Year: 1879

applause You ought To know these men


You stood like brave men for four year
! fighting for your creed while they, | vii


not say stood their ground, but climbet


trees to get out OF the draft Laughter.
Who went to Canada or somewhere
else to get out Of the storm
There Is no guarantee to-day In
} the present attitude OF your party for the
/ integrity OF the nation, because you arc
inviting these GreenbaCkers here 10 come
, In with you, when as history vouches that
/ these schemes OF theirs are iraught with
imitation, bankruptcy, disaster national
dislIonor and reputation, We are Just
as much in earnest as YOU are, and teli
you that you are mistaken Ia your judg.
ment OF 1.-THE North, and, that you are mis-,
taken in your estimates OF the future. In
conclusion gentlemen, II in the legislation
oil the past, we have done anything
wrong, i has been from zeal, which hope
God will pardon, for liberty, freedom,
justice and free ballot, Loud applause.


MIR. Tucker spoke at length on the legal
questions involved, and then in allusion
TO the statement from the gentlemen on
the other side thatthey would never yield,
said he would tell them that in conflict be.
tween power and liberty, II power would
not yield liberty was Just as firm. fan.
plause on the Democratic side1. Would
his friends from Ohio and Connecticut


Messrs. Garfield and Hawley) vote for
the proposed repeal us a separate measure? :?


Mr.. Garfield would vote to repeal
these clauses II brought up separately, but
not to make them as you propose to make
them.


Mr.. Tucker replied to his friend that he
stood on very narrow ground and that on
the merits Of law it fought to be repealed.
but that on accountof the method OF its
passage the President ought to veto It,
How could that be. What right had the
President to say anything in regard to the
method OF its passage il he had no obiec.
tion on the score Of its merits. The mat.
ters which it was proposed 10 interfere
with were matters under the peculiar
guardianship Of the House OF Representa-.
tiVes. He remembered the fierce
struggle Of four years. lie remem.
bered those four years with sorrow.
de had believed he was right then, and II
the time was to be passed over he would
do again on his honest convictions what
he had done then, but that time had pass.
ed away. He had come back to the Union
with an honest purpose and no man who
knew him would again say sincerely OF his
declaration that he had no purpose in view
as member OF Congress or as a citizen of
the United States, but to make the Union
a glorious Union among all the nations of
the earth, and to make this government a
success for liberty, prosperity and indie
pendenCe to its people.


II his aspirations and hopes, his dreams
and visions could be realized, feeling AS
he did, that the sere and yellow leaf was
approaching that the evening OF his life
was coming to its close, he might then,
with an humble reverence, repeat the
prayer, "Now, o, Lord, lettest Thou Thy
servant depart in peace, for mine ewes
hath seen salvation OF my peoples Liber.
ty," and seen restored the grand and
noble system Of the constitution of our
forefathers.


During the course OF his speech Mr.
Tucker was frequently interrupted with
applause, and ut its conclusion was warmly
congratulated.


At this point the general debate closed
and the bill was considered under the five
minutes rule.


Mr.. Garfield said that during the last
four days fifteen or twenty demolitions OF
his argument OF last Saturday had been
made in the presence OF the House and OF
the country. All of them save ono had
alleged that he held tito be revolutionary
10 place this legislation on an appropria.
ton bill. If they had any particular
pleasure in setting up man Of straw to
knock him down again they had en-.
loyed that pleasure. He had never
claimed that 1t was either revolutionary
unconstitutional to put rider upon
the appropriation bill. No man on the
Republican side had claimed that. The
most that had been said was that il was
considered a bad parliamentary practice.
all parties in the country had repeatedly
said that the gentlemen from Kentucky
Blackburn) has thought that he was spec.
ially severe in showing that he Garfield
had insisted on the passage OF the confer.
ence report in 1873, in an appropriation
bill that had rider to it, and had said
that it was revolutionary in the Dem.
ocratic party to resist what he (Gar.
tield) had said on that occasion, and
what he said now was that it was revolu-
uonary in the gentleman's party TO refuse
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four days. The gentlemen on that side had
said that the House should not vote on
the appropriation bill because there was
rider on it. He had tried to prevent that
rider being put on, but when the minority
insisted that the House should never act
on it, he had said that that was an unpar-
liamentary obstruction. The Republicans
did not tillibuster to prevent the vote on
the pending measure. The majority had
q right (howeyer indecent it might be asa
matter Of parliamentary practice) to put q
rider on an appropriation bill and pass it.
When the bill was sent to the Senate that
body had a perfect right to pass it, and
when it went to the President it was the
Presidents constitutional right To approve
and sign 1t. II the President signed it
then it would he law, but it was equally
the Presidents constitutional right to
disapprove 1t. Should he do so, then,
unless the other side had two.thirds
majority in the House and Senate to pass
the bill Notwithstanding the Presidents
objections, it could not be passed without
the tlattest violation OF the Constitution.


The people OF this country will not be
slow to understand that there are remi-
niscences about the army which these
gentlemen would willingly get rid OF.
loud applause on tho Republican side
and in the galleries). In the course Of
further remarks Mr., Garfield expressed
his willingness to help the Democrats
wipe from the statute book the law author-
izing the presence OF the army at the polls.
A bill for that purpose should be intro
duced in the regular manner.


Mr.. New offered an amendment provid-
ing that nothing in the section shall be
construed as abridging or affecting the duty
or power Of the President under the Con.
stitution to send troops on application OF
the Legislature or Executive OF State.


Mr.. Baker, (Ind.), offered an amend.
ment to amend making unlawful for any
person TO have on his person Gre arms,
bowie knives, clubs or dungeons in the
vicinity Of the place whore an election is
lbeinp held.