, 1867-01-11
The Violence Of csnlrre...

which belts the supreme council Of the nation,
his conscious weakness, not conscious strength
that breaks out in such incorporate ebuiiitons:
What can the republicans expect to gain By the
indecent haste Of their demonstrations against
the President? Why should The very first daE
Of the session have been selected for starting a
bill for the assembling OF the Fortieth Congress
on the 9th Of March2 II such a bill should bs
passed the last week in February it would be
equally Efficient and the broAching it at this
early day is such an exhibition Of undigniied
and tneontnent lite as must lower that body
IN the estimation Of considerate men. Its hot
impauenee TO repeal lbe amnesty clause of the
eon6seatiOn AGt is equally needless, except as a
dispmy OF ungovernable petdlaRce. There was
no likelihood that the President intended any
further psrdons at present. he had for some
time steadily refused to grant any, and if be had
attached any importance TO the section about TO
be repealed be could easily have forestalled and
frustrated this movement by an amnesty before
the meeting Of Congress. 1t was contrary to
all probability that be intended to issue any
pardons during the first month of the session
congress bias therefore acted more in the spirit
Of weak, scolding woman, whose wrath tor.
menis her ill she has given it vent, than like
body OF self poised legislators. Their attempt
10 curb the appointing power Of the President
IS open to the same criticism. The President
nAs made all the removals be thought expedient;
aud during the ensuing four months every ap>
pointment must be submitted to the Senate for
confirmation before it cau take effect. Even If
a restraint upon the appointing power were ne.
cessary, 1t requires no immediate haste and if
the bill passes for eonveniug the FOrtieth Com
gress on the 9th of March,, the Senate will be in
perpetual session, and supercede the necessity
Ot any other cheek. Bind, headlong impulse.
and precipinte wrath not cool reflection and
sober judgment, control the proceedings Of Con.
gress. #.#r. r..
We should not have witnessed these splenic
exh. billions, If the republicans were not secretly
conscious Of their impotence. They know well
enough that Congress is merely IA legislative,
not All executive body. The laws il passes will
not execute themselves, and no aW, can be en-.
forced in the South except by officers already
confirmed by the Senate. The recent removals
have all been in the North and neither the Sen
ate nor Congress can turn out any officer wLo
has been confirmed. The North will get on well
enough whether Mr. Johnsons recent and un-
appOintees are displaced or retained
aud federal officers in the South not likely to
enforce clearly unconstitutional laws. Congress
could, indeed, remove such officers by mpeach,
menI but as every person impeaehed is entitled
to trial, witbample opportunities of defence,
the Southern officers could not be all disposed
in this way before the new born babes of the
present year grew.to be men. -aE
Even ii the radicals should adopt the most
extrtme measure which bias yet been broached,
that OF declaring the States 10 be Territories and
prescribing Territorial governments for them, it
would practically amount to nothing. The con-
of such a law would be at once
contested in the Snpreme Court, which is al
ready committed on that subject aud would be
bound by its own recent precedents. If Con-
gress declares the States 10 be Territories or if
it assumes that the Publications Of less than
three -fourths of the whole number will suffice
for constitutional amendments, the only. conse-
lusnce will be that the Supreme Court will deS
clare such legislation void, and the whole sub
ect will revert into its present shape.
The President is calm, confident, and assured,
because be has measured the power of his op
pOnents, and knows that they have exhausted
all their resources of hostility, except snch as
the Supreme Court will adjudge unconstitntiUn-
a. Congress vapors and busters because it
sees that it has NO eHectual power, aud that uu-
less it can teriiy the South by bravado, it has
gone to the length of its tether.-N. Y World.
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREAsURY.
.Tue following is summary of the Report of
Lne Secretary Of the Treasury. Receipts have
exceeded the estimates $50, sos, ,905 "a. The |
expenditures have fallen short of lbe estimates,
S2O0, ,529, ,235 80. he recommeds further dlmi- |
hutton in Internal taxes, and says present taxa
tion, with proper economy, can pay the debt.
He regrets, Notwithstanding the large reduction
IF the National debt, and the satisfactory condi-
tion in olher respects of the NatiOnnl Treasury
hat little progress has been made since his last
report towards specie payments He explains
At length, his action concerning the disposal OF
Iurplus gold. He recommends that National
Banks be compelled to redeem at a single Att
antic city; curtailment of the currency careful
revision Of the tariff, tn make 1t barmouize
without Internal taxes the issue of twenty year
Or less of bonds ut per cent. payable in Eng
and or Germany, to an amount sufficient to
,bsorb the SIX per cent. bonds now held ia Eu.
rope, and to meet the demand there, for actual
md permanent investment and the rehabilita.
ion Of the Southern States. He urges these
at length and says be is Of the
1uiuon that specie pay ments may be resumed
Is early as the first day Of July, 1868. The
iebt October 3lst, 1865, exclusive of cash in the
Treasury, was S2.69 $50 966 81 cash in the
Treasury, l .303. 26O.970 81. As TO the com.
m erc,al intercourse with British America, the
Secretary adverts to his opinion that until the
revenue system Is fully revised and adjusted to
he financial situation Of the country, this sub.
ect should rot be placed beyond The control of
Congress, but should be left to concurrent leg.
station, ahd such regulations as may be author-
zed by law to prescribe.
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NEARxEss Te DEArH-When we walk near
machinery we know thar one single
nisstep aud those mighfs engines will tearus in
to ribbons with their flying wheels, abdKrihd US
10 powder in their pouderous jaws. SO when,in
4 rail car, aud there is nothing but al inch Of
-. ASooa III bnld nm IN the track so when we