The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-06-23

| WASHINGTON June 1.-THE House spent the who'll
morning hour on the Fenah question series Of reso
lutons were oHel ed censnrng England for her conrs
during the late war; thanking Irshmen for their ser
vices in the Union army ;expressing sympathy in the
effort to free Ireland, and directing the Committee
Foreign Affairs to report bill repeating the neutrality
law of 1878, under which the Presidents proclamation
was Issued
Schenck offered resolution requesting the President
to grant the Fenans the same rights England granted
to rebels
Harding of Illinois, offered expressions of sympathy
with the Irish, and recommending the Government
give chem all the privileges possible under the law.
We append hereto a leading editorial clip
ped from the National Republican, the Pres
idential organ at Washington. In this may
be seen the true anmus that prompted the
veto of the Colorado bill. Comments are un-
necessary:
COLORADO.
The Radical programme is rapidly devel-
oping itself. 1t is sgualIy Machiavellian.
The master OF Italian political chicanery
would look with awe and admiration, were
he upon the earth, at the supreme audacity
and impunity of his disciples who flourish
under the title of radicals. Under pretended
devotion to liberty, they are sacrificing the
institutions which have been the glory of
freedom. While charging the Executive with
misuse of power, they are nsurping Authority
and centralizing power which will soon blot
out all the balwarks of public liberty, and
place government wholly within the power
of a Congressional mob. In its warfare for
consolidation, Colorado plays an important
part This would be State, after having been
rejected in the Senate on principle: was af-
forwards forced through under party drill,
Al Tt -, -
chances in the House, where we presume that
party machinery will manipulate this feeble
and uncertain collection of wandering hu-
mainly into the rights and privileges of a.
sovereign State.
Ordinarily, to endow sparse and evanes-
cent population, withoutany Fixed residences
or strong local attachments with no pos
sessions but the pick and the sieve; with no
evidence of civilization but the groggery, and
the peculiar society that clusters about the
"diggings;o whose very existence as COM
munty is mercenary experiment, with the
immunites of State would be considered
but when it is done solely for
party reasons, and to carry on a scheme Of
political usurpation, such an act becomes one
of outrage and infamy. 1t is known by every
Senator and member of this Congress that
there is not a sufficient number of people in
Colorado to make moderate-sized city in
the Older States. 1t is also well-authent-
Gated fact that its population is less than it
was year or two since: Neither its soil or
its locality invite the settlement of the agri-
culturist, without whom no inland State can
have permanent foundation. The chance
addition to the limited population of that
Territory consists mainly OF the adventurous
miner, who is here to-day and there to-mor-
row, and the greedy speculator, who haunts
every region for prospective Iucre.
So far as the few thousand people who now |
inhabt Colorado are concerned, it would be
far better for them to remain in a territorial
condition than to set up as State on their
small capital, for the benefit of few ex-
hausted politicians who are ambitious of
wearing Senatorial and Representative hon
ors, and DESTROYS Of pocketing the comforta-
BILE salaries and glorious mileage which at
tach to the positions. The real interests of
that locality will not be retarded, nor immi-
grafton be njuriously affected by keeping it |
as it is until it has some decent pretensions
TO become State No harm will be done |
Dy this course to any one but candidates for
Office
But the radical fat has gone forth that two |
more votes are needed in the Senate to make |
. reliable majority against the President of
the United States, in order to strip him of |
the power with which the Constitution and |
the people have invested him, and to ride |
rough shod over the great conservative checks
which have been provided for the defence of
our liberties. Therefore the Senate has been
compelled under party dictation to reverse
it's action, which was rendered under a pro-
found regard for the public interest and has
since given to the struggling community of
Colorado equal dignity and power with the
imperial State of New York. Such course |
at any time would appear to sensible men
the height of folly; but when it is done
an argument of sound policy or JUS
ice urged in its behalf, from no other motive
but the basest and meanest political consid-
erati0ns, the conduct approaches sscrilege.
Rotten boroughs" have been the scorn
md ridcule of England for years !; and now,
N this famed republic Of ours, we are re-
Viving the hateful system of making mem
Ders to legislative bodies without any valid
ana copying the worst features
IF the obnoxioHs English custom, for the
lake of few party votes.
The foregoing is a true statement of the
Ease. It shows up the real cause of the pas
'age of the bill, and the reasons which influ-
.nced the President to veto the measure. Uu-
der these circumstances the President was
perfectly right in staying the bill.