The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-01-19
HARRISBURG, Jan. l6, 1866.

Washington, a gentleman who, took
the liberty to intimate, would never
"set the river afire,n as presiding otfi
Ger. His department in the chair is
awkward. his voice low and his man.
ner of going through the ''Orders" very
heavy and slow. \ list of the Standing
Committees of the House, has just been
published, which exhibits the mental
calibre of the Speaker in its true light.
Instead of giving political opponents
a fair proportion Of their number or
the eimpOrtantcOmmittees, which would
have been about one for every two of
his own party, he has not given them
one in four, and has left some of the
most prominent Democrats off all the
principal committees. For instance.
Hon. c. l.. Pershing, Of Cambria, who
is the acknowledged leader Of the Dem
Ocratic side, and who is, generally re-
garded as the ablest men in the House,
and who having serv ed four successive
bility and eXperie ace, entitled TO a place
on all the leading committees, was not
named on the Committee of Ways and
Means, and but upon few other COM
mittees Of importance. The animus of
the Spea' '6er. in this matter, Is plain.
He tea ced Mr.. Pershing's ability and
intiue nee. The Democrats are magnan-
lmo usly given a majority Of the Com
m ittee on Vice and immortality, and
'. can see how that committee can be
, made of great service to the people,
| II presume that Speaker Kelley, not
withstanding his partizan prejudices,
was compelled, in his own mind, to adj
nit the fact that there were not decent
| men enough on his own side of the
House to take charge Of the public NOR
ais, and, therefore, was forced To place
| them in the hands Of the Democrats. }
/ Let this committee see 10 it that the
morals oflegislation are basedupon high
religious grounds. Let the intidelity
which would set at naught the plain
/ purpose Of the Creator, in forming the
/ several races Of mankind separate and
| distinct, be taken notice Of and proper
! Iy rebuked by this committee. There
may be little use in striving to reform
an Abolition Legislature, on this or any
other subject; but, if they will not mend
/ theirways, let theirinfamy be placedu up
on the record, 50 that their constituents
7 may know and mark them. We hope
I the House Committee on Vice and I'M
morality will prove itself, las it may
a most powerful purifier of the political
morals of the Abolition party.
/ do not think that Andrew Johnson
| has a single, solitary Republican"
/ friend in either house Of the State Leg
/ islature. | have not met, nor heard of,
/ Il "RepublicanH member, or Senator,
who endorses his restoration policy
Every man OF them is at heart djSu-
njOnjst. and i, therefore, opposed to the
theory of President Johnson, which re-
CARDS the Southern States a in the
I Union. Resolutions will soon be offer
ed which will test this matter, and
venture to predict that every line Dt
endorsement of President johnson :
restoration policy, will be placed in the
waste-paper basket Of the Committee
on Federal Relations, or if the Demo
crats can get the Republicans to face
the music and take voteupOn the sub.
iect, it will be contemptuously and in
dignantly rejected. There is no deny
ing that the Republicans" in both
houses, are extremely radical and will
not listen to t0anything like the doctrine,
: contained in the Presidents Message
; OfcOurse their temper may be modified
by circumstances beyond their con.
troll" but those circumstances are vel
in the future.
But if the President has few friend,
in the Legislature, Governor CURTIN
is in an almost equally bad plight. In
= vain does he intimate his wishes. In
vain does the gallant MCCLURE stalk
through the aisIes of the House anC
lounge about the desks Of the Senate
= The Governors desire for the adjourn
ment of the Legislature, in order thai
he may have time for repOse and the
recuperatiOn of his shattered health
will not be gratified. The refusal to adj
jOurn amounts TO demand that the
Governor return Immediately from Gu
ba, and he will, of course, so cOnstrut
it. Cruel and cOld-blOOded as this ac
ton of the Legislature is toward the
: Governor, he will doubtless, leave Cuba
Immediately and return to the discharge
of his official duties. at the risk Of life
itself. Were there any pressing State
necessity, there would be some excuse
for the conduct of the ''kepublican'
: legislators in refusing to accommodate
the Governor. But there is none, as ev
erybOdy knows, and all the Legislation
necessary for the public welfare coulC
= we'll be put off till March, or April
Hence, the refusal 10 adjourn is a. un
} reasonable, as it is cruel. Yet, so far a,
: the Republican" party, or some of it>
politicians, are concerned, there is cause
for the course of the Republican
: members and Senators, on this subject