The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-29
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THR LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToP1Os-CoMPnBD HvERY
DAY FOB THE EVENING VELRaRAPR.
The Senate COmprOmise-Th House Re-
fuses 10 Concur

fuses 10 Concur.
From The ". y. Herald.
General Butler achieved on Friday an i'm
portant victory in the House, in the vote of
seventy to ninety-nine whereby that body
refused to concur in the Senate s hallway sub
stitute for the House bill absolutely repeating
the Tenure-oi- Office law. General Butler
with the submission of the Senate bill, at
tackled it as a deception, contending that it
did not meet the case, that the modification is
substantially the law as it stands, and that
this unconstitutional act, having served its
purpose, should be utterly abolished-that it
was incompatible with the rights of the House
and usurpation Of the powers of the Presi-
dent. In these general views of the measure
General Butler was promptly and eifectually
supported by General Logan, and when the
House adjourned on Thursday it was manifest
that the Senate substitute for Buffers repeal
would be rejected.
On Friday, when the subject came up in its
regular order, a desultory fight was at once
commenced between Butler and his support
ers on the one side and the radical anti
repeslers on the other, and this skirmishing
was continued down to five o'clock, when the
original motion to refer the Senate bill to the
Judiciary Committee was withdrawn, and the
direct question of concurrence was reached.
The result is the victory of Butler and the
repealers, including the Democrats of the
House, who welded the balance of power.
The subject now goes back to the Senate,
and the question is, "Shall the Senate recede
from it's amendment ?'' Assuming that it will
not, a committee of conference on the dis
agreement between the two houses will be the
next proceeding, and then we shall discover
whether the Republicans of the House sup
porting Butler will stand firm or yield to the
pressure of the Senate or party caucus of
the House. Both houses having ad djourned
over to to-day, We may expect some caucus
manipulations in the interval; but if the
House repealers would gain the front rank
with the administration in bringing the Senate
to the ultimatum of Buffers bill, they will
avoid any party caucus on the subject.
In the beginning of Johnson's administra-
tion the Republican conservatives, with the
Democrats, had, as they now have, posses
sion of the House. The policy of Congress
and the administration was in their hands,
and had they acted with anything like saga
city they could have shaped the measures of
Congress and the issues of the Presidential
succession. But the Democrats, when brought
to the pinch, deserted the Republican con-
servatives and bolted over to sold Thad
Stevens" and hence all the disastrous conse-
quences that followed to Johnson's administra-
ton, to the conservative Republicans and to
the Democratic party, with the triumph of
the radical programme. All that was left un.
done by the Democrats to give success to the
schemes of Stevens was accomplished through
the radical caucus system OF whipping in.
Now, if the conservative or out. and out ad-
ministration Republicans of the House wish
to hold their ground and become masters OF
the situation, they know what to do; and they
must know, on the other hand, that if they
consent to be inveigled into party caucus
their fate will be the melancholy experience
ofRaymond and his followers of the sessions
!
the alternative now presented to the sup
porters of Butler in the House on this Tenure
of-Ofice law Their only course of safety is
to stick to the repeal.