The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-07-14
WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE 2

!. The radical csuldron is beginning to boil,
and the skum is coming to the surface IN
the shape of sspirants for congressional
honors. Prominent are the members of the
forty-6rst, all of whom, with but one or two
torlorn exceptions, want to be reelected.
The conservative papers Of the radical party
foreseeing this event and knowing that with
such candidates certain defeat awaited
them, have for the past month been urging
congress to accomplish some of the things
that the people demand before adlourning
Appeals have been in vain, and now as the
session draws to close there comes from
these journals warning that the people
will repudate these men whom they have
elected unless some few things be done 80
redeem promises made and never fulfilled.
Prominen. republican journals that repre-
sent the conservative element of the party
have made threats outright, and, now that
the fanaticsl issues that have held the dis
cordsnt elements together are accomplished,
there is significant meaning ia these
threats
Congress has been too deeply engaged
with private steals, subsidies, land grabs,
lobby fights aud partisan qusrreIs to give
head TO either appeals or threats, and now
the session is too near close for 1t to
attend to anything, unless it be few hun
dred private sterls and partisan schemes,
uhi oh al 1huL1
held in reserve to be crowded through at the
last moment. The record of these men is
before the country, and they are coming
home to an outraged people with not sin
gle promise pledge fulfilled begging TO be
returned. Ifnot them Others of the same kind
stand ready to take their places. Look we i
TO their record-renember wherey our mem.
Der has stood upon every issue-every vote
that has been taken upon those subjects in
which you, as citizens. as farmers, as me
chanlcs, ss manufacturers. as merchants, as
professional men, who are to pay the taxes,
are personally interested. Can you afford
to return these men-or, if not them. polit-
cal Office beggars of the same kind Can
you afford to pay for such legislation ? Can
you afford to support & party that forces
such men upon you for candidates There
are good and true men-men of ability, who
are, with you, interested in extricsting the
country from It's troublesome questions
who can be induced to take the
Office. They are not seeking the office, but
must be sought.
THAT Of Congressman HauIey's record2
How is ne coming home, and what have
All in good time, we shall see.
Upon this subject, of VIA. congress has
done and what it has not done, the Chicago
Times thus comments. Read it, and ponder
it we'll:
When important measures have been for
ced upon consideration, time has been dlssi-
pated In trivial debates, in obstinate refusal
to agree, In Ignorance OF the subject In hand,
In polIt al cnIcan-ry with reference to re
election, in the squabbles OF the New Eng
land and the western factions, and III 10 case
mas any matter been viewed in national
ght or treated from patriotic or states.
manilke stand point. The result has been
seen IN Weak compromises, recognizing NO
principle, but simply sacrificing the true
ih'eres's OF the country to the purpose OF
agreeing upon something which will prove
equally unsatisfactory to both parties.
Snch has been tue story Of the tax and |
tariff schedules, Resulting IN the most Ine.i- |
fest In ustIce to the people in such cases IA /
the lobby cared for, and IN equal wrong do. /
ing to certain interests which were unrepre.
scented in the iobby,-all arising from the /
power of New England over the radical
party to betray the national interests OF the
country. Mr.. Wells, the most useful and
perhaps the ablest man the radical party has
ever produced. has been put down because
ne adheres to facts and principles. 1t was
a crime for Mr.. Wells to show an adverse
balance, during the current fiscal year, of
Sls2,U00 900 of Indebtedness to foreign
countries, as a direct result of the tariff: his
"tnce was conseq uently abolished and he
himself placed In retirement Mr.. boutwell,,
however, must be accomm oda ted In his hob
o'es even because he has the true radical
knack OF closing his eyes to facts and 40
ures, aud the government is turnad ;,to a
general banking business, with the Now
GnRiand snop keeper as the president The
reforms are neglected, the frankinp nr;v;N
iege retained, amnesty denied to the south |
ern people, the business intara.t. of ~
country abandoned in as cramped a cond;.
ton as ever, and, in word evarv,h;n
done or left undone which msnv of ,he
leading republican newspapers have
threatened as sufficient cause for repud;aN
ton at the hands OF the people.
There is one point, however, which these
reform journals have failed to ackno~ledge,
although it cannot be from ignorance on
their part. A simple defeat Of the radical
politicians who have disregarded the inter
eats and the demands of the people. with q
Substitution of other radical politicians
VINO will regard party sucoess - IN
sneouzAssmsnt for similar aetisn On their