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' . j - * ' j <<*>- " V>Tv'-"* '••Wr-V •• . X&V" £ <®WP'St • 4 .-*^-r > <4-:I Wit .>*,i McHENBY, eoni paiadfaler VASeLfftE, Enpifcra AND PUBLISHER. • - - ILLINOIS. PAST WEEK, !' - ft* I , " pf-. f. dti%. •' r.i !t. f gs p ,y ^ DOMESTIC XBWSk TK*EmH, ' > Bobert Harris and Dell Shaw, while j^emptiog to cross the Black river near Water- town, N. 1'., in a rov-boat, a abort distance above the Big falls, were carried over, ajid drowned. ••• -JL dispatch from Pooasset, Mass.s says «%e Freemans--husband and wife--haw been fObod guilty of homicide, and folly committed for trial Freeman says he will have an aston­ ishing revelation to make, and still maintains that he was jnstifiod of God. His wife is greatly crashed by the growing conviction that has been guilty of a crime." Destructive fires are reported in the SipbTintaia forests arooaft Pittafonrgk, Pa.--A Isie at Unadilla, N. Y., destroyed fourteen buildings in the center of the town; loss, #80,000.--The stove vorks of Fuller, Warren A Co., Troy, N. Y., have bMu partially destroyed Ijf Are; loss, 175,000. Alexander Bartow, cashier of the flshkill (N. Y.) Bank, convicted of embczzle- ttoat, has bam sentenced to five years in the Iplnitentiary. I A JTTBT in the Superior Court of Boston has aw&rded Charles H. Worthen 936,- S00 for the loss of a leg on the Grand Trunk railroad in July, 1875. Worthen was a sales­ man in the dry-goods house of Field, Leiter & Oo., of Chicago, at the time the accident hap­ pened, with a prospect of being admitted as a partner in the following year, and was on his way to Chicago si the rime. ..v-'... Tht Wmt, e i *f, *^The present is announced as the last wlek of the Muffle Troupe at Haveriy'sThea- tar, in Chicago,, this season. On the first three Sights is presented "PUT-Paff " and a burlesque of "Pinafore." Then the bill is changed and the first-named pieoe withdrawn in favor of ^Qxygen.* ' A fire in the "lumber district" of ' " fjiicago, located in the Southwestern part of fee city, destroyed a lumbar yard and planing mill and a number of frame dwellings. Loss Mbmated at #200,000. . The office of the Detroit Post and • ftibunr, was damaged by fire, a few nights ••J-Xfa to the extent of 115,000 or #20,(XXX A horrible accident recently occurred near Vandalia, I1L Two young children of *, Drank Carroll, a farmer, were playing together, and went into a corn-crib in which were a lot Of corn-husks. By some means they set tire to i the husks, and before it could be extinguished they were horribly burned. Ona of thnm hi a since died. The other is still living, but will probably die of its injuries, -- An election for Judicial officers will . held throughout Illinois, on Monday, June Z ; 5 Chicago elevators contain 6,011,715 bushels of wheat, 3,751,486 bushels'of conn 387,594 bushels of oats, 122,818 bushels of rye and 264,047 bushels of barley, making a grand • total of 10,45?s666 bushels, against 1,580,432 Imshels at this period last year. ,; x The twelfth annual convention of the • -'MB®r»c®aHallway Master Mechanics' Aasoda- was held at Cincinnati last week V The Board of Review of the National trotting Association (Coi C. W. WooUey, of Ohicinnati, presiding), at its sessions in Chioa- 9° last week, expelled two of the most noted torftnen of the eoontry--R. C. Pate, of Sb I4ui% owner of Woodford Mambrino, Lucille, and other celebrated horses, and J. N. Had­ dock, late owner of the flyer Edwin Forrest He offense for which they were bounced was the putting up a job and selling out a race at Utica, N. Y., in which Edwin For­ fait and Mambrino were the contestants, in Aagust last Edward Pyle, driver of Edward, the winner of the race, was expelled. Oat Glidden and Morrill Higbie, who drove Forrest; Jack Bo wen, the driver of Trampoline; and Biggs, driver of Dick Wright, ware suspended until next December, and the cue continued until the same time for farther investigation. The decision of the Jndges in the Bonesetter-Proteine 2:20 race at Oiieago, last fall, was reversed, and the race awarded by the board to Bonesetter. As a re- wit of this latter decision, Proteine and Bone- setter have been matched for a #10,000 race bys their owners. The race is to be trotted at C&S i sago on the 19th of next July. Agriculturists in the vicinity of In- : Oanapolis, Ind., say that there were never bet­ ter prospects for fruit, and that tho crop prom- tee to be larger than can be disposed of.--En- Wuragmg reports of the growing grain crops nach us from all parts of the West With W»ble conditions a bountiful harv^ft is pre JP*' Ranch, of Chicago; jijat SSturned from the South, informs the Chicago Journal \hat all tho cities in the Mississippi Wiley are working like beavers to ward off the JfSllow fever this year. Grasshoppers have appeared in con­ siderable numbers in the region of Biamarck, - Dakota. United States Circuit Judge Dillon, • ?