Show BY NJ FORTY SIXTH compress extra SESSION I 1 1 10 i E washington 2 an effort was made by sparks to fix tha the c time for ifor closing the debate op the army ap bill suggestions were made to have a night session tore strict speeches to 15 minutes each and to close the the debate tomorrow to morrow objection was mada mado to sli hii all the pro positions conger stating that a number of gentlemen on both sides havo have given notice of their desire to speak also that many had prepared speeches and would not like to bo be restricted to 15 minutes also aho that but few members would be present at night bess eess sessions lons ions on both sides li was declared lec lared that there was waa no desiro aciro to cut off the debate and the speaker gave it as his experience that unlimited debate was the shortest debate A motion of stevens that a vote be taken at 2 on saturday was voted down dovin r finally on of dunnell dannell of 0 ninno Minno A minnesota sots sota all general debate debato was ordered closed at 3 on friday leaving the five minutes debate open the house housa then wont into com corn m altee 11 tee teo of the whole rhe iho rho debate was opened by wll wil liam sot of wisconsin who stated that twi lwi things were wore indispensable purity of the ballot box and at the polls if it required all the power of the stats state and general government that power should ba exercised whether it be put forth under national or under state jurisdiction he had heard much talk lalk about ba bayonet government but he bra knew know of no government which did not rest ultimately on tho bayonet whoever talked about the government without that final resort in case of resistance to civil law lav talked about utopia the only bayonet rule thib this country knew was that which had just pu put puk down one of the most wicked and cruel rebellions that ever disgraced the earth or that had bad denied his southern friends frienda the delectable pastime of shooting pe negroes groes for bince since 1864 the republic republican in party has been tripping over a chip because then them it began to allow the non per foi fol manco mance of the laws of the country the president had the right to bend send troops even to the church of christ etwas it was not pleasant to see bayonets at the polls but neither was it pleasant to see voters assailed by armed roughs he unlike garfield believed this was the centre of the whole question of federal authority and national perpetuity p e aulty andhor and not nov a mere skirmish line townshend of illinois spoke on the democratic side he re did not know by what authority garfield spoke when he intimated that these bills would not receive the sanction of the president but if the p prophecy was to be verified there was no man so iso or prejudiced as to know that their failure was due to the president if government was to be starved the responsibility for that was not tobe to be laid at the door of the democratic party he said answering the charge that it is revolutionary ary lor a democratic majority to amend the appropriation bills regarding the election laws lawa there was good republican precedent and cited a number of them and showing that gar fields course now was waa inconsistent with his record in 1872 the first expression of the people on the issue before congress was given in chicago yesterday by tho tha election of a democratic mayor and other officers for the first time in twenty years he townshend regarded the issue as solely one of free election and impartial juries calkins held that the citizen when not protected by tho the state had a right to call on the government if the president was wag celebrated for any auy anything thing it was for keeping his own counsel couns sl and no on one 0 knew know whether be would veto the tho bill if lie did then such a contraction would take place as the country was wholly ignorant of herbert said the democrats would not be led away like mad bulls by this red flag of sectional hate they adhered to the plain question shall troops to used at the polls white whitelow telof of pennsylvania denied that the republicans desired force at the polls they only wanted to protect tho the citizens ho he denied tho the charge the republic republican in pirty party yesterday af f and usurp usurpation atio atlo i the committee then rose lose and the house adjourned washington 3 tho debate on the army appropriation bill was continued by knott he spoke of the great historical importance of the principle involved he characterized it as the great fundamental principle of republican liberty that the ballot bailot should be protected from the tho slightest approach of military rower power and that the shall be left entirely free in exercising at the polls the prerogative of a cit citizen izen izea he quoted an english lish statute of george 11 II for the re inoval oval of troops from the place where an election is to be held and cited Blackstone that it is essential that elections shall be absolutely free and that therefore all undue influences are illegal and prohibited he had bad expected such a question would have been discussed on the other side with calmness and dignity but in this he had bad been grievously disappointed particularly in connection with the speech of frye that speech