CONGRESS, UNITED STATES (1872). 



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agreed to, 191 ; bfll passed, 191 ; bill ordered 

 to be printed, and conference committee ap- 

 pointed, 191. 



In the House, Senate amendments consid- 

 ered, 192; motion to non-concur, 192; the 

 question is, Shall election by the bayonet be 

 substituted for election by ballot? 192 ; let the 

 bill be killed, rather than liberty should per- 

 ish, 192 ; resolution to non-concur and appoint 

 a conference committee adopted, 102 ; commit- 

 tee appointed, 192; report, 192; proceedings 

 of the committee, 193; agreements, 193; the 

 parliamentary history of this bill, 194; shall 

 the majority of the members of this House 

 have the right to consider and act upon a great 

 appropriation bill in the mode provided in the 

 rules? 194; time spent in conference, 194; 

 nothing in this act which forbids the arrest of 

 any man without process of law, 195; inau- 

 gurating a treason in this hall, 195 ; action of 

 the Thirty-fifth Congress, 195 ; when we come 

 to act upon an important appropriation bill, 

 what do we find? 196; report of the commit- 

 tee recommitted to the committee of confer- 

 ence, 196; new conference appointed, 196; 

 report submitted, 196; changes made, 196; it 

 is an unconstitutional bill, 19T; it is infamous, 

 197 ; report of the committee agreed to, 198 ; 

 Senate also concur, 198. 



In the Senate, a bill to extend the provisions 

 of the act to enforce the fourteenth amend- 

 ment considered, 198 ; inquiries suggested, 198 ; 

 evidence relative to outrages in the Southern 

 States, 199; summary of offences committed, 

 199, 200; acts of men who have no counte- 

 nance in society, 200 ; evidence of its political 

 character, 200 ; views of the minority on this 

 subject, 200; causes assigned for these out- 

 rages, 200 ; withdraw the power from the 

 President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, 

 and no man can answer for the scenes that 

 will follow, 201 ; this bill simply continues the 

 power of the President, 201 ; who can doubt 

 that Congress has acted wisely in investing the 

 President with this power? 201 ; do affairs at 

 the South make it prudent to continue the 

 power ? 201 ; does the public safety require it? 

 202; outrages, 202; are the property-holders 

 of the South responsible for these things? 202 ; 

 indicting the whole class of property-holders 

 in the South, 202 ; they regard the whole pol- 

 icy of the Republican party as having been 

 hostile to them, 203. 



Practically the bill proposes to give the Pres- 

 ident power to elect himself by force, 203 ; it 

 is one of a series of acts looking to this object, 

 203; President's response in justification for 

 declaring martial law in South Carolina, 204 ; 

 he was asked to communicate what offences, 

 if any, 204 ; report of the minority of the com- 

 mittee, 204, 205 ; what is to prevent any State, 

 or city, or county, from being put under mar- 

 tial law ? 206 ; martial law is still maintained 

 in nine counties, 206; bill reported without 

 amendment, 206 ; not a charge of violence 

 made for three hundred 'miles on the Missis- 

 sippi front since 1868, 206 ; the charge repelled 

 that justice is not administered in Mississippi, 

 207; you still persevere in your unhallowed 

 warfare on the down-trodden people, 207; yet 

 they tell us the Republican party wants peace, 

 207; an organized society existing in nine 

 States of the Union, 208 ; its character is com- 

 pletely established, 208 ; its machinery is mur- 

 der, arson crimes without name, 208 ; motion 

 to lay the bill on the table lost, 209 ; the bill 

 is unauthorized by the Constitution, 209 ; the 

 power can only be exercised when the exigency 

 has arisen, 209; most dangerous power that 

 can be conferred, 209 ; does the public safety 

 require the interposition of Congress? 210; 

 reasons for voting in favor of the bill, 210 ; 

 act of 1795, 210; who may suspend the writ? 

 210 ; is this fourth section constitutional ? 211 ; 

 this right is to be a precedent on the side of 

 liberty or on the side of despotism, 211 ; can 

 Congress authorize the President to suspend 

 the writ on the happening of certain events 

 of which he is to be the judge? 211 ; what is 

 the power of Congress? 212 ; it is proposed to 

 pass this bill when a presidential election is 

 pending, 213; it is for the legislative depart- 

 ment of the Government to determine when 

 the public safety requires the suspension of the 

 writ, 213 ; constructive rebellion should be con- 

 demned as constructive treasons are now, 213 ; 

 what does the bill propose ? 214 ; the right to 

 the writ is the heritage of freemen, 214 ; bill 

 passed, 214. 



In the House, a motion to suspend the rules 

 and take up the bill lost, 215 ; apportionment 

 of Representatives, 215 ; amnesty bill passed, 

 216 ; Congress adjourns, 216. 



XIII. Session of 1872-'73 : Commencement 

 of third session of Forty-second, 137 ; list of 

 members, 137 ; in the Senate, bill introduced 



