New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-04

vice than cry other Senator, and longer IN the
SetAte ihsn any ole likely to be chosen iSs Pre-
sidebt, while his department in debate aad other
wise has beer uniformly courteous and digni6ed
He ia soon TO take leave Of public life, 10 which
he q be many ablef mem has not attained the
object Of bis ambition, and if seems eminently
due 30 bis character aud services that he should
bid the Senate adieu from the highest station
within it, gift. IL elected its President he will
discharge the duties Of that post With suaviy aud
impartalliy
No other place in the gift Of either House is va
cant, or likely to be, snd We presume no attempt
will be made to dsplace any of the iDcumbenss
As to the doiDes of the Houses at this Session,
We cannot perceive that they are anticipated
with lively or general interest. Congress might
IesDimate and electrify the entire Productive To-
dustry Of the nation by 20 revising the Tariff Is TO
restore activity to our parayzed Manufactures'
and give employment 10 the hundreds OF thou
SANDS Of artisans and laborers Lately Dismissed
from our various factories, foundries, machine
shops, &c, &c but nobody expects any such
action, and NOBODY is likely to be disappointed.
II shonH repeal the obnoxious clauses OF the Ne
brasks, BILL so as to restore to the Missouri Re
strictiOp whatever vitality it possessed prior to
the passage of Douglass bill; for if it was IN
constitutional from the start, or had been already
in substance abolished, as the Douglasites pro-
fess to believe, then there was no necessity, no
excuse for its repeal. 1t is as idle and absurd to
repeal dead or unauthorized statutes as TO enact
them. Congress wW probably repeal or msteri-
ally amend Alabama Cobb's foolish or knavish
Graduation act Of last session. under which many
millions of acres of valuable public lands have
been graspeo by SPECTATORS at the rate of twelve
snd half to fifty cents per acre to be held out oil
market for as many dollars per acre as they have
cost sbilliDes. The passage of that bill was
wsDton, wicked surrender of the Public Domain
to forestseIs and monopolists, as we showed be-
fore its third reading in the House. 1t has
robbed the Treasury Of at least forty millions of
dollars, snd in effect placed belt of monopollzed
territory hundred miles in width, between the
frontier settlements and the public lands. Now,
we shall probably have the stable door locked, in
form if lot in substance after the steed has been
ttoen but the lands already snatched are gone
irrecoversbiy.
We should ike to be able to assure our readers
that Homestead bill for the actual settler and
not for the Spectator would pass before adjourn
ment; that the Crooked Mileage swindie would
be stopped, and the enormous prodigality and
population regularly covered up in the several
Appropriation bills would be exposed and de-
feated. Having no such hope, we shall not en-
courage it in others. Wepresume the expendi-
tufe of Fifty to Seventy Millions year will go on
until, the desirable Lands being all absorbed and
tie capacity of the Country to pay for Imports
exhausted the Revenue will fall to Twenty-Five
or Thirty Millions year, and leave the Govern
meDt high on the shoals of Insolvency. Then we
shall have some sort Of new cast, and season
of retrenchment and comparative non-stealing,
until some amendment in our Industry and Fl
nances will be experienced, when We shall
promptly begin the game of prOdigality and cor
IuptiOn, and run the old round overagain. From
this vicious circle of periodic imitation and activity
followed by depression, disaster aud bankruptcy,
there would seem TO be no escape for us.