDg the
terms of chief supervis ors of electiens. Sena-
tor Window moved to lay the bill aside in
formally to consider the agricultural appro-
priation bill.
Senator Bayard objected. ~,
Senator Window thought appropriation olils
should have preference as usual.
Senator Davis. W. Va. chairman of the ap-
propriation's committee, said it was not worth
while to antagonize the regular order, wnlcn
would soon be disposed of, and the appfoprla-
tion bill would then come up.
Senator Window said he would obey the
orders of his chief on the committee, and with
drew the motion.
Senator Edmunds said that for the first time
a political measure had been permitted to
crowd out an appropriation bill, in order that
the Senate might make haste to grasp power by
the regular appointment of supervisors IN Inc
interest of the Democratic party. Having
thus killed an appropriation bill for to-day, IN
order to secure control of elections, ne wished
to examine the machinery by Whlcn the thing
was to be DONE He proceeded to oppose the
pepding bill. If, said he the people OF the
United States desire to sweep away every ves-
tipe of national control over national elections,
they have a very easy way to accomplish tnat
object. They have only to give voice to the
Democratic party in the coming election. Ii
they are not quite ready to do that they would
also know what action they should take; he
admired the courage of the Democrats In BRING
ing forward this and the chain of similar meas
ures in this Presidential year, though, as had
been said yesterday, the silence
with which they were attempted to
be carried through was ominous. bill re-
Gently passed, took away from the executive
the appointment of purely executive othcers,
the deputy marshals, ana placed IL In tne
courts. Itwas 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, supervisors, shall be appointed
practically by the Senate; that is by major
ity of one or another political complexion.
In other words, while executive
ally appointed, the judicial supervisors
must be politically appointed. The effect OF
the bill was that the Senate might appoint the
chief of Tammany as chief of New York, and
then there could be no supervisors OF election
appointed in that district unless they we're
agreeable to Tammany, because the court must
| appoint them, if at all, from. those recon-
| mended by the chief supervisor. The plain
ness of the design of the bill was something
admirable.
| Senator Rollins gave his views upon the results
| of the investigation by the committee on civil
service and retreuchment in New England.
| He then referred TO the naturalization AFFAIR In
New York in 1868 and to southern outrages.
The Democratic investigation committee had
overlooked all these things and gone up into
New England to see if some laborers were not
disfranchised. He supposed Kellogg was to be
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| ousted for fear Louisiana would not go Demo-
cratic in the next election. Democratic SEN
| ate was to walk over the dead bodies OF thous-
ands of Louisiana Republicans, In order to Sc
cure Democratic supremacy. he
quoted from the evidence of
| the outrages in the South and paid
special attention to South Carolina. represent
| ed in the Senate by the chairman OF the COM
mittee on civil service and retrenchment, re-
ferring especially to the Hamburg massacre.
He spoke of it as the result of an unprovoked
| and uniustifable attack by the Southern chiv-
! airy upon parading negro company, whose
resentful comments, though accompanied by
no response, furnished the pretext Tor RAID
upon and massacre of the whole town. he
spoke in sarcastic way of the results OF the
various Democratic investigating committees.
The Democrats had learned nothing since4o6i.
1t was rule or ruin, and their fate was sealed.
On the conclusion of Rollins remarks Sena-
| tor Butler said the senator from New lamp
shire has ransacked all the filthy, dirty records
in Washington and everywhere else for the
purpose of pronouncing benediction on my
State simply desire to say now that what
he said is, from the beginning to the end,
contemplate calumny upon the character OF
South Carolina. 1 shall take occasion heraf-
ter to pay my respects to what the honorable
senator has said will not delay the Senate
now.
i Senator Rollins-In justification of myself
will say that nearly all / have said about
South Carolina is taken from the sworn testi-
mony of her citizens.