Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1879, Page 1

- hich WIRRORS w0t TUHAY AT eslaughtered $50.000 Fram Dafly at 10:308.m., 2:00'And 72490 p. M., till the entire stoc 18 closed out, an the Btore is renfed and muat be vacated, oo == s = &3 == NGS AND OTILER GOODS A8 REQUESTRD, B e AL S KW E RGN S, &, will (. P, COGGESHALS, 274. 276 & 278 Wabash-av. Elison, Pomeroy & Co., Auctes, SHERIFE'S SALE. SERIFFS SALE REMEMBER SIE STECIAL SALE OF THE REGANTITXTURES STINE'S IPARTHENT STORE - 192 & 124 State-st., WHIOE WILL BE SOLD To-Day at 11 a. m. T. E, STACY, Deputy Sherifl, {7 BALE OF BTOCK CONTIN- "yE8 DAILY. “IHICAGO WEEKLY TRIBUNE, G460 WEEKLY TRIBUNE. " i Pestves of {he Carrent Nomber, Anoog the contents of Tir Ciicaco WRERLY Taucxs for Feb. 10 arc the following: . IDITORIAL~Rates of Intercat—The Rivala—Dif- L Allen Chinese nnd Dlack Citl- e i Bostal- S inEs S atom—The Hasfian Calamity—Somo. Faiss 1istory—Paa- e, FAINOTONThreatened_Doflclency of 827, + 00,000 the Current Fiscal Year—A Compromise Diion the Suolect of Animala in Tranait—Pas- ngeof the Anti-Chinese and Internal-Revenue “Diils by the Scnate—More Calla for the Rtedemp- tiovof 520 lionda—Letter from the President tathe New Collector of Customs at New York— Representative Burchard, of lllhmll‘ll\ pointed Diectorof the Mint—Passage by the louse of ‘the River and Harbor and Penslion Appropria- thon Blile=Ete., Ete. MUTICAL=Lelter from Mr. Josaph Medlll on Migority Represcentation. ITATE FALUIS—~The 1llinols State Fair Located nt *~ feringdeld for the Next Two Years—The Florids +fale ¥ale o Prozress at Gaineavllin, IOREIGN-The Russian Plague~The Dritish Dis. ; Wterin Zulnland—Opening of the British Parlia- meat=The Gicrman Emperor's Speechi—Release oftte Lastof the Fenlan Prisoners—Practical Callspre of the Strike in Liverpool—Gen. Grant's Arival ln India~Weekly Toview of the Kuro- ein Orain-Trads s Ete, TIE CANAL-ENLARGEMENT—Estimato of the Costol Thia Truly National Work—Il.ettar from ¢ lion. A. J, Galloway, STATE AFFAIRS—Proceedings of tho Illinols Legialature, CANADA-Opening of Parllament—The Vicercgal Drawng-Room, HEDREWS AS FARMERS—Jewlah Farming Colo- #lesto Bs Located 1n the South and Weat for In. tending Emizrants, NTTERY—Examinatlon of Futther Witnosses by tae Commltteca—The Florlda and South Carolina Ketorning Boards Fully Vindicated, AFFLICTED BRAZIL—Half & Milllon of Her Peo- leSwent Away—Drought, Fumine, Peatilence— inving Peasaiits: Eating Their Own Oftspring— _Unburied Hodies Torn and Devaured by Wild Avlpals~Thaasands of Small-Pox Victims Rot- ting fa Open Trenches—~Dlack Plague at Work. SLOAR-Ita Production from Sorghumn and Corn. - $tlks~Tbo Cane-Growers’ Conventlon Recently mgfi h‘i‘llls'in .J;cnli-l’rcii. swwm{- l'xi?l;c--— y a New Industy of Vast Propor- tions 1a Avout fo Iie Enh\bhuhfl{. i3 RALLROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSION- EH&-Annnn.l Ronort of the 1llinols State Board ;glma Statistlcs~Graln-Inspection ot Chi- MILTOADS _Faflare of the Project for a Grand + Union Depot In the West leulnnJ of chluuoffl TMEFIELD AND STABLE—Swolling—Acclima-~ tization of Horses | Texas and Weatern Kansas u—_‘frl;;w-l’nenmoulm E-PLAGUE~~Pleuro-Pnoumonia in America “fl,finglnnd-}"u Disease at the Chicago Stocke WITER AND_CHEESE—Procesdl t r;mhnnurn Dairymen's Auucelmlf::: ok ik !J:MUI AND GARDEN—VIalt tothe Chomlcal “h::xlsta{lclplcuh’l(u &Il Nulnlnfi Poultry— W;;f‘“ s og-Cholera reventive— RTICULTURE —Meeting of the Galesburg Hor- "filml Socloiy—Prof.. Comatockis. E::tynnn e aml_oey tho Ureat Attzaction. <Ildellil;l¢'\lrrh' Great Rovalutinn in That Nated Hul'rw..f..,m“'l'A Vory Funny Sketch by E HOME—Bennte's Death-\Wail {Poem) —Cov- tming - Valk! l(nlf_nfg"!g:fh loriculture~The Walking te. HRSELVES—Cyje, el glrmm'x"fl ZZLERS' CORNER—A - Tiozs Wegk'y, Pazzlea~Now l(:;fi:{l‘fln‘k‘: L IM‘K’HL—CMC& AT 70 Mong ket~ 'UI:‘L“ Shiver-Discoverion G'Nc}l{rlrsflmr“&?::i? QNMERCEAY, ~Chicago, London, Liverpool, Now :.n::. ilwatikee, Tottdn, and Lo Loty Bowr i rield; Chicago, Rast Liborty, Albany, "'lfinln."u“' flown, Kanses Clty, New York. Narkegs, altimore, and Cinclunati Live-Stock \erma of Typ W, Yo EERLY TRinUNE are as fol- :u[?ms‘;p.m): One copy, per year, $1.60; club "‘lll'co ;tluh of ten, $11; club of twenty, §20. .l Ples can by obtalned st the Counting- 2 Xreppers) for 5 ccots each. S | .'ervelmu Progress an Finm e NoTicL, or— ;fll Notice to tho Ifolfiers of uds of the Northern Paclfic Ralirona Company. Taty G R TI8aof Neorgantzatton, ratified by the de- ot b gl girts, hU thne (n which Hondhoiders hn!mwn 0 Jarticpate in tho banellta of tha pulfia{Fanyeraton of onde Tutd Vroferred stocks ore than e s OF i Farchaslogs Cominit: s e 55'{'..‘."‘. Juformation how tho converston Is . e uftle N ;:n UpIa the “;fil be exchimaged for stock under i Mae grec.. o tacies uy the ,f‘g‘;u-'_! 440 wiute on acloutifc 7 b R B e Pl EOIE SALE, .SEED WHEAT, ubi o Teleacopes, Mlcros SYLIKS. SILKS! Field, Leiter & Co. WABASH-AV.,, Invite attention to recent ar- rivals of FOREIGN NOVELTIES BLACK, - COLORED, BROCADED, ““WATERED SILKS, Party, Bridal, and Street Costumes, AU exclusive styjles, of owr own importation. ALSO, to a large Une of BLACK GROS GRAIN SILKS, In best makes at closc prices, CULYER, PAGE HOYNE &G0, RETAIL STATIONERS, 118 & 120 Monroe-st. Culver, Page, lloyne & Co.’s Gold Pens, Mabie, Todd & Bard’s Gold Pens, of every size and quality. Long and Short; Fino and Broad Points § Stiff and Flexible. The New Corrugated Gold Pen, Solid and Plated Pen and Pencil Hold- ers, Solid, Plated, Pearl, Ivory, and Leather Peucils, Tho Magio Pencils STON TICKE'TS. TEXAS! NEW ORLEARS! Excursion Tiokets sold from ST. LOUIS by ** IRON MOUNTALN ROUTE," T'o learn all about it, call upon or addroas H. A. FOKD, Goneral Poasonger Ageat, 8T, Louis, Mo. = R.CURED I1AMS, SUG SUGAR-CURED HAMS, BREAKFAST