Year: 1879

IL r. BILL IdSSED.


House OF Representatives..


FIVE MINUTE TALKS.


WASHINGTON, April 2G.-Immediately upon
assembling the House went into committee of
the whole the legislative appropriation bil
under the five minutes rule, discussions under
that rule to close at o'clock. Mr.. Ewing FIRST
got the floor, and continued his speech of last
evening. He declared the men who were in
sultng the President We're not the men on the
Democratic side but the stalwarts of the Re
publican party, who now had the lash over the
President, threatening him with party expos
ures if he dared be governed by his own opln-
ions. The President had no right to indicate,
and it


WAS AN 1MPERT1NENcE


to him to say he had indicated his opinion and
his preference in regard to the mode of doing
business in the House. 1t was none of his busi-
ness. The gentleman from Ohio (Garfeld) had
said that the mode of procedure was Insulting,
that it had been done by a caucus which had
said, I'VE will starve the government to death
if the President does not yield" The Demo-
cratic caucus had done nothing at all except to
determi, to put the repeal through as a sep
arate bill or the appropriation bill. 1t did
not go ono step further than that. Prior to
that caucus the Republican caucus had assem-
bled, and had given notice that if this repeal
was to be passed at all it would have to be
placed upon the appropriation bills The con-
currence of tho action of the Republican side
was to hold club over the President and to
continue the policy of the past two years. of
prescription and denunciation, because he had


BEEN A PATRIOT


and man Of sense enough to desire to have
sectional agitation cease. Gentlemen on tho
other side. as they looked into the faces of
those confederate brigadiers, men of education
and purity Of personal and public life with
hands unsmirched by public plunder, knew
they were their peers in intelligence, ability
md in devotion to the common country and its
laws. (Applause on the Democratic side.)
Gentlemen on the other side did injustice to
their own hearts If they said anything diff
fercnt. They knew that there was not latent
purpose of disloyalty in the hearts of those
confederate soldiers, in the masses they
represented, and if the honor of this country
aasailed anywhere, or in any way they
would fly to


ITS SUPPORT WITH AN ARDoR AS STRONG
aa ever burned in any breast. Tho country,
North and South, wanted peace. The Repub-
lican party knew, moreover, that if it met the
real issue presented in square fight it would
go under. The Democrats asked this repeal
solely to bring the government back to it's true
system, TO the theory Of local self-govcrnment.





of the constitution, in violation OF the tradi-
tions of the country, and were dangerous to the
purity of elections and the liberty of the peo-
pie. Therefore, their repeal was demanded.
tApplause the Democratic side.)


MR.. GARFIELD


declared it had been in the power of the hum
blest or greatest of the Democrats to have
ruined him and proved him q traducer and
slandcrer by simply rising and saying in con-
tradction Of his assertion to its being the pur-
pose Of the Democratic party to starve the
government. ''We do not propose to refuse t.,
vote supplies to the government. We wish to
get our legislation through In reference to the
election and every thing else if we can consti-
tutionally, but if we can't get it through un-
the appropriation bills like loyal representa-
tives and go home" But though forty-fve
Democrats had spoken, that sentence had not
been uttered by single Democrat


On the contrary the Democrats by their silence
as we'll as by their affirmation, had
made his accusation overwhelmingly
true. The Democrats had gone before the
country in pleas like this, which stood as the
heading of the speech of the gentleman from
Virginia (Tuckcr): ELECTIONS by the people
standing army" They had gone before the
country on the plea that they wanted to get the
bayoncts away from the breasts of voters, and
that the Republicans wanted to keep soldiers at
the polls. He recalled that every Republican
had voted for Conger's motion on the army bill
to repeal the law of 1865 which the Demo
Gratis complained IF as putting the bayonet at
tue breast of tho voter, and that every Demo
crat voted no on that motion. The vote on
that motion had put beyond all cavil the Re-
publican side of the House on


HIGH AND UNAssA1LABLE GROUNDS.


The Republicans had voted to repeal the
whole of that law, and the Democrats votoC
against it. The Democrats should therefore
never again go to the people and say they had
tried to repeal tho odious law, and that the
Republicans would not let them. He reminded
the other side of the law of Congress which
dictates to State legislatures what they shal
do in regard to the election of United States
Senators, how they shall not ad iourn on Ger
tain Tuesday, how they shall not fix their hou
Of sdiourning, how they shall not vote by bal
lot. but by ri,a uoce and how if there be III
election the second day the two houses shall
meet in isint convention, how the distinction
between State Senators and representatives j
abolished, ETC., and yet no Democrat had mad
any raid against that law no State legislator
had made any opposition to it, and every on
of the seventy-six Senators had his seat in pur
suancc of that law He asked in the name Q
all that is reasonable, why, if Congress coul'
do this in regard to State Legislatures, it coul'
not provide for


SUPERVISORS AT THE ELECTION


of members of Congress.


In conclusion he said the great danger
our country is that our sovereign may be COZ
rupted In any other land if sovereign b
killed it is easy to put another IN his place
but if you corrupt kill, render lunatit
our sovereign, there is no prince t" take hl
place, and the way of his being corrupted is 8
the ballot box, where his will is given forth
If we may not go there and stand around til
cradle of our sovereign's heir apparent whic
the ballots are being given, we have no govern
ment and no protection for the future. (A]
plause on the Republican side.)


M1oH1GAN's BUFFooN.


Mr.. Stevenson having made five minu
speech on the Democratic side of the question
Mr. Horr, OF Michigan, made his Congression
debut in a speech which kept the House in
continual ripple Of laughter. He took his p
sition in the area in front of the Speaker
chair, and kept moving with earnest gesticul
tions, now toward the neighborhood of Il
Greenback Republicans. and now toward tt
Democratic side of the Heuse, according Us h
remarks were addressed to OF the othe
He paid his attention first to the Greenba backer
treating their peculiar views as malady, of tt
,vmDtcms of which he dlew an amusil
sketch. Among the symptoms were, he sal
the wells of com passion for the poor, and We
said he, never knew one OF them to give po,
men cent or do a single day work Daughter
He ridiculed the bill OF Dc La Martyr for t
issue of billion of greenbacks


Mr.. De La Martyr-I simply presented th
hill at the request of another man. 1t is n
NV own bill at all and don't enuorse it.


Mr.. Horr-I glad of it. IT
! hill would make a horse laugh, if he had al


SENSE OF THE RIDICULOUS.


What the country needs is rest and qui,
The business interests demands we should pa
the appropriation bills and 60 home y0 about