£ Eighth district--oomprising the States "if Iowa, Kansas, Kebraaka, Minnesota, Mis- 'f maA Arkansas-has decided to resign his • saat on the bench and accept m offer to pre- v 0O» over Columbia College Um BdiooL in .;*• Sew York cilgr. ( The Indianapolis Fostoffice was INkLhsl, the other day, in a bold and dexteroru Sii *snner. Iht safe m the registry department g II* rifled of a package of ten money-order let- % Sfiy-flva registered letters, and about | 94,000 in cash. The derk had turned his back for a few minutea to Imk over the morning p^per. taking advantage of whidi the b<dd thief stealthily <sxspi m te sate, steaad the . '. Had food Meapa. Th# mtm nlwriiaiiy game of bin* was that contested in Chioa- other day, by Jaoob Sehaefer and Sehaefer tm the game at 1JNQ painfta ovt in three iiminjp* making runs cfAWaadn^te aocomplisliing the tre- 4Bandousav«rafaof 838^. Ths cane was the ftree-ball Vrsndi earoaa, and waa for a stake *c *1,000 Ml! tM AampioouMp of the United named Wallace Wilker* wewas@p«wted ai Provo, Utah, on the 10th i>s& U^ler the law* of the Territory, par aiHias a ehaiaa between shooting and hanging, tte eoodbmned »an choee to die by the first- SMMS method. Be took a and, ai a aignal from the Marshal, three concealed tnerksmwn fired. He leaped from the chair, exclaimed," O God!" fell forward on hia face, and continued writhing, breathing a lew gasps for twenty-seven minutes, when ths physiaianapronounced him dead, ,?& WtuhtotffUm, A statement of tlx© fonriifl lions of the Treasury Department since the 1st Of March, 1877, gives the total amount of bonds disposed of as #803,095,700, and the total amount of interest saved, #13,638,651. The resolution recently introduced into the House by Mr. Garfield, authorizing the Secretary of War to issue rations to the oolored refugees in Kansas, has been killed by the oommittee to which it was referred. It is stated from Washington that "the decision of Judge Dundy at. Omaha, in the Standing Bear habeas-corpus ease, in which he virtually declare* Indians citizens, with the right to go where they please, regardless of treaty stipulations, is regarded by the Govern­ ment as a heavy blow to the present Indian sys­ tem, and that, if sustained, it will prove extreme­ ly dangerous alike to whites and Indiana If the nnww of flfflwnwwwif fe hold Indians upon their reservation, or to return them when they escape, is denied, the Indians become a body of tramp*, moving without restraint wherever they vfsms, ®nd exposed to the attacks of frontiers- men without redrew from the Government The District Attorney at Omaha has.been in­ structed to take the neoessary steps to carry the question to a higher court* Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, has (one to Florid* under medical advice, in the hope that the warm climate may drive the neu­ ralgia frsmhis system. Tho mmrih. A fire at St. Louis, week, burned ont Gauss, Honicke A Co. 's wholesale hat and cap store (loss #75,000), Goldstein Broe.' wholesale dry-goods house (loss #75,000), and A. Frankenthal & Son's wholesale notion •tore (loss #90,000). The loss in buildings was #45,000, making a total loss of #285,000. The Louisiana Constitutional Con vention has adopted an article prohibiting the General Assembly from contracting any debt or liability on the part of the State exoept for the purpoae of repelling invasion or insurrec­ tion. Some of the cases pending in the United States Court of Alabama for violations of the election laws in that State are to be con­ tinued on account of the anticipated injury to crops should the farmers now bo called into court to testify. The officers of- the Southern steam­ boat companies having headquarters in St Louis,and the officero of steamers plying between that city and New Orleans, deny having re­ fused transportation to the oolored refugees whenever the latter have had any money to pay their passage.--Agents representing the Southern interest have appeared among the ne­ groes recently arrived in Kansas, and are offer­ ing free transportation to an who desire to re­ turn South, Quite a number have acoepted the offer. Bevenne officers had a fight with bushwhacker*, near Cumberland gap, Tenn., and a notorious moonshiner named Bart <>*>"«• waa killed. John A. West was executed at Boone- ville, Mo., last week, for the murder of & tramp in October last On the same day Henry A. Davis, Henry F. Andrews, and Lewis Carleton, the latter a negro, were hanged at Hillaboro, N. C., for burglary, that being a capital crime in North Carolina; and at Plaquemine, La., a negro named Cheney was exemted for rape. A fire at Farmerville, a small town in Northern Louisiana, destroyed #100,000 worth of property. JKSMBmmmm. A serious accident occurred on the Grand Trunk railway, near Carleton, fkniU, An excursion train containing about forty very prominent men of