Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-03-03

Of the bill is the almost universal sen. |
timent against subsidies of every kind.
REPORTS from Washington agree in
representing that President Grant will
not call an extra session Of the 44th
Congress. He threatens that he will
call such extra session even though |
tho sundry civil, the river and harbor
and the deficiency appropriation bills
all fail, We are clearly Of the opinion
be is right. The Democratic minority !
in both houses of Congress are the re-
sponsible parties whenever such fail
urcs to pass necessary bills shall occur,
They have as we have frequently
shownin . quasi revolutionary manner
clogged the business OF Congress for
days because measure was likely to
be passd by the majority which they
opposed, and because, too, az we must
believe, that they wish to so delay the
work of Congress a. to force the Pres.
ident to call them together in extra
session by which would be incurred
an extra expense Of hundreds Of thous.
ands of dollars. Democracy has
caused the sitting Of the House for
I about fifty consecutive hours at q time
and used motions 10 no end but to
stop legislation by frequent calling Of
tho roll until the House would be
obliged to surrender aud adjourn hav-
ing accomplished nothing. Like the
senseless strikers OF the land they
would do nothing themselves nor let
the majority do anything. Again the
Democracy for q whole night sat in
their seats aud refused to answer TO
their names ct roll call 90 % to defeat
legislation by showing that there was
no quorum present. Their conduct
has been simply infamous though very
characteristic of the party OF trea-
son. We heard q great deal OF the
"back salary BILL" and tho people of
the country justly rebuked it and
Democracy, though deeper in tho mire
than the Republicans in regard to that
! measure, howled their treacherous
threats hoarse in protraying the wrongs
and infamy Of that bill.
Now, however, every Democratic
journal in the country-every Demo.
cratic speaker, earnestly and loudly
sustains the quasi revolutionary acts of
the Democratic minority in Congress
which binds the hands of that body 90
that it can do nothing except it be
agreeable to them-except, in other
words, this minority is let to rule. All
this, in addition to its other wrong
features, is frittering away Of hum
dreds Of thousands Of the peoples
money and putting It in the pockets Of
these revolutionists and supporters Of
murders and revolutionists in the
South. Southern Democratic White
lLesguers in the South kill, murder
and oyerturn State authority and 9
, Democratic minority In Congress fol-
low in their wake Of revolution by
, binding the hands of the majority and
I preventing the visiting of just punish.
ment upon their Southern friends OF
the making Of provision to prevent
future ontragcs. This Democratic mi.
nority would compel tho President to
call them together in extra session by
preventing the passage OF necessary
Liquidation and 40 fitch from the
treasury. Could they effect their OBJ
ject the unnecessary expenditure thus
created would throw in the shade in
amount all that was drawn from the
national treasury under the back sal.
airy bill. Such 10 the party that through
auxiliary parties to the Democracy
drawn from the Republican party have
gained partial victory in the country.
| We assert without the least fear of
successful contradiction, that If the
dog -in-the-msnger conduct of the
| Democratic minority Of the House
could be successful in Its sims it would
| drain the n4Sion~A txe~sNsy 1~s gwOIso
than the back SALARY bill. Even the
Stats Zeitung sickens 1t its new allies
tactics, and though it nses mild terms
in comparison with what they deserve,
it says:
"Such parliamentary Kilkenny.cat-
| fighting may seem to many good
joke; to us it appears simply disgust-
ing. In Europe tom-foolery of this
kind is unknown. Unpopular govern
ment is synonymous with the govern
ment of . majority of the representa-.
tives whose term has not yet expired,
them that majority should decide. To
trip up the majority in order to shirk
voting is undignified and puerlle."