BACON, BACON SHOULDERS, PORIK, LARD, BEEF, And SAUSAGE, Of all kinds, at wholeaale and rotail, at our Packing Houno, Halsted-st. Bridge, ono blook south of ‘'wenty-second-st. UNDBERWOOD & 0O, EXTRACT OF BEEF. LIEBIG oF M| COMPANY’S EXTRACT EAT, PINEHT AND CHEAPEST MEAT FLAVOURING BTOCK FOR BOUPS, MADE DISHES AND SAUCKS, LIEBIG, COMPANY'S EXTRACT which natlo “Medioal P Modlcal Journal," &a, GAUTION, — Genalde o) simile of Taron Lisbig's g 3uk acrosa the Labe] “ Comwumption in fold I len years. LIEBIS. GOMPANY'S EXTRAGT T. To be had of all Blorekeepars, Groeers and Chiemlsts. Sole Ageuta for the United Etates (wholesals only), O, David & Co., 48, Mask Lave, London, England, with the fas gnature in Biae JEojland tnereased tone HEMOVAL, g @ TRELEAVEN'S £ BABREL gt o - o ; THURSDAY. WASHINGTON. The House Worestling with the Legislative Appro= priation Bill. With the Battle Centering Prin- cipally on .Iis Political Attachments, The Repeal of the Test-Oath Clause Sanotioned by the Republicans, But Thoy Will Resist, to the Last Extrem. ity the Amendment Abolishing Eleetion Supervisors, * Both Sides Declare Their In- tention to Hold Out Indefinitely. The Senate Having Its Annual Contest with the Persist- ent Subskdizers. With the Prospect that Mr. John Roach Will Come Out Ahead. The Non.Partisan Barlow Makes a Bad Stowing Before the Potter ) Committee, Solomon, the Returning-Board Broker, Wandering from the In- vestigators, THE BATTLE OPENED. IN THE HOUSH, Bpeciat Dispatch to The Tribune. WasminoToNy D. C., Fob, 10.—* I wliil never vote a dotlar for the Appropriation bill, unless the Federal Supervisor law Is repealed,” safd Fernando Wood. “[ will bring my cot und crackers here, and stay until the end of the Congress before I witl voto thls appropriation without the repeal of theso scctions,” sald Henkle, of Marylund. Thia is the position the Democrats nssumed to-day fn the - commence- ment of the discussion of the political smend- ments to the Legialative bill. A day and night or two of filibustering will help to determine whother the Democracy will adhers to this dccision, or, what I8 more, whether the rovolutionary lead- ers will have the vower to hald the rank and fils in line. It had been expected that there would certaloly ve A NIGUT 3RSBION to-night, but the adjournment<vhich was moved: by the Republivans was permitted to be carried by then without a scrious attempt to defeat it by the Democrats. Tine was wauted for coug- sel sud to bring In absentees. It wos apparent that the Democrats aid not have & quorum of the whole body i the House, aud it is even | doubtful whether there is a quo- rum in the ecityp, The present total Democratic fores In the House s 155, The number nocessary to a quornm s 147, If nlibustering begins, the Republlcans will de- cline to vote, and It will ba necessary for them, 1n ordor to accomplish snything, TO IAVE A QUORUM of their own numbers, Every Democrat, there- fore, must be prescut and vote, with the excep- tion of eight, and there is soldom & thme whon tore than that are not ubsent from the city, in- disposed, or unwitling to follow party dictatlon, Indeed, 1t was brought out in the debate to-day that the aetfou of the Democeatle cau- cus fs mot binding. It has heen learncd that no attenpt was mande to make it binding, but notice was served by a number of Democrats that they would not consent to be bound, reserving thelr deelslon as to thelr own course to bo determinea by events. These contingenclies made it necessary for the Demo- crats to permit an adjournment to further consult before continuing the great battle. I {s belleved thatsthere hias been A COMPACT ENTERED INTO by from forty to fifty of tho Houss Democrats, who have agreed to stand together to repeal the olectlon laws, or to suffer the bill to fail, It is cllmed that fifty Democrats would o ablo to do this by obstructlng busi- nesg,evon If the remalnder of thelr party snould deeline to enter the conspiracy, Thoso who ought to know say thut such a course has heen deelded upon by this little band of revotution- ists, who have decided that the Bupervisor law mustnot be permitted to remain on the atatute boaksduring the California clection in Septemn- ber. That State (s TRE OLIECTIVE POINT of toth partios, nnl §f it should go Repuhlican, aud the Presidential olectlon be thrown {uto the Housa of Representatives, the vote which might deterinin the election of o Presldent would be thatof the Rev. Do La Matyr, of Indiang,—u Qreenbacker of Republican autecedents and Dewmocratic afillistlons,—whose vote [s the bal- ance of power tn the Indiana dolegation, and, turned ons way or the other, would decide the voto of that State for President. It ia for this renson that the more designing manugers have determined that Catifornia shall be carried at oll hazards, snd they think that a nccessary means to that end {8 the repoat of the Buper- visor law befora the Beptember clectlon. ' TUH TEAT OATIL, ‘The Ropublizans made no scrious opposition to therepeal of the test onth, and soms of them voted for the amendment. Others, who dld not, notified tho Democrats thut they already had voted to repeal it as nn {udependont vropo- sition, and would agaln If the measuro could be disconnceted from an appropriation bill, ‘The Republicans endeavered to take every varliamentury advantage, and’ to place the Democracy in a8 embarrassing a position us pos- sible. Hule, for fustance, succeeded in having them votodown an appropriation to earry out the provisions of the Enforcement act, and Conger causcd them to advocato the repeal of the right "of challenge, which was enacted to protect the people of the Bouth, ‘I'he Republicans felt that thera was an anowuly in baving an ex-Conteder- ute in the Cebinet, and uot permitting him to enter the jurybox. Bo thie test ooth amend- wmont was adopted in Connnitico