Toronto was run into by an engine and badly smashed. Nearly every per­ son on the train was more or less injured. One has since died, and it is believed two or three others cannot reoover. Six steamships and nine sailing ves­ sels e&iled from Amerioan ports during the past winter, and have never been heard of, and prob­ ably never will be. The millers of the United States have jnst held their annual meeting in Chicago There waa a good attendance. At Toronto, Canada, the other day, three children were burned to death while play­ ing in a shed. The semi-annual meeting of the Bishop* of the Methodist Episcopal Church waa held last week at Wheeling, W. Va. Bishops Andrews, Bowmau, Foster,, Harris, Haven, Merrill, Peck, Simpson, Scott and Wiley were in attendance. A London banking-house last week bought #15,000,000 worth of United State* 4 percent*, from the New York Syndicate, the price paid being the market rate for the day--a fraction over Spar sank net; FOREIGN HTTELJLIGEIt CE. At the consistory held at Borne on the 12th of May, the lope appointed five Car­ dinal priests sad three Cardinal deacons. Among the new Cardinals are the Key. Dr. John Henry N®WBMB, of England, and the Rev. Dr. Eergemrofher. The Pope also numerous appointments to Bishoprics, among them those of Cardinal Hohenlohe to the Bish­ opric of Albano, the Rev. Dr. McCabe to that of Dublin, and the Rev. Dr. Woodloek to that of Ardagh and Clonmocrois. A nameless pestilence is ravaging the Busman villages iu the Caucasus, and the peo­ ple are trying to save themselves by prayer. The disease is probably the plague, but the papers oonfine themselves to describing its terrible virnhnos^ wftbwt vantnrin^ to gueaa its name. The principal part of the town of Irbit, at the confluence of the Irbit and Heiva rivers, in Siberia, is burned. A cable dispatch says that political murders iu Russia have been recently confined to the provinces. The stringent measures adopted against them seem to have cowed the conspirators in St Petersburg. The Czar *••• decreed that prisoners tried by court martial must be doomed or acquitted within twenty- four hours, and the sentences most be executed within twenty-four hours from the time they are pronounced. Disastrous floods are again reported in Hungary. The Qmmn of England is now a great-grandmother, Princess Charlotte, of » tto'Pruaaia. hating given birth to * dangft'*1'. The Russian army of occupation in Turkey is being withdrawn with all possible dispatch. An experienced professor of veter- inaiy medicino in Edinburgh has examined the lungs of American animals, said by Govern­ ment inspectors in England to be affected with plenro pneumonia, and pronounces thorn wholly free from any symptom of that disease. The cattle were suffering with capillary bron­ chitis, a disease not oontagious, and which doubtless originated on the transatlantic voy­ age. The city of Poonah, in India, an im­ portant Government and military center, has been devastated by fire. Orenburg, in Russia, has also been visited by a second destructive conflagration. An insect, which defies all attempts at extirpation, is devastating the great grain- fields of Southern Russia. A St. Petersburg dispatch says "the disease which has broken out in the Caucasus proves fatal in twenty-four hours. In Derby, which contains 150 houses, seventy persons have died. In Medivricheni, with 200 houses, *he*"e *re 800 persons dead. The mortality elsewhere is on the same scale." The Panama Star and Herald gives some incidents of the war operation* in South America. Pisaqua was bombarded and des­ troyed, causing*loss of about 1,000,000sole*. The launches at Mollendo were sunk, several shots fired into the town. Iquique was bom­ barded for half an hour; loaa trifling. During the bombardment of Pisaqua, Bear Admiral Bodgers, of the United States war steamer Penaaoola, was putting off from the shore to his ship with hia family when a Shot from the Chilian boat carried away his en­ sign, The Chilian Admiral went on board tho Pensasote and apologized.--Gen. Garses, who had been proclaimed a rebel, made an attack with some 1,400 troops upon a party of Hur- tardistas in Amaime, in the Cauca valley and met with oomplete defeat The dead are eitU skt from 960 to 500. This ended the re­ bellion, • France declines to join England in assisting Turkey to obtain a loan. Empress Augusta, of Germany, has been paying a visit to Queen Victoria, of En­ gland. Wholesale arrests of Nihilist incendi­ aries are being made in Russia. Seventy per­ sons were arrested in Orenburg: Among those implicated are several ladies belonging to the nobility. The death of Jaoob Staempfii, ex- President of Switzerland, ia reported. He was one of the Geneva arbitrators, and his services in supporting our side on that occasion were acknowledged by a handsome service of piato voted him by Congresa. The International