Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-28

AFTER very laoorlous session, many lnVestl-
cations, and great quantities of talk and dis.
cussion, Congress has pulled off its coat,
rolled up its sleeves and set to work in right
earnest to get through with the legislation
which it cannot longer neglect. More actual
ly Important business for the country at large
has been done in the last fortnight than in all
the preceding time since the commencement
of the session. Both Houses are determined
to get through By the Sd of June, and Speak
er Blaine says they will. Senators and
members have got tired Of staying here and
working night and day in the heat Of June
and July.
| WORK ACCOMPLISHED.
| TIE Tariff Bill has been put through the
House in very summary manner, and in
such shape as to secure the speedy action of
the Senate, that body having already passed
similar bill of their own which the House
| refused to act upon, claiming justly, that it
alone had the right and privilege of original
repeatedly attempted to initiate measures of
this sort, but the House with jealous eye has
always looked upon these attempts as an in
fringement of its patent rights, and stubborn
| (the 2lst) the Senate met as usual at noon,
sat all night and did not adjourn until 10 40
A. NJ, Thursday. During that long session
it passed the House Amnesty Bill, the Civil
Rights Bill mot Sumner's) and the Supple
mentary Ku-Klux Bill, (extending the time of
suspendng the writ Of habeas corpus by the
President in certain localities in the South to
the 4th Of March 1873, all very important
measures. The Civil Rights Bill as 1t passed
the Senate, differs from Mr.. Summers bill,
principally il. that it omits the provisions re-
ating to schools, churches, and cemeteries.
This was done on the principle that a half
loaf is better than none, the sentiment of the
House being against embodying those sections
in the bill. The Amnesty Bill has already
passed the House, so that great measure is
sure. as there can be no doubt that the Psesi-
dent will sign it.
THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTDOOR.
These two measures virtually take the wind
out of Greeley's platform. His pronunca-
mento is an able document and reads well,
but he is very much mistaken if he thinks a
majority Of the American people are going to
indorse him for President His chances were
little at the start, are growing less day by day,
and by the 9th of July will be least. There
can be no installing the temper of the brains
in the Democratic party. 1t will never allow
National Standard bearer. That would be
suicidal. The last number of Frank Leslie's
contains two cartoons of Greeley intended to
be complimentary, but really most capital
stake offs The idea of the "Sage of Chap
paqua" going out to work with Ratchet and
ladder while on every side the inhabitants of
earth and air come out of their haunts to greet
him, is rather too utopian for matter Of fact
people to swallow; while the picture of
George Washington as a boy with small
Ratchet and Horace Greeley as a burly farmer
with big axe, with an inscription beneath |
that neither can tell lie, is really too ridicu-
lous to excite any feeling except laugh at |
Horace's expense. The two New York illus
trated papers have become little else than |
sheets, with Mast as the illustrator
of Harper's and Morgan of Ieslie's.
Gen. Grants chances for a second election |
are very bright; brighter even than they were |
for his first election. He stands before the |
country to-day as its greatest and strongest |
man. In 1868 there was doubt on every side,
even among the leaders of the Republican |
party, as to whether he was really true Re-
publican. Now he has been tried by test |
which never fails, and has not been found |
wanting as Republican in the slightest re-
spect His record as Statesman has been |
second only to his career a. Warrior.
TIE VICE PRESIDENCY.