, 1872-12-06
ROUSE AND SENATE.

juQElnE Dy L0e tOne Ol TIE tNo uuiInpOEIant
organs Of the Republican party published at
Washington City, there would seem to be an
irrepreasible conflict regarding party MANAGE
ment between tho two Houses of Congress.
This conflict is by no means d new one. It
dates back a year or more, and frequently mp
peared during the last session. The assumption
Of authority by q small number Of Senators to
dictate to the President and to the House, WAS
rebuked by the latter body very sharply, and on
several OCCASIONS last year. The debate on this
question in the House was led by Mr.. Hoar, OF
Massachusetts, and he distinctly stated
that the encroachments, and attempted
encroachments, and usurpations, by the Senate.
if permitted to 60 on, would eventually
force the country, perhaps, to abolish that body,
or more clearly conlne it's authority by consti-
tutional restrictions. The wide difference OF
opinion between the two Houses WAS conspicu-
ously shown in the rejection, or practical defeat,
of all tho relentless, arbitrary, and harsh 1egis-
1ation passed in the Senate. The additional Ku-
Klux bill; the bill to authorize the President
during the campaign to suspend the hdbeds cor
1,us and take military possession OF any State;
the bill to place the elections in every precinct
under the authority OF Federal Supervisors, and
various other bills, of like general char
acter, were either rejected by the House,
permitted to Lie on the table, or 60
modified as to amount to nothing.
The whole tone Of tho House WAS marked by
iberality and dignity becoming the represents
tives of the people, while that Of the Senate in
dicated the harsh, e1acting and vindictive policy
of the few controlling members OF the caucus.
Three times did the Senate reject the House bill
for general amnesty, and it Was not until after
the Cincinnati Convention that it would pass it
even in a modified shape. The Republicans in
the House who have with great ability led upon
all questions Of general policy have beon Messrs'
Blaine, Dawes, Garfield, Kelley, Poland, Nc
Crazy, Farnsworth and some Others and these
have been opposed by Maynard, Butler, and
minority Of other intolerants.
The Senate, at the present session, has, in
caucus, bound all Republican members Of that
body to renewal of the intolerant policy of last
wear. The House has voted o different policy
While the country might look with contempt
| upon the petty persecution which the Senate
managers have dealt out to Liberal Senators, it
that the Senate policy is sought to be forced
upon the House, and that the leading RepubG-
| cans of that body are now to be prescribed.
| One of these Washington organs thus proclaims
the latest crusade:
When Republican after Republican took the floor to
condole with 11r Banks, is rank treason to his party
and to Republican principle; when Republican after
Republican voted to continue him at tho head OF
Of the most important Conniteesn the House when
the Republican members, fresh from the most terrific
struggle in all its history listened to the arguments Of
AIr. James Brooks, Of New York, and followed his
COUNSEL it clear as the MONDAY sun that the man
tic of tho Great Commoner" is still too largo for tho
shoulders Of any man Oh the Republican bench. It
may suit gentlemen who have their eyes the posst
bility Of 1876 to think and act in this way, but
would remind them that it is not the way to maintain
great party to prepare it for victories in the future.
AIr BankS is nothing in this contest, but the Ropub-
can party everything Kindness, and courtesy, and
sympathy, for him may provo defeat to it, Was it for
this that Pennsylvania rolled up 100000 1najority7
We need leader in the House.
The "leader of the House who would fill the
measure established by this Washington news
paper is probably such man as Chandler, OF
Michigan; there being, fortunately, no such
man in the House, tha organs cry out that there
is want Of competent man On tho Republican
bench. The intimaton that the House Is ruled
in its action by some one who has "eyes on the
possibility of 1876, may be construed perhapa as
fling at Speaker Blaine, and as On lntlmatlon
that If Maynard or Butler will take up the light
and force the House to become the mere register
Of tho cdicts of the Senate CAUCUS, then
the Senatorial regency will be indeed
absolute, and the President will be reduced to
the dependent position Of having no will OF his
own that he dazo execute, and permitted to say
or do nothing without the previous authority OF
tho Senatorial cabal.
We doubt whether tho House Of Representa-