of the Whole, 4UDGR KELLBY advocated the repealy and s sald to have gono 80 far a5 to lutimuto that ke would vote for the Democrats {u the whole proposition, Mr, Kol- loy Is a candidate for Speaker as 8 Greenbacker, and evidently deslres Dgmocratie support. The voto on repealing the test vath was 127 yeas to 85 nays, but the groat tight was to coms in the ameadment of Southard to repeal the Super- visor law, wod it is impossible to foresbadow what the result of that contest may be, Polnts of ordor were made In quick FEBRUARY 20, auceession, and were ns quickly overrnled, In the opening specch, Mr. Hale, who managed for the Republivans, gave notfee to the Demoerats that if the amendment should be ruled fu order, ns it subscquently was, overy resort would he had by the Republicans to every parllamentary device to prevent Its adoption. This announce- ment of an intent to tlithuster was recelved on 1he Republiean st with applause, There wera many eloauent apecches during the day. Conger, with his customary sarcastic humor, augireated to the Demosrats thut they might bring the amendment within the rule s a measure of ceonony if they - placed it on the ground that the repeal of the law to punish eleetlon frauds would be an economy, Innsmuch as it would save the Govorament the necussity of supporting in the Penitentinries the con- victed felons who had violated the law, WILLIAMS. OF WISCONSIY, fun speceh full of fire, insisted that the propo- sitlon of the Democrats was In effect to strike down all safezuards of votefs in the South, and to dellver them over to the ‘nercy of their per- sceutors, Ile had no doust bl the constitution- ality of the law, Brage, of Wisconstn, how- ever, mny have restored’ himself somewhat to good-fellowship {n his party by replying to Will- fams and {insisting that the Supervision law 18 unconstitutional, Chittenden, of Now York, nn eminontly con- servative man, who voted to repeal the test onth, told the Democrats that ho regarded the attempt to repeal the Supervisor law as revolu- tionary, and that it was too soon for those who had sacrificed all but thelr honor {n their effort 1o destroy the Government to assume control of it now. THE DEOATE, : To the Western Lzsectated Press, Wastinaron, D. C., Feb. 10,—The Legisla- .tive Appropriation bill was counsidered in Com- mittee of the Whole. The point of order made last nipht agaiust the amendment offered by Mr. Herbert, repeallug the jurora’-test-oath and rezulating the mode of drawing and the pay of Jurors, was overruled, the Chatrman (Mr. Blackburn) declding that the amendment was in order. Mr. Iiale moved to amend the amendment by striking therefrom the clauso reculating the method of selecting jurors. Refected—Yeas, 1013 nays, 122, Mr. Hale then moved to amend the amend- ment providing for dofraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act aporoved Feb. 23, 1871, 1o dnforce the rights of citizens to vote in scveral States. Rejectea. Afr, Randall called attetition to the fact thnt for sume reason or other! (which he was not wware of) the State of l’cvsuuylrnnln had been cxcepted from tho overation of the scctions which were proposed to by repealed, and at nis suggestion the amendment was so worded a8 to make 173 APPLICATION ORNERAL. Mr. Conger mnoved to strike out of theamend- ment the clause repealine Sce. 821 That would allow the repeal of Bec. 820, and would leave it in the diseretion of the Court to make connee- tion with the Rebellton cause of challenge on motlon. Mr. Elam thought it was a remarkable epec- tocle -that the President of the United States might take the modlfled oath, but that jurors cannot. Il reminded the gentleman from Michizan (Conzer) that the late War between the Stutes—he did not call it a rebelllon—had ceased, but the two scetlons of the country conld never be reconciled cordlully while this test-oath remained on the statute-books. Mr. Frye suld thut when the North was sntis- fled that United Btates citizens all over the country would be protected n all thelr righta, there would be no distinetion of test-oaths, « Mr. Kelley favored thi: répeul of both sisctions. They were worse than uscless. They vrescnted an Incongruity which disgraced the statute- books, und he hoped thut unantnous consent would be given to wipe them out. Mr. Pridemors opposed Conicer’s amendment Dbeeause it woutd pluce the Judges in the un- pleasant attitude of applying the test or re- Tusing to apply it for partisan purposes. Mr, Ellis sald that this test oath oxeluded the totelligence of his State from the jury box. It was & blot upon the ltutul‘-buok, and should be repenled. ? Mr. Congor's amendment was rojected—06 to 18, Messrs. Chittenden, Ielley, Cole, Motcalfe, Robluson (Mass.), Rice, and Crapo (Republicans) voted in the nezative. The queston then reeurring on Herbert's amendment, ft was agreed to—jyess, 137; nays, 85, ‘The questfon then came up on Southsrd’s amendment repealing the sectfon which anthor- izes the nlvnuluunum of Supurvigors of Election, Mr. Rule roso to A VOINT OF ORDER that the amendment chaneed the exlsting law, and was not in the Interest of economy. It took boldly nnd vieleutly the wholo budy of erimiunt 1nw guarding elections nnd proposed to repeal it He bod vever known 80 bold and radieal o vrovosition to be offered toan aporoprintion bill, but it had been resotved upon i Democratle ciucus, nnd 1 Demuoceratle cances was like tho old Committee of Puvlle Bafety fn the French Revolution, which rendered nugatory ol legislation, or removed com- nunders of armiles, und mssumod powoer aver life und death, He believed thut his shic ot the House was daturmined that this revolutionary legislation should not succeed, ‘Ten years’ eXperfence hud taught bhim ne par- Hamentary wit, no device, nud no plan (under the rules of the House) which should not be re- sorted