The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-08-19
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The XXXIIId Congress closes this morn
ing its first Session, which has been protract-
ed through eight calendar months. Werisk
nothing in saying that this adjournment, de-
layed as it had been until in may well have
been despaired of, is by far the most popular
act ofthe Session. But there never was
any danger that the majority would unite I'm
singing "We won'tgo home till morning."
andf Id over until the first Monday in De-
cemt~r; because they would have lost money
by the operation-that is, they will now
charge far more for their actual or imaginary
journey home. and back again between the
two Sessions then they could have taken for
setting through to the end of their term with
out recess. True, there are many of them
who, as one of the Members conidentially
wrote 10 his crony, "could make great
"deal of money" by remaining and legislat-
ing; but what is the use OF voting money out
OF the Treasury when there is none left in it!
Enormous as is the Revenue of the current
year we think The Expenditures will outrun
1t. We notice thaii the Treasury reports the
disbursements for the quarter ending with
June last at something over Twenty three
Millions, or at the rate of Ninety.taco Millions
per annum! We presume this includes con-
siderable payments of principal of our Public
Debt, but, after making due allowance for
these, we believe the current Expenditures
of the Federal Government for 1853 will
moi fall below Sixty and may even reach
Seventy Millions of Dollars! If such are the
public characters i'm a state of profound peace
what would they be in case of Warl Let
this question be early ponderded ere we en-
bark in raid to Cuba.
The nrodioal;tv ~ CoprraSs h.s hoar
boundless and unparalleled. New Offices, in
creased salaries, extra allowances, have fol-
lowed each other in bewildering profusion.
The payment Of ten millions to Santa Anna
for strip OF territory which he had no right
to sell, and we no need to buy, and which
would have been dear at million had we
wanted it, is fair sample of the doings of
the Session. And while money was lavish
ed without stint Oh the Navy, and on useless,
absued Qualifications, the two millions or less
appropriated by the most meritious measure
of the Session to the improvement of Rivers
and Harbors, was ruthlessly struck down by
the Presidents Veto, being the only bill SO
honored. The doings OF this Congress may
therefore be pretty actually summed up thus
l-"They wished TO do but little good and
that little the President wouldn't let them. .,
l. But the act by which this Congress IS will be
ionges, and widest known is the Nebraska
bill, including the Reputation OF the Missouri
Compact and the consequent opening to
Slavery of one million square miles in the
heart OF North America, being all of our Ma
tional Domain not previously, organized. This
measure has been driven through Congress
under circumstances which must heavily, tax
The faith of future generations. II had alb
solutely no supporters down to the meeting
OF this Congress, and proposition to repeal
ne Mssourl restriction would, OF any time
from 1923 to 1853, have been received in
Congress with shout of derision. 1T would
have excited no Indignation, simply because
no one would have imagined the mover in
earnest; and no shadow of alarm, because
every one would have known that he could
not possibly succeed. rgss
It's demonstrable that even Douglas, the
\ reputed author OF this repeal, did not contem-
plate such step when he introduced his
bill. He means only to suggest hypothe,ic-
\ ally that the Compromise of 1850 had at least
in spirit, superseded the Restriction of 1920
land, he was only driven to the rrevocable
step by the movement OF Dixon of Kentucky
A nd the repeal thus fathered by Douglas wa $
carried not by his exeriions or Influences,
but by the power and patronage of the Ex-
/ ecutive, who in like manner was driven into
the support ofthe measure by the apprehen-
sion that Douglas was getting ahead of him
as fisher for slaveholdng supportin, the
next Baltimore Convention! In the House
thus coerced and corrupted into the support
of des,ructable act by President who at
! heart disliked IL, there was a majority of not
less than twenty opposed to the Reputation
until they discovered that officers and plumber
were only to be had by supporting Douglass
tbill. And now we are told, by the timorous
the craven, and the essentially treacherous.
that this Iniquity cannot be repealed! Let
US see .A .f.ast. srfs
The corrupt and proflgate bills which have
passed this Congress, enormous as they are
\ in number and variety, are even exceeded by
those which failed, in one House or the 9th.
err, through want of time or Misrepresentation
! of the essential oil to the, wheels of the
machinery. We shall cast a glance over
these hercafter.-[N Y. Tribune. lz
! ~ In referring lately to the statistics of
the Philadelphia county prison, the North
American incidentally notices the fact tn OF
the two hundred and seventy coavicts receiv
ed into that institution during the last year,
no less than one hundred and eiphty.tbree
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