| Show BY T TELEGRAPH E LEG raph RAPE FORTY FORT SIXTH CONGRESS i I 1 extra SESSION SENATE washington 18 consideration was resumed of the wallace resolution to altera alter a rule senate so 80 that and appointments Imen tsmay may be made by the secretary of the senate and sergeant al at arms respectively the rule proposed to be amended requires re covals and appointments to be approved by the president of the cenate che rhe the cho discussion was interrupted by the biose close of the morning hour and the army appropriation bill was taken up and randolph spro spoke in favor of the measure randolph said the simple question wab waa had congress the right to demand a redress of grievances as the condition of granting supplies to the army he gravely doubted not the tha right but the expediency of that step ha he wag was proud of the achievements of the army but it was a monstrous doctrine that government owes its life and power to the army in time of peace its total disband disbandment ment now would not seriously endanger the life of the nation randolph said that in 1876 he bore a message from governor hampton to the then president urging the latter to withdraw the troops from th the estate state house you may imagine sir air said randolph my astonishment and indignation when in an angry tone and uncivil elvil civil I 1 manner the president rep nep replied I 1 led 11 wont withdraw tha the troops I 1 dont regard the decision of the supreme court of the state and it I 1 had any message to send to hampton it would be that his message was an impertinence an imper tl ti nenice nence bir air for the governor of a state to communicate his wishes not demand his bis rights as he might properly have done to the dent of the united states an impertinence indeed upon what meat does this our feed that he is grown go so greata great no mr president dont we cannot make too much haste to guard the liberties of free men everywhere re in this broad land from the chance of blotting the pages of our history with a repetition of tho usurping act of a president less than three years ago groome cited several cases were w ere ore the army had been used in maryland also a letter from general grant to president johnson expressing a hope that the army would never be used on the eve of an election he wondered if the party now intending to trust its fortunes to the prestige of grants name concurred in these views after executive session the senate adjourned till monday washington WAs IS 18 the morning hour was dispensed with and the i subsidiary silver allver coin bill was not taken up the house then went into committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill me kinley spoke in opposition to the tha proposed repeal of the general election laws he denounced the legislation as a bold and wanton attempt to wipe from the law every protection of the ballot box and to surrender it into the unholy hands of hired repeaters and ballot box stul Bluff stuffers ers erb at the north and of ballot cheat cheats at the south mckinley having read that blackburn in the last debate said the democrats meant to wipe from the statute book all war measures blackburn left the chair and denounced ane want of fairness and truth in presenting from his speech an incomplete extract burrows then took the floor in the course of his speech he said even now while the tha hypocritical cant about peace protection and purity of the polls was indulged by the other bide side the whole race was fleeing from some bome of the southern states as from a pestilence not to escape the federal bayonet but rum ruf flanly bludgeons not from federal bullets but southern bowle bowie knives not from the Federal courts but southern fraud not from the marshal but from murderers not from registration but from masked marauders not from supervisors of elections but from southern shot guns in a word they were fleeing from a country where every hight right was cloven down and every wrong went gibson made several beveral efforts to get in a but burrows declined to yield with all your probes said he of desire for purity at elections your desire ia Is the election of a democrat democratic io president in 1880 ISSO by what means you little care you sou want these laws repealed because they stand in the way of the consummation of such a purpose for you know well and the country knows that if they are permitted to stand and can ba be enforced you yon can no more elect a president in 1880 than you are honestly entitled to your majorities in either house ouse of Con congress greas applause on republican side he continued to say that at the last congress there had to be a senate to coerce now there was but an executive to overcome it was the pro gramme of the democrat democratic io party to persist until it had starved the president into submission or until the congressional and presidential terms had expired by limitation that party now stood at the bar of public opi opinion xilon on its own plea of seif self convicted conspire acy against the life of the government the excuse urged for the present attempt to coerce the president he characterized as a compound of idiocy and inso insolence lenee seldom equalled equal led never excelled if the democrats persisted in their present course in 1880 they would meet their political