, 1880-05-23

dissolying view. lii the inevitable end
the people were going to elect President
who was not likely. by having any. act sub
| mftted to him at this session, to be called
upon to act In his own case. he thought he
could assure the Senator from Alabama, rs
pad politician as he (Conkling) was, tyre
in the art, that
TIE PEOPLE WOULD ELECT THE PRESIDENT
the next time; that the votes would he
counted with sufficient fairness to insure
he was looking with a good deal more
pleasure than he otherwise would upon this
and various other legislative proceedings all
designed to affect that result It was a fore
gone conclusion. and all Of them put together
eon4d conts not H. in 1el, f Judgment circunvent or
Mr.. Morgan replied that the Republican
party did not want rule established; they
did not want law enacted. They preferred
to antagonlze any rule or any law at all, SO
two Houses of saying: You have not
counted it to our satisfaction, and we will
now
DO WHAT WE THREATENED
to do fonr years ACCUSE bayonets."
without bayonct-rule, and guns trained OH
atter.''
Mr.. Conkllng Whoever threatened four
JCalS dk0 II ubG Ulj jOlEi6t
Mr.. Morgan-I have heard on good au-
thority that guns. we're put in position to
Mr.. Conkling-lTere what?
MT. Morgan-That guns were put In po-
sttlon to bear upon this Capitol
Mr.. Conkling said he had never heard Of
such thing, or if he ever did, it was part of
the rubbish which hearsay takes IN on ali
OCCASIONS Of excitement, Mr.. Conkling added:
Were the pending measures an act of Con-
FreSs requiring first the Executive signature,
Or else of two-tilirds of both Houses, to adopt
It or to prostratc it, it would be conservative.
It would have that clement of conservatism
found III permanence of duration. But it is
mere device Of passing hours. 1t is a COLI
u1yance Tor the nonce. intended to operate
count In that election In which I hope
the honorable Senator from Ohio Indicating
Thurman, who sat near hin) will carry the
standard Of his party, because I would like
t. sef ed a sadard G 99th @ Ss sides ,d9 9 dis ds
alone, as plainly as if it satd, as does a
placard for a show sometimes: "Positively
for one day only" The two Houses are
Democratic by decided ilnmovable majoriticS.
past before either Of them will or can
change their. complexion. This count, the
ono approaching, is to be made and, con-
Gluded before that day, 50 that when we say
TINT the two Houses shall concur in order to
# we said either House might do that
thing. Why? Because tho question is
to be, as IS sometimes said here, party
question, It is to be \ grapple for the
when question shall arise on which the
Democrats Of the Senate with their majority
say: I'VE propose to cast ont the vote Of this
State in that same hour will arise that same
question on which the Democratic majority
in the Honse will say tho SAME thing. IT q
law could not be passed, joint rule Should at
least be made to endure until abroxated by
both Houses, instead Ut falling By abrogation
Of one as would be the pending. rule"
Mr. Morgan then finished his argument,
had the sanction Of the man who at one
time had the ear Of the people Of the United
States, or at least of the Republican party,
and before whom these Senators, junior and
senior,
BOWED WITH ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE,
and whose will they seldom attempted to
Oliver P. Morton. who brought forward this
same measure as law, and the Senate passed
the law and the House disagreed to it when
it was Republican. Dir. Morgan asked:
,"Nhy; did not the Republicans pass such 4
Instead OF doing so they adopted the twenty
second joint rule and had three counts under
It, which made the concurrent vote of the
two Houses necessary to- admit the vote.
1
wonld become Democratic, and in order to
aSes hs fae lie xenene to
restate his objection to putting this measure
question of how the vote should be Counted
into ordinary legislation Of Congress, subject |
to the approval of the President, who might |
be an interested purity. and subject to all the |
influences that disturb party legislation. Not
ono OF tho, TWENTY-FIVE joint rules was ever
adopted otherwise than BY concurrent res
olution such AZ this. Not one was ever car
ried to the President And now for the first !!
time rule which affects nothing at all but |
ns fGant t. # e 'S ca dfs1fFa rGf dscda i ffa
means merely this: we intend to quarrel
with the rule, no matter what you present; |
and you present one so undeniably fair that |
The only quarrel We can make is TO say you |
5sSe sS sssn sst m3is I it and n had No tet St. # #
he line Of our duty on this great question,
we would have adopted that twenty-second !
oint rule, and then the State Of New York.
which Is ready, like locomotiye, to go for
Hard or backward, to stand still or to move,
.eady to take any action necessary in this
Presidential ampaign,-we should have held
he power Of the State of New York. which
his country breads. from one end to the
method OF casting the Electoral vote, and
AYE come here, and against the consent OF
lther House, hare forced that vote on us.
Gut, In the face Of that threat, in
be face Of the apprehension largely I
ONE such affair IS to take place in that great
tate. we come forward with a rule that re-
uires the concurrence Of both Houses before
ven that can be met and rejected. We have
ared to ',e fair in this question, and our ap-
le honesty Of our motives and for the integ-
ty Of orr conduct in bringing forward this !