The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-04-03

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From the New York Sun, March l2thl.
END OF TIE INFAMOUS F0RTY.SECO1D
CONGRESS.
The Forty.second Congress expired at nooa
Tuesday. Within the last one hundred and fif
ty years there have been more famous legisla-
live bodies than this, but We do not remember
one more Infamous There were conscent'ous
gentlemen in tho Senate and the House; but
prin,a facie the case is against the whole Of
them, and till the close Of the present century
membership in that Congress will, in the esti-
nation of the general public, throw upon the
incumbent the burden of proving that he was
not dishonest man. The entire term OF this
Congress has been characterized by series OF
disreputable transactions which have no paral-
lei in our history We went through all the
temptations of the war without seeing anything
so outrageous as the doings of the two Houses
over which Schuyler C0lfax and James G.
Blaine have now presided Amid the seething
mass of these transactions perhaps the two
which will hereafter loom up the most conspic-
uously and be the longest remembered are, first
and chiefly that though some twenty members
of the two Houses were proven before lenient
committees of the one House or the other to
have been guilty Of fraud, bribery, and corrup-
ton. and Of double dealing and rank perjury in
vain efforts to explain their offences, not one OF
them was expelled, only two, and they on false
pretences. were mildly rebuked, whilst the rest
were whitened over till their regulations shone
again; and secondly, that after this scandalous
betrayal of their trusts, the two Houses filled
up the measure of their iniquity By voting them
cepting the disgraced members whom even Ben
Butler thought so Infamous that they ought to
be indicted by the Grand Jury and sent BY the
petit jury to the peniteatiary.
The Forty. second Congress! As its men,
bers sneak home with the money of the people
lining their packets, even boys ut their marbles
in the streets will point to them, one saying to
his comrade, "There goes a member Ut the
Forty y-second Congress'" and the conrade.
not degnng to raise his eyes from his play.
will respond, "And, of course. thief"
This has been Secor Robeson's Congress-.
This has been brazen-browed Pinchbeck's
Congress.
This has been drunken Judge Durells Con-
gress.
This has been the Congress Of the French
arms swindle.
This has been the Congress of Grants New
York Custom House WITHDRAWING.
This is the Congress which looked approx.
ingly upon Harlans acceptance Of Durants
checks for $4,000 to aid him in purchasing
his Senatorial seat.
This is the Congress which saw Ben. Butler
oyerawe one Of its committees because it al
lowed it to be proven that Ben took $4,000
| from the Union Pacific Railroad f0r. drawing
up contract.
This is the Congress which has condoned
Coltaxs perjury.
This is the Congress which let Pomeroy out
at the back door Of the Independence bank
dodge
This is the Congress which furnished Profess
or Patterson with q coating of whitewashtto
90 home in-but very thin, though.
This is the Congress which, in tho tace OF
the damning proofs of Senator Claytons frauds.
said to that shameless scoundrel, well done.
good and faithful servant"
This is the Congress which dared not turn
out Caldwell for buying his seat in the Senate
because the Senate feared that in response to
nearly every vote 10 the affirmative the culprit
would rise up and say, You're another!"
/ This is the Congress which bound the sins
and iniquities Of Colfax. Patterson. Allison,
Logan, Wilson. Kelley, Dawes. Blaine, Bl1g-
ham, Garfield, Sco6eld, and we know not how
many other tainted Senators and Representa-
| tives, upon the shoulders Of Oakes Ames and
James Brooks, with intent to send them 40
scape- goats into the wilderness, but failed to do
20 because it turned out that there were not
enough virtuous members in the House to expel
the corrupt Ones
This is the Congress which great railway
corporations owned and used AZ their need Te-
{ quired, and which venal lobby bought and
sold day BY day.
This is the Congress which eome Macaulay
of the next century will describe % moro infa-
nous than that Parliament which originated
Laws celebrated Mississippi scheme. and moro
corrupt than those Parliaments which Walpoae
used to purchase - he bought Merino sheep
and Flanders mares to stock his estates IN
Sussex.
In fine, this is the Congress which the Amer
lean people on Tuesday, - the clock struck
twelve, hootcd out Of the Capitol!
AMERICAN BExR-Like the proverbial "car-
ryinp Goals to Newcastle" is the expectation Of
lager beer from the United States to Germany,
Professor Liebig, the great chemist lately made
I speech, which has been published in ana COM
j mented on BY the German press in which 40
, said: 1T 10 characteristic Of the Americana
that they make better beer than we do. am
convinced the time 10 coming when American
lbeer will drive German beer from the market.
With 10 everything stands still, and tho worst
beer brewers are il Bavaria, though formerly
i the best used to como from that quarter" Tho
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