Paoli Weekly News, Volume 7, Number 30, Paoli, Orange County, 9 April 1879 — Page 1

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lieil upon tnat rnwre ma. . .; rnn train alone, " V:i t Kn1o' utmost 1xinn!, ir -hrainctfl Pb, "d plaintive nonir. Xbfy laid tli rp In J rronnd. ,.; ..ft as the i-rr.in il'hjr breath, Tt ? rensic tol away; Ar. 1 in h icy arm of destb, la nw eft repose the fairy lay. p ;.,t tr sorrow aacml made; j-vj. jjtjj, leaf r,-'r3,,tI wit!l wh'-r lovcil fonu was laid. ." J riiisa no nr. n. At niw.o t t!ay 'e10' rasred, Er;h f. :t hif t- a" "5 o hor breast; ll'-jxe r awWle the piaat waged, -Hiffl jMMi"U 'ar.k at-ain to rtst. fh? aoud ii (f"i-N !''! nothing now ;: the fury of the hour. Hi 5 tiifii of the pausing shower. A I ,,- 1 drin?in the sun, " A bun.!re-J more la Bha.low found; Urt fsH-.n?, ialiinjr. one by one, To clnk torUm in the ground. j-nrls that tranquil shine, and then .Vretirn-il and shaken by the breeze; M-tfcml" t!ie troublous lives of men Hit w. !! be hkened nnto these. A. drop rf trtmbling mold, TrK liv-, to death so swift a prey, ,rb first ahall ijnit its slender hold, iru.-h n:enet perish who can say? iMWFf .ff IVIX TllV OLD SALOOX. J Fnthrtit to r'j frott Kent Life. EY r.VEKIE V. SHAW. The dire were shaken briskly and tlie wont merrily round, amidst the L ;-dfcr of the jol'y crowd. The red c'Jp rattled at the faro-table, experif:&! players skillfully handled the i.i'Ji.iid'-cr.e, whilst amusing anecdotes bbown were related and received ith vociforous applansc. The balmy l'riag air came in at the door through l;c the sraoke from sundry cigars and fift's found egress. Presently a shadow, L'.ur. athwart the strip of sunlight t'.atkjoathe threshold and floor, caused the hirers to look up w ith various ex elections of pleasure, as a tall, broadiW,.!ml fellow entered and came s-iiigiLg up the room. The figure had oc Wn very hand-some, but now the A.h' ..krs, slightly stooping, marred the P Certain traces of good looks the pie face still retained, though constant dissipation Lad wrought sad havoc ih-re. lie -ra? well dressed, but a iwmcwbat negligent air pervaded Lis hciring, which, combined with &o s'iriling pallor of his face, and the goueral lassitude of his manner, would hit one to pronounce him an invalid ; hat, wlion some one advanced this idea, it discarded with seorn. Oh, I'm well enough," he said, as he h"g;:el and shook hands around with boys. "Caught a little cold the ftliCT bjjjU and was h'id up for a day or two, but that don't amount to anything. To all right now." One cr two of the boys exchanged glances -we, hut no one disputed him, Aa 1 Jeau Ioxter-a big giant of a fellow, m-i, Bn ;!A,.,j-.. uucjiuijufin swagger filled f. or the drink3 and stood treat aU aron-d with his accustomed lordliness "f Fellows, the last arrival, rented next, acd, when he had swallowed a eonple of drinks of the poisonous Cmd, his pale face begaa to flush, .U1 2re burned in his pr'' ejes- The blooa went conrst.jnviigh Lis vcir.s with 1if t-..l , ,r -,a,Aj n au . ) m. fite tuken a s er long to per'v-.' th.it he ie was a privileged character .'lnuy cwwd assembled there J.1;"6 V1 'mloon- ho talked all fu:"Cw aEd agreed. Wl.cn n vt nr. io te Ar iome OEe made room for him. u fey they r-rticularly liked him. it TSV'' 11..! . . ; ' to say. It vrias not be J. ias nin2ey, for, though ha was t,fJS reailj to Pay for the drinks when ..c-o. ,tiu,r ,iiee-tnrncd ciin.t ," l' ?'" Ls 1 4 ? --.Ily !tum I to , " 1 ' 1 it t cit , ' s : ' V .... ... a At-.-. l . r t. - i ... .7 r 1 " - . ( r t i t fr: V a 1 11t 1 1 i: i'l r ff r tat1 . - T h" " - fr : : m ii v , 1 1. , i It f Mi. : trv t 1 . 1 1- f 1. . r t t ; "ion i

