The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-29
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
a GLANCE FROM THE NATION IL.
CAPITAL.
Republican Majority In the Present
transformations Before the PEG
pie-E .tumate of Probabilities tor
the next Congress.

WASHINGTON, ID. G., SEPT. 49, 1874.
Merchants take account of stock at the
close or beginning of year. Politicians
must be more prov lent, and note carefully
quotations in the party exchange. The
present is u favorable period for this. The
feIeral city is capital vantage ground for
making the survey. 1t seems to be the on
ly place from which political observations
ian be taken 81 horoscopes cast. uninilucn-
ced by sectional or local Interests. Grant
ing this, it may be acknowledged that the
situation is mixed, and probabilities are
still uncertain. though more distinctly en-
couraging than they We're a few weeks
since.
When congress adjourned in June, the
prevailing feeling in all parties was like
that expressed by Baltic Nicoll Jarvie,
Its a a middle" The democratic mana
gers were little jubilant, though they
even engaged seriously in the graveyard
task of whistling to keep their courage up.
Republicans were grave, looking forward
to serious contest, and in many ways re-
garding the issue as doubtful. This was
not only the off year in politics, but the
iethargy common to that period-the banc
OF political managcrs-was supplemented
by large amount OF apparent dissatsfac-
ton and decided "mixng" of issues. 1t
was widely feared that the next house was
in danger, and with some twenty-four SEN
ators to be elected, as well as state tickets,
there was everything to incite both PARTIES
to exertion. 1t is common thing t # the
independent press and liberal orators to
denounce the interference of the present
administration in the politics OF the several
states and congressional districts, but those
who have had anything to do with party
management, very well know that no adj
ministration has been in power since early
i'll the present century that has done or
now does SO little of that sort of thing.
1t is almost suflicien. to deprive any man
OF place in any of the departments to
have it known that he is an active politician
republican, of course-and the democrat
or liberal who is not offensive can remain
without difficulty. But to return.
The republican majority in the present
house is set down at about ninety. The
liberal vote consists of three representatives
and four senatOrs-seven in all. The re-
publican senators have a majority of twenty
nine, making total majority of 1l0, alto
gether too many for good discipline or
cal sense. The belief was general that
there would be great breaking up, both
east and west, inside the republican fold.
Three things, it was believed on one side,
and feared on the other, would tend to this
result. These were:
First-The currency question.
Second-That of transportation, and
Third-The attempt to pass the civil
rights bill, mixed schools included
Whether wisely or not, the first issue is no
longer a serious cause of disturbance to
the republicans 1t seems, boomerang like,
TO have recoiled, round the corner, on the
head of the opposition, the democracy be-
ing far more troubled in reaching bond of
unity on this subject than are their oppo-
nents. The currency legislation will not
seriously affect the republican vote AT
first 1t appeared otherwise, but fuller dis
cussion seems to convince members of that
party that this, too, is one of the questions
to be fought out within their own lines until
safe compromise is reached.
On the transportation question the repub-
lican party has cleared the western break
ers. The vote on the McCrary bill in the
house, and the senate report on transporta-
ton routes to the sea board, with the votes
and discussion in the senate chamber on re-
lated questions, have convinced the advo-
Gates of cheap transportation and of the
propriety of legislation thereon that the
party in power is far more disposed to deal
in a large and equitable spirit with these
questions than the one in opposition. The
democracy make no response but mega
tive to popular demands. 1t can only deny
the right of congress to legislate; of the
general government to in any way to inter-
fere or regulate. 1t demands the cessation
of the and-grant system, four years after a
republican house unanimously passed n re-
solution to that effect, and three years after
a republican national convention ncorpor-
ated it into the party platform, ignoring
the fact that no grant has passed since that
date, and that in fact, since then, by direct
vote of congress, and by executive construc-
of law, nearly seventeen million acres have
been restored to the public domain by tie
failure of railroad companies to construct
their roads within the allotted periods On
other phases of the railroad or transporta-
ton question the Union Republican Con-
gressional Committee the body which re-
presents the patty in all contests other
than presidential, has taken in its campaign
publications stronger grounds in defense of
the party's favorable attitude toward the
Changers or Farmers movement In its
most recent campaign pamphlet, entitled
Living Issues" 1t reviews the back pay
and salary repeal matter, railroad legisla-
ton and transportation monopolies, labor,
taxation, cost of government, of the war,
democratic expenditures as contrasted with
republican, etc. The discussion of the
railroad matter occupies at least one third
of the sixteen pages. and aflrms the friend
ly attitude of repubicanism toward the
careful and candid examination of the
economic issues inyOlyod II alfirma that
the best known leaders have ranged them
selves ON that side which asserts that these
great corporate enterprises are in the nature
of public trusts, and must be made subordi
date to the public good.-M Y. Times.