Congress to dis­ cuss projects for a ship-canal across the Isth­ mus of Panama met at Paris on the 15th inst Ferdinand De Lesseps was eleoted President All the leading nations of the world were repre­ sented by delegates* The cable reports the failure of sev* eral trading companies in Holland, with liabili­ ties amounting to nearly #4,000,000. A letter has been received at 81 Petersburg from Prof. Nordenskjold, of the Polar expedition, from Eastern Siberia, dated Sept 25, 1878, announcing that all oonneoted with the expedition were well. The greater part of Lublin, a city of 20,000 inhabitants in Bnaaian Poland, has been destroyed by fire. OXGRES8, In the Senate, on the 10th inst, considera­ tion was resnmed of the bill making appropria­ tions for the legislative, executive and judicial ex­ penses of the Government (or the fiscal year ending Jane £0,18S0, and for other purposes, and Mr. Hill, of Georgia, delivered a long speech in favor of that part of the bill in resrard to jurors and Super­ visors of Elections. In the course of hi* remarks, Mr. Hill quoted from a letter written by Zachariah Chandler in 1MS1 to tlie Governor of Michigan, in which he (Chandler) »aid there mut>t be a little blood-letting; that without it the Union would not be worth a rush. Mr. Hill asked if Chan dler had lost any blood in the war. The letter wanted to know how much blood Mr. Hill thed in the late war. Mr Hill--The difference between us waa I was n<.; in favor of shedding anybody's blocd. Mr. Chandler--Mor I. except to puninh treason and traitors. The Senator from Georgia is n<~t the man to talk about other men saving tlnir own blood. He took good cire'to put his blood in Fort Lafayette, where it w as out of the way oi both rebtl and Union bul­ lets. in the House, Mr. Kelley occupied nearly the whole day in an elaborate speech on the Warner SUver bill. The Senate resumed consideration of the Legislative Appropriation-bill on the 12th, and Mr. Windom spoke in opposition to the policy of the Democrats, denouncing it as revolutionary and un­ constitutional. Mr. Coke, of Texas, defended the position of the Democrats. The Presi­ dent's message vetoing the Military Interfer­ ence bill was read in the House and enterfd in the journal. Mr. Dee ring moved to suspend the rules and pass the Army Appropriation bill, with the political sections left out. Rejected--yeas, 1C1; nays, 1041. All the Greenbackers except Messrs. Lsdtf and Bariow voted yea. Biils were introduced in the House by Mr. Newberry, for the construction of a tunnel under the Detroit river at or near Grosse Isle, and a bridge over the Detroit river at or near Detroit city: by Mr. Dannell, appropriating #1.000,000 for tae improvement ot tno Mississippi river oetween the mouth of the Illinois river and the Falls of St. Anthony; by Mr. Buckner. reducing tbe President's salary to #25,04 0; by Mr. Cox, abolish- ing tbe jurors5 iMtoith; by Mr. Stepheni, author- icing the coinage of the silver dollar and fractions thereof of the full standard value following the metric system. The Iucomo Tax bill waa defeated in the House--yeas 104, navs 94--not necessary two-thirds voting in the affirmative. The Senate did nothing but discuss the Legisla­ tive Appropriation bill on tbe 13th. -:n the House, amotion was made to pass the Military Inter­ ference bill over the President's veto, the vote on Which resulted, yeas, 187; nays, 97: so, there not bsing two-thirds majority, the bill was rejected. The Warner 8ilver bill was discussed. There was a personal altercation between two North Carolina member*--Bussell, Republican, and Kitchin, Dem- •erat - in which some hard words were used. The Senate resumed consideration of tbe legislative Appropriation bill on the 14th, and the reading of the political sections was completed. Mr. Kern an then took the floor, and made an ex­ tended speech in favor of repealing the juror*' test-oath. Mr. Beck offered an amendment to the bill requiring the Secretary of the treasury to use the funds for the redemption of fractional currency la payment of the arrears of pensions, *hich was adopted after an animated debute. Mr Vest gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill proposing to organize the Indian Territory into a Htatc. and providing for its admission Into the Union,----- the House ooutinutd tin diiCQMio& of the Warner Silver bill. Mr, Thurman delivered a speech on the Legislative Appropriation bill on the 15th Inst. He assailed the speeches of Senators Conkling and Windom, declaring them to be merely rhetorical efforts to deceive and mislead the ignorant, to stir Up the passions of the people, and array, one sec Hon of the country against the other. He Upheld the action of the Democrats in placing political riders upon the Appropriation ~ third ot tbe laws upon tbe statute books were part ef Appropriation bills. He entered into a long armi- ment in favor of the repeal ot the jurors' test oath! and the Supervisors' law. Mr. Oockrell introduced a resolution in the Senate authorising the negotia­ tion of a proper treaty of reciprocity and com­ merce with Franc*. Mr, Farley introduced a bill for the relief of .John A. Sutler, the flrnt discoverer of gold in California, on accountof lands taken from and services rendered by him to the United States. Jlouso, ttio Warner 3ilv«r bill wa3 under consideration all day, aad voting on tbe measure by sections was begun. An amendment to increase tbe weight of the silver dol- lar to 460 grains received only 59 votes, 176 being recorded against it. Another, proposing to limit free coinage to ,J1.W?.