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in one hand that would slop, with his unsteady inoTeinents, first to one side and then the other, "you are a set of miserable, drinking vagabonds, nothing more nor less. You ain't worthy the name of men, and yon hain't got it, neither; nobody thinks you ere men." lie seldom alluded to the past in aay way, and none of his boon companions knew anything of his life before he came among them; but there was something about him which led them to think, that he could not aim-ays have been the drunken sot that he was now. His health had been gradually failing of late, and no one but himself doubted that he would fall a victim to dread consumption. The hotel was the place where he took his meals and lodging, but the old saloon was his home. Hera he could be found at all times playing billiards or shaking dice with some of the "good boys," in order to ascertain who should pay for the drinks. ... But this lovely spring afternoon on which we first present him to the reader ho did not stay long enough to get beyond the exhilarated stage, for the gong called Mm to supper, and he left the Faloon in company with Jean Dexter, whom ho had invited to go to snpper with him. These two were great friends, and, thongh Fellows was everybody's favorite, ha was only partial to one, Jean Dexter. Having finished their meal, the two men stood out in front of the hotel, conversing for a short time, and presently strolled away in the direc

tion of the saloon. Suddenly on the ; balmy evening came the ringing of church bells, and both men involuntarily looked toward the church, which was already brilliantly lighted, and where a crowd of people were entering. "Say we go," said Fellows abruptly, pausing in the middle of the street, and Jean, as if the possibility had never before suggested itself to his mind, answered, approvingly, "Why, we can, can'? we?" And so it happened that they went that night, and, strange to say, several succeeding ones found these two occupying their places at the church where the Ihev. Mr. Syckles was holding a great revival, assisted by other divines; and in these few days Jean learned to understand his strange companion's nature better than ever before. One evening, as they were on their way to the chnrch, Fellows reached above his head and plucked a cluster of apple blossoms from a small branch that fell over a wall which they were, passing. "Apple blossoms," Le said, softly, raising them to his lips. "Do you love them, Dexter?" The tone in which this was prnt bordered so near on sentiment that Jean, who could swagger and look so big among the roughs down at the saloon, found himself seriously embar rassed, and stammered a little as he admitted that he "didn't know." "The old home," mnsed the other, as if communing with himself, "the pink and white flowers with which my hands were wont to fill my sister's lap. Then a merry, innocent child, and now " A violent fit of coughing stopped him, and, as they were. Bearing the church door, they paused until he could recover himself. The handkerchief which he removed -from his lips was thickly flecked with blood, and Jean, seeing it in the while moonlight, shuddered, 'and turned his face away. His companion looked very weak and exhausted, and Jean whimpered Mm if they had not better go back. But he shook his head, and would not hear to it. "Yon ain't gittiu religion, bo you? questioned Jean, with some anxiety, as they ascended the steps. "Iteligion," repeated the other, kxsldfig cpikkly into his companion's face, and seeming strangely moved. I never lost it till I camo to this pi&ce. The sermon was very but id impressive that ni neither o! them beard it. Jean was thinking uneasily of the strange change that had come over Ms friend, but the r-rs th is were not the church. Fit i i the cpeu window lit ar .hh h he s d he ce;il c.t h o v; Ir-i.U . -id V .t fti"i il e ihi t 1 - ; j s the c r I i". hie f ,,rtdl k cad ' h I , r re t1 V 1 1 j jr I-i i:r- -ir Wu he cc -1 1 1 - f t f .- r t. -r iVi; r 1 . ? c !hvv I . 1 1 ' r, r , 1 i

