Year: 1879

We cannot brush Of these obnoxious provision.
/ SO long as you have fraud in the White House
(Sneezes on the Republican sido) We cannot
override the veto under the constitution. Now
at last the gentleman from Ohio makes merit
OF his recreancy to the cause of the other side,
and the gentleman from Wisconsin (Williams)
puts the knife into him. and turns it around,
and blood spurts out all over the Republican
side of tho House until it ia red and CORY.
(Laughter.) s 4
Mr.. Clymer said when the Democratic aide
| OF the house proposed in March last to remove
the laws that were standing menace and
threat to the ballot and its purity, and when
it voted the repeal of the only law that au-
thorized the military to be used to keep peace
at the polls, the gentleman from Ohio (Gar-
field) proclaimed in thunder tones that the
Democratic side of the house was guilty of At
tempted revolution. That gentlemen had at
tempted to excite the feelings and passions and
prejudioes of all kinds of men against tho
Democratic party as being hostile to the army
and wanting to destroy it. It was q matter Of
that in these closing hours of
reason had come back to him. That gentleman
now said he never claimed that the President
had the power to use troops for such pur-
poses. If SO, why had he (Garfeld) and his
whole party in Congress resisted the repeal of
the act Of 1866. which allowed the military to





finally extorted veto from the executive?
Was there more force in it in April than in
June. or was it that in the prolonged discus
sion the gentleman had at last discovered that
on him and his party associates should be tho
blame if the army should be without support.
There never had been q, hour when tho Demo
cratic side of the House was not willing and
ready to vote appropriations for the govern
ment. In April they had been called
revolutionists. Yesterday they were denounced
as nulGfers, and to-day the gentleman Gar
field, declared in bland terms, that the sixth
section of the pending bill, which in effect mas
precisely the same as the sixth section of the
vetoed army bill, was meaningless and of no
force and effect. If the President of the
United States was law abiding and did his duty,
never hereafter would there be an armed soldier
seen at the polls. He, Clymer, was willing to
60 before the country on the issue
OF the ''ballot against the bullet, = Of
freedom from interference with elections by
federal soldiers of supremacy of the civil over
the military power, of the right of men to ex-
press their will at the polls freely, and when
TINS u a ana the bill passed yestery becamea law,
the democratic party in Congress would have
earned the gratitude of the entire country.
applause on Democratic side.)


MI. Cobb made statement which was con-
tradlcted by MIR. Browne, as to Massachusetts,
regiment having in 1864 interfered with an
election IN Indianapolis and prevented the
Democrats from voting. Finally the debate
was closed apd both sides of the House re-
newed the impatient call for vote.


Mr.. Baker moved to strike out the sixth
section.


The amendment was rejected. The commit
tee then rose and reported the bill and the
amendments adopted in committee of the
whole were agreed to, and the bill passed,
yeas l72, nays 81. Adjourned. s.fZs ssa