<J„nced Ir3m American mines, was rejected ---IU5 to liiO: and one requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase all silver offered and coin it on Government account was also defeated, but by a very close vote--114 to 115. A message from the President in reply to a resolution asking for Information relative to the unlawful seizure of lands in the Indian Territory was laid before the Senate on the 16th inst. On motion of Mr. Ingalls, it was resolved that the Sec­ retary of the Treasury be directed to report to the Senate what amount of legsl-tender notes hsve been presented and redeemed In coin Binco the 1st of January lost, and what amount of coin he considers himself authorized to retain in the treasury tc maintain specie resumption. The Senate resumed consid­ eration of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Eaton, Conkling and aemon made spcjshsa upon tee psopoucd yo- litical legislation.- The Home occupied the day in considering the Warner Silver Coinage bill. A resolution wss adopted providing for the appoint­ ment of a standing comciittee, to which ehsU be referred all bills, resolutions, petitions, ate,, af­ fecting th» traffic In ^lcoho*<te liquors. ' \ ' THM UMAND CAWAZ. The Grand canal of China is more than 600 miles long, and, with its branches, is said to supply 2,000 miles of water-way, and the means for irrigat­ ing and reclaiming many thousand square miles of thickly-peopled country. Daring recent years, however, the vast sums appropriated for the management and repair of the Grand canal have been so largely absorbed by dishonest offi­ cials that the canal has become practi­ cally unfit for oommerce in many parts, while the estimated cost of putting it in good condition is so helplessly beyond the capacity of an empire impoverished by war, famine and official rapacity that the Imperial Government are seriously considering the propriety of abandon­ ing the canal entirely. For the first time since the canal was built the food supplies from the south for the support of the capital (and for the relief of the famine-stricken regions to the north and west) have this year been forwarded by sea--a much speedier and more economical route, no doubt; still, for the great plain and its million of in­ habitants the canal is a practical neces­ sity, and to let it go to further destruc­ tion will seriously endanger their pros­ perity, if not their lives. The canal has been used for commerce for 600 or 800 years. ENCOURAGE THE TOUJTO. If a young man deserves praise, be sure to give it to him, else you not only run a chance of driving him from the road by want of encouragement, but de­ prive yourself of the happiest privilege you will have of rewarding his labor. For it is only the young who can re­ ceive much reward from men's praise; the old, when they are great, get too far beyond and above what you may think of them. You may urge them with sympathy and surround them with ac­ clamation, but they will doubt your pleasure and despise your praise. Tou might have oheered them on in the race through the asphodel meadows of their youth; you might have brought the proud, bright scarlet to their faces, if you had cried but once, " Well done I" as they dashed up to the first goal of their early ambition. But now their pleasure is in memory and their ambi­ tion is in heaven. They can be kind to you; you can never more be kind to them. TRUTH IN BRIKF. Anybody can soil the reputation of any individual, however pure and chaste, bj uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe and his friends never hear of. A puff of idle wind can take a million of the seeds of the thistle and do a work of mischief which the hus­ bandman must labor hard and long to undo, the floating particles being too fine to be seen and too light to be stopped. Such are the seeds of slan­ der, so easily sown, so difficult to be gathered up, and yet so pernicious are its fruits. They know that many a wind will catch up the plague and become poisoned by the insinuations, without ever seeking tbe antidote. No reputa­ tion can refute a sneer, nor any human skill prevent mischief. ABSTIBMWVB FROM VOO&. ' • '• The case of Mr. Sewell