Year: 1879

threats of the Senator from Kentucky (Beck)
and the Senator from Connecticut (Eaton)
would be obliged to submit in the end. The
power Of the government was not to be put
down by threat or compulsiOn by political
party.


Senator Vance stated that he was requested
to state fact, which was also within his own
knowledge, that the partisan school literature
spoken of by Blaine, is non-existent. During
the war few such works were circulated, but
He thought it essential to a proper considera-
tion of this bill that it be discussed on its
merits, but the arguments of it's opponents
were party denunciations. Senator Vance
pointed ont that all the territory absorbed in
the eountry's rapid growth had been acquired
country with climate which he had heard
described as mine months winter and three
months damnation poor weather." Naugh
ter.)


Under Democratic rule there was no credit
mobilier, no returning board frauds, no cleo
side wall at the approaching end of all things,
but the only thing coming to an end is the
corrupt Republican party. The Southern men
act with the Democrats OF the North to restore
good government. Whenever the Republican
Senators abandoned vituperation and ventured
to touch on the merits If the question they
were illogical. One Senator asked if we fear
thirty soldiers in North Carolina We do Just
as the Hollander fears the first crevice in the
dyke that may lead to An inundation, just as
the physician fears the first speck of gangrene
in his patients wound which pre-
sages danger. The logic of the Re
publicans is elections shall be free
If we have to surround the polls with bayonets.
They shall be according to State laws, if we
have to overthrow the civil authorities by
force. TO have it our way, they shall be pure,
If it takes John Davenport and every criminal
in our cities to manage and give them purity.
They shall be conducted without the appear
ance of violence. if artillery has to be trained
on every ballot box, and they shall be fair if
we have to arrest every man offering to vote
the Democratic ticket. Unless we can use the
army at the polls to count in the next Presi-
dent we will abandon the defences of the coun-
try"


Senator Vance. The residents of his section
desired it above their chief joy. The policy
of Cancellation pursued by the Democrats of
the North would alone secure this result. Let
US initiate nature. who has covered the battle
fields Of the rebellion with her robes of green.
Let us throw mantle over the memory of the
past.


Senator Logan, as reply to the assertions
that under the Democrats the army was used
to keep the peace, read an extract from a
speech by Hon. G.. n. Pendleton in the House
of Representatives in 1858, defending the
11cslucut use VI CIOOpS III KANSAS anu OCan
for that purpose, the tenor of which is that
governments have never been overthrown by
military power, unless civil weakness and cor
ruptlon had preceded.


Senator Logan offered an amendment in eff
feet that persons honorably discharged from
the military or naval service of the United
States because of disability resulting from
wounds or disease incurred therein, shall be
preferred for appointment to civil Offices and
positions in the government departments if
qualified to discharge the duties of such posi-
tions. This amendment was ruled not to be in
order as changing the existing law.


Senator Teller offered an amendment intend
ed to secure prompt payment of claims for ar
rears of pensions when allowed out of money
directed by the bill to be used for that pur.
pose. He stated his object was to render delay
in the payment impossible after a claim was
adjudicated. The amendment was ruled out
of order as new legislation.


The bill was then reported back to the Sen
ate, and the amendments made in committee OF
the whole agreed to, except that authorizing
the employment of three additional clerks in
the postoffice department., which was disagreed


to, yeas rs, nays 26.


It was agreed that the vote on the so called
political part of the bill should be taken to.


morrow at P M. After an executive session,
adjourned. .