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picture showed the image of himself as he was now, he put Ms emaciated hands before his face as if in protest, while a vague pity for the poor' remnant that was left of Ms bright manhood took possession of his whole being, and he found himself no, not Mm, but the other one, the one that he saw in the past weeping compassionately over this poor wreck of the present one, as in those old times he would have wept over some erring brother whom he pitied deeply, but who had no part or interest in himself. Just then the great organ commenced to play ; the congregation rose to their feet. He tried to rise also, but something seemed weighing him down. The singing of the immense crowd floated to his ears, as if from some great distance, wild and unearthly in the pathos of its music. He will save you, He will cave you, rang and rerang throughout the crowded room, and he half extended his hands as if in pleading. "Surely, surely," he whispered, " that is meant for me." lie tried again to rise, but the faintness of death overwhelmed him. He was sinking down, down, in the dizzy stupor of unconsciousness. liVlien he opened his eyes again he was lying in the room at the hotel, the bright morning sunlight streaming in at the window. A vase of apple-blossoms stood on a little table near his head, which he noted with a faint smile of gratification. Several of Ms old chums

were standing near the door, listening eagerly to what somebody was saying in a low voice, and, as this personage turned toward him, he saw with a queer kind of sensation that it was a physician. " Aha," said the doctor, in a cheerful tone, as he advanced toward the bedside, " and how are you feeling now ? " The sick man gazed at him for a moment, and then his eyes wandered around the room. He felt almost inclined to resent the pitying way in which the boys regarded him. Wdiat made them lower their voices so when they spoke, and what made Jean Dexter brighten up and try to smile whenever he caught Mm looking that way? It was very annoying to see that forced smile all the time, and at last.when Jean, in the innocence of his heart, would have grinned again, the sick man called out, "You needn't be to the trouble of stretching that big mouth of yours again, Dexter. I can see you when you think I ain't looking, and I know you are scared; but I tell you I ain't sick no more than you are, and 111 be round among the boys tMs afternoon to prove it." They all laughed a little at this, and Dexter had just commenced to affirm that "He knowed he wa'n't very sick," when the doctor interfered and ordered more quiet, but the sick man would have none of hi3 interference. "I don't need any doctor," he said, impatiently, "and I- won't have one, neither;" and, seeing that he was stubborn in tMs resolution, the doctor wa3 dismissed. But he didn't find himself quite equal to the emergency when, in the afternoon, he attempted to dress, in order to keep Ms word with the boys. So he was fain to pint it off until to-morrow. But to-morrow passed, and the next, without finding him any stronger, and at last he grew indignant, and concluded to go anyway. So, when he found himself quite alone, he rose and dressed carefully, though he was very weak, and felt quite . exhausted. When he had completed his toilet and took, a survey of himself in the mirror, his eyes chanced to fall on the apple blossoms, which had appeared regularly on the table every day during his illness, and he took a small cluster of them and fastened them ia the button-hole of his coat. "It is sny drsfe appearance in public for toae time, ha said, with a hind cf grim humor, " and I must lock my 1 , '." Yj th y.l cf a l'-ht c-.ne, ha rda LI- y, . wily r 1 r .It-, ! -.t - I 1 La u-jy, 0 n 1 t: 2 1 " 1 : I S o j n e i ; - 4 r - - i. ? ' 1" .:. , i . . :, Fir; - 1 li 1 1' ' ' r ? i. .