H. Onus#, of Winterport, Me., who died a few days ago, shows a most remarkable power of a person under certain conditions to endure abstinence from food. Biz weeks ago he was stricken down with paralysis of the right side and bowels, the left side being entirely nnaffeoted. The night before his sickness he ate a very hearty supper, and afterward, dur­ ing the entire six weeks of his illness, he did not take nourishment altogether to the amount of a teacupful. He lin­ gered along in this way, suffering very little pain until the last few hours of his life, and remained perfectly con­ scious until his death. A GANG of pickpockets who were at­ tending a fair at Bernay, France, re­ cently raised a ory of fire in a theater, and at the same moment turned the gas out. In the panic and con­ fusion they plundered the audience and the box-office, and escaped under oover Ot ilhft ^MSlfiKteM* "X. THE VCT0. \ - Message of President Hayes Vetoing the Military Interference Bill. To THE HOUSH OP KEPBESBNTATIVEB : AFTER a careful consideration of the bill entitled "An act to prohibit military interference at elec­ tions," I return it to the House of Bepreeenta- tives, in which it originated, with the following objections to its approval: In a communication sent to the House of Rep­ resentatives on the 29th of last month, return­ ing to the House without my approval the bill entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June 30 1880, and for other purposes," I en­ deavored to show by quotations from the stat­ utes of the United States now in force, and by a brief statement of facte in regard to the recent elections in several States, that no addi­ tional legislation was necessary to prevent in­ terference with elections by the military or naval forces of the United States. The fact was presented in that communica­ tion that at the time of the passage of the act of June 18,1873, in relation to the employment of the army as posse comitatus, or otherwise, it was maintained by its Meads that it would satabljsii z "vital j.zu! fBHdaMjsQjitii piitstiiple which would secure to the people protection against a standing army. The fact was ate© referred to, that since the passage of this act Congressional, Stats and municipal elections had been held throughout the Union, and that in no instance has com­ plaint been made of the presence of United States soldiers at the polls. Holding, as I do, the opinion that any military interference whatever at the polls is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, and womd tend to destroy the freedom of elections, and sincerely desiring to concur with Congress in all of its measures, it is with very great regret that I am forced to the conclusion that the bill before me is not only unnecessary to prevent such inter­ ference, but is a dangerous departure from long-settled and important constitutional prin­ ciples. The true rule as to the employment of mili­ tary forces at elections is not doubtful. No in­ timidation or ooercion should be allowed to control or influenoe citizens in the exercise of their right to vote, whether it appears in the shape of combinations of evil-disposed per­ sons, or of armed bodies of militia of a State, or of the military fore© of the United States. The elections should be free from all forci­ ble interference, and as far as practicable from all apprehension of such interference. No soldiers, either of the Union or of the State militia, should be present at the polls to take the place or to perform the duties of an or­ dinary civil police force. There has been and will be no violation of this rule under the orders from me during this administration. But there should be no denial of the right of the National Government to em­ ploy its military force on any day at any place, in case such employment is necessary to en­ force the constitution and laws of die United States. The bill before me is as follows: " Be it en­ acted, eta, that it shall not be lawful to bring to or employ at any place where a general or special election is being held in a State, any part of the army or navy of the United States, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, or to enforce sec­ tion 4 of article 4 of the constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pur­ suance thereof, on the application of the Legislature or the Executive of the State where such force is to be iMed; and an mnr-ii nt all laws as is -inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed." It Trill bo observed that the bill exempts from the general prohibition against the employment of a military force at the polls two specified eases. These exceptions recognize and con­ cede the soundness of the principle that mili­ tary foroes may properly and constitutionally be used at places of election when such use is necessary to enforce the constitution and laws. But the excepted cases leave a