The weekly Arizonian., 1859-04-07
The Thirty-Fifth Congress; its Closing
 Proceedings, etc.

late Congress, and it. reckless proceednKs.- The Herald says:
 The Thirty-ffth Congress has finished its miserable career of folly and faction, and has dissolved and dispersed As we expected, the pressure of the heavy business of the session into the last three days has resulted in much bungng in finishing up the regular appropria- tion bills. For the details concerning these appropriations we refer the re adcr to our Wash ington despatches With these shortcomings on the part of Congress in reference to the domestic machinery of the government and in regard to the critical international relations of Mexico and Central America, whether the President, through the long Congressional re- cess before him of nine months, can or can not avoid the alternative of an extra session, a few days or a few weeks will probably deter mine .'
 All the bills relating to the Post Office De- partment, including some twenty millions of appropriations, fell through for want of time, after the exhaustion of the session in frivolous l debates and buncombe speeches. And so the
 question whether or not there shall be an extra
 session, devolves upon the Postmaster General
 t0 answer and we suppose that his answer
 will be 'We shall try to get on as Mr Cobb
 does upon credit, and upon eur expectations
 of the next Congress- For all other purposes,
 finally the reissue of twenty millions of treas
 ury notes win do; but in the absence of any
 modification of the tariff to increase the re-
 sources of the treasury, the next Congress will
 have, as its first duty, the task of providing for
 tue redemption of hundred millions of pub
 lie debt and deficiencies,
 EyIhe divisions and confusion of parties saes,
 tions and factions. have been the death on the
 other hand, of the Homestead fBill, the new
 Pension bill for the benefit of old soldiers and
 the French spolistionTbill :of five millions,
 which together with the veto put upon the bill
 of land grants for agricultural colleges have
 saved the treasury in all 6 good many hun ! dreds of millions of dollars which are some
 thing. But the failure in any definite action
 to SC cond the President sagacous reccmmend- ations in regard to Cuba, Mexico, Central Aperica, and upon the important subject of the tariff, leaves Mir. Buchanan free from all obli-
 gatons to consider the consequences to the , refractory democracy in calling an extra ses-
 sion. . .. e a..
 From the reading of the Presidents Message,
 on the first day of the long sessioa, to the
 closing hour of the last day of the short ses- sion, the measures of the administration, and the appropriations necessary to csrry on the government have depended more or srs, upon the balance of power possessed by the opposi- l ton from the dissensions and divisions upon
 
 l ident making cliqucs of the democratic ma jority. This majority, elected under the wing of Mr Buchanan's popularity in 1856, and elected to support his administration, could : have carried everything smoOthely before them, : and could have consolidated their party into an army of impregnable strength, by simply adhering to the administration. But what have they done, and what have been the con- 3, sequences .-. The tactious leaders and Presidential aspi- . rants and managers of the party in Congress, instead of cooperating with the President, have, from this section that section, from this little Presidential clique or the other, ] played the game of rule OR ruiu against his ad- ministration. The consequences are recorded first in the party majority of the late Congress - proceedings which have established the con- viction in the mind of every intelligent reader that more impotent, imbecile and discordAnt
 party majority never occupied both houses Secondly, the consequences are indicated in :, those formidable opposition gaIns in the mem
 bers elected from the Northern States last year e to the next, or sixty-sxth Congress A --------s>-~