it was revolting to the sentiments of the american people and because it was so the republicans proposed to resist it to the extent of their power for if they yielded now where were they to make a stand let no gentle gentie gentleman mati mari indulge in the illusion that there would be no fur ther advance on the part of the tho enemy this was but the beginning of a series of assaults to be pushed with vigor until every fortress reared for the defense of a free ballot for peace and purity of elections for national life and for individual liberty should be torn down until violence fraud and murder should run ran riot how long would it be before a clause would be put on an appropriation pria tion bill bili repealing the last three constitutional amendments and the president told to sign or starve quoting from blackburn blackburns blaek Black burns a declaration that this congress would die by natural limitation without passing the appropriation bills if it the legislation sought bought to be put upon them was not accepted he said that event cannot happen until the ath of march issi 1851 and so the order is promulgated from the floor of the capitol in the face of this nation by an ex confederate soldier to prosecute the biege siege until this republic which he and his co conspire tors could not destroy by sword shall be reduced by starvation no sooner Is the order given than the whole democratic party north an and ana d south leaps into the trenches at the rallying cry of the chos chol chosen en leader who tells them that he who dallies is a dastard and that he who doubts is damned thus is the siege elege begun and thus it is prosecuted and thus with anair ot of defiance smacking a little of southern domination weare we are told that the issue is laid down that the gage of battle ia Is delivered lift itchen you please Is it so then this is my answer that it ia Is our pleasure to lift it now applause on the republican side and as we are prepared to make good the appeal we accept the challenge in no spirit of boastful arrogance but with the unflinching purpose and sublime at courage awaiting the issue with the utmost confidence and composure it la Is not the first time that we have encountered a solid south conspiring against the life of the nation and the democratic side of the house a although though your jour force may be somewhat augmented by your nothern allies yet I 1 see nothing in the increased array to cause a heart to faint or a cheek to blanch renewed applause As you failed then you will fail fall now As you cannot kill you shall not starve did it ever occur to you that though you should withhold all the supplies for the support of the government possibly it might not be yet surrendered did it ever occur to you that although you should protract this siege until thib thia congress shall have died by virtue of its limitation there will possibly be no surrender then withhold the support from the executive and are you quite sure that there will be no remedy refuse to feed the army and are you entirely certain that there will be no food for it deny for your navy the means to keep it afloat and we are you certain that you will force it to anchor auchoi withhold support from the judiciary and is it t clear that you will hareno have no courts refuse the needed supplies for maintaining the legis legia branch of government and are you confident that there will be no congress Con gresa why gentle gentie gentlemen you u areas impotent to overthrow this s government by starvation as you were to annihilate it by the sword you may may distress but you cannot destroy vehement applause on the republican side for let me ine tell you that when that time comes the same loyal people from the same loyal states who took their lives in their bands and went forth to do battle for the defense of the republic enduring weary march protracted siege the smoking hell of battle and more horrible bell of southern prison pens until from the dark wavea waves of the rebellion they bore on OD broken arms and lacerated breasts the bleeding form of the republic and planted her feet on the steady rock of constitutional government and civil liberty who animated by the name of patriotism when you attempt to starve this republic will fly to her side at the first cry of her distress and there they will stand in ceaseless vigil not with a sword but with sustenance not with implements of war but with unmeasured wealth not with cannons but with unlocked coffers not with bandages but with plenty and blending over her prostrated form they will succor and sustain her and minister to her necessities until in tho the falness of time they wrench from her b er throat the cowardly hand that clutched it and then thrilling with new life she will spring to her feet and the very altar which you had bad for her immolation shall become a throne on which bhe she shall stand clothed in the majesty of her power reecer and re crowned the goddess of liberty enthusiastic applause gubson replying to the quotations made by burrows from the tho teller report stated that the citizens of louisiana had been arrested charged with of wences fences as stated in that report that they had been conveyed or miles from their homes bothe to the city of new orleans that they had been tried before judges who were