Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-10-05
Il ELEcIloNs REPEAL BILL.
iDynopsls Of .the@ Debate In the Nations
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House Of Representatives.
Debate on HE bill for the repeal Of the federal
ttonslaWWas begun in the house on the 18th
||by Mi. Tucker (dem., Vn.), the author sof the
bill. The first proposition to which hefinvited
\ attention was that the power and right Of ciu>
zen to vote is not given by the United States,
but is reserved to the several states II the pow.
ers aud privileges Of the supervisors and
deputy marshals permit them to.perform acts
not prescribed and granted In the constitution,
then the law that creates them is uncOnstitu-s
tional States alone can make conditions of
sufirage The United States, Mr.. Tucker went
on to say. had not conferred the right OF suf-
frage on any body. That being the case, II the
United States could step In, challenge votes
and lay down conditions of suffrage, 1t involves
. right in the federal government to- destroy
suffrage in the states. .k5ssS y - ~ y
.The repeal of these slawa said Mr.. Tucker.
In conclusion, will wipe away htatutes that
have caused clashing between theS federal gov
eminent and the states for thirty years. /:
belong to party that is not sectional YOU" he
added, addressing the republicans, shave lived
on sectionalism. You have violated the
pledges of your fathers, have oyerridden the
constitution. have denied the right OF habeas
corpus and in thousand ways shown your
selves unworthy of public confidence. There
fore, on November s last, you were overthrown,
and we are now here to undo those things
which you did in the arrogance Of your power. :"
Mr. Brosius rep, Pa) believed that under
meath the fretting stream OF our politics there
was patriotism and to that patriotism heap
pealed to-day. He then spoke against the pro-
posed repeal He laid down the propositions,
that the federal constitution was not the
creature of the states. but was created by
the people; that the power and author
ity conferred upon the government were
operative in all states and over all the peoples:
that the nation was clothed with ample power
to enforce the constitution. Mr.. Brosius con-
tended that the repeal of the federal election
laws would leave the citizens of the country
unprotected and exposed unless the power Of
the states mercifully interviewed Never be-
fore had there been proposed q surrender so
base, SO humiltating, never since when the
heresy OF states rights was tried in battle
& In reply to query by Mr. Compton ldenn.,
Md Mr.. Brosius said the power conferred in
the constitution had not been called into re-
QUESTION in the historygof the country before
the war because villainy and wrong were pro-
gressive, and the fathers. and their grandsires
had never conceived Of the means which had
since been contrived to deprive certain citizens
OF their rights.
On the eth Mr. Lawson dem. Ga) spoke in
| favor of the pending bill He said the uncon-
stitutionality Of the law sought to be repealed
had always been strongly cOntended. The gen
tleman from Pennsylvania (Brosius) quoted an
apt expression from Garfield that the ballot
box registers the degrees of the people Upon
this subject the decree Of the people has been
registered against the constitutionalty Of
these election laws. Mr.. Lawson said that un.
der the operation of q system Of laws such as
the one under discussion, it was easy to SEQ
how in close districts enough people might be
deferred by the mere presence Of the federal
forces, civil or military, at the polls from vot.
ing to change the otherwise nc rmal result Of
the election. M
Mr. Mallory dem, Fla.) interrupted by stat
ing that in his own state two members Of the