The daily union., 1846-05-02
THE UNION.
CITY OF AsHIN TON.
SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 2, 1886.
A WHIG SCHEME TO BLOW THE REPUB-
IICANS SKY-HIGHl

Gle, that Congress should sit even to the end Of tn
dog-days, rather than leave the public work whicl
they here to transact ''unannealed, unanointed
unfnished-when the Nadonal.Intelgencer the or
gan of the whg party, the insidious defender o
foreign influences against the rights of America tn
organ which spares effort to attack and counter
act the republican party, comes out with sugges
ton TO adjourn Congress until October, leaving tn
public business unsettled, the duties of Congress
neglected, the Executive recommendations Of meas
ures for the good of the country slighted, and tn
power of republican Congress suspended or utterly
prostrated to make capital for the whigs. The sen
tenee which we have just penned is too long on
TO please our taste, but il is not sufficiently compre
hensive TO depict all the folly, the insdous spirit o
the unbushing and outrageous proposition which th
National lntelligencer puts forth; and the beauty o
the whole matter is, that what it most desires u
accomplish for party purposes is silly attributed Il
the democratic party. We cannot do justice to th'
scheme of the National Intelisencer without per
mitting it TO speak is own wishes in It's owr
phrases. Here is the extraordinary article which
graces its editorial head Of this morning:
'sNeither house of Congress sat yesterday, both
having adjourned over to Monday next, to allow o.
the removal Of carpets ventilation of the halls, &c
for summer work.
. ain the beginning of this week we found consola.
ton for rnertness OF the representative body the
preceding part of the session in the reflection that
both houses would now 70 seriously TO work. We
were as the reader viii have seen from the history
OF this weeks proceedings in the House Of Repre-
sentauves, rather unucky in our sPonsorlal under
taking for it, Yet, even this week, notwithstand-
in0f he nsedless mat N saw acandalOus Waste OF
time in protraeed personal alteration, something
has been done in which that body may take pride.
The passage OF the Smithsonian bill, even though
its particular features may not be altogether accept
able to all, proves that the House is not nsensibe
10 the moral obligation to legslate upon that subject
in one way or other.
From what we have casually heard in conversa-
ton we think 1t quite possible that the tariff ques-
ton, and others, may be suffered TO lie over TO
another session, and that the appropriation bills,
&c, may be passed in short order, so as to allow
Congress to djourn much earlier than they possi-
bly, can do, if the majority in Congress should, as
the government paper has intmated that they posi-
lively would, seriously endeavor now 10 pass new
tariff bill The rumor TO which we refer is that II
has been determined, at a consultation OF the demo-
cratic leaders in Congress- to make the next session
begin in October instead Of December, and as a
consequence, to terminate the present session AT
some time between the first Of June and the first OF
July"
The whig organ is putting the above out feel
er and processes to lay its own bantling at the door
of the democratic leaders" Creda, yudaus .4pelia
1t is the monstrous production of whig brain-of
whig counsels 1t is, every part and parcel Of it,
opposition, whg, anything, but what the National
Intelligencer chrstens it, a democratic measure.
Tell that story to the Marines" Wing it is
without the manness to avow its lneaments, but it
will be secretly countenanced pressed, and, if pos
sible, carried out by whig votes.
Adjourn in June, and postpone the work Of Con-
gress till October! Who is TO gain by such prop
ostion A disappointed people, which has
sent large majority Of democratic representatives
here, to do the public work. assert their rights, to
reduce their burdens to regulate their hnancesi Are
the people to be satisfied by such mischievous pro-
crastnation, and such deferred hopes'" Are the
democratic party at the bottom of this movement
Can they, who are to gain nothing and lose every
thing by the adjournment have this sin laid at
their door, No. Is the whig organ which has seiz-
ed this idle rumor and now comes forward to give it
"bodv and PRESSURE" with the hope of carrying it
through, and then avaling itself of the camors of
discontented people to hunt down the democrats
who might be betrayed into the snare.
Be,oars Of The ,ohig organ is the caution which
Its sly and nsidious should speak in the ear
of every democrat in the land. Who is to gain by
the adjournment The wings. As it was
carried the country would see the uses which they
would make of it. Every whig press would ring
with denunciation of the measure. The National
Intelligencer" would be the first to set the example
They would point to our majority in the two houses,
to the promises which we had made of reform and
improvement and lash us for the little we have ac-
eomplished. They would point to the measures
recommended by the administration, which Con-
gress had left unfinished. They would date upon
how much we had promised to do, how much the
Executive had recommended to their serious consid-
Grafton, and how little had been achieved. The
field was large, and had invited the husbandman to
cultivate i but he had left his plough standing idly
in the furrow and went off to attend to his pleasures
and his recreatons. .
The democratic party had passed the notice. bu,
the Oregon bill-wihout which the notice was to be
comparatively ineficient-was to sleep in the Senate
for Congress had adjourned
A republican Congress had come together to mod
fy an odious tariff, and reduce the taxes and bur-
dens of an oppressed people. The President had
earnestly recommended it. The Secretary of the
Treasury had prepared a wise system of reduction.
The Committee Of Ways and Means had proposed a
bill to reform the revenue The people demanded
it; but Congress adjourned without doing anything
to relieve the country.
The Congress had come here to improve the
system Of finance. The House had passed bill
for establishing the treasury; but before
the measure consummated, Congress adjourns,
leaving about twelve millions of the public money
in the hands of the banks, on which to make dis
counts for their own emolument, and to issue a
large Fictitious circulation of paper money.
The President recommended liberal scheme for
the graduation Of the public lands for the poor
purchasers, and presumption for the benefit of the
enterprising settlers Humanity enforced the meas
ure; but the National Intelligencer suggests that
conoros. ,o.v ad;ourn avoid the doo-days and