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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. FQm -SIXTH CONGRESS. EXIKA SESSION. Wa&hinetLu, 28. Conbideration was resumed uf tho v'i'altico resolution resolu-tion to alter a rule of the senate so that removals aud appointments may be made by the secretary of the eeuate and sorgeant-at-arms refpecli ely. The rule proposed to be amended requires re-quires removals and appointments to 00 approveu ii y lu preaiusat ui iuo senate. Tho diacuesion was intei-rupted intei-rupted by the close of the morning hour and the army appropriation bill was taken up and KiuJolph epoke in lavor ol the measure. Randolph aaid tuo simple question was had congress the right to demand a redress ol grievance?, ai the condition con-dition of granting supplies to tho army. He gravely doubted, Dot the right, but the expediency of that step. He wns proud ol the achievements of the army, but it was a monstrous doctrine that government owes its li ft? and power to tba army iu lime of peace. Its total disbaudment now would not seriously endanger tbe life of the nation. Randolph aaid that in 1876 he bore a message from Governor Hampton to the then president, urging the latter to withdraw the troops from the state house. "You may imagine, Bir," aaid Randolph, "my astonishment and indignation when, in a angry tone and uncivil manner, the president replied: 'I wou't withdraw the troops; Iduntrogard i,he decision of the supremo court of the stale, and ii I had any mcsasge to send to Hampton, it would bn that his message is an impertinence.' Au impertinence, sir, for the governor of a state to comuiuuicate his wishes; not demand bis rights, aa he might properly have done to tho president ol the United Stated. An impertinence, imperti-nence, iudeed I 'Upon what meat does thia, our Ccasar feed, that he ia grown so great?' No, Mr. President, we cannot make too much haete to guard the libsrtice of free men everywhere every-where in this broad land from the ohance of blotting the pages of our history with a repetition of the usurping act of ft president less than threo years ago." Groomo cited several cases where iuw army uu uucu muu u iuij'""ui also a letter from Ueneral tirant to President Johnson, expressing a hope that the army would never ba used on the eve of an election. Hs wondered won-dered if tne parly now intending to trust its fortunes to the prestige ol Grant's riaruo concurred in these views. After exective eeasion the senate adjourned till Monday. Isolds:. The morning hour was dispensed with, aud the subsidiary silver coin bill was not taken up. The house then went into commit' tee oi the whole on the legislative appropriation ap-propriation bill. AlcKinley ppoke in opposition to the proposed repeal of the geueral election Icvs. He denounced the legislation as a bold and wanton at--tempt to wipe from the law every ! protection ol the ballot box and to surrender it into tho unholy bands of hired repeaters, and ballot box Binders, at the north and of ballot chea:s at the south. AlcKinley having read that Blackburn Black-burn in the last debate said the democrats dem-ocrats meant to wipe from tbe statuts book all war measures, Blackburn left tbe chair and denounced tho want of fairness and truth in presenting from his speech an incomplete extract. ex-tract. Burrows Ihen took the floor. In the courso of his speech be aaid even now, while the hypocritical hypo-critical cant about peace, protection and purity at the polls, was indulged by the other side, the whola race w.a tleeiug from some of tho southern statea aa from a pestilence not to escipe the federal bayonet, but rutfiauly bludgeons; not liom federal bullets, but southern bowie knives; not from. tho federal courts, but southern fraud; not from the marshal, but from murderers; not from registra.ion, but from masked maraudeous; not from euperviaors ol elections, but from southern shot guns. Iu a ward, they were flseiDg from a country where every right was cloven down and every wroDg went unredressed. Gibson made several efforts to eet in a disclaimer, but Burrows dcolined to yield: "With all yourprol'essions," said he, "of desiro for purity at elections, elec-tions, your chiefest desire is the election elec-tion of a democratic president in 1SS0; by what nuansyou little care. You want these laws repealed because they stand iu tho way of tbe consummation consumma-tion of such a purpose, for ya know well, and the couutry knowa that il they are permitted to stand and can be enforc&d, you can no more elect a president in 1SS0 than you are honestly entitled to ycur majorities !in either house of congress." (Applause (Ap-plause on republican 6:de.) Ho continued con-tinued to say that at tho last congress ! there bad to be a senate to coerce; now there waa but an executive to overcome. It was tho programme of Ue democratic party to persist until it h:iJ ttarved the president iuto Eiibniission. or until the congrte-sbna! congrte-sbna! ai:.l prss: denlial terms had ex pi red by limitation. Tna: pirty now ttoud it ti.e biir of public opinion on its own pie of self convicted conspiracy con-spiracy against the lii'e ol the government. govern-ment. Tne eictise urged lor Ike present attempt to coerce the preai ' dent ho charactfris d as a corupuutd of idiocy und ir.aolenca bHdi,ru tqoailtd, ii'.m i ' .'d. If tbe demo-! crals per.iieiKl m iir pre. en t course' in 1S&0 they would meet their political politi-cal apputomax. It was revolting to the Benlimeuls ol the American peo-, pie, and because it was so the repub- j Itcaus propjsi.d to resist it to the( extent of their power, (jr ii t hey j yieliJcd now where were they to make a 6tand? Let no gentleman indulge in the illusion that tbere would he no further advance on tbe part of the i enemy. This was but tbe begin nine.1 ul a series of assaults to be pushed i with vigor until every fortress reured fur tbe defense of a free ballut, for peace and purity of eiectioup, for na tiooal life and lor individual liberty, should be torn down, -until violence, fraud and murder should run riot How long would it be before a clause would be put on an appropriation bill repealing the last three constitutional amendments and the President told to aign or starve? luoting from Blackburn's