ter, beamingly, as he led the way to the bar. The drfnk3 went around, and then somebody found a comfortable place where he could sit and watch the players. The barkeeper brought Mm a cigar from Ms choicest brand, and there he sat in the place that had been a home to him so long, surrounded by his rough companions, v. ho would ever and anon come to Ms sids to have a friendly word or two peaceful and contented. He was sitting rather in the shadow, Ms chair leaning against the wall, and his companions, absorbed in their game, did not notice how the pale face grew gradually paler, or how, after a while,

the cigar dropped from Ms nerveless fingers to the floor. But Jean Dexter, going to Ms side, presently, found Mm sitting very quiet, Ms head drooping down on one arm. He would not respond to their repeated calls, for he had answered a far different call, and could not hear their voices for the rushing of the dark waters o'er which he had crossed. The bunch of apple-blossoms lay just above M3 heart, and, when they buried him, fresh clusters of the fragrant flowers lay on his breast, and near his head. "They will make him think of home," said simple Jean. The night after his friend was buried found Jean occupying his place alone at tlie church where they had sat together. " It will please Mm to know that I am here," he said to himself, as he brushed his coat-sleeve across Ms eyes, and prepared to listen religiously to the sermon. It had not proceeded far, however, when the congregation were surprised to see the big fellow near the front get up and swagger from the room with evident signs of disgust. " I wouldn't hev minded it on my own account," he said the next day, as he stood in the old saloon, the center of a crowd of listeners; "but you can bet your lives I wasn't goin' to set there and take such lip as that about Mm. A preacher don't know any more'n anybody else, clern Mm. Hear him palaverin' as how no drunkard shall go to heaven, and then somebody else will tell you to repent and you'll git saved. Now, accordin' to one, the poor fellow didn't go to heaven, and accordin' to the other he couldn't have gone to hell. An', if he didn't go to neither place, what I'd like to have 'em tell me is, where the dickens he did go, for that'll be a good enough'place for us, I reckon." Schell City, Mo. SPltING STYLES. Satin and French bunting make a beautiful combination for walking suits. High f raizes and long jabots will be the leading styles for neckwear tMs spring. New York milliners have shown more colored than black or white bonnets this spring. Alsatian, Normandy and Dorraine bows rival turbans as finishes of fashionable coiffures. Breton lace drapery scarfs twine all around bonnet crowms, and then form the strings of many bonnets. All sorts of hats, bonnets, turbans and caps aie in vogue this spring for outdoor as well a3 indoor wear. Quantities of cheap pinhead-checked and hair-lined striped summer silks are selling at the moment for parts of suits and akso for entire costumes. American women who are sensible as well as tasteful avoid English styles ot half masculine Derby hats, nianish ulsters, and jackets for street wear. Pompadour gauzes with alternate lace and satin stripes, with flower and vine patterns over the same, made up in combination with -plain silk and satin, make very stylish summer evening dresses. The newest and most elegant umbrellas for all occasions are in very dark wine colors, or gendarme blue or brown, or navy blue, black, orx invisible green, and of the rich, soft, serviceable, twilled umbrella shk that .13 shower proof. both sun and The quaintest, mixtures of color appear ia mummy cloths, as stripes of yellow-green, pink and v Lite, rU mingled together; and pattern 1. .'riling Sat suraa ware, with creamy ground 3 and f . ,11 Zs, cr d:igr.s ia shade s cf I rows, t II. J L ..iJ uL i t ...... t. ta::: Chirac' II. i th. 1 or xovn II A HITS. il v t.:uee, reputation W O j eosietimes ionge-r. . 1 1 , i- c ro Li V. 1 cf I 1 1 i1-- si '? h .r. . :. r ii . . ; c . ... 1.. v c . j 1 ;id Cc J. till r . r i i V c

The Beal Issue Before Congress and tlia Peopls. pssch.cf Hon. Frank Herd, cf Cliio,