to, If the smendment were ruled to be in order, €0 as to prevent its being embodied fn an l\p{ll’flnflll(lnll bilk Mr, Bouthard argued that the amendment was germune, wud that it was in the directfon of ceonomy, bucauso the cost of these Suporvisors in the election of 1876 wus over $23,000,000, und the same In 1578, Tl leniun from Malne (Hale) could not, ho euld, fntimidate hia (the Democratie) shio of the Iouse, It it was revolutionary to repenl these seetions now, thelr cnactinent when the Republican purty was su- preme was slso revelutionsry, ‘T'he nimendment bad been offered by him u the Interest of puro and untrnmmeled election. Mr. Conger sugreested (surcuatically) ‘that if it were elalined that the amendment would save he expenso of malntatning In the Jalls und pen- ltentlaries of the Tand the criminats who violut- cd the Blection taws, that would he A PRETTY 8TRONA GROUND for arpument that it wus fu the direction of emnum“ ‘e Chalrman overruled the point of order on the ground thut the amendiment was ot only eertmane, but was directly (n the lnterest of ceonomy, & Mr. SBonthard then made an argument in ad- vocacy of the amendment, 1le was followed on the sume stde by Durham, who argued that sll the muchinery . of clections ought to bu vous trolted by the Stato Governments, not by the Federal Government, Mr. [lale argued ueafost the amenament, and wound up his speeeh by saying {o what he called # sobae nd” wurning way: " Thia slde of the House belleves sincercly thut if this nody of Inw s strack from ©the statutes Uie Jaws of the severnl States afford no protection to the ecitizen when be gecka 1o exercise the right of suffrage. It belfeyes that if these laws are repealed the safeguard of tha voter ih a large portion of the Unton is wrenched away from him, and he fa left exposed to his perscentors, Tuis side hos thus far sfm- ply coutented itself with I8 iniuorlty vote, und 8o (ar a3 thut gooa lins S'Mdcd to tho revo- lution of the jury box und repeal ot the test wath, But if this thing be further nststed on, L vant the gentleiaon on the other sido to under- rumurlmluu bill, with thie bellef 1 cousent to it Wo have aut that this side wil here night and day, aud buve afded the other side to lnm aporoprintion bill after aporopria- tlon bill, Laast Monday wo voted alinost soitdly to suspoud the rules nnd pass the De- ficlency bl s0 as to avoid (what no sane man or country wants) an cxtra acssion. We id the samo (bm% with the bill mak- ng appropriations for peosion arrearsges and with tho River und Harbor bitl, I'respass- ing wantonly vn our good nature, und betieving thit thero {8 nothing hero but & yielding spirit, the other aide of the House now seoks, at the 187)~-TWELVE PAGES, " be tolerated, expense of an extra sessfon, to crowd this legis- Iation on us. We CANNOT AND WILL NOT ENDURE IT. Mr. Eden—Ias ot the majority the right to pass it Mr, Frye—If you can, 3 Mr. Braz was surprised that the Republican party, whicth had just robbed the Ameriean people of the frulis of the ULallot-box, should stand up to-day and talk about furthering tle law to preserve the purity of eclectfons, The nw which it was sought to repeal, justend of wreserving the purity of the batlot-box, furnlsh- ed out of the Natfonal Treasnry n campalien Tund for efther varty which might. be in power to corrupt an clectloi, Mr, Chlttenden xald ho had voted for the repeal of the jurors’ test oath, hecause it was absurd to udmit Soutbern men to Gongress aud exclude them from the jury-box, Ile warned the other side bf the House, huwever, thut “a golfd South” would bo met by *a solid North.” "1t was tuo soon for the mentletaen who had sacriticed thelr all (save honur) to destroy the Unlon fifteen years ago to appear Buw to resume Its control, “That seemed to the North an expression of audacity which could not He regrarded thoe pending measure as the hugest blunder thet the Democratic varty coutd commit ot this pacticular Junction, Mr. Ktmel srgued in favor of the amend- ment, nnd cited recent events In Marylund ns nln.;wl % the vil of existing legislation on the subject, .\l’r. Frye arzued against the amendment. Ile declared “fts objects was for effect not ju the Suuth, but in the State of New York. Intlic South, notwithstandiue the Election laws, the Republiean purty had 'disappesred s the dew before the risine sun, ‘The South would Le 73!;«; sg;r the Demacratic cundidate for President )y LAW OR NO_LAW, Bupervlsor or no Supervisor, United States Mar- shinl or no United States Murshal. Gen. Butler sald the South coutd not clect n Prosident. ~Bumcthlng: olse wos necessary, What wus 1t1"The Stute of New York. 'Iliere wus the requiremnent fur the repeal of this law. New, York would have to be carrfed by the Dumocratle party In 1830, und New York gentle- nen kuew perfectly well that with this law on the statute-hook New York could not be carrled for the Democratic party, Mr. Wood—New York will be carrled by the Demogratic party. Mr. Fryc went on Lo state that it was the clee. tion frauds In 1863 thut bhad origlnally caused the enaciment of the Federul Electlon taw, and that {t was the present necessities of the Democratic party that bow required its repeal, He zave somne of the flzurcs 0} the naturahza- tiot nnd eleetion frauds In New York tn 1568, und characterized thnt election as 3OST MONSTROUS AND MARVELOUS for fraud, for wickedness, und for every device of the Devil that hod ever been heard of. Ho showed that,on the 6th of Octaber, in one single day, the Bupreme Court had waturulized 2,100 persong, und on the 10th ot October the Su- l())rcme Court hnd naturslized 919, and yet a Judge of Louisiana had been fuipeached ami found gullty for hm’hlfi persons in one day,—that being declared to be o phvsical impossibility, He spoke of nine wit- nesses (once u Captatn of a squad) wituessing the