Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-12-14
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The Senate Committees.


That eminently healthy and respectable
bady. the Senate of the United States, has at
last made up its committees. 1t seems that
the old sogies of the majority, who have had
in hand the matter of deciding whether any
unhealthy members should have represent
alton upon them, at last so far condescended
as to allow such men as Sumner, Wilson,
Hale, Seward, Wade. Durkee, and Fessen-
den; to hold insignificant positions at the tail
end of the Committees on Agriculture. Pri-
vate Affairs, Claims, Public Buildings, Pen
sions, Enrolled Bills, and Engrossed Bills,
while all the important Committees, which
have the entire control of all affairs OF conse-
uuence coming before the Senate, are made
nm exclusively Of administration hunkers and
siave-holding aristocrats, with few cringing
services from the Free States, who disgrace
the constituencies they were chosen to repre-
sent.
That venerable old fogy. Lewis Cass, who,
as candidate for President in lS4S, to get
Southern votes, advocated the spread of slave
ry over more territory, on the plea that 1t
would only be giving its poor victims more
room l. breathe in, now figures, it appears as
the chief manager in all the business of the
Senate. 1t is under his fatherly surveillance,
aided by such conductors as acted with him
in the caucus which had the cutting and dry.
ing Of the committees in charge, that they are
constituted as they are, mainly. of the VerIest
dregs of hunkerdom and conservatism. We
beg our readers to look them over and note
their character. For instance. OH those on
Foreign Relations, on Finance, the Judiciary,
aud the Territories, considered as the four
most important committees Of the Senate, we
see as chairmen such intense slavery propa-
gandists as Mason and Hunter of Virginia.
Butler of South Carolina, and Stephen Ar
mold Douglas; and the composition OF them
throughout is of like material; not man OF
liberal ideas, favorable to freedom and Repub-
licanism, on them all. A shame and dis
grace is this to the country and to the age we
live in.
AS you see, Charles Sumner is allowed
subordinate position at the end OF two lnsig-
nificant committees, on enrolled bills and the
granting of pensions to old soldiers and Hen
Nv Wilson is permitted the privilege of an
equally subordinate place on the committees
on manufactures and private affairs; and the
other Republican Senators are likewsse thinly
scattered around in such manner that their
voice can have no potency whatever, even on
matters of such minor n azure.
But when we examine those committees to
whom are referred all those subjects which
have an all-essential bearing ppsn the welfare
and character of the nation, at home and
abroad, we find there exclusively unmiIgated
hunkers and conservatives, like Mason, Hun
ter, Butler. Douglass, Toucey, Weller, Crit
tenden, Slidell, Pugh, Toombs, Brodhead.
&c., &C., men with whom the mention OF any
thing like liberty, is Synonymous with trea-
son.
Hale, Wade, and Dnrkee are allowed a
Mace at the tail end of the committee on
1872 r.-.hl;o Ru;ld;ngs
but immaculate slavery propagand;sta IL !
Mason, Hunter, and Butler, are installed at
the head of those committees, by whom all
matters Of any national importance are con-
sidered, and recommended for adoption by the
Senate.
Not single Senator from New England,
New York, Ohio, &C., is put at the head of
any committee, Except Allen Of R. l., on Ag-
riculture,) while the South not only have the
Craftsmanship Of all the principal committees,
but of vast majority of the subordinate ones,
and large majority of the composition of the
whole of them. This is Republication in the
nineteenth century.