The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-24

can candidate Will be either General Grant 1or
third term or Elihu B. Washburne.
The Last Hours OF Congress.
The first session of the Forty-third Con-
gress is over. Both houses adjourned yester-
day evening without having secured a worthy
place in history or earned the gratitude of the
country tor wise and timely legislation. The
last day of the session was characterized by
the usual despatch Of business which ought to
have been disposed of long before, and it may
be some days until we shall know with GER
tainty all the measures that were passed or
that failed to pass. Among the more impor-
tant measures it may be noted that the Utah
bill was passed and that the Tariff bill went over
till the next session All the appropriation bills
were disposed Of but General Garfields
boosted determination to have them all out OF
the way long before Congress adjourned was
not realized, and too many Of them remained
till the last day of the session. Even
the Postal bill had to be settled by means Of
r. conference committee, and the criticisms
made rpcn it in the House show clearly
enough that It u, not in all respects an honest
measure. The same ing is likely to prove
true Of the River and HGnor OIL. Inc
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was - ~sSea
without any appropriation for the Civil Ser
vice Commission, and the unexpended bal
ance of ten thousand dollars in their hands
will be covered back into the Treasury. IL
deed, the whole day seemed to be given to the
measures from the Committee on Appropria-
tons, which had gone through the usual
evil courses and come back at last for
final action from the unsafe hands of
committees of conference. Nothing is moro
to be regretted, for nothing can be
SO menacing to purity in legislation. The
annual appropriation bills ought to be the
first care Of Congress- and all of them should
be considered and passed before general legis-
latlon is seriously attempted. The temper of
the country will not much longer permit ex-
cuses to be made for frauds in the Post Office
and other bills on the ground that tho haste of
the last hours of the session prevented the
necessary scrutiny. The appropriation bills
ought not to be last hour bills, and whatever
faults are found in the measures of yesterday
will bear hardly upon the republican party.
The great ease of the last two or three hours of
the session gave Mr.. Garfield ON opportunity
to eulogize himself, and Mr.. Dawes had also
smiling bit of testimony for the Committee on
Appropriations. With this parting blessing
the session came to on end, and the Congress-
men went home to look after their reelection.
How Some Young Ladies' Amuse Them
ellis body win be preserved ON ice till his
friends arrive" What CHASTITY realism there
is in the sound! And yet it is the last sentence
of a love story-one of those love stories that
only become known to the world through the
Intervention of that grim functionary the
Coroner, the Rhadamanthus of our modern
life Wiley was from Boston and lived in
San Francisco, and he loved very desperately,
it seems, certain Miss Jennie Short. They
were engaged to be married, and Wiley had in
his eyes the golden mirage Of happy future
with the woman he adored. But, to use Miss
Jennie's own phrase, 1.-The charm had passed
with her." She had got over it. It was 80
youthful folly INDUCED in to pass away the
time pleasantly :" and the time had passed
pleasantly enough, and that, she thought,
should be the end of it and all this she wrote
to her heart-broken lover in what she calls
"plain English" Her letter to the effect that
she did not love him and would not marry
him was written on June 4. On June z he
made an excursion with a friend to visit
not see her SO the last hope that was covered
by that thin pretext failed, and on the 10th Of
June somebody went up to Wiley's room and
found him quoted forever from an overdose
of laudanum and now Miss Jennie Shorts
Tilted lover is "on ice'