in th.3 House cf HepreEsstatives. ila. Chaemas: By tlie seventh iectioii of the first article of the constitution it ia provided that All bills for raising revenue originate in the House of Representatives." In the Forty-nfth Congress tlie House cf Representatives, ia the exercise of its unquestioned power, passed tlie Array bill and the Legislative bill, appropriating nearly fifty millions of money for the naes of the Government To those bills they added certain provisions germane to their subject-matter and in tho interest of economy which repealed provisions of iho existing statutes, most of which had been incorporated into the law of the land by being in the first instance attached to appropriation bills. These bills, when sent to the Senate, were amended, as that body bad tho undoubted power to do, by striking out these provisions to which 1 have referred. They went to committees of conference. Not having been a member of one of tho committees of conference, nor familiar with the necessities of legislation at that time pending, I am unable to say what tho propositions for settlement and adjustment of the differences between the two houses were. I have heard it said upon the floor of this House that certaiu distinguish! d representatives of the Republican parry were willing to concede very much to the wishes of tho House, only insisting that there should be one amendment ief t out These gentlemen had not power to speak for the body which differed with this House, and I do not know that any proposition was made by the Senate of the United States for a compromise. I do not know that as a result of the disagreement of the committees of conference an extra session was called. I will not now discuss the question as to who is to be blamed for the extra session, excepting in the general discussion of the propositions that are involved in this debate. If the House were right in insisting upon these provisions, then the Senate was wrong in compelling au extra session. If the Senate were right in refusing to accept the propositions of the House, then the House was wrong, and I propose, in the few remarks that I shall submit to the consideration of this body to-day, attempt to shaw that tho House waa right in every proposition which it insisted upon in tlie Forty-fifth Congress and which it insists upon now in the legislation of the Forty-sixth. Nor shall I discuss ihe method by which these amendments "r provisions have been attempted to be made parts of the appropriation bills. If anything has been settled by the legislation of the last quarter of a century, ic is that even general legislation may be tacked to appropriation bills; and certaialy no man, at any time in the history of this Government, has disputed the proposition that measures in the interest of economy, propositions relating to the revenue, might be incorporated into bills when they were originated by the House, under the authority of the section to which I haye referred. "Who was right? Who is right now ? I say, Mr. Chairman, that the House of Itepresentatives was right in insisting that these bills should be repealed. I shall not speak to -dav of the Test-Uath bill. I shall speak only of the two others which relate to elections, because they both are governed by tho same principles, and both must be settled by the same constitutional doctrine. The House of Representatives insisted that the law should be amended so as to striko out that part which authorized the use of troops at the polls ; that the law should be amended eo that Supervisors of Elections appoinied by Federal authority should no longer possess the Eower they now have; and that there shonid e a repeal of all the statutes which conferred upon ofiicers of the Unifct d States the power to interfere with or reguute State elections. Ihe House was right, and it is right in the demand it makes now, because, firs t, these provisions are unconstitutional. They interfere wiih the right of suffrage; they attempt the control of voting in a State m the Union n h -re by the law s of the State the voting power alone is con ferred. Have gentlemen who have considered this question read recently section 2, article 1, of the constitution of the United Sta es, which declares that " The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several Ss.at.es, and the elec'ors ia each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the Sta-e Legislature." It is the most numerous branch of the State Legislature that detei mines the qualifications of electors and not the constitution of ' the United State. There is no Euch thing as the light rt suffrage for a citizen of the United Stites. The right of suffrage is po wealed and enjoyed by a cirizen of a State under the laws created by the State ex pressly recognized by the fundamental law of the land. And, if any doubt upon this subject had ever been entoitau-cd, I a si yon to reier to the decision of the Supreme " Court of tho United States recently made; in which evei y doubt is taken away: "The power of Congress I read from 2 Otto, page "215, tlia syllabus of the case "The power of Congress to leprlflate at all upon the subject of voting at State elections rests upon thii amendment, and can be exercised by providing a puciahment only when the wrong! til refusal to receive the vote of a qualified elector at such elections is because of Ids