nuturalization of nearly 7,000 bersons, oue of thein (the Cuptain) being o witnesa in onc court Tor 510 persons, and swearing that he koew alt the men, while he did not kuow a single one of them, nnd, white the Judge know thut be dud not, but thut he was A DRUNKEN THIEF, In concluslon, he quoted from Cox’s report ou the New York elcetion tn 1870, fn which a hich complinent {8 puid to the United States Super- vlsors und Marshals, AMr. Hooker called attentfon to the fact that See. 2,021 provided that Supervisors in the absence of Marshal stiould absolutely be made Marshals, aml in additfon to thelr powers us Supervisors they were fntrusted with the power of nrresting vartles without warrant of law, Mr. leokie supported the amendment, and stated his willinuness to bring his rations on the floor of the Touse and remain there day after dav and vight after night ratlier than vote or o dotlar to defray the exoenses of the Guy- ment until_the odlous laws in_ regard to Bubervisors of Elections were blatted from the statnte-books, Mr. Hunua characterized the attempted repeal a8 unother effort of the hydra-headed doctrine of Btates’ rights to tIx fes phisonous fnngs i the heart of the Republie: as another blow at the doctrine that this country was a nation utd not amere confederation of States, The amend- ment was brought forward In the fnterest of foree, fraud, and Intimiiation, and ws vlelous attack upon the purity of theballot, Had it come tu this, thst the Democratie party, in order to save from the felan's doom certain menbers of the Forty-sixth Coneress (who, us it was sald, wonld not bu here if_theso reciions coutinued i force), were olliged to repeal the Inws which threw & safegunrd around the cleetlonst Ile warued that party i€ that was dony the peopie of the North would in duoe time awake to the peril of thé hour uud the real pur- pose of the men who sought to coutrol “the Democratle party. noturallzed some 403 it LYNDR defended the movement. Iie denfed the atate- ments of Mr. Frve as to falwe naturailzation papers In New York, und asked why {t was that A thera were 8o many fulse naturalization papers in 1268 that not one person had sines then been successfully prosceuted for using or hsulng them, He believed thnt the greater purt of those boturnlizatton papers were valld, The Election law had been got up by John I, Davenport for his own uud for partisan pur- poses, “The way In which the law had heen ad- inhstered by” Davenport was sketehed il eritleized by bim to prove that ali these state- menty ol election frauds were gross exsarrern- tous, fle characterized the Lawrencs report of the clection of 1863, from which Mr, Frye had obtatued his facts und tigures, as the most unre- Iable politieat document hie hud ever seen., Mr, Baker (Iud.) expressed the oplnjon that his friends on the other side who declpred them- selves fo favor of freedom of election while they had thelr hands on the throst of the law that secured it were PROTERTING A 1ITILE TOO MUCH, Underlviug the discussion was the question whict. nud cubminated fn the Rebeltjon, whether or ot the hifo of the natiou ean be protected by e uatton iesell, Mr. Chaliners sald ho was reminded by the, two specchies of the gentlemen from Indlany (Honua wnd Baker) of the young preacher who took for his text *Peter’s wifv’s motber lay sick ot a fever,” l]:!ln.rum on the I(c}umllmn side, * We heard that Letore. 1Us old. ™| Mr. Chuliners—Whethier vou have hesrd it or not, you must hear it again, **The time has come,” eald the preacher, *““when thnt old womay showld certuinly be dead.” Mr. Chalmors wout ou to say hiat, as bistory wan olten found ropeating ltsell, so it was now fouud that just us thoe natlons of Europe jolned together to rescuo the Hoty Sepulehre from the ntidel, the Democrats now jolned hands to res- cue the Constltut'on from - destruction at the Iauds of the Rudical Republlean purty, Mr. Ketfer charucterized the.amendment as an attempt to establish * frea fraud {n elections,” Hu apoke of the Democrata as * politieal [con. oclusts,” nnd of Samuel J, Tilden as $ths great ravisher of ballot-boxes {n 1568," As they had juat been told that blatory sometinies ropeated fiself, 80 the country might come to Sred-handed war,” Ho begped the gentlemen ou the nther side to utafl. ‘The zentleman from Mississippl (Chaimers) had spoken of the tion laws us unconstitutional, which was the cr; ralsed when ft was songht to put dowa the Ru- bellion, Mr. Wood recited the history of the laws which wero nru{med to bo repealed, ‘They wero but a portion of a suries of laws pussed tu order to keep the Suuthern States as stipendiaries of the Republican party, ‘That had been mtended for the South, but 1t was now apolicd to the North. ‘The gentlemun from Matne (Frye) as- sumed to speak for bis party when he said that ho would reslst by overy medns in hly power the repeal of those laws, “Ho (Wood) could not speak for his porty, but by could speak for one mun when he suld Uit bo did not care what be- cume of the uporopriation bilts, 1lu belioved thiers was 8 higher question than thut of uppro- vriating money, [y coutd stay fn the House ns long vs avy gontlomnn, ‘The Democratle purty could reslst us long as the Republlean party, nnil he would not consent to vote for a doltur until {:ml' swcndmeut should be ongraited on the il . MH. GARPIELD #ald he had not spoken on the polts of order, bevause hu did not regard the quuatiun as ony that wus belng congldered deliberately, Ordl- narily thls was a hall of deliberution, but now they were called upou mercly to reglater the edict of & party caucus under the rule of a per- san who was uunder ‘orders to declls thut tho awendwent came {nunder the rule, ‘U'his remark caused un immediate explosion of anger ou the Democrutic side, and thero were calls to order, and-the demund that the obuox- fous