Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-04
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Second SESSION.
The House.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The house met thi
morning, Mr.. Carlisle in the chair, for debat.
only, and Immediately went into committee OF
the whole on the state of the Union.
| Mr. Covert addressed the committee on the
subject of the revision of the tariff and argued
especially IN favor of revision of the duty on
steel rails, and in favor of placing chrome ore
| on the free list.
Mr.. Joyce spoke in support of the bill pro-
viding for the appointment of a committee on
the subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic, and
said the use of Intoxicating drinks by the peo-
pie of the country in two years cost them
enough to pay the whole public debt.
Mr.. Willis advocated an appropriation for q
public building at Louisville.
Mr.. Taylor addressed the committee in sup
port of a bill to pension Mexican veterans.
Mr.. Davis, of Missouri, advocated the pas
sage of bill to open mp mail service and di-
rect trade between the States of the Mississippi
valley and Brazil.
Mr.. Barry argued in support of bill regu-
lating the migration of Chinese.
Mr.. Page endorsed the speech of his col.
league.
Mr.. Sparks spoke in relation to the question
of internal commerce, arguing that it was in
the power of Congress to fix the tariff or rates
to be charged by interstate railroads for the
carriage of freight. He expressed his disap-
proyal of the bill adopted by the majority of
the committee on commerce upon the subject,
but stated that the Reagan substitute seemed
eminently satisfactory, though it was not as
comprehensive or broad as, in his opinion, it
should be.
Mr.. Hauk replied to speech made some
time ago by Mr.. House, in which that gentle.
man had opened the Tilden campaign and re-
iterated the CRY of fraud. The gentlemen had
expressed the sentiment of the people of Tena-
essee. If he had expressed that of his party
his speech would stand as lasting monument
to the vitiated lust and Malignant hate of that
majority. The country was told there had
been no loyalty in the South during the war and
it had been told that the Cepperheads of the
North were the most venomous serpents in the
world. He asserted there had
been many loyal men in the
South, and that that section had furnished the
federal army with nearly half a million of
men. 1t seemed that this service was to be
forgotten and the Tilden campaign prosecuted
on the policy that friendship to the Union was
to be regarded as badge of political infamy
and social dishonor. His colleague (House)
had attacked the President. He wouldn't at
tempt to defend the President, for that officer
needed no defense. For his colleague to assert
that President Hayes had been inaugurated by
fraud was equivalent to making an admission
that the Democratic party had been brave
enough in 1861 to force war without cause
but too cowardly to do so in 1877, when it said
that President had been counted in by un.
comfortable frauds. How had the mighty
fallen! What had come over the spirits of the
chivalrous Democracy of the South? He then
turned his attention to the political assess.
ment bill, ridiculing the present civil service
system, and referring in the course of his re.
marks to George William Curtis as the prince
of political humblings, and to Secretary Schur7
as the king of civil service reform.
Mr.. Lowe spoke in opposition to the funding
bill. He had always had Democratic sympa-
thies, but he declared here and now that of the
two old factions of high tariff and hard money
the Democrats were not to be preferred to the
hard money and high tariff Republicans.
The committee then rose and the House ad
iourned.