color, race, or previous condition of servitude." The highest judicial tribunal cf the United States baa determined that there is no powerin the Consxe38 of the United States to interfere with vot'rg at the State elections excepting in the single instance where the power was conferred upen the General Government by the Fifteenth amendment to the constitution. Kow, on what theory, I ask you, does this legislation of which I speak rest? On what theory (lo-s the United States Government send trno; 3 t tl.e polls at a i- v elect.o'i O.in! at t OAi y do Snp.rvior of Fleasons eUr.d at thf poh-jtj? -fn.soir'l i iViurev.:'' S-ntft'.ee-t -va? C ron t. t j t tlaiv'.t cf M-f- - i ii a 1 - ' t"'. it 1 ly tho e n cf t e l... J S: .r, ia iho t.VLrjj,:.'-3 cf v; a ;t 11 t e 1 "-t -! of G'.Tro-a to Toieet; tro csu21. I.u a I hare si uwn ym bv 'he c -rt j'T'-.-'r-fft ir . " ', ltytj('?ia of s Sry rf ro Conrt of the 1 i: V f, I.v t"0n t: t ! .' s r t t 1' 1 r ' t rf t'.e 1. 't .t"s"l It ; i i. - a, !(' Cor-iu" And, thetcfi i" r i t .e c- f' '-.ti 1: ilv.:' '. sn irre "-i.LIj t t ?. y I 'i . .:i r.rs '.. .tnu-c aI k -v f it : - "-T-n r. ' ' r'1 - to '""' 1 r j fi L - ,, i ,Lfy rf t.. i 1 . vy tf,, rrv t! x 'ro vision of t-o a tut u, t. ' 1. -3: "J 1 s . I ' -s 8-1 ' r rf 1 "".'' f - 1 t 4 I i r. - I. e I l t. : i r . J ft f f a ; It ; f M t 'i t 1 I I

r cf v I whether it is to be viva vcca or I v X ?..!', as to"'(-j ? "v (',(.',( ; t' i t. , a!. t1 ."llTt-r cJ 1 '.s ij e C i" . j.i l V nVC 1 Sid lit ' TIM '3 O 1T.1- : u(f t e n ir I t r 1t ji cr'-, al v, a-, J t . f- 1 of ;:r. h 'U eft i d'o c i i.cr.h Cro..T, 1 t.n-'wci d v ; 1 t 1. u nevir -a l -d cr c ' d c iif t 3 T ji-ier ovtr t s t . u i e i: s ti Col Tr -ix, c j t er - di a rf t. e t " , j rt . and l cf -ti. - Il L l 1 conV Jid i.i t' a pre '-3 -f t j prpr t it tL. ) yov, ero'..rt ' s ! j l: t v be 0 -ivcJfi 1 t iat rn jcT t.ii'c ..on nmcU a' ti.-Tizcs'Cn'-rre-s to ira-.'t.e to every Stalj a repnbltoan form of" govern nerit and to seal troops to suppress domestic violence on the call of the Executive in 1 absence of the Legisi.atu.re, or of the Leg: ..tare of State. There may be each domestic violence at the polls that the Governor of tho State, if Legislature be not in session, would be ouad to call upon tlie President of the United Stie for assistance, and ia such cases as tb&t the power of the Government can be p-operly exercised; but the ground on which the power is exercised ia, that it is at the request of the authorities of tho State. The troop of the United States have no business at tho polls except to suppress of violenceor for repelling invasion at the request of the State authorities, the State authorities having first indicated to the General Government tho desire of assistance. Is not this very clause to which I have referred an additional argument in favor of the position that this law in unconstitutional? The troops of the United States can only be used to suppress domestic violence or repel foreign invasion, and here is a law which proposes to send troops to tho polls at any time, at the order of anybody, without any request of the State authorities; and it is the plainest violation of that provision of the constitution which directs the only way in which the troops of tho United States eh ill be sent to a State. The constitution thereby prohibited any other way of sending troops to a State. I say, then, that these provisions should be repealed because they are in direct conflict with the fundamental law of the country and in the plainest violation of an expressed" adjudication of the highest judicial tribunal of the land. In the second place, these laws shonid be repealed because" they introduce a dangerous method and practice into the conducting of elections and the administration of justice. They authorize men to interfere with the elec tion of the local ofiicers of the Slate. Ia the State of Ohio, and I believe in most of the States of the Union, the law is that all officers shall be voted for on a general ticket State officers, county officers, municipal officers, township officers, and members of Congress. In the State op Ohio every man whose name is on the ballot is voted for as an officer of the State, and yet this provision of this law proposes to put United States Supervisors to supervise the counting and easting of tho votes for county officers and State ofiicers. I submit that no such power was ever intended by the constitution of the United States to he conferred upon Congress ; and I submit that the State cannot be shorn of her sovereignty la this way, as is claimed by the Republican party, by sucll a provision aa this, without danger to its institutions. What arises from the very section to which 1 have referred? Who are" the