senteuce be roduced to writing sud read at the Ulerk's desk, but the Chalrman (Biackburn) expressed the wish that vo polnt of order should he made, but that he (Biackburn) should ho per- {nmcd to respond, und thut wish was acceded 0. Mr. Garficld proceeded with nis speech, ex- hibiting In lts dolivery tnuch foeling and de- termbuntign, Ife satd that the Ohalr will per- fectly understand that I wean no reflection on Ihin " personally, {l)urlslve laughter on the Denocratle side,] What [ mean tosay is, that when a vaety cavicus resolves azainst the will of ts own minority that (ts wholo party must At an onie man liere, without regard “to op- panenta within its own party, then it censes to be free deliheration. It becomes dictatlon from outside, nnid not deliberation of statesmen with- In, Gentlemen ou 1he other slde have done me the honor to guote with auproval a sentence in which [ sald that the man or the party who sought to rulse base sectlonal, partisan issues in this country would MISTAKE TIIR SPIMIT OF OUR TINR antd wants of our people, and would nol be sup- Imm-d. 1 eaid it with deliberation becauso t he- leved 1t, and t-duv we see preclsely thut thing pruposed on a peaceful aud ordinary process of passinge an apdropriation bill fur the supnort of ihe Government, We seo this Touse, by the movement of cancus dictation, proposed to be tirned Into a. great clectioneering machine for 1830, und thut {8 the whole mcaning of this movement, Gentlemen (addressing the othier aide of the Huuse), you seek to cut out o section, s livin, scction, from the crimlpal laws of 1he United States, and to say that ballot-hox stufflne, feaud at elections, futinidation, outrare, powsoning the very fountaiu-springs of the clective frau- chise, SIALL N1 NO CRIVE, and that the tnachinery by whicn such crime can be punished ehall be destroved, That is what sout propose to do here tosduy, und to do it ot the dictation of & party cuncus, These Inwa were put In the statute-books heeause of thiis great report. which 1 hold i 1wy hawd (hold- gz up the Lawrence report on the New York eloctlon of 1563), whicl has never heen answered mil never ean be, It was proved 1ot that, ul- thouieh the State of New York appeared to give *10,000 wnnjority for the cundidates ot one party 1n 1803, there Were o less than 61,000 FIRAUDULESNT VOTES which produced that result, mnd one of the fore- most men of the natlon, whow the Democracy afierward honored by nomtunting hitn to be its candidute for "the Presidency, weotn and pub- lished to the world o bold denunciation of that fraud, and addressed hisdenunciation to Bamuet J. Tilden, 7 THE MAN WIO BUSTAINED IT, and he closed his denuociation by saylng: Mr, Tilden, you have confederates who wilt chiuckle wver this expuse an showing that the Dot acrats know low, and that they can't be driven Srom power. Tiey will say, ** What If the public Jnuvment condemnst Let onr ropeaters go twlcs more ull around and wo wiil come out ail right, " But, Mr. Tliden, 1 betiove In God, and 1 feel o proo found convictlon thit tne trauds of telumph thus aclnoved will turn fo ashes on the 1i;s of 1ts vic- tors, 1 believe that you, str, wil yot percelve that an honest defeat would have been more advantu- eokts (0 you in the long run thau either of your fraugulent victories, " 11 thut does wot sound ‘like prophecs in view of what has befallen the author of those frauds 161803, then 1 do not knuw what the reglings of probhecy mean. It was in pursuance of tiie discovery ot those frauds by an suthorized Committee of the Rouse that we put in the statute books provisions to proteet our national elections agalust crimes s outrages which would san the foundation of ull free Govern- ment. What are the tnings that gentlemen wlk off Shmply thut we olace at the poll of all our national clections witnesses who shall stamd by, who shall not futerfere, but who shall 8BE Ir PRAUD 18 ATTEMPTED in thelr presence, mivl shall report it. That s what these gentlemen call oppression, T'he seeret of all this movement §s found in an order {ssued from New York und published ju a Demn- ocratie orrnn here, which suys that if the Elec- tlon Jaws be not repealed there will be enough Demoeratic inembers-clect to the next Congruss who will be imprisoned for erime before the next Congress_theets to give n majority to this side of 1ne 1louse, and that Uierefore these laws must e’ renealed, or the Republicans will arganize the 1onse; nnd on that call—on that party bugle-cali=the caucus hns oruered these procecdings to-day: and this (fronically) is 1| party of peace tid good vrder, which does not want trauble, but wants CONCILIATION AND LOVELY UNION of all the elements in the country. Now, Mr. Chafrman, If this be the purpose which we are called upon here to vote oo, we on this side are compelled to mect It {n'the apirit of the Constitution aad our rights, mud that we propose to do, and if it takes one nlzht, two nights, ten oights [applause on Revablican slde}, not while-Congress lasts snall you striky from our atntute-books the muniments for the protection of the ojective fronchise, When you do it you must do It because you have the whole power to ‘do ity und not by our help, not by our consent. A hundred crim- inal prosccutlons ure to-day ‘hululinz be- fore the courts of the Unlted States to pnleh crlmes szajnst the clective franchise, Already evourh men from the City of Cinein- nati have been sentenced to the Penttentlary for frawd to take nway the majorlty of one of the members on this floor from that city {applanse on the Republican side], und all the provecdings in the crimival courrs are to bu sbandoned at the ery of o party order which demands it for party success, MR BLACKBURN, having left the Chalr aud come down on the floor, satd: Mr. Chalrman, if there be one who, 1u the heat of discussion, has heen betrayed Into fmproper actlon or utterunce, Isubmit that I will not permit mysell to lose sht of the fact, ws Chalrman of this Com- mittee _of the Whole during the pendency of the diseusston of this measnre, 1 must not engaze In o dispute u to Its merits, 1 don't coneelve thut it would be elther proper or just for mu to leave that chair to come down to "the floor W enguie It u wrangle or dlseussion with any gentlengn ns to the merits of a measure over whose testinies 1 was wislding more than ordinary power, [ bave not come down_ Jiere Tor thnt purpuse, nordo 1 bropuse to uddress myself o n atngle featuro of this smondment, 1 fave come to respond to what It seems to me could lhave been uttered with but one purpose, und thut 18 to force me from that place, to repel uot' only an indig- nity, "but to hurl back 0w attempted insult. [Applause on Democratic side.