Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-11-20
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. Il, Isl


Tile meeting Of CoHgeeSs and the prepa.
ration for IL a proposition to make
Grants election uaanimous-TRe Horse
Epidemic. DC.
Only two weeks from MondayCongress
assemblies to 20 through the Third Ses-
sion of the Forty-Tnird Congress. The
Capitol building has been thorough y
renovated, workmen having been en-
pioyed, as usual, for that purpose. The
Senate and House chambers, and COM
mittee room have been arranged for
the reception of our country's noblemen.
Already the trains leading to the city
are filled with both Congressman and
others, coming here in advance TO make
arrangements for winter quarters.
This being a short session, there will
be a great deal to do in a short space of
time, and those having bills and mea-
sures before the present Congress are
taking time by the forelock and are al.
ready canvassing their chances of sue
cess.
Col. John S. Moseby, of Virginia, has
just written a letter to Alexander H.
Stephens, of Georgia, urging him to
advocate, in his paper, the propriety of
the Greeley electors of the Southern
States which cast their vote for them, to
vote in the electoral college for Grant,
and thus make Grants election unani-
nous.
Moseby thinks if such a course be pur-
sued, it will have the effect to heal all
that bad feeling toward the Government
which has been manifested by the
Greeley press of the South in the
political canvass Just past.
The abelition of the electoral college
will be agitated the coming session OF
Congress, and it is expe cted that before
another Presidential election, the con-
stituiion will be so changed that the
people will vote directly for the Presi-
dent.
The horse epidemic, in consequence,
perhaps, of the weather being bad, has
not abRted but to the contrary, many
of the animals are the same as in New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, af-
ficted with the dropsy, and there is a
general alarm among the owners OF
horses, fearing that the turn the disease
is taking will result seriously.
Indications are multiplying of a grad
ual swapping of the monarchical and
hierarchical machinery movement in
France. In all the late elections TO sup
ply vacancies in the National Assembly
the republican candidates have been
uniformly successful. In some cases
the combined forces of Aegitimists, Or
~leanists and Bonapartists, voting for the
same candidate, were insufficient to re-
tain a conservatives vote in the Assem-
bly,. These results are ascribed to the
moderation OF the Theirs Administra.
ton, and to his success in disarming the
republican element of some of its ultra
Froscriptive zeal. The questions Of edu-
cation has 6ssn managed so as to con
ciliate the mass of the nation. The feel.
ings of the Catholics have been regarded
while the monopoly of their teaching
has been destroyed. The education o.
the people by men not under ecclesiasti.
cal dictation, yet respectful towards the
1 church as a state institution, seems tc
strike the mercurial Frenchman as q
master stroke of policy. 1t IS true the
ultra montanes still declare that the
/ republic is drifting into Communism,
but this is evidently an exaggerated
party cry, which is rapidly losing its
significance. These results are highly
suspicious to the French Republic, and
augur a successful administration OF the
old premier, 81. Theirs. The trouble
with French politics has all along been
the exaggerated and i~mPlacable rancol
of political parties. Any indications ol
the amelioration of this bitterness may
be accepted as tokens of a more favorable
state of public opinion, and ofs cslmeI
consideration of the momentuous issues
pending. This pOderati N is essential
to all free government.
The great fires of Chicago and Boston
with less but considerable fires occurring
frequently in nearly every city, proves
that the present means of arresting gresl
! fires are inadequate, and need improve,