The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-03-02
FoRTY.FIRsT CONGRESS.

The Forty,First Congress has only one more
working day before the session expifea They
have been Id, session for nearly three months
and not one measure Of public importance or
Of benefit to the people has been passed with
the solitary exception Of partial repeal OF Inc
test oath. No measures have been passed
which lessen the burdens Of taxation. Inere
has been no modification of. the tariff, nor any
steps taken towards revenue reform In any
shape whatever.
Public sentiment throughout the country de-
manded the passage of a general amnesty law
and wiping out, as far as possible, by appro-
priate legislation, of all the asperities and
heartburnings engendered by the war between
the States. They have proven recreant to their
trust and have wifully disregarded the wishes
of the people as expressed through the ballot
box.
Three months have been frittered away and
what have we as the result of their delibera-
tionsl A ship load of friends of the Admins
tration are sent on a pleasure excursion 10
San Domingo, at the expense of the people to
make a report which was already agreed upon'
if not drawn up in writing, before the vessel
left our shores, and this as only preliminary
flourish to the contamination of another vii
famous scheme by which the public treasury
will be plundered and few more mongrels
and negroes admitted to the privileges OF
American citizenship. A packed Committee
has been authorized to concoct and submit
false report of Ku Klux outrages on Loyal
men in the South in order to excite~the minds
of the people of the North and revive the
latent feelings of animosity against the South
which time was fast celebrating.
They have seen the handwriting on the wall,
and in their desperation will resort to any
measure, however infamous, in the hope OF
averting their impending political doom. The
appointment of such q committee is but pre-
MONETARY symptom, which will in all probability
be followed by another outbreak of vindictiVe
legislation towards the Southern States, wind
ing up with another and more radical course
of reconstruction of those which are likely to
90 Democratic at the next Presidential cleo
ton; for it is only by demanding several OF
them to military rule that success can be as
sured for the Radical party in the campaign OF
1872. Refusing TO count the votes of several
Democratic States, such as North Carolina,
Gaoro;o Alabama Elorid, rkanSns and Ten.
nessee. would certainly result in the election
of the Radical candidates. That they will at
tempt this game, there can be no manner OF
doubt, as they will do anything to accomplish
their ends. An infamous election law has also
been introduced, and ere this it has doubtless
become law, under the provisions of which
Mr.. Grant, in order TO secure his reelection,
will be enabled to use the military and naval
forces Of the Government in controlling the
elections throughout the whole country. Be-
yond these infamous measures in the interests
of the dominant party we fail to find anything
of Importance that they bave done or anything
for the benefit of the people.
We think that the Governors of the Demo-
cratic States should have issued their Thanks
giving Proclamations setting apart the 4th day
March. 1871, as day upon which the people
should assemble at their respective places of
worship and then and there render thanks to
Almighty God that the Forty-First Congress
was among the things of the past