Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-17
THE NEXT CONGRESS-.
Republican Surmises-The Texas
Pacific.


Pacific.
Washington Correspondence Cincinnati Com
merCial.
One thing seems to be pretty well
settled, and that is that the Southern
Pacific Railroad scheme will be in
dorsed by the next Congress. Tom
= Scott and a few other Northern men,
directors and promoters of the project,
are to be dropped, and their places
filled by strong representative South
ern men, such as Ex-Governor Beriah
Magofin, Of Kentucky. These men
are to be selected from North
Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Vir-
ginia, Alabama, Louisiana and
Texas, and will be Of great infu-
enee among the new Congressman from
the South. The House secured, the
next step VIII be to capture the Senate
but that Will not be so difficult a Job
as might at first be supposed. 1t has
come to be a common saying, never dis
puted here, that anything can be put
through the Senat ." There was some
show Of hesitation in the Senate with
regard to the Tom Scott bill, last win
ter, but it was not genuine.
The lower House Of the Forty -fOnrth
Congress will do a great deal Of invest
igating next winter. There is plenty
Of 1t to do. In the last six years we
have had enough Of this sort Of thing
to convert every human being on the
Continent into a misanthrope, but 1t Is
quite certain that, as the investigator 9
committees were inquiring into the
misdeeds of their own party, and mas
much as the greater the crime proven
the more injury would be done to the
party, all the truth has not come to
light.
There viii doubtless be all sorts of
trouble in putting the necessary ap-
preparation bills through at the next
session. More or less Of that kind of
opposition that is called "facuOus'
viii be offered by the. House. If it
will only result in bringing our expend-
itures down to their proper amount, the
people generally viii certainly not be
disposed to comp ain. Millions more
than can be prOftably or properly
spent are voted every year by Con-
gress. Many items, in themselves ap-
parently harmless, cover greet steals.
When they are detected, virtlous he
rOes Indignantly vote them ont; but as
long as they are not detected. these
same virtUOus heroes unobtrusi vely
vote them N. We cannot hope to de-
feat all the Jobs simply because the
next House Will be Democratic, but we
can expect to kill some Of them.
As the Democrats viii desire to
make as much political capital as pos
sible before the November election, the
session will doubtless be prolonged to
"A very late day IN the summer. The
coming is the long session by virtue of
custom, but if the next Congress ad-
journs much before August, It viii be
unlocked for, and viii leave behind
much that might have been done by
way Of finding out things.
a great de i of interest Is manifested
in the position that viii be given to
Gen. Banks IN the next Congress. He
was elected as an Independent Liberal,
and is more a Republican than a Dem
ocrat. 1t is clear that Gen. Banks
Is by far the best man for the position
Of Speaker. Standing between the two
parties, and from the influence Of party
selfisbness, he would be enabled to
make all his Rulings tell for the good
of the people. But there is no use
wasting time III specializing on what
might be, under circumstances utterly
impossible. The majority in the next
House will not consent 20 yield one lot
or ettle of the advantages they have.
Still II is believed that Gen. Banks will
be treated with great degree Of con
sideratIOn.