| Be- fore | proceed to suy to the gentloman from Ohfo ((arfleld) what'L want to say, I intend to read the note furnished to me by the offlclzl stenogruphier of the House, and it that be what the geatleman stands upon, then my answer will bo as enphatic und as platn as 1t will bo short, The note 83 * Our Iouse to-lay s pre- sided over by one who {3 under ordors to deciide thut this comes under the rule.” I the gentlo- mun from Oblo is content with thut as a correct statement of his lanzuuge, I, of course, buve nothing left but to accept it, Mr, Garfleld—That ts not the whole ol the sentence. Mr, Biuekburn—1 am perfectly willing to have thu senteace completed, for [do not desire to do the gentleman an injustice, Mr. Garlield=L do not know what the wholu seuteneo whi be found tu be In terms, but the point which I soueht to make, and which 1 still muke, ia this: ‘That the action of u body outside of this Houso seems 1o by hinding on fts mem- bers who beloug to thut body, amd what [ moesnt to suy*was, that not only the IHouse on thut side, but its Clhialrinun aa wvell, wore o UNDER A SORT OF DUKMSY because of the acknowledged control of (he caueus, ‘That {8 afl that 1 sald, und 1 sald it as 1 believe it to bn, In o munner did [ intimate thug the gentloman (Blackburn) had himself been ordered dn wny spectw! mauner to aeclde 1ho question, ~but referred Lo the fuet that there was w kind of duress which covered sl members on _that slile, nctuding the presiding oflleer of the Com- wittee, who wus also, as 1 underatand, Chalrman of the eaucits, Mr, Blacktburn—1 ask the gontleman to stote to this Committes whethier he did say or whether Do’ Intended to sy thut the occupunt of the Chalr wua under any order or had recelved even auy expresslon of opinion or purpose from the Democratie caucus 08 to how te was to rule on any question of order! Mr, Uurlleld—1 at only what I lave just eald (und which 1 stund by forever), that "y meaning was und {8 that the wholo party, Inctuds ing the Chalrigun, was under the moral durcss of caucus setlon, which ude this not a de- libarative body, but a body tu REGISTEL TUKR EDIOTS OF A CAUCUS, My, Blackburn—I do not sve exactly how 1 ain to got hold of the utterances of the Lontlenan Srow Ohto, I liold whae ls furnished mo by the ofllcial stenogruphor of the House, 1t 13 very svident (und 1am glud to recognize the fact) that the gontleman frou Ohio docs not propose to staud on that. Now, when I subiit to Wlin thi6 queation os to whother Lo then intended or does nuw propose to be utderstood as tolling tuls Committes that I, us ity Chalrwan, rovelve: fustructions, either Jlm:lly or {ndirectly, or ' : wwas to rile, or as to how I was o e on any Yucuuun of order that wag srosented, 1am not able to reach © A DIRECT 1:8UR . with the gentlemnn. 1 do not undoratand nov, s e lmln ity that he uven charges that. [ wish to add just o siogle word, and Tam sure that L am not violuting any oblization that belongs to eatteus-nction. “There nover was the sligutost intimation eiven me by that cancus or auy metn-~ ber of Ity either In caucus or since, that 1 was cxpccled to rule this way or that way upon sny questlon on which a point of order shiould be rafsed, 1 never anw the amendments offered to this I by tha wentlemen from Alabaina and Obfo (Herbert uned Southard) untll they wera sent to - the Clerk's I, ot course, know what thelr general purport was, I did not know their scope, know their framework. 'Uhey had never been explafned to me or read 1o ing. nor hnd thay Leen scen by me until the point of order was rafsed, This atatement was due bot 6o much to myeelfas it was to my party assoclates In the House mud {n the colntry,” Not so much dus clther to them or to me as it was to the eentle- man from Ullo who, according to this reourt, hud mude a charge that e COULD NOT DR BUSTAINED, and had _taken a position where he cowld not . - stand. It was more on his account than on elther that of mysell or my associates thag [ came here to right what T coneetved to bo A wrone, and, as never do any- thing grudgiogly, [ oy now thut it is not in any grudping suirit, but very freely and very cheerfully, 1that I aceept thé explanation and statement given by the gentloman from Ohio us to whut wus his’ purpose, as completely ex- onerating both mysell und my party assoclates in the House. Mr. Davis—As the gentleman from Ohlo knews what was done in the caucus, perhaps ho will teid s where any tember of tho caucus was buund by its action. M. Blackburn—1 will answer that question myscll, nud wiil sav that that question was nossed upun, sud it was declared in caucus thut ho une was bound in uuy way Yy its actions ‘The caucus was simply for the purpose of con- 3 sultatiun. Mr. Blackburn's remarks were frequently ap plauded. SUBATITUTE OPYERED. Mr. fInle offered & substitute for Honthard’s amendment an amendment prohibiting the use of tlasue hallots, providing that batlots shall be tive by three inches, and making & o penal