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Show LOGAX'S ARMY BILL. lively Debate In tlie Senate Not . Wanted for a Show, or a "CIrcns." Washington, March 29. Fair laid before be-fore the Senate the memorial of an anti-Chinese anti-Chinese convention, held at Sacramento, California, praying some relief from the Chinese evil. After the routine morning business, Logan Lo-gan s army bill was placed before the I benate. Logan sent to the desk and had read a letter from General Sheridan favoring fa-voring the proposed increase. " Mr. Logan Lo-gan favored it. Mr. Plumb opposed it. - He thought it singular that while we are so thoroughly ! at peace a measure of this kind should be introduced. He had been sorry to hear the suggestion that an increased army was necessary to put down local troubles among our own people. It would not do to instill into people's minds this lesson of force as a remedy for such troubles.- The present proposition was one calculated to develop more frills furbelows, shoulder-straps, and decorations. decor-ations. Mr. Dawes favored the bill. Control Uirough an army was not the control desired. Self-control, Dawes said, was the characteristic of our people and would see them through all their differences. ,.r- teller saw no cause for an increase. lolence in a State should be put down by the people of the State.- It was not desirable to resort to a standing army for police purposes, and the people did" not intend that local disturbances should be put down by National troops. Logan defended his position on the bill as to one of the arguments advanced by j i the Senator from Kansas (Plumb) that because the laborers were poorly paid, the soldiers should not be better paid than at ' present. Logan thought that a very poor argument. It was very singular" that most of the wealthy bankers who were rich enough to be hardly able to count their money, were always found to be the friends of the workingmen. Laughter in the gallery. This was all right for a rich man to do, but when anything was said for the workingmen by those who had the actual experience of the workingmen, work-ingmen, that was altogether improper. It was an unwarrantable assumption for any Senator to intimate that this bill was now introduced with a view to any impending im-pending difficulty between labor and capital. Why this insinuating that there was a desire to use the army against the people? It seemed to some men that any statement that would injure another was a sweet morsel. It was an unfounded and unworthy insinuation. in-sinuation. Referring to the suggestion that the increase of the army was wanted for show "for a circus" Mr. Logan repelled re-pelled it. The people did not want any "show" about it. They had "show and circus" enough in the Senate. Laughter. And while the Senatorial circus was on, he did not know any more active performers per-formers than the Senators who were opposed op-posed to this bill. Renewed laughter. In conclusion, Logan said Republicanism was becoming a power the world over, and the United States should be prepared pre-pared to say to the first European power that attempts a foothold in America, "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be he who first cries hold, enough." Applause in the galleries. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. |