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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. EXnu SESSION, st. .vat it: vVt.i'nii.ylun, 24. Dawes prenentc-d h. pi t u ion of Mrs. Caroline Webster, wi'k.w ol Colonel Fletcher Weboler, lank'tiji an iniTeaae of her pension IhumiiiO to 5U a montn. Kulened to the cumtmttee on pen;iuns. The didcuaaion uf Wallace's resolution resolu-tion occupied the morning hour, after which the army appropriation hill was taken up and Coupling began his speech, the floor and galleries being crowded. Iu the course of hie speech be said the elli-ct of thin bill is to prwvent the j .suppression of vsolonce by any iirmid : uicn acting under national authority I upon olecticu day. In New Writ evf-ry IhttK, Blioulder-hilter, carrier ul u Uiric or hjwie knife, every eradutiui ul ibo rat piia, bucket shops and slums, nurricnes ol wh:U is nuw a-days a-days called the democracy, and ev-iry man fruin King's bridge to tho lottery, lot-tery, ia dd vided beloruhand that no ou(rmity of his will be checked by the law ollicers of government. (Sensation). (Sen-sation). Another bill to bs brought loi ward provides that even if electious are turned into bloody burletsques, the national authority must keep away, Uioufch white leaguers may take an aotive part, armed, perhaps, with muskets furnished by government. If there ever was a time when such a law would be Bate that time is not now. He then made a coustitut onal argument, fortified for-tified by various authorities as to the right to use troops at the polls conferred con-ferred by the Constitution. He re furred to General McClelUu's orders to preserve peace at the polls during the war and said h never knew a democrat, during the rebellion, who did not profesB an intimate knowledge ot constitutional requirements, even if . he could not read the title of the Constitution. Con-stitution. He quoted from hiotory to nhow the ioconsietency of the democrats demo-crats on ibis question. The act to which tho election law was attached was paesed while the rebellion was in its last throes, and was not a war measure, meas-ure, inoperative in peace. Hececlared ; that in tome New York districts tbe democratic majority was larger ' than the whole number of men, 1 jvomeo. children, horses, dogs and the election law was first enforced. President Grant was importuned to prevent the threatened riot, and he furnished troops and protected the people, despite the threats of tbe demooracy. When the New Yorkers York-ers next have occasion to show their appreciation of Grant's services, his action in 1870 will not be hidden away by those who espoused him wisely. This bill becoming a law, supervisors wauld be powerless. Tbe cost of carrying out the law waB insignificant in-significant compared with the glory ot pure, free elections. Toe money squandered in the last river and harbor har-bor appropriation bill, or even the interest on it, would execute the election elec-tion laws to the end of time, had the present executive been sufficiently robust in enforcing these laws. The democrats are urging tbU legislation ' as a strike for party victory. With these laws abolished, New York C:t? can overwhelm any majority which the country towns of tbe Btate may roll up. He believed tbe country would entrust the government to hands that never bad been raised against it. The revenue is still to be collected in the same amount, excopt that the tobacco tax is reduced. re-duced. Tbe vast revenue ia paid cut tor a debt caused by the rebellion, for pensions, and to maintain gove.n-meut. gove.n-meut. To exact money and then forbid the use for which the people paid it would be perfidious and abominable. To pay it out, it must be appropriated. The Cuuslituiion permits no discretion to congress whether it shall supply needful appropriations. appro-priations. It demands it positively. The judiciary and executive departments depart-ments were liable to impeachment if they failed to do their duty and the members of the legislative branch should be likewise amenable. There wub no precedent for the occa- eion, which has ariseD, certainly none in the civilized world. He declared the bill contained a huddle of incongruities, incon-gruities, objectionable cs an independent inde-pendent measure even. Tbe evident design is to coerce the president into violating his seute ol right that tbe government might live. The democrats had got themselves into a predicament predica-ment from which they muat back out unless the executive led them out. Tbe majority had threatened to vacate their seats and leave tbe country moneyless. If they did so ha trusted they would be called back immediately until thr:y relinquished their monstrous mon-strous pretensions. 1JOI SE. At 10 to day tbe house resumed Wednesday's session and went into committee of tbe whole on the legislative legis-lative appropriation bill. Scale?. Dawes, Gillette and De La Matyr, making speeches, during which toe com mil tee arose aud Wednesday's session ended. Thursday's session then commenced, the house goirjg into committee of the whole on the same bill. Speeches were made by De La Matyx, Hazleton, Randall, Bragg and others, when tbe house took tecees. Debate on the bill was ordered clcaed at 5 o'clock to morrow. |