The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-21

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WASHINGTON, December ~.
The Territorial scheme, utterly destfuc-
tive Of All the Constitutional compacts be-
tween the States-absolutely revolution
ary in its results, should IL pass--ls bound
to be an ignoblo failure
Reduce zen States to the condition Of
T,rrh0gies, by act Of a Congressional btobf
What Is IL but revolution and anarchy
Supposing that q bill for that purpose
should pass the Senate. that II will pass
the House there is no doubt,) still It's valid
| ity viii depend upon the decision of the
Supreme Court. before which tribunal u
would be brought upon the first attempt to
carry It into effect. No reasonable mau
can entertain any misgivings as to what
/ That decision would be. Chase the charla-
/ tan. who can see no law of Congress. un-
| less he looks through Presidential specta-
clcs--who, while playing the part Of Chief
Justice Is regarded as the weakest Of the
entire bcnch--will side with the JacObins /:
for. unless the ten lately rebellous States
are kept out Of the ring. until aller the
lueXt Presidential election, his chances for
the realization Of the dream of his fretinl
llif--the White lIouse--even should he cir
Icumvent Beast Butler, In the nomination,
will be less than "the baseless fabric Of q
vision"
THR PARDoNING POwER.
Senator TRuMBUILis the leader in the on
slaught upon the Presidents parion-pre-
lrogative. He Is not sustained by precedent
In asserting that the President cannot par
don before conviction. The debates In the
Constitutional Convention and the discuss
sion of the parduning power granted to the
President by the Constitution In The Fed
eydHst clearly prove that he Is invested
with theauthority which Senator Trumbull
denies TO him. 1t is doubtless true, howev-
en- that the repeal of the section named
would not affect the authority Of the Presi-
dent In granting pardons. Under the Con-
stitution Congress is granted no power
whatever i'm the premises. aud its legisla-
ton on this point amounts to nothing. The
section granted no additional authority to
the President and its repeal will not de-
tract from any which he now possesses.
sENAToRlAL SCANDAL.
The report is authentic that certain
Senator has been lining his iacket-pockets
with some very comfortable greenbacks--a
kind of black-mail contribution--for his
Influence in getting Revenue positions for
certain parties, who have not been prudent
enough to keep mum.
SMUGGLING.
Information is daily being received,
principally through private sources, of the
accumulation in the British provinces on
our northern border of great quantities of
dutiable goods which have been imported
at places in close proximity to the boundary
line for the purpose of running them across
the border, and evading the payment of
duties.
IMPEACHMENT.
i Bingham, of Ohio has made a splurgc.
Having eaten his own words used in 4
speech at ST. ClairSville, that he would not
eat or sleep until he had prepared and pre-
sented articles of impeachment against the
President. he is now striving to retrieve lost
caste, by new tack. He as much as said, i'm
n running debate on removals from office,
that if any had been made during the re-
cess. on mere political considerations, the
?, President was ameuable and the House
must get after him. Poor Bingham! He is
n chap ofsome Radical stature out there in
Harrison County hillsand antiquated Cadiz,
hut Il very dimiuatiye .p0liyc0g in the
Washington puddle.
THE TARIFF.
As soon as the holidays are over and the
slight nervousness of egg-noggs and hot
punches are eased of, you may look for q
brOad-sidc from the poor suffering. starry
ing New England "cotton lords" They
are after prOtectiOR-not being able to di-
vide a per centage of more than thirty
three to one hundred and fifty ON their un-
fortunate cotton and wooden investments.
! r
of the South'-is going very extensively
into the cOtton-mill business. preparatory
to becoming. very soon, wholly Independent
OF Yankee looms and Yankee mischiefs, is
the main stimulaut for forthwith action.
The theving bill is about ready and your
man ScheHck-seemingly the retained at
torney for Boston and Lowell interests
will give it no weak, halfway support.
: PENSIONS.
There is now on the roll but one RevO-
{ lutionary pcnsioncr-Samuel Downing, OF
Saratoga County, New York: yet there are
no less than 93l widows of Revolutionary
3 soldiers still on the pension rolls. The
: greater longevity of women will not ac-
count for this enormous discrepancy. and
+ the fact that pensioners and annuitants
live long, seems equally in favor of both
sexes. OF course, the widows of those
{ killed in battle swelled the proportion OF
female pensioners very largely, but this
could not have multiplied it nine hundred
times hardly ten times. Probably In con-
e sideration that "nOne but the brave de-
, serve the fair'' mot to speak of the pen
siOus), the surviving heroes were generally
and even repeatedly blessed with youthful
e and blooming brides. There are now, in
. round numbers, $4,000 invalids, and 70,0OC
! widows and relatives on the rolls, at an an.
= nual cost of eleven and Il half millions o
. dollars.