voters? They are the persons whose qualifications are fixed by the constitution of the State, and, under this law, the Supervisors of Election are stationed at tho polls, for what? If the 4 aw of Congress fixed the qualHcations for the electors of a State, then it might be proper that the Federal Supervisors etiould be present to interpret and execute the laws; but, under what- doctrine of constitutional law, on what principle of government, will yon say that Supervisors appointed by the Federal Government, strangers to the laws of Ohio, shall stand at the polls and interpret our laws and execute them? The third objection is that these supervising officers are armed with authority unkno vrn in the history of the common law or State Jaws. They have authority at the polls on the day of the election to arrest, without warrant, any man whom they may 'suspect of being about to engage in a violation of the laws. There is no principle of common law or State law which can authorize the arrest of citizens on suspicion of an intention to commit au offense. Here are men who honestly believe that they have the right to vote, and wiio, on going to the polls to deposit their ballots, are confronted with this extraordinary invasion of the rights of civil liberty and arrested, and, as in the city of New York, incarcerated in many instances for days. What an extraordinary scene was presented for a republican Government in the city of New York at the last election! Thousands of men who had failed to get out their naturalization papers in a way that suited the judgment of the supervisor or iiecuons were arrested upon eight. At one time over 6'Xt men were under arrest who had gene to the polls honesdy believing that they had a light to vote. They "had committed no breach of the peace; they had committed to fclony. They had attempted to exercise what they believed to bo their right and duty. Yet they were incarcerated and prevented from voting. S nee that time a judicial tribunal to which the case was referred has determined that these men were not guilty; that they were innocent; that they were entitled: to vote at the election. A power so outrageous as that upon the riht of suffrage and the exercise of the duties of a freeman, I venture to say, has not within this century bee a exercised before under any Government, monarcnicji or oeupouc. I have finifhed wh.it I desired to say upon my second point of objection to these measures , and as a reason for their repeal; that is, that they introduce new and extraordinary methods for the control of elections and for the adxuinistration of justice. Another point which I urge against them as & reason for their repeal, and one which so overehadowingly is greater than tlie others that I have been loath and hesitated to discuss thera. It is that these measures in their very nature and essence are tUngerous and destructive to civil hbertv. All history is full of warnings upon tcis subject. No republic which hss ever peri." Led from the face of the earth has gone to i e grave save through military infinence. The familiarization of the people through the army with the forma of despotism, the gradual abfwation of the forms of the republic, and the ultimate eub version of all civil Rovernmeat bay marked the career of evcrv republic from its birth to its-grave, and shall we escape the force and application of the universal rule? I power less e-i et, are rl ,Lts more sacred, are i hi it j,s more f ireia tl .1 cor.'-t-r, p, ii.-1 we cfi r re wl . t 1 irri to i - ' - h a ' ' r : 1 1 3 wrv.ht ruin vr ryl.c ie b -c? I a 1 i tb v ri T' ' '. I vn (" 1 8 r 1 w1 t'ro r jrcl 1 ivo'l its c In t..- r rui .s; fr,-n li. 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In English history we find that luo House of Commons has power alone to origiBate money bills. Of what value that is, let me illustrate by reading from Do Lolnia oa tho constitution of England, one of tLo most brilliant French commentators on that instrument: "Tho right to grant subsidies to the Crown, possessed by the people of England, is the eafognardof all their other liberties, religions and civiL It is a regular means, conferred on them by tho constitution, of' influencing the motion of the Executive, and it forms tho tie by n biefc the latter ia bound to them," It thus appears that the power of the House of Commons to originate money bills was, under the English constitution, a regular method of influencing the motion of tho executive power. Do you suppose our fathers incorporated a corresponding provision into our constitution without understanding the ufes to wlilefa it had been applied? Its purposo in English history was to influence the motion of executive power, and it had been usad on many a soernoratilo occasion in behalf