The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-23
ONGRESSIONA
SENATE.

an increase of trips on star routes during Thu
fiscal year, and Davis, of w. Va, Beck and
Salisbury, advocated it. The amendment
was rejected; yeas 2S, nays 32.
IL. The amendment prohibiting the expedition
of the service to a rate of pay exceeding fifty
per cent. of the original contract was agreed
The bill as passed reads "Be it enacted,
ETC., that ST, 100000, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to
meet the expenses of inland mail transporta.
ton on star routes for the remainder of the
the current fiscal year no further eXpediting
of the service on any postal star route shall be
made. .. ..
SEC. .. That 100000 is appropriated to
enable the Postmaster General to place new
service, as authorized by law, provided the
Postmaster General shall not thereafter have
the power to expedite the service under any
contract, either now existing or hereafter
given, to a rate of pay exceeding fifty per
cent. per annum upon contracts as originally
let.
SEC. 3. That $4,000 is appropriated as
aforesaid for public printing, including the
cost of printing the Congressional Record, it
being a part of the deficiency for the current
fiscal year.
SEC 4. Nothing in this act shall be deemed
or construed to affect the validity or legality
OI Iuc dCLS VI OlllSSlOnS Ol any OlllCet vi lHe
United States, or to affect any proceedings
therefor.
Garland moved that the Senate take up the
House bill for the establishment of a title to
the Hot Springs, and for other purposes.
Agreed to.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, March Is. The Senate
considered the Hot Springs question, pending
which it adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, March l..-Garfield, speak
ing on the Marshalls Appropriation Bill, said:
Mcmahon had not declared for his party
that the law was constitutional but that his party
would not obey it. Congress was sworn be-
fore God to support the supreme law of the
land and was invited by the gentlemen to lead
the law breakers of the land.
BY far the greatest danger to the republic
to-day was the spread of law breaking. 1t
was hardly tolerated in the Sand Lots of San
Francisco and the chief law breaker there
had taken yesterday his sentence to penal
servitude. What does Congress say to Denis
kearney and his associates. If it announced
itself as leader of the law breakers of Ameri-
ca his colleague set the example before the
people of proposing deliberately and with a
clear and simple purpose ahead to violate the
law Of the land. He hoped to nullify the law.
Did his colleagues reflect that he must vitia;s
every election when he succeeded in break
ing the law? Suppose his lead were follow
&c and the demands of the people for special
deputies was refused. Did he not see the
possibility Of ~vitiating every election in that
way? Yet he would destroy the validity of
all Congressional elections rather than not
enjoy the pleasure of being the leader of the
law breakers of the land. He (Garield)
should deem it cowardly and dishonorable of
him if he shirked behind his legislative privi-
lege to disobey the provision of the supreme
law of the land. The issue had been some
what toned dow from last year but it was
none the less dangerous. He would gladly
waive all party advantages for the sake of that
sweet calm and wanted peace That ought to
reign in this hall if everybody oheyed the
law. But if the leaders on the other side an
nounced that they would still rush on to their
fate still push upon the American people
this issue because they happened not to like
the law. because they could not approve of
the character of the law they would .lot let it
be carried out, it was high time that the
American people should know it. Here came
in the Democratic party and said, I" ANY part
Of the law which we cannot repeal and do
not like we will disobey.' The constitution
said that the law should stand in majes-
ty, in dignity and authority. Would the
Democratic party in spite of the constitution
say IUdt Ii tuc law SlOOu / uOulu W q "dSIc,
a ruin, an obelsk crumbling under its dis
pleasure, but which could not be removed by
its power.
Mcmahon said Hayes and Burroughs had
insulted individual members of the Demo-
cratic party and these insults were base lies.
He referred Garfield to the notification re-
cord OF the Republican party in OHIO on the
Fugitive Slave law. 1t was useless for them
to faunt the bloody shirt before the Ameri-
,o- ra.-Ia H. 1r,iehAJ t1aca xuas n Stotno
man on the other side willing to rise above
party strife who could, like the President,
say there was something else in the country
besides mere party, who could overlook the
past for a little while and let the country pre-
pare for the great trials of the future. He al
luded to the Monroe doctrine in connection
with the Inter-Ocean Canal. No one could
tell where the resolution which Congress
would adopt on that subject would lead the
country, and yet the gentlemen on the other
side are representing the Representatives from
the South as being here only through fraud
and violence. Instead of hat they should
cultivate a good feeling between the sections
so that when trouble came it could be met by
the united country. These intestinal divisions
only invited an attack which would cone
sooner or later from the combined forei.n
powers and in the meantime the ports of Bos-
ton and New York and every other sea port
cf the country were open 10 all attack from
the iron clad fleets of any European power.
Coming back to the immediate discussion of
the bill he remarked that the mere fact of the
supervision of the law having been declared
constitutional by the supreme court it did not
necessarily make it incumbent on Congress
to make appropriations to carry it out. He
depicted dangerous elements which were arts
ing in all I.rts of tine country seeking to des-
troy it, and now more than ever the law
Il. &l-..II ha 1a- ohanmngnrc II Man,
hon chose to go before the people with dec
larations that his party had not obeyed and
would not obey the laws he regretted it for
the connfry,s sake. but reioiced in it for the