The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-01

Congress-The Unfinished Business-
Prospect OF an Extra Session.
From noon today to the hour Of noon on
the 4th Of March there are three days remain
ing to the present Congress, including the
intervening Sunday; but, as Daniel Webster
remarked on similar occasion of Q heavy
pressure of urgent business on very short
remnant of the session, ''there are no Sab
baths in revolutionary times" Doubtless.
therefore, the two houses, day and night, Sun
day included, will work like Cinnamon on q
wager to accomplish the heavy task before
them within the three days still remaining to
this Congress. If they fail to pass the regular
ernment or certain other measures declared
by the President to be urgently demanded in
behalf of peace, law and order-such as bill
settling or providing for the settlement of the
Louisiana ENHANCEMENT, and the bill recon-
structing the Territorial government Of Utah
an extra session of the new or Forty-third
Congress will, we apprehend, be the next
thing in order.
The Senate, after an exhausting session
(Which, with brief recess or two, lasted from
Thursday morning, through the day and the
night, to Friday morning., threw all it's labor
away in the rejection Of the Louisiana bill it
had been considering and in proceeding then
to other business. Meantime the Utah bill,
passed by the Senate in Difference to the Presi-
dents earnest representations and suggestions
on the subject, hangs fire in the House, while
that body is working away upon q budget Of
miscellaneous subjects which could just as
we'll be postponed to the first Monday in De-
cember next
With the covering up and hiding away of
the Credit Mobilier scandal by the House we
had supposed that nothing in the line of off,
cial high crimes and misdemeanors could be
produced deemed worthy Of impeachment by
that digni6ed body; but it appears that on
motion of Mr.. Butler, Of the Judiciary Com
mittee yesterday, Mark H. Delahay, United
States Judge for the District of Kansas, is to
be arraigned before the Senate on articles Of
impeachment from the House. based upon
charges of habitual intoxication and his con-
nection with the mysterious disappearance
of some thirty-two thousand dollars of the
public money, for which he is held responsible
to the government. General Butler, however,
could not forego the opportunity for the
encouraging observation that the House,
having purified itself, ought to purify
the Judiciary bit 1t would appear, never
theless, that the Judiciary Committee is not
satisfied that the Credit Mobilier purifca- |
Ssic9 ef ths Hsqse i al ths publication re-
quired in this business; for, on motion of
Mr.. Wilson, of said committee, an amend
ment was admitted to the Legislative Appro-
priation bill, providing for general judicial
overhauling and rectifcation of the affairs of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company-an
amendment which Mr. Dickey, of Pennsylva-
mia, warned the mover, if admitted, "Your
appropriation bill is gone where the woodbine
twineth." This appears to US warning that
this Pacific Company and the Credit Mobilier
are still power in the House.
Next, on the amendment raising the COM
pensation Of the President and Vice President
United States judges and members of Con-
gress there was too much of superAuous
twaddle and of mock heroics for buncombe
It struck MIR. Farnsworth, for example, that
the spectacle of this Congress voting an in
crease Of salaries, commencing with the Presi-
dent and ending with itself, was more
shameless spectacle than any that had been ex-
hibited before. But it did not appear to strike
Mr.. Farnsworth that Congress, and Congress
only, is invested with the power and the duty
of regulating these official salaries, as in the
judgment of the two houses may be deemed
proper and expedient from time to time. We
think, however, that even Mr.. Farnsworth
will admit that the pitiful compensation of
the members of Congress has had much to do
with all these corrupting outside Congress