of- fense 'to attempt to cast any other ballot or to count frregular ballots whein cast, Rejected— Yeas, 112; nays, 124, Mr. Atken sald tht the gentleman from Ohlo (Kelfer) hud anticlpated o war with the South, und had sald thut thero was golug to be a tights It that gentleman wanted to wot up a fight be wouli lave to get it"up with somebody clsc. The people of the Bouth had had cuough.of fichting. * Those people should bo let alone. The ecolored mau was in the hands of his friends, who were dolng moro for him than the Hepublleans had ever done. Ho re- ferred to the tissue ballots as the creatures of of the Itepublicay misrule, which, ltke all curses, nad come home to roost, Mr. Ralney safd such gentlemen as his col- league, Alken, who might have given thelr ad- vice and atd to the colored race in the South, had DECLINED TO DO EO. Was it any wouder, then, that the colored race had done some thinizs which dld not refleet eredit uponit! ft had the consolation of knowing it had not done anything which had not beon dove by the Democratic party in other States. The colored race did notvote for the Republican party under durcas, us had been stated by his colléngue, but because 1t folt o sense of gratitude toward the party through whose instritnentallty the colored vace had been mads tnen, und which had thrown upon them the babiliments of American citizensbio, He stat~ ed, and he defled contradiction, that South Car- olina was as Republican to-day, on a fair, square, unintimidated vote, s any State in the Union. [Apnlauso on the Republlean aide.] In conciusion hesald: * [ want to sco tha time come when the colored vote will be divid- ed, but do not drive us, do not' force us, do not intimiduze us, do not tell us because we arv ne- - eroes thut we bave no rights that you, the fa.’ vored race of the land, are bound to respect.” Without taking unyaction ou the unendment, the Committee ross und the Housn adjourned. IN TIHE SENATE. PIGUTING THE SUBAIDIZERS, Special Dispatch ta The Tribuna. WasnivatoN, D. C., Feob, 10.—1he Senate went to work to-duy on the Postal Appropriation biil, but enconitered an obstacle when theamund- ment wus reached which diveets the Postmastor- General to contruct for ten years for carrying the moils between certaln United States points und Rio de Junefro. The contract was to hs mule with the lowest bidders, but the provision T was made that It should bo glven to Awerican- - owned and built fron screw stemnships, of not leys thau 3,000 tons, after the best models, capable of making thirteen nautical knots an hour. This {s equal to a dircction to give the contrack to Juhn Roacl, as no one else owna or can own such stoamers, und the presonc of the representative of the Chester ship-buftder in the lobby sbowed that there would bo AN EARNEST EFFORT for the $3,000,000 at stako. When In May last the fricuds of Mr. Rouch made astmilar attampt. to eograft the Brazilian subsidy in the Postal Apuropriation bil, it was opposeil on thaground that it was contrary to the twenty-muth rule of the Senate, which prahibits the addition of gen- oral Jegislation on subjects not relevant to the sitbject tatter to an appropriation bill. An curnest dobate susucd, atter which the Scnate refused to recelve the subsidy amendment by a u vote of 23 yeas to 83 nays. Subsequently the Brazilion subsidies were incorporuted by tha Beuatedin n blll to establish pust rates, but the House refused to set upon it. To-day TUE TADLES WEILE TURNED inthe Benate, und fustoad of nine majority araiust the recoption of the smendment, thers was seven majority fn favor of its reception. 'I'ls chango was made by Meassers, Faton, Hill, Inealls, Jones of Florida, and Lunar, wha thea voted nay, but who to-day voted aye, and hy Mesvrs, Bruce, Butler, Cameron of Pennsyl- vanin, Dawes, Gurland, Gordon, . Grover, Heres ford, Pattorson, und Barnum, who did not vota Inst year, but who voted ayo this year, Thure man, who voted aye last year, did not vote to- day. The smendmont baving thus been recelved, AN RARNEST DISCUSSION on it wus commenced, the question bolug on a motlou by Mr, Eatow, of Connecticut, to reduce the thno of contruct from ten to four yuurs. Scuntors Kdmunds und Kernau led the opposi- tlonto the subsidlea, while Blaine und Conk- lnge were foremost in thelr defonse. Eaton's: amendment was lost by a vote of 27 ayes to 30 nays, sod theu Balloy, of Tenncases, offored another mnondwent, reduclug the time of con- tract from ten to five years, While this wus bolng debated, a motion to go tnto exveutive session prevailed, and the Scoate, ofter having confirmed the appolutmunt of Col- lector Brudford und Postmaster McMilien, at New Orlcans, with a few others, sdjourned to_ meet at 11 o'clock to-morrow, & ‘The Roach lobby had hoped that the friends of the subsily would sit it out, but they consolu themeelves with the assertion that the amend- ment will be carrled to-morrow, Whether the Ilouse will udopt this rider .on the Postal Ap- propriation bill, or reject It as they did tast year, rewmulng to be seen. ‘The fricnds of the subsidy ure contident of success. THE GENEVA AWAHD, ‘The report mude by Sunator Edmunds from the Cominittes on the Judiclary on the (Geneva * Aword DIl creatod some ustonishmeut this alternoon, as from the kuown views of some of the gentlemen ou the Coounlitce s differont result wad expectod, Tho LIt g reported glves the {nsurance companles the frst chunce, und tuoss who suffored by the. Confederatr crulsert the sevoud chince. Thoss whohad pald prewiums for war riske, who wero recoruized i the House tull, wre Ignored fu this Scuate LU, 83 are the 10 per centum clalms of the owners of whalers and the 8 per centum claims for intcrost. [tis rumored that some of the Judiclary Committen sro opposed to ¢, but had to consent to 48 bee X ing roported fn its present shape as tue ouly *