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be inclined 10 90 II IN view OF tue consequences OF
refusing But while this may be So and while Me-.
Buchanan may favor the plan there are yet ntrin-
sic Difficulties in the that no amount o.! desire
en- the part of sagacious political leaders, and no
amount e cor occurrence on the part of the Admins
traitor. can certainly remove.
1t ia q question upon which the extreme Slavery
men have the power TO wreck Mr.. Buchanan's Ad
ministrstiOn, as a Democratic PrO-Savery regime,
if he resi,ts, and they choose to push him. There
are certain things the President can do and certain
things he cannot do; and one of the things he can
not do is to control the Kansas bogus legislators
and the Missouri Slavery prOpagaudsts. They
have obtained the control of the legislative power
of the Territory, and if they they will con-
tinue to WELD it to perpetuste Slavery, and make
Kansas Slave State, Mr. Buchanan cannot help
himself. except in one way and that is the Repub-
lican waJ-namey, by denying their authority and
making war upon them. But he cannot do this and
retain his consistency and his position at the head
OF the present Democratic organization. Going
upon the superstition, then, that Mr.. buchanan and
the Southern PrO-S!avery leaders, however moder-
ate the tone they may esteem it wise to adopt, do
not intend to turn Black Republicans, the Difficult.
ties in the way of making Kansas Free State,
against the Missoarians and Border Rufans. bsass,
by the extreme men in the Slave 4, r.- ,,b" .rs
after Kansas first and sssv7ora ''"'''' VIM ~
turn out to be Qpibe pa'a'on 0'''i ""'D' '
AT mrs.. .lCe iDsuPerable.
r,tIs 1esssant things are very quiet here and very
,,ss'Y;fa or motion is visible anywhere in the Pro-
Slavery ranks But we may rest assured thH THIS
silence does not denote any intention of backing out
on the part Of the band Of restless reckless ana de-
termiped men, headed by Atchlson, who Originally
undertook the scheme of enslaviDg Kansas. we
NAV even doubt whether they are yet at all shaken
in their purposes and if not, we may well doubt
Svbetber Kansas can be saved at all, without fight,
and hesitate most of al at believing 1t is to be
made Free State-saSy."
There is nothing in the world to found any such
Judgment upon except the threatening aspect OF the
Republican party and the present high price Oh ne
groes. But the latter is a commercial circumstance
that is unstable and therefore cannot be relied on
as ground Of fixed opinion. And the other IS
mere moral force, operating no further than TO
partially constrain the policy OF an Administration
embarrassed by being committed TO the ladorse-
ment and support of usurped power, wnich hoiuS
q nosition that masters the subject in controversy
What is TO become of Kansas, therefore, and
xpbat ia TO become Of Mr.. Bucbanans Admnistra-
ton through its ticklish connection with the ques-
lion !, ploriously uncertain. And he who under
takes to solve the problem thus early ID not htte
too fast. The most that can be said IS, that the
chances of Kansas to be free are yet worth some
thing which is more than was expected in the event
ofBuchanas's election. The Republican movement
has driven him and his party into very close
corner, and so shaped events that the dullest can
zee what true policy dictates. But nevertheless
Policy may DO overslaughed hereafter on the
Kansas question, as both it and Right have been
heretofore. and Slavery thus swlnded into the new
State rs il was swindled into the new Territory.
CONGRESSIONAL SHORTCOMINGS.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Bsbane 90 ,-c
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81, 1886.
The loose way 10 which Congress does business
WA illustrated by the debate aud proceedings DAY
before Yesterday. At the last session Consular
hill WAS passed containing section providing that
the President should appoint twenty-five consular
pupils" at a salary of $1,000 apiece to be as
signed to just such COnsulates as he chose to deslg
nate. The idea of the provision seemed 10 De tna'
they should serve in the capacity of clerks, and Dc
educated especially for the service The bull passed
by vote of 1913 to Sc.
When the Consular and Diplomatic bill was I'M
der consideration on Tuesday, an Appropriation OF
500. 900 was discovered in it to detray the ICON
sular pupil charge. Thence arose dlscusSioh'
aid members forthwith began to inquire OF one
another what sort of a scheme was this Tor ICON
sular pupils" in relation TO which large majority
apueared to be in profound ignorance.
II turned out that it was embraced IN the Con
sulor bill cf last year. of which nobody seemed u
know much. On OSerhaulng this scheme Tor
Consular pupilsge, it was voted to be humoug
and the appropriation of S25,O refused py 'n
House without division.
But, though the House awoke to so much nteil'
oence touching the bill in question it did not get
discover hat this is not its only singular, Or indeed
it's worst feature. New COnsulates were estaollshe
by Il. drawing very heavy salaries, which are nher
sinecurss. and we're intended as sinecures, and ha
no other object in the world but to furnish Ia
offices TO good fellows who wanted them. Th'
trivial circumstance has not, however yet cOue
the knowedse Of a large majority OF that Illus
tr.ous body; probably it never will
1t is very natural to inquire what is the cause
such kird of legislation as this The answer 10, u
business Of Congress is left to the Committees, :
be by them shaped and the details adjusted. l
these {, Committees single individual often mature
the bills TO be presented. Sometimes, indeed the
haV rfu1an