prohibition BO extensive and far-reaching that its adoption will seriously impair the efficiency of the Ex­ ecutive Department of the Government. The first act expressly authorizing the use of military power to execute the laws was passed almost as early as the organisation of the Gov­ ernment under the oonstii^ioii, and was ap­ proved by President Washington, Hay 2,1792. It is as follow*: "SectionS. And he it further enacted, that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any State, by combinations too powerful t<>. be suppressed by the ordinary course of jurti* ciai proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by this act, the same being certified to the President of the United States by an As­ sociate Justice or District Judge, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call for the militia of such State to suppress such combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed; and if the militia of a State where such combinations may happen shall refuse, or be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President, if the Legislature of the United States be not in session, to call forth and em­ ploy such numbers of the militia of any other State or States most convenient thereto as may be necessary; and the use of the militia so to be called forth may be continued, if neces­ sary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session." In 1795 this provision was substantially re- enacted in a law which repealed the act of 1792. In 1807 the following act became the law, by the approval of President Jefferson: " That in all cases of insurrection or obstruc­ tion to the laws, either of the United States or of any individual State or Territory where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of sup- Iiressiug such insurrection, or of causing the aws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ for the same purposes such part of tno land or naval force of the United States as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the prerequisites of the law in that respect" By this act it will be seen that the scope of the law of 1795 was extended so as to author­ ize the National Government to use, not only the militia, but the army and navy of the United States, in causing the laws to be duly executed. The important provision of the acts of 1792, 1795 and 1807, modified in its terms from time to time, to adapt it to the existing emergency, remained in fore® until by an act approved by President Lincoln, July 29, 1861, it was re- enacted substantially in the same language in which it is now found in the Revised Statutes, viz.; " Section 5,293. Whenever, by reason of un­ lawful obstructions, combinations or assem­ blages of persons, or rebellion against the au­ thority of the Government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce, by the ordinary course \of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States within any State or Territory, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the militia of any or all the States, and to employ such parts of the land and naval foroes of the United States as he may deem necessary to enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, or to suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws t>f the United States may be forcibly opposed, or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed " This ancient and fundamental law has been in force from the foundation of the Govern­ ment It is now proposed to abrogate it on certain days, and at certain places. In my judgment, no fact has been produced which tends to show that it onght to be repealed or suspended for a single hour, at any place in r of the States or Territories of the Union. All tbe teachings of experience in the course of effectually the further progress of the enter­ prise. It was under the same authority thai President Jackson ^crushed nullification te South Carolina, and that President Lincoln issued his call for troops to save tbe Union, in 1861. On numerous other occasion* of less aignificanoe, under probably every administra­ tion, and certainly under the present, this power has been usefully oxoiisd to enforce the laws without objection by any party in the oountrr, and almost without attracting public attention. The great elementary constitutional principle, which was the foundation of the original statute of 1798, and which has been its essence in ti« varions forms it has assumed since its first adoption, Is that the Government of the Unitetil States possesses, under the constitution, in full measure, the power of self-protection by its own agencies, altogether independent of the if neod be. against the Hostility of the State Governments. It should renwai embodied in our statutes, unimpaired, 2LirMr*be<21 the ori«in of the Govern- J ^ d be regarded as hardly less wnStation Sir th™ * prOTi8i°D of tha There are