Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-31


election machinery under this bill there i
Is no Federal statute TO authorize their |
trial for murder. This is no new sug' !
gesti0u. To seems startling. 1t is start !
lirg But I stood again in my place OF !
the hGar of the Senate and chal- |
lenged the Senate, the country,
and the world 20 point out
the law, ii there was one, TO authorize
the trial Of one of these men for murder
and not a response was made. No re-
Spouse can be made. II the offender be-
arraigued before q State court he re-
plies, as Nagle replied, this act was
committed ln the line OF my duty as q
Federal official, and you have 40 juris-
diction 10 Try me for IT,, and ne will
be discharged on hgbeGS corpus as
Nagie was discharged by the Federal
courts. 10 he should be Indicted by
ihe grand jury OF q Federal court he
viii reply, this act is not alleged to
have been committed on she high seas
Dr. on any navigable water, 10 any fort
DR. arsenal or territory OF the United
States or in the District OF Columbia or
in any other place Of which the C0HSti-
tuition and statutes give The Federal
courts jurisdiction, and he will be dis
charged. lie must DO discharged.
There is
no LAW TO TRY HIN,
and John I. Davenport, the author OF
the bin. never intended that hO should
be tried Here, then, are our people
think Of there are our people cele-
brating the four hundredth anniver-
sary OF the discovery OF America by
Columbus,
SOUNDING HOsANNAs
over their achievements and the es-
adjustment and growth and mainten-
ance of popular liberty throughout this
fair domain, and yet, ny friend, ! tell
Won as earnestly as / ever uttered al
expression in my life, that in the face
0l this conspiracy 20 rob them OF the
freedom of their suffrage they are walk
iIR
Isl TIE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF
DEATH.
"But, Senator, I understand that Ia
your State the Republicans have let up
on the Force bill. They say there is no
Force BILL"
There never was Force bill when
ia sre was a Democratic House. But did
rot the Republican House pass the
Force bin before the election of 1890?
Did not the Mckinley bill. become a law
before the elections Of that year? Did
not both these bills constitute the great
issue OF that contest? We're not the
Republicans overwhelmed by the pOpu-
n...
nearly everywhere? Did they not
lose every one of the original thirteen
States? And Is not the House
that succeeded the Reed dominion DEM
ocratic by more than hundred and
City majority? What sense would they
have, then, to press the Force bill as an
issue, when II they carry the country,
they can pass 10 just the same? They
did not heed the popular verdict of two
years ago. When Congress convened
they pressed the Force bill. They
pressed In season and out All the
POWERS OF THIS ADMINISTRATION
were brought TO it's support. 1t Occu-
pied the Senate for nearly the whole Of
the session. As the bin itself is intended
20 stille, the voice Of the people, so they
49, Atto stiile the voice Of the Sen
re rule 20 pass the bill.
i as..0e o.Otu4c lGLled and the bin failed
.gith 10. Aud here let me correct what
ieems 20 be a popular error. The Force
Blu was never UOtC3 on by the Senate.
The ADDOTtj0Hntent oil was taken up In
los place and the Force Bill went back
60 the Calendar, where it remained as
live and vigorous as any other Oill, un-
acted on, until IL expired by Limitation,
along with hundreds OF other bills, good
and bad, sad the hual adjournment o
Congress, the 4th day OF March. You
remind me- that they say there is
no Force BILL AEh technically that is
true; just as thersfS no Army or Navy
or Post Office ApIfopriatiOn bill for the
next or the SUGGESTING fiscal year. Yet
everybody knows these bills will be re-
ported and passed They say this be-
sause the Mckinley bil' is more than
A load for Onacamp2ign. The Mckinley
bin they aus bound to defend or the
finances faH, the blocks Of five dissolve,
and the iafis IN the fire. IL they carry
the country viii they not sc once say
that HatriSon, Reed Force BIZ, Ne
Kinley - and all have been indicated
az the phls? Tbey have Reed already
elected tdthe next House, standing will
ing and fready now, il the Republicans
have 2fmajOrity, as he was before, to
raise the gavel that shall
ri P THE FORCE BILL INTO LIFE.
"Ekerybody knows that any House
thathwill elect Tom Reed speaker will
paSs a Force bill. Everybody knows
thdt any Senate that would reflect the
wtll % Whitelaw Reid would pass a
Force Bill And everybody knows that
soy executive pen welded by Benjamin
Harrison would leap 90 its approval.
senator, what brought this bill to
the front?"
The election OF 1883. The election
OF a Republican executive aud Republi-
can House 10 that year after their late
disaster gave the Republicans the Op-
pOrtunity which had been 50 long de-
MED by Democratic majorities In the
House, and which they feared they
might not see again to perpetuete their
power. The Republican House Of the !
F0rty-seventh Congress, with kiefer az
its head, was occupied with the report |
OF the Tariff Commission and the in
crease Of public taxes. and no force /
bin was developed. The Republican |
House OF the last Congress rushed the |
Force bin through, but the Senate was |
occupied In an the long session with the |
Increase OF public taxes by the Mckin- |
ley bin. and the Force bin was reached |
700 late. This fact enabled Us, with a /
small minority Of Republicans, who |
were practically oStraelsed by the Ad- |
for the act, together with /
the aid of the independent press, /
headed by the Washington Post, TO side
y ~ e this hill -