while it might have been appropriate to the smail small frye of his hia party at the cross roads or the village barroom was unjust to that gen gentleman genial and generous nature knott concluded bib bis speech with a statement of the bened clent reforms that would be e effected when we the democratic party had captured the capitol as he firmly believed it to be in the plans of providence that the party of the people should sa til triumph he did not intend his bis party to t bo be led a away way from the question under consideration to the dis ou cassion salon stony of any collate collateral rall rail issue isue whatever but it intended to move right on to the accomplishment of the high purpose upon which they were resolved solved ra i he expressed his hia astonish astonishment m ent at the statement that the obnoxious words which it was now proposed to wipe from the statute book had been inserted on a motion by senator benator powell of kentucky and said that kentucky was proud of many auy guy of her sons but of none of tarra them W s she prouder than of 0 powell he had done noth nothing irig in his hia long and us ful career except to stand day after day and contend manfully as he be did for the purity of the ballot box and for the non ilon interference of the military with elections that act alone would have secured to him the affection a of every lover over of liberty and a memorial more lasting than sculptured marble or brass bras the democratic party simply intended to tb 1 pre preserve erve erge the ancient birthright birth right 0 ot the Amb american rican citizen ta to 0 a trial triai ial by jury in all its purity it intended that ail all all ail ring masters and jobbers and knaves who had fastened like vampires on the body politic orthe of the country for years past shall be driven forth as the money changers were scourged urged from the tample by the savior of mankind it intended that every abuse of power should be arraigned not only before the bar of public opinion but before the established tribunals of the coun country try tTy it intended to preserve the right rights dignity and equality of ail all the states unimpaired as the safest protection of domestic concerns and as the surest bulwark bul bui against an anti republican tendency it intended to maintain the federal government as supreme in its constitutional sphere and to let all the states in the iho splendid galaxy of equal republics move on for over in their orbits with the beauty and harmony that made the music of thet the spheres when the morning stars sang aang toi together C ether and all the sons of god shouted tor for jov joy 1 f applause on the democratic side he was waa followed on the republican side by hank who argued that it was absolutely necessary for the protection of lives and political rights of colored and in d republicans of the south that the authority of the tho military to preserve peace at tuo the polls should be maintained this speech being by a southern man attracted much attention and was frequently applauded on the republican republic ail sli bide side and jeered on the democratic side robeson followed he confined himself to the questions of law involved in lix the discussion and said it is proposed here to restrain civil officers of the united states from keeping the peace at any einy election in any state by what means by civil mean meau snot by military means for the right of a civil officer the marshal of the district if you plea seto sum bum summon hummon mon a is the right to summon ardi ordinary inary military companies that may be within the body of his hia batIll ewick the right to summon on armed troops if they be b within we the body of the baill baillie lewick wick la Is civil and not a military right and asin is in the interest of the inviolability and strength of the civil law can that be doubted by any lawyer the jurisdiction of the united states com commes cornea es within the states wherever it has any united states duty to per pei perform form that is not only pense sense but good law wherever the united states has guaranteed guarante ta n right wherever revera a right comes by the constitution and is guiran guaranteed teed by it there the united states hag has i a right and nd must enforce and ca carry ark out that power kimmel where has the united states guaranteed the right to vote robeson it athas has hns guaranteed the right to every man in in Mary maryland laud land who has haa a right to vote far the most numerous branch of the state legislature and that be he shall vote at a peaceable election for members of congress applause on the republican side I 1 know that tho the court has haa declared that the united states has hag no voter of its own creation in the state 1 I 1 know that it has de declared blared that the right of suffrage is not given in the states by the constitution of the united states but this does not cover the case the constitution provides that the house of representatives shii shall bo be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the hie several st stites states ites and that electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous a branch of the legislature as ha given by the state the qualifications within the limits of the fifteenth amendment are made by the