The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-08-08

Congress-
The radical Majority in congress is thus
shown up by leading radical organ, the
Independent, of New York:
awe are are not cavilers, not carping
critics, but having for six months taken an
honest pride in congress, we are now COM
PEELED to blush at a congressional majority
who could so far bcmean themselves as
to first vote the ballot out of the Negro s
hands, and then to vote double salary into
their own !! We are annoyed to learn that
in the opinion of noble-spirited congress
black citizen has less need of the ballot
than ,ohite congressman has Of extra pay.
Senators and representatives are undoubt-
eddy entitled to just compensation, let it
be 5000 year if necessary. But the
time, the manner of this closing act of
self enrichment, is worthy of reprobation-
we were about to say of general contempt"
From the Washington correspondent of
the same paper Of July 2sth: '@'-
Tennessee is at last upon the floor of
congress. l do not propose to raise the
question of the propriety Of the vote adj
hitting her to practical relations; but to
call attention to the fact that it was done
to help the republicans in the fall elections.
This was openly avowed, and it was un-
doubtedly the cause which produced the
result"
"Yet the day after the senate gave the
vote for the admission, for the sake Of sue
cess in the elections, it was guilty Of an
act that will cost the republicans party
thousands Of votes. The senate raised the
pay of members to $1,000 a year, putting
$4,000 into the pockets of each member of
the present congress F! There are some
facts connected with this action of the SEN
ate which renders it not simply piece of
selishness bat an infamous outrage. Not
long since the House, taking pity on a class
of its employees who are -under.paid,
agreed to raise the pay of those paid less
than 81, 200 year, 25 per cent. This prop.
osition was denounced in the senate
Sherman spoke loftily against it and even
the dignifed Fessenden had something to
say against it: Anybody knows that these
gentlemen could have defeated the propo-
sition to increase their o,cn pay. They
voted against it, and submitted graceful
to their defeat. But the day after the hon
orable senators put $4,000 into each oil
their. pockets, they waxed economically
virtuous and refused to raise the pay Of
their own employees One will have to
60 back long ways in the history of con-
gressional legislation to match this piece
Of meanness."
In discussing the Neutrality laws, the
same paper thus shows up the "clap-trap''
of Gen. Banks and his fellow Radicals
Must not every honest and intelligent Fe.
MAN feel aattered by the "clap-trap" Of
the hero of Red River and Knownothing.
ism? But to the extract:
ut is unfortunate too, that the Report
of the House Committee, which led to the
passage of the Bill was disfgured by mis-
cradle partizan clap-trap addressed to til.
Fenians. Trash about the pending wal
for Irish independence and other indiges.
tiblc crudities, which nothing short Of q
hibernian appetite can bolt"
But the Radicals are no more success
full in finance than in morals or common
honesty. In the financial column of the
same paper, we find the following:
I" The great danger and annoyance, lie
in the uncertainty which attends our mer.
camille system, and this must continue un-
til a consistent and scientific plan shall
have been adopted for the regulation Of
our national finances. We do not antici-
pate any such system from our present
congress, and if the next generation should
be more fortunate, more rapid improve
ment will have taken place than has been
hitherto known in governmental affairs" J.
The above extracts from the religio-pol-
,itico journal of radicalism are respectfully
submitted to our SUPERFICIAL readers and
contemporaries.