The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-07

and presents of various descriptions has be- |
come burden upon the public mails which |
must be removed. EDS
The Senate bill expanding the currency Of |
the national banks TO the extent of forty-five ]
millions for the benefit of the South and |
West (short of currency is before the House |
Committee on the subject; but why the Trea- |
sury should be called upon to pay two or three ]
millions in interest for this increase of paper |
money, when it can be saved by issuing green
backs instead of national bank notes, is a
question for serious consideration, as indeed, /
is the main question, why should the Treasury
pay twenty or thirty millions, more or less,
for this national bank currency in preference
to greenbaoks upon which this interest can
be saved1 1t is apparent, however, that the
national banks are part of the Republican 4
programme, and that nothing short of De-
mocratic onslaught upon them, like that of
General jackson against "Biddle's Monster"
will shake them. The Funding bill reported
to the Senate from the Finance Committee is
q measure embodying some of the practical
financial views of the administration.
Southern reconstruction has been settled
by the House bill (the same as the Virginia
bilD for the admission into Congress Of the
State of Mississippi. Texas, in her turn, will
doubtless be admitted upon the same terms,
and then there will be an end of military
governors and the Union will be re-esta-
blished. The fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments of the Constitution clinch the
work done; but there may be- during the pre-
sent session, general law passed for the en-
forcement of these amendments with special
reference to Delaware, Maryland, and Ken
tucky, where negro equality in the matter of
civil and political rights is not vet recognized.
These three of the slave States, in short. not
having been officially involved in the Rebel
lion, have escaped Congressional reconstruc-
tion, and have progressed very little beyond
the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery.
A bill from Congress that will wake them UP
may, then, be looked for.
The Mormon bill introduced in the House
by Mr.. Cullom and recommitted to the Terri
torial Committee is clearly intended as q
warning to Brigham Young, with its sweep
ing pains and penalties of Acknowledgement
outlawry, fines and imprisonments against
Mormon concubinage, bigamy, Brighamy,
polygamy, spiritual wifery, or whatever else
that sanity institution of plurality of wives
may be called, and the great high priest and
prophet of the saints will do well in putting
his house in order for timely evacuation.
We have no idea that it is the intention of the
two houses of Congress to rush this bill
through but we do believe that its design is
timely warning to Brigham Young that he
must make up his mind to dispense with poly
gamy or abandon Utah. The Gentiles, by
the Pacific Railroad, are crowding around
him; and the day is fast approaching when
nothing but the protection of Congress will
save him and his people. To secure the pro-
lection of Congress, the Mormon ruler must
come to an agreement either to leave the
United States with his congregation or to
abandon polygamy under new revelation.
This, we believe, is the warning intended by
MIR. Cullom's bill.
The House passed bill on Friday for the
temporary relief of the poor of the District of
Columbia instructing the Secretary of War to
issue rations for this relief. The destitute
poor of Washington and Georgetown, which
make up the district, chiefly the negroes
drifting into those cities in consequence of
the war. Thus at least twenty thousand des-
titute blacks have been added to the popula-
ton of Washington, and as they cannot be
permitted to starve, and as the city is not re-
sponsible for them, Congress must feed them
till otherwise provided for. We think, how
ever, that, instead of being encouraged in
idleness and vice. it would be we'll to provide
for shipping off these negroes to some public
works or to some of the Southern plantations,
where their labor is wanted, and where these
vargrants may be turned to good account.
In Short there must be period fixed for this
| feeding of Sambo in idleness on Government
rations, and the sooner the better it will be
| for him, even in Washington.
WILL MIR. HOAR STAY IN THE CABINET?
| From the N. Y. Ssn.
The Senate has finally rejected the nomi-
| nation of Mr.. Hoar as Justice of the Su-
preme Court. The vote stood 33 to "a.
Will Mr.. Hoar remain in the Cabinet? It
| is said that he will do SO. This means,
doubtless, that he will not resign on account
| of the unfriendly action of the Senate. He
| will remain as long as General Grant finds it
| convenient to keep him. Of course he will
| not stop moment after he has received from
| the President an intimation that his resigna-
| ton would be agreeable.
Is it likely that General Grant will wish to
keep him much longer? We judge not II
| is not in the nature of the case that Massa-
| chusetts should have two members of the
Cabinet for any great length of time. General
| Grant undoubtedly understood this when he
appointed Mr.. Hoar. He made him Attor
ney-General with the purpose of soon trans.
| ferring him to some other place. In the
original composition of the Cabinet, as it was
first designed to be made up, Mr.. Hoar die
not figure. The place of Attorney-Gene
was then intended for Mr. William II. Wads
worth, of Kentucky, a schoolmate and crony
of Ulysses S. in his younger days. This ap
| pointment was prevented by the earnest op
| position of gentlemen who were then very in
innate and influential with the appointing
| power; but Mr.. Wadsworth was brought tC
| Washington in other official relations Reyer
theless, and is now on hand there all read,
to step into the Attorney-G Generals Office
whenever it is thought expedient to put hin
there
General Grant will not wish to contend
with the Senate TO keep Mr.. Hoar in an Office
to which he unwillingly appointed him. H,
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