The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-17
FROM WAsHrNa'roN.

Especial Correspondence ofthe Dispatch.]
The senate Pr0scrfpttonssts-House
of Representatives Ign0red-Neces"
sity for the Presence Of the Demo
cratic Congressmen i'm Washing.
ton-The Dangers Of Long Session
10 the Radical Party, de-
WASHINGTON, April 4, 1871.
The action of the Senate to-day demon
strated the fact that no hope can be enter
tanned by the Conservative citizens OF the
country that any measure Of justice VIII De
passed during the present session. Inc
rulers of the senate-where the party Mna Up
Is snapped as often and as vigorously IS
ever It was In the days Of the late Thad.
Steyens-do not intend that any measure
which originates in the House, now hold
Ing reputation for comparative modera-
ton and liberality, shall become law:
they hnve outraged the sense of political
Justice defined by the house in the ku-
klux bill passed there, and have still
further given cause for the bad
opinion which some of the Radical MEM
bers of the lower branch entertain for the
Senate because of its Entertainments upon
the rights of the House, by indicating most
Thoroughly that the amnesty bill will not
become a law during the present session.
This cannot be said to be unexpected. 1t
touched almost the borders of absurdlty to
imagine that the Radical Senate, which has
not felt quite so practically as the House of
Representatives the changes that have oc-
CURED among the masses, would consent
| to abandon an iota Of the great power it
has exercised for so long. The question
being discussed tonight is will the stern
| dictun, of the proscriptionists who rule the
Senate find favor with the majority of the
House, or will that body be true to itself
and resist the cncroachmentS which are
being attempted, and which even Radi-
cal members have recently been re-
senting from their seats. 1t cannot
harm the Democratic and Conservative
party that Congress does not permit the
enactment of liberal statutes nor can it be
! to their disadvantage that the session should
continue, excepting that it may keep some
Of them away from their private business,
as in too many instances it ut present is
doing. They should be here noaD. There
is more necessity for their presence now
| than there has been for many months and
that several arc absent is a source of no lit
tie regret TO those who are warning so nobly
in defence of the principles of their noble
organization. Radical members know very
we'll that they make no capital by remain
ing in Washington. There is danger OF
splits and breaches. and personal vitupera-
ton and bandying of epithets which does
not affect the Democracy and for the fear
of that they arc anxious to get away as early
rs possible. If the early adjournment
depends upon the adoption of this kukluX
bill as it came from the Senate, mangled
and tortured out of its original shape, the
democrats should be strong enough, with
the few Republicans who cannot consclen-
tiously vote against measure which the
best constitutional lawyer their party bias
in the Senate refuses to endorse, to prevent
that adjournment, and let the war 60 on:
Already there are mutterings of fears that
this session has brought no good to the
party; but the leaders of the ultra wing
will risk everything to carry their points.
Republicans in the Senate who raise their
voice against further prescription, or in de-
fence of measures to promote further JUS
tiee, are brushed aside as of no Importance
whatever. This can end only In wide dis
ruption, and the longer Congress remains
in session the more certain the chances OF
| its early contamination. TIhoE.