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Show F0HTY -SIXTH C0NBRSSS. EXTRA SE3SION. SENATE, Washington, 2-1. The vice president presi-dent laid before the Benato a communication com-munication from the postmaster general, asking additional appropriations appropria-tions for the pay of letter carriers; also one from the secretary of the interior, in-terior, enclosing a request from the commissioner ol education, for an ap propriation of $25,610 for tho piy-mentof piy-mentof clerks. Ileferred. Beck introduced a bill providing for the settlement of accounts with certain railroad companies. jj.arrm, erne iu piuvuub iuu iuhuuul- lion and spread of infectious diseases into the United States. On motion of McDonald, a resolution resolu-tion was passed requiring the eecre-tary eecre-tary of the treasury to furnish the senate the amounts of money drawn and paid the supervisors of elections in general and special elections in 1876 and 1878, aa compensation in excess of feea aa allowed by law for oirouit court com mission era, aud state the amounts expended in New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati for the yeara aforesaid. Wallace oflered a resolution that the senate now proceed to the election of the secretary o! the senate, chist clerk, executive clerk and sergeant-at-arms. A lengthy political discussion discus-sion ensued, which was participated in by Anthony, Hamlin, Wallace, Oankling, Bayard, Beck, Voorheea, Blaine aud Eaton. During the course of the debate Beck read a cir cular issued during the campaign of '78, and signed "Sidney A. Austin, by order of the committee, Geo. C. Gorham, secretary." The circular says it ia almost certain that tho next senate will be democratic and asserts that the toremoet among the schemes of that party ia the intention to attempt at-tempt the revolutionary expulsion, from hia office, of the prcs deot. EalOB referred to the circular read and asked if it was true that the flomnnrntn rain tern rthitpd thfi nnilinf of the president aa there stated. Now I bave not, he said, auy very high reaped for the man that occupies tne presidential chair. I think he is there through fraud; that he has no business busi-ness there; that a majority of 300,000 free men of thia country say be has no business there; but when the secretary of this committee says the foremost among the democratic schemes ol opposition aud already announce their intention to attempt the revolutionary expulsion of the president from hia office, I, as a democrr.t, deny it as false. No body o( men, respectable either in numbers or intellect, ever announced such a policy. Therefore, There-fore, even were it not right and proper for other reasons, to niako this chaDge, I would advise a change in the secretaryship of the senate because of thia isoue. Blaine Baid that the pretext that the secretary was to be removed beoause he issued this circular might go for what it was worth. He would have to go just the same if he had never issued tne circular, but Eaton had said Gorham stated an untruth un-truth in the circular when he said it was the design of the democratic party tn remove tho president. Now the Blruggle in both branches of the last congress, which culminated . in the Poller committee, was an evidence evi-dence of the sentiment in the demo-cratto demo-cratto party which justified the assertion asser-tion made in the circular. Tne Potter committee was organized for the purpose ot obtaining, ii possible, evidence on which to base proceedings proceed-ings to remove tho president. , Wallace Does the Benator know that in a week from the issuance of that circular the democratic convention conven-tion of Pennsylvania declared that it attark upon the title of the president? Blaine Why did they make that resolve if Ihero was not soma daugor in the air? Wallace Because that atssrlion was false. Blaine That document had neve: seen the light then. It did not come out until some Bneakiog federal office-bolder office-bolder betrayed the secrets of his party and is probably now waiting iu the corridors for some reward, ihe senator cannot base his action in Pennsylvania on that. He went up to Harrisburg to make it certain that no auch rash step should be taken by the democratic party. Wallace said he would concede that there was some such agilation then, but it was also true thtit the assertion of the circular was that of A man who declared what was untrueandwaa uusuatained by any word or act ol men worthy to represent the democraiie party. B;aiue thought there w.:ej an im mense exhiamou Here oi virtue alter-the alter-the tact. If anything w.is in the air at the lime of appointment of the Poller committee, it W33 the convic j tion that it was organized to ISh lor 1 I testimony cn which to proceed gainst the title of the president. Kernan My recollection is th;. ( contemporaneously with the org.inizi tion of that committee the house passed a resolution that there was no intent to question tlio title of the president. pres-ident. B.ame Soma weeks after there came up from the country a cry ef indignant protest. Alter the biuiua C'.mmunilis3 everywhere d.tco-inSen-anced eucti action, tnen the house, em motion of s republican, did adopt auch resolution. Et'.oo re-iterated his a-sertiop that tue cnnre contained in the circular W n liivc-lroi. Blaine said tliGre were still echoing! in hiaears the word-ol tho senator, from Connecticut .