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CONGKESS, UNITED STATES. 



" But, if you will take the naked proposition 

 that I offered, I will vote for it as a substitute, 

 if I vote alone. I will vote for it as a betterment 

 of the pending amendment, though I say again 

 that it is not proper to put it on an appropria- 

 tion bill ; it is altogether improper. But when 

 an amendment is pending I will vote for the 

 betterment of it. I did not offer my substitute 

 as a compromise. On the question of what I 

 believe just and right I make no compromise 

 anywhere; but I do believe that it strengthens 

 the election law to free it from every ground 

 of charge that it is partisan or can be used for 

 merely partisan purposes. I want the law to 

 insure, so far as law can do it, fair, honest, and 

 peaceable elections, and I want it for no other 

 purpose." 



Mr. McLane: "As was said by the gentle- 

 man from Pennsylvania [Mr. Kandall], the issue 

 in this debate has very much narrowed. There 

 is now no longer any such question at issue as 

 was made by the gentleman from Connecticut 

 [Mr. Hawley], distinguishing between the origi- 

 nal bill and a rider to an appropriation bill. The 

 subject before the committee for consideration 

 is the appropriation bill, and the amendment 

 of the gentleman from Ohio, on my right, is an 

 amendment to this appropriation bill. It is, 

 therefore, the appropriation bill prepared, re- 

 ported, and perfected in pursuance of the rules of 

 this House, and the gentleman from Ohio has 

 well explained, whatever might be his opinion 

 as to the propriety of legislating in this manner, 

 he felt it to be his duty to make the proposition 

 embraced in the bill as reasonable as he could. 



" Now, whatever may be the differences of 

 opinion here, however unwilling some gentle- 

 men on this side of the House may be to accept 

 these supervisors and marshals and deputy-mar- 

 shals under these election laws, or however res- 

 olute may be the determination of gentlemen 

 on that side to admit of no amendment at all 

 to these laws as they now exist, or to agree to 

 any compromise whatever on this question, and 

 however much compromise may be repelled and 

 despised by gentlemen on that side, the issue is, 

 nevertheless, a compromise as it is presented in 

 the pending amendment. And as the gentle- 

 man from Ohio [Mr. GartieldJ on his side is will- 

 ing to take the marshals in equal numbers from 

 the parties engager! at the polls, so the gentle- 

 man from Ohio [Mr. EwingJ on this side has 

 avowed his willingness to accept such an ar- 

 rangement and such an adjustment, and the 

 other gentleman from Ohio on this side, who 

 reported the bill [Mr. McMahon], concurs in 

 the same view of the question. 



" I, for one, do not feel I subordinate in any 

 degree ray opposition to the election laws as a 

 whole as well as in detail, if I also take that 

 compromise. I recognize perfectly well that 

 the law has been adjudicated to be a constitu- 

 tional law, and I am perfectly at liberty to think 

 of the court as the gentleman from New York 

 thinks of the court, yet it is not less my duty 

 to respect the mandate of the court and accept 



its adjudication of questions arising under these 

 laws, whether it be a bad court or not, whether 

 it be a court entitled to my confidence and re- 

 spect or not." 



Mr. McMahon : " I propose an amendment 

 to strike out all after the appropriation of 

 $7,600, and insert the following: 

 " Strike out all after ' $7,600 ' and insert : 

 "Provided, That hereafter special deputy-marshals of 

 elections for performing any duties in reference to any 

 election shall receive the sum of five dollars per day in 

 full for their compensation ; and that all appointments 

 of such special deputy-marshals shall be made by the 

 judge of the circuit court of the United States for the 

 district in which such marshals are to perform their 

 duties, or by the district judge in the absence of the 

 circuit judge ; said special deputies to be appointed in 

 equal numbers from the different political parties." 



The question was taken ; and the amendment 

 to the substitute was agreed to upon a division 

 yeas 106, nays 53. 



The Chairman : "The question is now upon 

 the substitute as amended." 



Mr. Randall (the Speaker): "I would like 

 to offer a further amendment ; to add as fol- 

 lows : 



" And the persons so appointed shall be persons of 

 good moral character, and shall be well-known resi- 

 dents of the voting precincts in which their duties are 

 to be performed." 



The amendment was agreed to. The propo- 

 sition as amended was adopted. The bill was 

 then reported to the House with the amend- 

 ments, which were concurred in. The bill was 

 then passed yeas 111, nays 104, not voting 

 77 as follows: 



YEAS Atherton. Atkins, Bachman, Bcltzhoover, 

 Berry, Bicknell, Bland, Bliss, Blount, Bouck, Bright, 

 Cabell. Clardy, John B. Clark, Cobb, Coffroth, Cole- 

 rick, Cook, Covert, Cravens, Culberson, Joseph J. 

 Davis, Lowndes H. Davis, De La Matyr, Dibrell, 

 Dickey, Ellis, Evins, Field, Finley, Forney, Frost, 

 Gedtlcs, Gibson, Gillette, Goode, Guntcr, N. J. Ham- 

 mond, John T. Han-is, Hatch, Hcnkle, Henry, Her- 

 bert, Hemdon, Hostetler.House, Hull, Hunton, Hutch- 

 ins, Johnston, Kenna^ Kimmel, King, Kitchin, Klotz, 

 Ladd, Lewis, Manning, Benjamin F. Martin, Ed- 

 ward L. Martin, McMahon, McMillin, Mills, Morri- 

 son, Morse, Muldrow, Murch, Mvers, New, Nicholls, 

 O'Connor. O'Reilly, Persons, Pheips, Philips, Piaster, 

 Poehler, Reagan, J. S. Richardson, Robertson, Roth- 

 wellj Samford, Sawyer, Scales, Shelley, Shnonton, O. 

 R. Singleton, Siemens, Speer, Springer, Stcelc. Steven- 

 son, Tnlbott, Taylor, P. B. Thompson, Tillman, R. 

 W. Townshend, Tucker, Upson, Vance. Waddill, 

 Warner, Weaver, Wellborn, Wells, Whitthorne, 

 Thomas Williams, Willis, Wilson, Wright, Casey 

 Young-Ill. 



NAYS N. W. Aldrich, William Aldrich, Anderson, 

 Armfield, Ballou, Barber, Bayne, Bingham, Black- 

 burn, Blake, Bowman, Bre\vcr, Bnggs, Brigham, 

 Burrows, Butterworth, Calkins, Camp, "Cannon, Car- 

 penter, Caswell, Clafiin, Conger, Converse, Cowgill, 

 George R. Davis, Horace Davis, Deering, Dunncll, 

 Dwight^ Einstein, Errett. Farr, Ferdon, Fisher, Ford, 

 Fort, I 1 rye, Garfield, Godshalk, John Hammond, 

 Benjamin W. Harris, Hawk, Hawley, Hayes, Ha- 

 zelton, Henderson, HisCock, Hooker, Houk, Hum- 



Shrey, Hurd, James, Jones, Knott, Lindsey, Marsh, 

 oseph J. Martin, Mason, McCoid, McKenzie, Mc- 

 Kinley, Miles, Monroe, Morton, Neal, Newberry, Nor- 

 cross, Osmcr, Overton, Pacheco, Hage. Pierce, Reed. 

 Rice, D. P. Richardson, Robeson, Robinson, Daniel 

 L. Russell, W. A. Russell, Thomas Ryan, Shallen- 





