The extra session of 1879 : What it teaches and what it means : speech of Roscoe Conkling in the Senate of the United States, April 24, 1879 ..

Part of the debate over guaranteeing voting rights to blacks in the South to be enforced by the U.S. Army if need be, as had been done since the Civil War in the South. Conkling, Republican senator from New York, opposes any weakening of the enforcement provisions by cutting or amending the current U.S. Army appropriations bill.
On the bill making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and its relation to the act for protecting and regulating national elections.
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