, 1874-05-25

Representation will bo elected iu Nnyon-
bor, 1876 Thoso arc tho extreme oaHeH
But to looalizo an illustraton In tho Now En-
gland 8tatea: Connecticut olools genator this
spring. and Representatives noxt spring; while
Maino and Vermont elect Representatives in
September this year, and souators in the
wintor following. Tho three Pacific statoH mako
MI even more pointed illustration, Al ws have
IN part explained.
The elections ending With those in November,
1884, will have determined the character Of every
cl,nngc to bc mado in tile Senate. and will loave
only nineteen aoats to be filled In tho Houao Of
tue now Congress. Tho now CongroBs uill be,
howovor, still more than yoar distant, unloss
specfally convened. Moro than this md worse,
an unexpirod period romans for tho members Of
Congress- long before elected under sinll!ar cir
eunstances: and mombers, too, It may DO re-
mnrkod, but few Of whom can this year expect
the Endorsement Of recollection. Thus, after
tho people have practically decided, upon the
isauoB Of 1874, what gort Of a nov Congress they
will have. an old Cou9reaH still o1iata with powor
to do work or mischief. Could "tha fathers"
have devised anything uorso than this7 Tho
present Congress, with yot another winters
session boforc 1t, was elected on tho issues Of
1879. Before It ever assembled tho issues OF
1873 had swept away those Of tho year preceding.
Tho Issues Of 1874 arc newer still, and mora
nharply defined. What may thoy DO. or, rather,
what may thoy not DO, next yoar! 1t ia
Of course not intondel to say that issues Of Re-
form, on which this years Issues arc lasgely
| based, will over grow old. But the country has
recently aeen one Congress, in It's expiring hour,
clutch at salary.grab. and another Congress-
nlisreprcsont tho people on critical tostB Of na-
tional honor. II tho Forty-sooond Congress
could, IN ita last days, 80 contomn public vrtuo,
and il tho Forty-third Congress can already 80
| threaten the nations welfare what may re not
expect next winter2 The country, to this day
offended ut an unavongcd aa1ary.grab, may, in
decd, year from now, DO in the pitch Of wrath
at some new act Of Congressional perady or
malevolenco.
The people, in tlleir Congressional elections
this year, aoom very generally determined to
hive now men,-men with oloan hands, stout
neaFt6t anu Trustworthy proleaBlonb. Iheba Con-
grcasmen-eleot will come to their work-when. at
length, their work begina-with tolorably wol1-
defined instructions Oh u good many points, Of
doctrine and duty, that arc now falsely eatoomod
tho peculiar proroxatiyes Of the Congressional
Office. Lot the people this year consider whether
ono point Of instruction may not be that the
Congressional ponod shall begin and end with
Congressional elections, By act passed. some
years ago, Congressional elections (for tho
Houso) aro to occur conourrentIy in all tho
States, beginning with the election Of Novom-
bez, 1885, but the chief evil remains, and can
only be reached by constitutional amendment.
The Torty-fourth Congress should, therefore,
bo instructed, in the election Of its membera
this year and next, that 1t prepare tho way for
tho succeeding Congross to assemble in Docem-
bor, 1876. Thus, II, porohanco, the porils ol
next winters ehort session be safely passed. tho
country may hope to have It's chief representa-
tive body como up fresh from the people, and
do lts work within tho reach Of wholesome pop
ular restraint.