of the civil and religious liberties of tho Eng'ish people. I do not know, Mr. Chairman, even what will be the action of this House upon this bill. I certainly do not know what w.d bo tl.e action of the Fresident of the .United States when the bill is submitted to him, if it shall pas.s, much less can I know what will bo the action of tho House when the t ill may be returned to us with his objections. But this much I do know, that, if the power of withholding supplies shall be exercised, then never in all the contests for liberty in English history, never in all tho victories which have made that little stormy is'aud tho center of civilization of the world, never iu ad the struggles for. the rights of man was the power of h.iliig supplies fcxercistd more wisely than it will bo when we exercise it to preserve the freedom of elections, to subordinate in times of peace the military power to the civil antboiity, and to preserve pure and. nncontainioatcd tho sources of free government IM)IAA LllUISLATLIti:. Satuedat, March 20. Sen-ate. Tlie proceedings in the Senate were unusually dull, nothing but confusion interrupting the dry routine of passing bills, and that was the otdy business transacted, with the exception of the introduction and reference to the Finance Committee of a resolution appropriating ?450 to defray the expenses cf tho lnsaUifl A)luiu investigation. .. .Tho following bills were passed: Regulating the practice of dentistry; concerning the opening of streets and alleys; vegul.itiug tlie running at large of aninmls; relative to claims against counties; regulating the punishment for contempts; amernting section oil of t.ie code providing for the prompt pub lijAtioii of the acts of the General AsscmUy; requiriiig Eetition-rs for the opening of itj-eets U lile a ond for the cost; punishin;; embezzlement of railroad tickets, and authorizing the vacation of public squares in certain cases. .. .The Senate thou took up the message from the House anliotuictug tlie pasagu ex the Medical bill over the Governor's veto. atiJ, the question leing on the passage of the bill Ly the Senate, it failed for want of a CDUiUUitiouai majority ayes,; noes, 15. Housii. Tlie House, as far as noise was concerned, was worse than the Senate, ami it was impossible for the Speaker to keep order.... The Sena'e resolution providing for the payment of Marion county lor ga, water and fuel used by the Legislature was 'amended so as to allow . 500, and then passed The bill reducing tlie pay of member! to ?o per day and reducing the salaries of Jiul;;cs failed to pass. The message of the Governor vetoing the Medical bill was read. He objects to the bill for the reason that it contains an emergency clause and that it bars from practice all female physicians and mill wives. An attempt was made to pass the bill notwithstanding the veto, but it failed Later iu the d.iy the bill was prts-ed byavo'e of . fit! to The Senate bill legula'tii g the inspect! in of petrolenm was passed and the bill aboli.Hljiijg the Cass Superior Couit was promptly laid ou tho table... A local-option temperance bill was voteddown and the bill to allirli concert saloons and prevent the playing of billiards, etc., in S'iioot!, which had been stolen from the files, was reintroduced, but a motion to suspend tlie rules and pass the bill was not agreed to.... Tho committee to which waa referred tho subject of woman's suffrage made three reports. One decides that the constitution gives wo me a the right to vote; second that it does not, but ought to, and tl.e third, erased by Maori Thompson, thinks women too good to vote, almost to good to live and too sweet for anything; therefore that they should not vote. Mokdai, March oi. Senate. The resolution for the payment of the expenses of the Insane Asylum investigation was patwd, as was one requesting Congrfcfxf to appropriate flOs -ttW to oredpe out the channf-1 of tho Kankakee river, and $50,tM) fdr the Calumet. . . .The inveftif'ating committee made their report on the Insane Asylum iuvowngation, which were nlaceil on th file wi-hont action .Tno Special committr.se on wetland were antLotized to collect iuforrast'oa relative to t":e drainage of tho Katikakre, and rtrmrt to tbo Senate at its nest, etym A ctttcrtirref:t if -i !..'. 'i w a 1 ' I 1. 'Tti i t tV 't Tp i'u . r : to r ' t' a r- . ' ' : vanr.iidt: jn et kl t 1 . o1 h at'd i e; f liY c r-, Ic. : v a .1 J 1 t ' mk-'i s ; ,n ij i v l ii- - ."-v ' ir r y rio' va wro-ri''rt u . . v c( fliT'f-ti'd by i.hei:s . . . t..r,' ' v. ii 1 I': --"' . ' , : 1 f..rn, ath r a ' . ; v i .1 i' Iflti.' (H". ' ' p ' " t . r -. (; dTl'M l"a !. ' 1 i U-1 It" till 1 V 1 ! 1 kd ! t j. . 'V itriin. If I o . I . 1 .- " to 1 . - t . 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