in sympathy wilh with the republican party parvy and they had been fully and honorably acquitted burrows that is an old trick down there laughter on republican side gibson if it was waa a trick it was a trick played by men who could take the ironclad oath as jurors a trick played by the very men whom the gentlemen would now invoke to conduct the elections in that state gibson regretted that though burrows barrows called the democrats conspirators spira tors the amenities of the house had not prevented him deriding the judiciary j ud lelary burrows replied and asked why if the democrats desired a fair election they had not rebuked the 1 fraudulent methods which obtained in caddo natchitoches and other parishes coffroth now claimed he bad had the floor but by general desire the republicans public ans were allowed to proceed turner objected debause be he bad called the democratic party con aspirators spira torb tors shouts of laughter from the republicans burrows said he simply wished to state that the colored witness witnesses ea who came at the sub bub subpoena poona peona of the republicans to new orleans were captured while returning by men and had never been heard from since elam made a general denial of the charges of intimidation in louisiana conf coff coffroth roth said acrimonious debates were inaugurated by the republic cans for party purposes the democratic party did not want to starve people but wanted to protect the citizens and produce prosperity in pennsylvania in 1878 in money was squandered to defeat the will of the people and elect a republican candidate dickey baid eaid the issue was squarely made the parties were squarely divided and the question was whether these objectionable laws should be repealed 19 the journal this morning embodied for the first time petitions deposited in the box the house then went into committee of the whole blackburn in the chair on the legislative appropriation pria tion bill price who was entitled to the floor yielded to frye who said that in connection with a misun der standing which had taken place yesterday between the gentlemen from kentucky and ohio blackburn and mckinley in regard to the proper construction of black buras burns s speech he desired to read to the house the construction put on that speech in id Misi sippi by the now famous paper okolona states which he received through the mail he thereupon red reid with great emp emphasis basis the fo lowing article from that paper of the of april prefacing it with the statement that the article was complimentary to the gentleman gentl emam from kentucky and therefore tha that ot gen en tieman would take no 0 of fenee fence nce what was it that brave joe blackburn baid said in the house soft sheila oh ob yes besl we kemem bar now he remarked that our people would strike the last vestige of war measures from our statute books the states never said more and never said lees less than that you yen repudiate states will you repudiate blackburn you are silent will you repudiate blackburn you are still silent well gentlemen we will give you just one more chance answer or forever after hold your peace as far as states is concerned will you repudiate blackburn bown down with the devil born amendments down with centralism and its hints of crown and sceptre tre down with pictures of lincoln and the scoundrels who surrounded him in the battle days of 5 down with every antidemocratic anti democratic idea and idoll idol these will be the watchwords for 1880 1890 11 blackburn having come down from the chair during the reading of the article in an excited manner said mr chairman if this bo be not the first time I 1 have been forced to complain of unfairness at the bands of my friends on the other side it ia is certainly the first time I 1 have ever been compelled to make such complaint against the gentleman from maine I 1 have but this to lo bay eay I 1 regret that every recurring day brings up some personal assault which it seems to me fair dealing honesty of construction aud and ordinary manhood would woud repudiate with each recurring day I 1 find myself forced to repel misconstruction given either by some members of the house to the language uttered by me in the ol 01 garbled quotations tat ions or else the unwarranted unfair and unnatural construction put upon somebody eibes language by a member of that hide side of the elouse bo tio far aa as che the newspaper article which the gentleman from maine has read to the house is concerned I 1 care nothing for it for that paper a contribution from ohio to mississippi simply repeats repeals the n generous and untruthful effort that was made here yes yea berday to misrepresent me I 1 care nothing for the utterances of that paper but when the gentleman from maine seeks to add his high authority to the injustice done one by the editor of that inconsequential sheet it then becomes a more serious matter then I 1 group the paper and the gentleman from maine together and I 1 say to this committee and the country that it occurs to me they are well mated the one is as unfair aa as the other is illiberal and crazy applause and laughter on the democratic side frye the one was waa a colonel in the confederate service and not a carpet carpel carpetbagger bagger from ohio the one was the peer of the gentleman from |
