The Weekly Arizonian., 1871-04-22
Partisan Strife in Washington.

The Washington Correspondent of tbs N 7. Herald, under date of March 95,b a;. courses at length upon the difference. .ron. he republican members in Congress. and ,Lo evident superiority which the dsnocr.o~ throughout the country may gain by t.k;n. due advantage of the republican strifs The correspondence concludes as follows.
 The leading democrats in Coueres, aware of the fears expressed in csr~a; a'o vel ters that the advent of dsmocr.t;o 4usr- tpa'lOn n ana a ruling majority in the House If Representatives might restore to a rroot VI tent the supremacy of the South and ;n.oIA. the Country in host of counlico,sJ S internal troubles. They indignantly S;a,Iaiu anu the possibility of any such result and mn:! c,-in that me democratic party of to-day is a trnlv national party. Upon many of ina naIi;y uy questions of the day they entertain onin;o. on. diamatricalyl opposed 10 those of tbs fd? .ICnS islration and the republican nartv I they think il is time the position tb.v sss u among themselves should be eommnn;oo.IS to the country. With this view if is nnSs.1 stood that, at the earliest favorable onnor,nn;,, Fernando Wood, who has carefully coDs;5a:''' ed the natter. will present resolution ;r ,L- House of Representatives declarinv tbs, :. Is the duty of Congress-
 First-To provide for the immediate radp.- ton of direct taxation and of import dutie. to a strictly revenue standard.
 Second-To provide eforthsimmediata -.5no ton of public expenditures in all the den.rt ments of the government
 Thrd-To abolish all siueeurs office. the system of collecting the revenue bv ,sc-a, and spies.
 Fourth-To restore to the people of tb. States and their local governments the riob.s originally possessed by them under the consf;- tution,
 Fifth - To abolish governmental pane- money and to restore the only constitutionsI and silver.
 Sixth-To reduce the army to 2 pescs s,ot- ing and abolish system recently established of employing military officers in the dischar-s of civil duties.
 Ssventh-To provide against the aecunula- ion and retention of large sdms of money in he public Treasury, by which the interests of people are subordinated to government in lusnce and made dependent upon the caprice nd personal views of the head of that d.par.- 1ent.
 Eighth-To prevent the purchase and sale f the public credit by the Secretary of the at his own option, with no other con- rol than his individual and personal will. Ninth-To bring the President and bis Cab- ,st advisers directly under the authority of w. making them obedisnt to its provisions nd alike with others subject toits psnaltisa Tenth-To restore 10 the Southern States nd people peace, prosperity and contentmsnt. hich can only be accomplished by cessation f vindctive legislation and military inter rence and recognition oftheir equal rights lcluding self government and political equal ' with the other States and peoples of the nion.
 EIeventh-To rsviw American commerce TweIfth-To restore American credit. Thirtsenth-To reinaugursts American re- ub hcan sinpIicity in the administration Ot ublic affairs, and
 FourtesatA-To aid, by all proper, legal and onstitutional authority, in the fall develop ,ent of the agricultural mineral and e0mmer- ial resources of the country.