The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-09-27


Law-CitIzons of This State Who Work
in Washington Cannot lie Deprived of
Their Votes.
In view of the impending legal struggle
in the Mary land courts regarding the
clause of the new registration law which
DISTINGUISHES, practically, all Maryland
ers who hold office in Washington, it
may be of interest to recall the fact that
in 1875 this question was before Con
gress. VIM. b. Brown, OF Ohio, and
fifty four others mad received employ
ment at Washington, just as scores of
Mary landers are now. Some of the states
threatened and some did actually pass
laws DISTINGUISHING them, just as has
been done in Maryland. They joined in
petition to Congress asking for the
passage of a law to protect employees of
the United States in their right of fran
chise in their several states, notwith-
standing their temporary absence in the
discharge of their duties" The petition
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The chairman of that committee was
Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts,,
and the other members We're Jeremiah
NJ. Wilson, of Indiana; Luke p. Poland,
of Vermont; Lyman Tremaine, of New
York; William P. Frye (now senator) of
Maine; John Cessna, OF Pennsylvania:
Alexander White, OF Alabama; Jaspar
ID. Ward, of Illinois; Charles y. Eldredge.
of Wisconsin,; Clarksou NJ. Porter, of
New York, and William f. Fink, of
II 70 nj,
much to say that these gentlemen have
between them qnite rs much both of law
and practical politics as the able aggrega-
ton of Democratic statesmen who roost-
ed at Annapolis last session. But these
men considered any scheme to disfran-
chise men under these circumstances so
absurd that they did not consider legisla-
ton necessary. They reported on Janu-
airy 2G, 1875, through Mr.. Fink, as fol
lows:
The Committee Oil the Judiciary, to
whom was referred the petition of VIM.
B. Brown and tifty-four others, asking
for the passage of a law to protect en-
ployees of the United States in their
right of franchise in their several states,
| Notwithstanding their temporary absence
| in the discharge of their duties, report,
whatever that persons who come into
| the District of Columbia tor temporary
| purposes merely, for discharge of duties
of clerkship, or other employment under
| the government, without any intention of
| abandoning their former place of resi-.
| dence, do not forfeit their former citizen
ship, but continue to be entitled to the
| full exercise of the right of franchise,
| ha IL thav
come into this district; that no legislation
is necessary on this subject, aud ask to
be discharged rom the tnrther consider.
alton OF sand petition. (Report No 121
| Forty third Congress- second session.
| SENATOR PADDOCK SPEECH.
Senator Paddock's speech on the tariff
this morning attracted great interest anG
universal comment in the Senate I'm
mediately after the morning hour the
Senator arose. and for an hour aud a-hal
held the attention of his associates while
he expounded what he believed to be the
Republican tariff doctrine as held by hi.
constituents in, the state of Nebraska
A number of the Democratic senators
crowded around him as he was delivering
his speech, and the Senate chamber itse
was more than ordinarily filled during
the progress of his argument. The sena
tor spoke freely and clearly, and his voice
could be heard in all the galleries. Hi
argument 0s in favor of reduction o
tariff duti& within the lines of prOtec
ton, and be insisted that the West
which had prospered very largely in spit,
of the unfair division of the benefits o
protection, now demanded that there
should be a fairer division of the benefits
of that policy. He spoke at length OF
the question of reciprocity, urging it as
a means for securing more extended beue
fits for the Western agricuIturlst II,
called the attention of the Senate ant
Congress to the situation of the West
and insisted that the Western agricul
turists, who had done as much to develop
the country as the manufacturers them
selves, demanded that the tariff question
which was out of balance should be cor
rected. At the conclusion of the senators
speech, Senator Platt. of Connecticut
stated that the eulogy which the senator
had delivered upon the thrift and pros
perity of the Western farmer was one o
the strongest of his arguments for pro
lection. Senator Carlisle added that
while he admitted that the Western far
mcr had prospered during the last de
cade, he thought that his prosperity haC
been to some extent i'll spite of the tariff
When the senator had finished speaking
he was warmly congratulated by large
number of senators.