The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-14
XLvlrn CoNGREss-SEOoND SEES.
SION.

SENATE. Mr., Baynrd, from the Commit
n,ittce ON Finahce,eportedw with amendments,
the Senate bill 10 provide for the appoint.
mont Of n committee 10 investigate the ques-
ton ofthe tariff Placed on the calendar.
Mr., Bayard also reported iayorAbly from
the same committee the bill for the relief Of
certain citizens of lynchburg, Virginia, md
for refunding 10 them taxes improperly col.
lec,cd ON manufactured tobacco, Placed on
the calendar,
Mr.. Conkling presented tho proceedings
aud resolutions OF the Republican association
of the seventeenth assembly of the District
of New York, calling attention % the dan
grruus condition of the law relating to the
counting Of the Electoral votes, and asking
That Congress take action.t thereon before the
expiration of the present term.
Referred 30 II select committee on the sub
jcct.
ton legali1ing the health ordinances Of the
District Of Columbia, was taken up md
passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the Geneva award bill, and after q long de-
bate, in which Messrs. Davis, Of Illinois;
lloSr, Blnine, Bayard md others participated,
adjourned without action on the bill.
HousE.--Mr Shallenbergor called attcn-
ton TO the Nct that in the speech delivered
April 9th by Mr., Gillet, that gentleman had
alluded to certain members as being Nation.
ais, when the Congressional directory showed
they had been elected ms Republicans, Demo
Gratis or Greenback Democrats He did not
object to the classification il these gentlemen
did not
The House then resumed consideration OF
the army appropriation bill and WAS addressed
by MIR. Ewing, of Ohio.
Mr.. Ewing showed the Inconsistency of
the Republicans in denouncing tho practice
of putting ridere on appropriation bills, and
said that, in twelve years, the Republican
party had placed on appropriation bills 1877
political riuers. The gentleman from Con-
necticnt (Hawley), who now arraigned the
emocrats for this practice, had himself
been member of the 48d Congress, which
tackled forty-four political riders on appro-
priation bills, before the rebellion in one
Congress Laughter. In view Of these
facts the Republicans had no right to arraign
the Democrats on this ground. The object
of the pending amendment, he said, was TO
make the law in the United States what had
been the law in Great Britain for more than
twenty years, that troops should never DC
brought 70 me polls never nau any Anglo
saxon voted III the sisht Oh oayones' rresi.
dent Hayes, IS sald; would not
use Inc army uniaWluiiy' rernal
not put george washington
were fresiueht, ne shouiu not havothe power
70 use me troops az Tue poils. some res,
dent might come atter Mr., Hayes VINO would
not be 50 goody gooay', ~ m'ght pc man
OF ordinary iesh ana blood' OF amblton ana
wllllulhess; mignt DC penerW Hrant.
lCres on the hepuolicsh side II WIN; IL
was possible lie sald that the hepuoncasn
party nh'ShV suooeeu III preah''S uowii "ii sne
safeguards OF our liberty and handing over
tue Government, term AFTER term, 10 tne
getleman, who It was pleased to cav Ignoring
amillion and a-hait OF soldiers VINO ana the
iighting), the savior OF his country But
whetherlI couia UT noI succeeu, III thaV those
whose beliei that the use OF troops ~ the
polls, should not be permitted ihey
could not excuse themselves Tor iaiilng
to MAZE THIS light IN conclusion