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test in the House.
DuFiIIg the Deadlock.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
The able-bolied statesmen Of the House
looked somewhat tagged this morning after
the night sessi1n. They were, however,
still determined to continue the struggle
and kept it up gamely all day long. The
Republicans have the advantage of the
Democrats in numbers, which enables
them to 90 away for rest and refreshment
to the number Of thirty or forty at a time.
The Democrats are compelled all to stay
lest they dWindle TO minority too small
for any use. The clerks and pages have
worn. Wearisd and haggard look;
especially are the reading clerks, who
have been almost constantly calling
the roll since yesterday at ~ O'Clock,
entitled to sympathy. All the clerks
Of the House have been called
upon for his duty, which is exceedingly
fatiguing. Members of both parties display
great alacrity in helping to consume time
through the action of dilatory motions
when it is proposed to decide by tellers
whether the ayes aud noes shall be order ed or
motion to adjourn, orthat when the House
adjOurns it be to meet on Friday, or TO
amend by striking out "FTiday" and in
serting Saturday" which are the three
motions upon which most Of the tiresome
roll-calls is had. Nearly everybody, ire
spective of party, files between the tellers
in the most cleerfully solemn manner, all
voting in the affirmative with delightful
harmony. Meantime the sofas in the House
and adjoining clOak-rOOms are almost
constantly filed by slumbering So
Ions, who sleep hard and heavy
The floor is covered with the littering
trash of two days accumulation, and there
is no chance ID to clear it up. The seats
are not full, there being probably one sleepy,
shock-headed legislator to every half dozen
desks; the rest are smoking in the cloak
room, loafing in the Hobbies and committee
rooms, lunching and gossiping in the res
taurant, or over at San 1ersOn's doing every
thing that can be thought Of to kill time,
but always remaining within call, so that
they can be brought in to vote on short no.
tice. The two sides have divided them
selves into companies, commanded by Cap
tains and with Lieutenants. On the Dem
oaatic side Beck, Eldredge and Randall
are the Captains, while Young, Of Georgia,
Sunset Cox, and Clark, Of Missouri, are the
Lieutenants. There are five Captains
and five Lieutenants on the Republi-
can side. The gossip alternates be-
tween Jolly jesting and irritable profanity
over the situation. A great many Of each
party are heartily disguised, the Democrats
saving that it is all folly to prOlOng the
fight when they know they must be beaten
in the end; and the Republicans are COM
planning that they are fighting to pass a
bill that will 10 no good to anybody in the
universe when it becomes a law. They
say that they would not object if the fight
were to secure the passage Of an apprOpria-
i ton bill, a revenue measure, or legislation
that would be Of paaCtiCal benefit TO any
| part Of the people. About half Of the Re
publicans are half-hearted, and allow the
extremists and caTpet-baggers TO keep them
up in a fight that they really are lot in
/ earnest about. The probabilities are diff
cult TO conjecture. Many think that the
struggle will be kept up until tomorrow
| forenoon, while others think that a truce
will be sounded some time tonight, and
| the battle resumed on Monday.
Speaker Blaine suggested to-day simple
way out Of the difficulty. He explained
that on Monday a new rule could be pro-
posed which would be referred TO the Com
mittee on Rules. The committee could
report on Tuesday, and as the report is Of
| the highest privilege, action could be had
| on it at once, when a simple majority vote
would be sufficient for its adoption. The
| Speaker Maynard, Garfield, Cox and Ran
| dali compose the committee. 1t wOuld be
| impossible to put an Objectionable rule
! through that committee. Ii is altogether
| likely that the programme suggested by
| Blaine'will be adopted, but the new rule will
not be so oppressive to the minority as the
| one proposed on Monday would have been.
| Moreover, it must be for use not only in
| this Congress, but also in the next, when
| the Democrats will have a majority in the
| House. so that it must be one that will be
] sauce for the Democratic goose as well as
the Republican gander.
Position Of the Two Parties.
| Special 70 the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The position of Butler and his cohorts p
| that the majority Of the House, acting IN
| der a caucus resolution, have a right to con-
troll its legislation absolutely, giving the
| minority as much or as little time for de-
| bate as they see fit. They regard the Civil
/ Rights bill as one Of a series Of measures
/ which they design to repress and regain
| political control of the South, and they are
| ready to subordinate everything to carry
| the election of 1876. They did not expect
| by this contest of physical endurance to
intimidate the Democrats, but they fully
| expect to whip-in, to subjugate and disci-
| pIine for future uses the Republican bolt
| ers who stopped their way on Monday last.
| The Democrats contend that the just and
| proper business of Congress is to pass the
| annual appropriation bills; that this should
be done with proper carefulness and scru-
tiny; and that all revolutionary or party
legislation should be postponed until this
be done, so as to avoid any necessity for an
extra session. They argue, also, that there
are many great business interests before
| Congress, ard awaiting action, to which
the remaining hours of the session, after
the appropriation bills, should be assigned;
and that now to pass the Civil Rights bill,
or any of the revolutionary measures pro-
posed by the caucus, is to violate the known
viii of the people as expressed in the fall
elections, and gross fraud upon their con-
slituencles, knowing that the people depre-
! cate the passage Of this bill. They feel it
their duty to resist it by Rl parliamentary
methods. Both sides claim tbSt the people
will sustain them in their course, and both
seem resolved to persist.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
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