Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-26
TIE NEXT CONGRESS.

Now that the excitement # the Presidential can
vass has passed away, must be pardoned for
expressing the hope that Congress will set to work
and proye itself adequate TO the duties which per-
tain toit We are not sufficiently acquainted with
the necessities of the different portions of the
Try to surmise, even what will be proper subjects
for lis legislation. 1t is apparent, however, that
the revenue question will be an important one for
its action, as the surplus revenue now in the Trea
sury will amount 10 about s20,OO0,OO0. What
must OF should be done with this fund will be
question for the SoomonS who meet the first Mon
day in December, at Washington. 1t is probable
that the Secretary of the Treasury will recommend
the appropriation of this fund to the reduction of
the debt Of the General Government, which is
large though not yet due. Ifthe Treasury notes or
certificates OF United States stock are purchased, it
can only be done at heavy advance above par,
and it may thus become question whether the
money cannot be better disposed of than by paying
twenty-five or thirty per cent. premium on U. S.
stocks. What will be the decision of Congress on
this matter remains TO be seen, and whether it will
feel itself instructed by the late election to any
particular course of action, cannot say; butwe
venture the suggestion that party, who aided in
the passage of the late river and harbOr bill after
the adoption of the Democratic Baltimore Platform,
will not permit itself to be hampered controlled
by anything yet done and Will take that course,
which, in their judgment, is most likely to be po
pular. But we will wait and see. Then Cuba has
to be talked about, and we look with good deal
of anxiety to the development OF party action on
this question. In addition to this, Benneps land
bill will be before the Senate, and the land robbery
or vote yourself farm bill-proposed and advocat-
ed by the Anti-RenterS of New York, and mounted
by some of the old political hacks, who had broken
down all their other hobbies in the vain hope that
they could thus ride into the White House. Now
that they find their horse not fleet enough for their
Journey, it is doubtful whether they will adhele;
and il Is not improbable that Of the masnates,
who were most camorous at the late session for this
measure, will calmly and quietly take their seats,
this session, on the Opposition benches" Whether
the Democrats will attempt any modification of the
tariff IS doubtful, though the surplus revenue gives
them an admirable opportunity for so doing if they
are inclined to show their hands upon this question
We hope, at any rates, that something diinite will
be done on these questions, and thus have them
settled one way or the other-so that Congress can
set to the performance Of the peoples business and
gives us on instance Of a Democratic Congress,
which confines itself 10 the Constitution and egl
innate duties which belong to it. oflate, we have
had too many Warwicks in our Federal councils;
and now that the "King is made" we hope to find
some of the good old working men whom We once
had, ready to look to the interests of those who
sent them there and to the interests ofthe country
and them only.