states the united states does not confer the right of suffrage on thoe thoo tho e o individuals but the united stated adopt sto its suffrage by description thit that class that has haa already the hight right of suffrage tage given to it by the states slates it makes them its voters ne rqn th tha 3 election of its officers ceral cerar and I 1 la n bound to guarantee to them a free and dind fair eitze elize election tion it applause on the republican side it is technically aud verbally true that the tho united states does not con right of suTra suffrage geon on those men who vote for the most n numerous u mer men branch of a state legislature the right of bliff stiff suffrage rage and qualification necessary to it are prescribed by states but the states doea bay say that every man who belongs to that class and every man who liars has that qualification shall be ia an nit elector for members of the heuse sense of representatives that is a right which it guarantees what is a guarantee of the united states stated worth if it is not able to carry it out the proposed legislation ia is unconstitutional he denied hurds statement that nations had always died of military power thoy they died because some branch of government has usurped the rights of OU the other H he 9 instanced several cabes cases in history that the sword was the last resort afar aft er the usurp usurpation atlo atio n had necessitated its use so long as the civil process of law may be properly executed by civil this country there Is no danger of a military power our people would never yield to a large standing army unless it became absolutely feces sary under the pressure of usurped and arbitrary power of some irresponsible pon sibie sible blip blie member of 0 a system to liberty and order that time will never come como here unless goumy friends disregard the plain teaching of history hi atory my friend from ohio hurd hurd durd also took occasion to say in allusion to the executive of this country that his title was in doubt and tb at his bis tenure was not yet certain I 1 do not think that my friend meant that because if he did he meant to appeal to the giant of revolution let me say to him that the responses all over the country today to day are but the mutterings rings of a storm which will increase in vigor and fury and in resistless power until the men and party who endeavor to unsettle the title of the president will be swept forever from the political horizon loud up applause on the republican eide and in the galleries blackburn said he be was a poor student of his count rys history who was not able to satisfy himself that from the foundation of the constitution down to the present time it had ever beem been held and that by the highest highet authorities in the land that it was in the power of the honse house to control the employment of the army by withholding the supplies in the very nature of thin things gig the proposed Iro posed repeal could not ba be revolutionary negative legislation was nover dover revolutionary ary the const attitio tu tion tian n did not give tiie tile light to the tho president to send armed forced into any state even to suppress domestic violence it required the president to protect any state from invasion but only conferred upon him the right to send Bold boid soldiers fers lers tp that state to suppress domestic violence when the legislature of that state or governor should make a requisition upon him he was not permitted to anticipate domestic violence neither was a legislature nor a governor domestic violence must have been in existence and that act fact have been certified to him by the legislature more that one third of the perma permanent ilent legislation affecting that arm of government had been put upon the statute books as riders liders upon the army appropriation bills billa did garfield remember the record he had made in 1568 1868 on an amend men ment t differed offered by wilson of iowa to an appropriation bill proposing to revolutionize the judicial system of the country proposing to rob a co ordinate branch of government and proposing to strip the supreme court of prerogatives and power that the federal constitution had cloth cioth clothed edit it with he declared that the record teemed with where the houses had withheld withhold supplies to coerce the president and a notable instance was wai when garfield with others othere had bad compelled andrew johnson to sign the army bill under protest one in the impeachment lm against johnson was his use uso of the veto power and another was his bia interference tp prevent the interference feren foren cei of the army in power in elections garneld garfield always voted for the tho impeachment and had standing by him voting side by side with him to impeach the president for fur the exercise of the veto power one then comparatively and for a combination of accidents would have remained to this hib his day and until his hia lying dying day in that obscurity for which nature and his creator seemed to have designed him side tilde by side with the gentleman from ohio had stood and voted mr haayes from the same state oud applause on the democratic side and in the galleries and now by what sort fiort of authority bad the gentleman from ohio come to threaten the house with a |