declaration that this l..,-raa uiill ,1m ho !itniMl limita- tiun without passing the appropriation appropria-tion bills, if tbe legislation ecught to be put upon them was not accepted, he aaid that event cannot happen uti til tho 4ib of March, 1&81, and so the order is promulgated from tho floor ol the capitol, io tho face of this uatioD, by an ex-confederate ao'dier, to piote-cuto piote-cuto the siege until this republic, which he and his co-conapiratoia could not destroy by sword, shall be reduced by starvation. No BOoner is ihe order given than die whole demo cratic party, north and soulb, leaps into tbe trenches at the rallying cryj of the chosen leader, who tells them ,LU( i,on,l,n fUllio ,a a r.ulnrri And that he who doubts is damned. Tdus is the siege begun and thus ia it prosecuted, pros-ecuted, and thus wilh an air of defiance defi-ance smacking a little of southern domination, we are told that the issue ii laid down, that tbe gage of bait In is delivered, "lilt it when up pleaso." Is it so? Then this ia my answer Tr.al it ia our supremest pleasure to lift it now (ipp'ause on Ihe republi ean side,) and as we are prepared to mako good the nppeal, we accept the challenge in no spirit ot boastful arrogance, but with tho unflinching mil pose and aublimest courage, awaiting the issue with the utmost coufiieuco and composure. It is not tho first time that wa have encountered en-countered a eolid south conspiring again&t tho life of the nation and (addressing (ad-dressing democratic side of the house although your force may besomowbat augmented by your northern allies, yet I see nothing in the increased , arruy lo cause, a heart to faint or ft cheeli lo hlanoh (renewed applause). As you failed then.you will fail now. As you cannot kill you shall not starve. Did it over occur to you that, though you should withhold all the supplies lor the support of the government possibly it might not Le yet surrendered? sur-rendered? D:d it ever occur to you that, although you should protract this siege until this coogresa shall have died by virtue of its Hmitatio.i, there will possibly be no surrender then? Withhold' the support from the executive, and are you quite euro that there will hs no remedy? Re fuse to feed the army, and aro you eolirely certain lhat there will be no food for it? Deny for your navy the means to keep it afloat, and are you certain that you will force it to anchor? Withhold support from the judiciary, and ia it clear that you will havB nnmnriB? Refosa the Deeded Gopplits for maintaining the legia-! lative branch of government, and are you confident lhat there will be no cougiesfa? Wby, gentlemen, you aie as impotent to overthrow this government by starvation as you were to annihilate it by the swerd. You may distress, but you cannot destroy (vehement applause on the republican side;) for let me tell you that when that time comes, the same loyal people, from the same loyal Btates, who took their lives in their hands and went forth to do battle lor the defense of the republic, enduring weary march, protracted siege, the emoking bdl of battle and more horrible hell of southern prison pens, until from tbe dark waves of the rebellion they bore on broken arma and lacerated breasts, the bleeding form of the republic ana pianiea uer feet on the steady rojk of Constitutional Constitu-tional government and civil liberty; who, animated by tbe name ot patriotism, when you attempt to starve thia republic, will fly to her sidu at the first cry ol herdistress aud there they will stand in ceaseless vigil, not with a sword, hut with Hustenance; not with iaiplementa of war, but with unmeasured wealth; not with shotted cannons, but with unlocked cofiers; not with bandages, but wilh plenty, and bEndiug over her prostrate form they will succor and sustain her, and minister to her j necessities until, iu the lulnesa of, time, tbey wrench Irora her throat the covrardiy hand lhat clutched it and then, thrilling with new life, ahe Will spriug to her feet, and the very altar which you had builded for her iumo lation, shall becunie a throne on which she shall stand clothed in tho majeily ol her power, resceptered and recrowned Ihe Goddesa of Liberty (Enlhusiaatic applause.) Gibson, replying to the quotations quota-tions made by Burrows from the Teller report, stated that tho citizens of Louisiana had been : arrested, charged with oflencea as stated in that report; that they had been conveyed 400 or 500 miles from their homes to tho city of New Orleans; Or-leans; that they had been tried before judges who were in sympathy with the republican parly and they had been fully and honorably acquitted. Burrows That ia an old trick down there. (Liughter on republican side.) Gibsou II it was a trick, it was a trict played by men who could lake tbe ironclad oath as jurors; a trick played by the very mn whom the gentlemen gen-tlemen would now invoke to conduct con-duct the elections in that state. Gibson regreltid that though Bur-rowa Bur-rowa called Use democrats cocepira tors the amenities of the house had not prevented him deriding the judiciary. Burrows replied and aked why, if the democrats desired a lair election, tbey had not reb.ikcd :ho fraudulent methods which obtained in Caddo, Natchitoches and other parishes. Coflroth now olaimcd he had the n hut bu cpppml desire the re publicans were allowed to proceed. .Turner objected because ho had called the tlemccralic party conspirators. conspira-tors. (Shouts of laughur from the republicans ) Burrows said he simply whhed to state that the colored witr.eeses who came at the eubpcoaa ol the republicans republi-cans to New Orleans were captured while rettuuing, by dijguued men and had never been heard f:om since. Eiam made a general denial of the charges of intimidation in Louisiana, Collrotb said acrimonious debates were inaugurated by the republicans for party purposes. Tne democratic parly did not want to starve people, but wanted to protect the citins and pro-.iucp prosperity. In Pennsylvania in lb7S H--I.0O0 iu money wasequaud-ertd wasequaud-ertd to defeat the will of the people and c:gc! a republican candidate. Dickey said the issue was squarely made, tne parties were Equareiy dividtd, and the question was whether ; these objectionable lawB Bhould be' repealed. ' |