. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . er having madethe regular appropriations, the Democratic Senate would notreorganize until the regular time of meeting in the ensuingDecember, and during the intervening time the Republicanemployees would draw their pay for the summer special session of the Forty-sixth Congress was thereforemade necessary. The Republicans in appointive positions atthe Capitol, who still maintained positions, were ousted, andevery position, from page up to the Secretary of the S
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . er having madethe regular appropriations, the Democratic Senate would notreorganize until the regular time of meeting in the ensuingDecember, and during the intervening time the Republicanemployees would draw their pay for the summer special session of the Forty-sixth Congress was thereforemade necessary. The Republicans in appointive positions atthe Capitol, who still maintained positions, were ousted, andevery position, from page up to the Secretary of the Senate,was filled by a Democrat in place of a discharged petty reason for the revolutionary policy resorted to inthe Forty-fifth Congress may well evoke surprise on accountof the paltry consideration to be gained. The fact can beclearly substantiated, however, that the motive indicatedabove was the overpowering reason which brought about thecalled session of the Forty-sixth Congress. Some pretext was essential, however, to cloak the real objectin view, and to supply this want allegations of Federal usur-. 1 i LOGAN IN THE SENATE. 619 pations in the Southern States were trumped up. Wrongswere pictured, the redress of which was demanded. Insteadof State Rights/ Home Rule was the cause forwhich the plea was made, and to secure which, the course ofthe Democrats was justified by their partisans. The fact wasthat the alleged wrongs were a myth and a shallow pretense,which was not sufiered to go unchallenged. They proposed tobring about the alleged reforms by means of amendments tonecessary bills. The great fight took place over the Army AppropriationBill. In this discussion Senator Logan made a most scathingcriticism of the revolutionary nature of the attempt by theDemocrats to coerce the Executive into approval of obnoxiousriders upon appropriation bills upon the penalty of withhold-ing appropriations imless their demands were complied the course of a speech u
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