(4t0D)i himself, I deiidune-ing the litlti of the preo:dent J to his otiicf. Eaton 1 say so now. Ulaine Then ia not the seuator denouncing de-nouncing the republican party that ia atiwerublo for the situation. Edton - I do. But a great many of the r- publicans feel as I do uhjul it. Tho best of them aree with me that the man in tha White boue has no legal title to his place as president of this United Statej. Blaine I will answer the gentle-with gentle-with my view of tho case-. It is that tho president of the Unitid States holds Ihe olBce to which he was elected by a fair and honest a vote tin Genre e Wnshineton did, but that it took a singular departure from the Cjustitutioual modes to muko that v te good, and that he was not only entitled to the votes of the three southern Btalea which he got, but to three more southern states of which he waa deprived by bulldozing democrats. demo-crats. (Applaute.) Chair The eergeaut-at arms will see that the doorkeepers take into custody any persons in the galleries violating the rules. EUon aaid he could make no argument argu-ment upon the belief of hia friend from Maine ( Blaine). His own belief wus 300,000 majority ot the people were defrauded out of the result ot an honeKt election for president. The geuthmn BUtes that the Poller committee was organized to hunt for ibe evidence of ttiat fruud. Dare he say that if euch evidence was found HaypR ought not to be removed? Blaine The senate, a while ago, seat by fraud. Now, be docs not know whether tho committee could find evideuoe of fraud. Eiton I have evidence euflioient for mo. Blaine then remarked that the do cision of the electoral commission was final and conclusive and wa; so accepted by the people, and it was an unpatriotic course on the pait of the democracy to aeek to disturb that settlement. They had agreed upon a tribunal which decided againat; them and it was, in bis view, dis j honorable to refuse compliance to the terms of that settlement. Hill (Ga.) said there was an issue of fact raiaed here between the senators who had spoken, and a very material one, affecting not only tho democratic party but the character of our institutions institu-tions It was important that the rent truth be stated on this question. Tl.o charge of a revolutionary purpose innutt uguiuab tuu uuiuuuiauy mo circular which had been made was denounced by Eaton aa false, where upon Blaine came to the rescue of the document and charged that there was Buch revolutionary intent and to sustain bia general charge . be apecifiea tne Potter resolution aa having that ulterior meaning. Hill claimed that Blaine was as incorrect in hia statement, as was the secretary of the senate in bis, and he could produce enough facts to bear out nis charge. No per- son of the democratic party ever in-; tended, under any contingency, a revolutionary movement for the ex-1 pulsion of the preoident. When the 1 election commission bill was passed it contained a provision as follows: tiec-j tion VI Taat nothing in this act shall be held to impair or aflect any j right now existing under the Consti-I tution and laws, to question by pro-1 ceedings in the judicial courts ol the United States the right or title of a, person who shall bo declared elec'ed or who shall claim to be presideut or 1 vice president, if nay such right exist This ib a provision of the tvet of congress con-gress establishing the electoral commission. com-mission. It waa embodied there in view of the apprehension that the commission would, as they in fact did, refuse to look into and investigate the alleged frauds in in Louisiana and Florida and that thp rfKiilt nf thpir IhImitb would bu Lhfi dc duration of one ot the claimants as president without examination into the testimony regarding the merits of tha case. It waB adopted that ihe doors might be left open in euch case to proper judicial investigation, which Bhould bring out the facts. Tnat there was ground for the belief that the ; courts of the country would have jurisdiction, is manifest from the lact 1 that tho learned gentleman and dis-j dis-j languished statesmen on both sides of j of both chambers, incorporated tne 1 provision in tho electoral commission bill reserving all tho riht to reopen this question and bave it investigated before the judicial tribunals of the country. Some of tho meet able Uwyera believe that by proper proceeding ihe Supreme court can get jurisdiotion to investigate this question. It was on that principle that the legislature of Maryland Mary-land pasacd the memorial to coughs?, demanding that proceedings of Ihia nature should be iuaucurated, Some of the moat distinguished republican lawyers of the couulry bold that it wou'd be perfectly proper in acorn patent proceeding, for the Supreme court to reopen aud deiermiue this: case upon its merit. Esery gentle1 man of his (Hill'f) arquainiauee, every prominent democrat of the United Statta who deeirea to investigate in-vestigate thia question dtairflj to do so in the courts aud under theencnuragc ment aud authority of the electoral law. Was this revolutionary? Whether that proceeding before the court should b9 inaugurated or not, would depend upon the reliable evidence evi-dence that should be obtained in the case. AU sections of the democratic party were willing to have au investigation investi-gation to obtaiu tne real facte. There crats in the country who, if the facts should establish the illegality of title of presidential incumbent to the presidency, and if it Bhould appear ap-pear that the Supremo court had authority au-thority to investigate the subject, wero in favor of such investigation. Hill denied that Ihe democratic party bad ever announced a revolutionary purpose looking to the expulsion of the president. It had never been an-uounced an-uounced in the legislatures, conven-1 conven-1 lions or in congres?. To tell a candid fact, he always believed that the gentleman gen-tleman raised the cry of revolution to prevent investigation. |