Year: 1879

TIE SeN0te. .., !;
SENATOR BAYARD DEEENDs TH1 DEMOCRATIC POSI-.


TION.


WASHINGTON, April 2l.-Consideration was
resumed of the army. appropriation bill and
Senator Bayard defended the incorporation of
general legislation in appropriation bills, there
being nothing unnsualin it. Tha cry of keJo-
luton was un:9bstantiated and. foolish, snd
the people would condemn it.


Senator Bayard having noticed the remark of
Senator Blaine about the distribution of the
army, Senator Blaine asked the Senator to quote
his words.


Senator Bayard said he would do so, but
would first have to send for the Congressional
Senator Blaine remarked that what he said
was this: THAT not q Senator of the other
aide of the chamber had ever seen q United
States soldier at the polls." -


Senator Bayard replied that if the Senator
preferred to limit his remarks to the actual
visisn of Senators, he had nothing to say.
Senator Blaine said his confidence in that
statement had not been disturbed by any re-
alarks which had been made on the other
side.


Senator Bayazd then proceeded to read cir
cumstantial account Of the large presence of
troops in New York in the fall IF 1870, to be
present at the polls to prevent disorder.


Senator Blaine wished to ask question. 1t





dent, found in 1857, when President Buchanan
called out the marines to attend a Washington
municipal election, and when aeven men were
shot down by them. the scene being within q
mile of the Senate chamber.


Senator Bayard said he would discuss that
question at some future time, and continued,
any party or set of men in this country who
seek to remove infringements on the liberties
of the American people should have hiA sup
port at all times. He held that the


EMPLOYMENT OF ARMIES
at the polls was simply atrocious, and during
war was claimed as belligerent right.


Mr.. Bayard, at some length, condemned all
conduct which would tend to prevent the
restoration of full confidence and friendship to
all parts of the country. He was we'll assured
that the hostility of one section against the
other would speedily lead to depression and
degradation and ultimately to the ruin of both,
and In conclusion he expressed his confidence
that the American people would support the
majority in their present legislation, as it was
IN the direction of justice and had for its OBJ
ject the protection of the liberties of the peo-
pie.


SENATOR MAxEY


said it was plain that the constitution did not
confer upon the United States government au-
thority to regulate elections therefore it could
not be unconstitutional to repeal or modify
the act allowing such action. In conclusion
Maxey alluded to the former remark of Senator
Blaine that thirty of the Southern Democratic
Senators had taken part in the civil war, but
he, Maxey. would ask. Did they not attend to
their duties, and were they not rs mindful of
the public interests and as decorous in their
intercourse as Senators from any other part of
the Union? Their crime consisted in their
inability to see with the eyes of Others
They would, however, follow their own
convictions of right, not thinking whom
they will please or displease by doing SO. BY
rights, under the constitution, they were enti-
tied to seats on this floor, and the Senator from
Maine might rest content that they would as
sert the equal rights of their States with others
of the Union. They do not attempt tn stir up
the embers of the past because they believed in
the reconciliation and the restoration of genu-
inc brotherhood among the people of q
common destiny and country. The Sena-
tor from Maine also referred to the name of the


MARrYRED PRESIDENT


in connection with this legislation. They all
accorded to Lincoln fairness of thought and
fearlessness of action. In his last inaugural
address he declared with malace toward none,
and with charity for ALL" etc. The south act
ed IA they saw right, and accorded to the North
the same degree of honesty. The revival of
the strife and contention of the past would do
no good, but much harm. He would rather
aid in building up the waste places occasioned
by the war, and securing prosperity in all its
After an executiva session adionrned 4