many other important statutes containing provisions that are liable to be sua-aded or amralled at the times and places of Decoini ^ tho bm ^ore me should I do not undertake to furnish a list of Many of them, perhaps most of them, have been set forth m debates on this measure. I They relate to extradition, rAHwes against she election laws, to quarantine 'emulations. neutrality, to Indian reservations, to civil rights or citizens, and to other subjects. In regaraito them all it may bo safely said that the meaning and effect of wis bill is to take from the Gem. eral Government aa important part of its power to enforce the laws. Another grave objection to the bill is its dis- crimination in favor of the State and against the nation ̂authorities. Hie presence or em- ptoyment of the army or navy of the United States :s lawful under the terms of this bill at the place where an election was being held in a State to uphold the authority of a State Gov­ ernment, then and there in the need of such mmtanr intervention, but unlawful to uphold the authority of the Government of the United States, then and there in the need of such military intervention. Under this bill the presence and employment of thft army or navy of the United States would 'be lawful, and might be necessary to maintain the conduct of a state ©lection against the do» mestfo violence that, would overthrow it, bat would be unlawful to maintain the conduct of a national election against military power re­ sorted to for the execution of tho constitutional powers in support of the State or national au­ thority. Both functions of the Government were PQt upon the same footing. By the aot of 1807 the employment of the army navy was authorized for the per­ formance of both constitutional da- ties in the same terms. In all the later statutes on the same subject matter, the same measure of authority to the Govern­ ment has been accorded for the performance of both these duties. No precedent has been found in any previous legislation, and no sufB*- cient reason has been given for the discrimina­ tion in favor of the State and against the na­ tional authority which this bill contains. Un­ der the sweeping terms of the bill,?the National Government is effectually shut out from exaF» cise of right and from an imperative duty, to use its whole executive power whenever and wherever required for the enforcement of its laws. In places and times when and where its elec­ tions are held, the employment of its organ* ized armed force for any such purpose would be an offense against the law unless called fer Dy and therefore upon, permission of the au­ thorities of the State iu which the occasion ^ „ „ -- a * . . --- -- »'"«•« yuv IUU ouveutuuuu Ut the discretion of the State Governments for the discretion of the Government of the United Biases as to the performance or its own dnties! ~ In my judgment^ this is an abandonment of its obligations by the National Government--4 subordination of national authority and an intrusion of State supervision over national duties which amounts, in spirit and. tendency, to State supremacy. Although J believe that the existing statutes are abundant ly adequate to completely prevent military interference with the ©lections, in tho sense in which the phrase is used in the title of this bill, and is employed by the people of this country, I shall find no difficulty in concurring in any additional legis­ lation limited to that object which does not in­ terfere with the indispensable exercise of the powers of the Government and the constitution and laws. (Signed) RUTHKRFOBD B. HATKS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 12, 187a any of the States or Territories of ill the teachings of expei our history are in favor of sustaining its efficiency unimpaired on evmy occasion when tbe supremacy of the constitution has been re­ sisted, and the perpetuity of our institutions im­ periled. The principle of this statute enacted by the fathers has enabled the Government of the Union to-maintain its authority and to preserve the integrity of tho nation at the most critical periods of our history. My predecessors in the Executive offioe have relied on this groat prin­ ciple. It was on this principle that President Washington suppressed the whisky rabeluon in Pennsylvania, in 1794. In 180(5, on the same principle, President Jefferson broke up the Burr oonepfracy, by issuing orders for the employment of such force, either of the regulars or of the militia, and by such proceedings of the civil eatfcaritfaeas might enable them to soppiess A FATAL t>AY. The death of the Princess of Hesse on the same day of the month and week as that of the Prince Consort has at­ tracted general attention in England to the fact that Saturday has been a fatil day to the royal family of England for the last 167 years. 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