The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-06-02
The Present Congress.

If there ever was a Congress that has ut
terly and miserably failed to meet the pres
sing demands of the whole country, the
present body is pre- eminently entitled to
that unenvisble notoristy. 1t has been in
session six months, and proposes to bring
its useless, aud, in many glaring instances,
corrupt labors to close on the 18th of
July 1t has been essentially Congress of
huge legislative jobs, and as the Hon. S. S.
Cox remarked few days ago in speech,
the present administration in all its leading
measures is euphaticaily jobbing concern.
In the House weeks and months have been
wasted away in the gold panic investiga-
tion and in that other shameless proceeding,
the corrupt sale of West Point cadetships
both of which ended in whitewashug re
ports The Georgia bin and other vindictive
measures in relation to other Southern States,
have consumed at least two months Of the
session. The tariff bill has occupied weeks
and weeks OF the time Of the House, only to
meet with an ingloTioUs death aud to be
ruthlessly slaughtered in the no use Of its
own boasted and peculiar friends. The
odious income tax, against which the whole
country protests, bat which Grants Com
missioner of Internal Revenue (DeIsno)
stoutly defends, was not and will not be re-
pealed. On the great ard important subs
iect of currency nothing has been done, or is
likely ia be done. daring the present session,
although there has been a vast amount of
fine talk INDUCED in about funding the debt
at a lower rate Of interest. There has not
been much difficulty, however, in passing
bills by which millions of acres of the pub
lie domain have been granted to set of cor
rupt aCd voracious rail road corporations.
The most shameless and gigantic svindle of
this description has been the unparalleled
Pacific Rail Road Outrageous and infa-
NOUS as was this corrapt scheme, the Con-
gression2i vultu-es docked to their prey,
first in degenerate Senate and last week in
a still Wovse and more venal House, and
achieved an easy victory in the passage of
this bill of pluuder and abomination The
bill, most vilIainous in its provisions, to en-,
force the fifteenth amendment, has been
rushed through both Houses with indecent
haste, and has been. or will be, signed by
the President, during whose term of Office
the veto power has practically become obso-
lete. A bill substantially nulIifyiug the
naturalization laws was reported in the Sen
ate few days ago and as its leading feature
Is to obstruct white men in their right 10
vote, it is very certain of being eRaeted into
. lay before the final adjournment.
Even Sinen Cameron has become ashamed
and disgusted with the corruption and i'm be-
ciity Of his Radical friends in Congress, and
not hong since, in some remarks in reply to a
Western Senator, administered the following
wel-timed rebuke to ths Radical majority !:
"The Senator from Illinois says that the
country expects us TO pass tariff bill, expects
as 70 rass curgency bill, expects US to pass
the Georgia bill do aot believe the country
expects any such thing. Ny belief is that the
country expects as TO pass the appropriations
necessary 10 carry the government, reduce
the taxes, and then go Aome and attend to our
own private affairs. When We are at home we
DO no harm to the public, and while we are
ssO We do very little good and, therefore
ak the sooner We get off the better for our
res, and the better for the country"