The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-12-24
PARTY TACTICS IN CONGRESS.
/ From the NO. Picayune.

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Whatever its ostensible purport, the
end really aimed at by the greater part
of the legislation so far introduced. this
session, into Congress, is the manufac-
ture OF political capital. The struggle
now going on between the two rival
parties in that body Ia duel to the
death. The prize in view is the Presi-
"ehcy and the control of the Govern
ment Tor at least one term. 1t ia the
policy OF the Republicans to proclaim,
! themselves the peculiar champions of
| human freedom and the only reliable
| friends of the Union, while the Demo.
| cracy is tainted with the heresy of se.
ct'ssion amt under the influence of COD.
perhes'ds and anti-bellum tire-eaters.
The Democrats, for their part, will
ende'lvor to make it appear that the
Republican Administration has been
characterized by unprecedented fraud
and corruption, that it threatens the
security of our institutions by lending
Itself to schemes Of personal ambition.
and that it is attempting to establish
central despotism upon the ruins of the
autonomy of the States.
Mr.. Fort opened the Renub,ican
game very brilliantly the other day by
moving that wounded Union soldiers
should have the preference for the sub.
ordinate offices within the Gift of the
House. The shrewd Representative
from Illinois no doubt thought that he
had put tho "Confcdcrate Bripatliers,,
between tho horns Ola very disa9reea-
btc dilemma. 10 give the Union
soldier preference over tho reconstruct
CT eN-Confcdcrnte soldier is to implv
th"t there was something wrong posi-
bfy soiue thing disgraceful in the cause
tttftsfff}fs(f Il t.r Int
han /, should tho resolution fail to nsss-
II was hoped that the preju,tices and ieal
ot'sies ofthc North might be excited. II
Is true that Mr.. Fort might just rs we'll
nave submitted Il resolution that all
the candidates should present certffi-
Gates OF Vacciftttion; he would have
done SO had tho state of public feeling
at the North made that u popular quail
iiication. We have already noticed
how that thrust was parted.
Yesterday Mr.. Morton renewed, th.
attack in the Senate. Tho voice or tho
utra-biiarious Senator from Indiana 10
still for war. Not satisfied with what
tic has done for Louisiana, he now,
turus his attention to Mississippi. ana
asks for al Investigation of the election
recently held In that State. a carefully
constituted committee might work up
~ ASHo'e S''sss "ooAN SSTVe the dnMhla
purpose of firing the Northern heart
and excluding the Senator to be elected
by the Mississippi Legislature.
| MIR. Stevenson, of kentucky, fired
the return shot by offering n resolution
asking the Secretary of fine Treasuarv
to transmit to the Senate the docn.
ments relative to the infractions q,
the internal revenue laws ut st. Lo,is
Chicago and Milwaukee. After much
objection from the Republican side.
the motion was withdrawn, and the
Democrats scored one.
On the same day in the House Mr..
Springer, of Illinois, gave his colleague.
Mr.. Fort, II Roland for his Oliver. bv
offering an anti-third term resolution.
the Republicans of course would not
dare to commit themselves thus early
in the action to II third term, and mt
the same time it must have been very
histasteiul to them to be compelled
thus t" offend the President. Mr..
Blaine, VIC arc informed, "dotlged the
vote" Asa candidate for the Presi-
drncy himself he can hardly favor n
third term but then as a candidate he
cannot afford TO render himself unpop-
uiar with II very considerable pnrt OF
the Radical party.