The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-14
COngress---second Session.
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1880.
SENATE.

SENAI l..
Senator Bayard, from the Committee on
Finance, reported, with amendments.
Senate bill No. 900 to provide for the aD-
Monument OF commission 10 investigate
The question OF tariff. Placed on the cal
endar.
Mr.. Bayard also reported iavorably from
the same committee bill for the relief OF
certain citizens Of Lynchburg, Va. and for
refundiug to them taxes improperly col
lecred on manufactured tobacco. Placed on
the calendar.
Mr.. Conkling presented the proceedings
and resolutions Of tue Republican Ass9cla-
ton OF The Seventeenth Assembly district
OF New York city calling attention to the
dangerous condition OF the law relating to
the counting Of the electoral vote, and
asking that Congress take action thereon be-
fore the exoiration OF the present session.
Referred TO the select committee on the
subject.
On motion OF Mr.. Butler. the joint reso-
luton legaliZIng the health ordinance Of
the District OF Columbia was taken up and
passed.
The Senate then resumed the considera-
tjon OF the Geneya-award bill, and after u
long debate, in which Mcssrs. Dsvis OF Hi
nols. Hoar. Blaine, Bayard, and Others.
| pariici;ated, adjourned without action on
! the bill.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.
Mr.. Shallenberger called attention to The
fact that in a speech delivered April 9TH by
Mr.. Gillette that gentleman had alluded to
certain members as being Nationals.
when the Congressional DIRECTORY "
showed they bad been elected az Republic
cans, Democrats, or Greenback Democrats.
He did not object to classification il those
gentlemen did not.
| The House then resumed the considera-
ton OF the army appropriation Diii' ana
was addressed by Mr.. Ewing, OF Ohio.
Mr.. Ewing showed the Inconsistency OF
| the Republicans in denounciDg the practice
OF pu ting riders on appropriation Dill, ana
SAID that ia twelve years the Republican
party had placed on appropriation Oiils 3o'
politIcal riders. The gentleman from Con-
necticut (Mr. Hawley). who now arrai2ned
the Democrats for this practice, had himself
beer member of the Forty-thlrd Congress,
which tackled forly-fOur political riders on
,nnronriatiop bills" forty four rebellions
10 one Con gress." fLaughterl. ln view OF
these facts The Republicans had no right 10
arraion the Democrats on this ground. The
obiect OF the pending amendment, he
said. was to make law In the United
States what had been law In Great
Britain for more than two hundred years,
thai troops should not be brought 10 ths
polls. Never had any Anglo Saxon Voted
in the sight OF bay onets. President Hayes
II IL said. would not use the army un'aw'
fully. Perhaps not but II George wash
ington were President be should not nave
the power TO use troops at the polls. some
President might come after Mr.. Hayes VINO
would not be 20 "goody.goody." lt might
be man Of ordinary flesh ana blood OF
ambition and wilfulness. IL might DC
General Grant. [Cries on the hepupi'
can side, alt will."l 1t vas posi-
HE. he said. that the Republican party
m,9bt succeed IN breaking down oil
the safeguards OF our liberty. and handing
over the Government term after Term 10
gentleman whom it wa, Pleased to call lis'
norins a mill n aod bali OF soldiers who
did the 6gnring) The saviour OF Dis coun.
,ry1; out whether it could or could not
succeed ia that. those who believed ihat ioe
use Of troops Ut the polls should not DC per
United copld mol exallse themselves ior ial''
ipg to make ibis fight. in CONCLUSION he