Speech #460102453

Now it comes from the Judiciary Committee. and the Senate has agreed to the recommendation of the committeg. changed by striking out the words "such special." so that. as it now is. "all deputy marshals to serve in reference to any election" shall be appointed so and so. If I understand the last exegesis of the Senator from Ohio of the true inward spirit of this text as it is seen by the spiritual light of the eyes of the majority of the committee. it is intended and calculated. and will have the effect. to exclude a regular deputyif I may use that phraseof the marshal of the United States for any district from serving a process issued by the ChiefJustice of the Supreme Court of the United States for the circuit to which he is assigned. on an election day. if that process or warrant calls upon him to make the arrest for an offense connected with the election then going on. If. therefore. the redshirted gentry. or the tissueballot gentry. or the coffeepot naturalization gentry should gather together in one State or another. and by force. or by the tissueballot. or by the coffeepot naturalization. to the number of hundreds. undertake to carry an election for a member of Congress orto arevent an election of a member of Congress that they did not choose to like. and the ChiefJustice of the United- States. upon proper complaint by respectable citizens of both parties who were not so lost to their love of country as to forget their duties. should issue a warrant directing the marshal and his deputies to arrest those people who had thus forcibly or by fraud taken possession of the polls for the election of a member of Congress. they could not do it. The ChiefJustice would be obliged to address his warrant in a way that there is no law that authorized him to do it. to the deputy marshal appointed to serve with reference to an election. and I do not know but if you carry out the spirit of this billI think it would be sure if you didthat he would be obliged in his warrant to issue it to at least two if not all of the deputies that were appointed for that particular precinct and call on them to arrest themselves or their brothers or friends. That is the way the thing should be done.