The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-04
THE NEW DEPARTURE IN THE
HOUSE.


mined to make the most of what little
period of power is still left lit. Having
been repudiated at the polls, its unscru-
pulous leaders, represented by such men
as Ben. BUTLER, seem to be utterly
reckless of their actions, and determined,
since Hey have been set aside, to hurl
their defiance and revenge in the teeth of
the people.
At last, after a long, steadfast and
earnest fight on the part of the Demo
Gratis to maintain intact the revered rules
which have, heretofore, governed the
American Congress almost from its foun-
dstion, the rsvolutionists have carried
their ends. Now the majority have
absolute CONTROL the minority have no
rights, except the meagre one granted by
the gracious pleasure of the majority, to be
allowed to ventilate its own views on any
measure for one day, and then only IN
speeches of very limited length. The
most obtuse man can see how utterly des
potic is this rule, and what great power
is thus placed in the hands of reckless
ruling party. Hereafter the avenue is
left wide open for the carrying through
of any scheme, job or subsidy that may
be advocated, and that free and full dis
cussion which has ever been the boasted
safe guard of American liberty, Is choked
of and destroyed.
Mr.. BUTLER endeavored to somewhat
allav the severe criticism which his con
duct deserves, and will call forth, by APP
pealing to popular prejudice, saying that
these old rules were gotten up in the IN
terests of the old slave power. But the
ex-gentleman had forgotten when he
made this remark, two or three very IN
teresting facts. one was
that that which be thus
sneeringly alluded to as 'the slave pow
er, was composed of such men as JET
rERsoN. WASHINGTON, HENRY, WEBSTER
CALHOUN. AMI host of others, who
have given to this country all the
glory it ever possessed, and which glory
the cx-gentleman and his associates have
already Llackcmed and are striving still
further to ctlrctually extinguish.
Another and one which was very
promptly and pertinently called to
his memory 10y MIR. Cox is, that while
this power, and these rules were in the
osc,ndencv, no frmcr or more
earnest supporter of each could
be anywhere found. than in the person
ot this same cx-gcntleman, and he should
have remembered this, his former posi-
tion ere he strovC so hard to bring him.
self into ridicule.
And still, third point, made by Mr..
LAMAR. of Mississippi, would fur
,ber have caused to blush this beautifully
vir,u,ns ex-rentleman, if he could blush
and that is. that unlike the present con-
trailing power when this "slavc power
had undoubted asccndancy it was not
wanting in magnanimity to the minority
hint gave il the freedom Of speech of which
now it has been deprived. No doubt
the ex-gentleman, then on the side OF
this "power,' would have voted for
ra,,ring Of the minority, as promptly as
be has done to-day, only then he was SO
obscured by great men that his despotic
INNINGS had he ventured to indulge them,
would have been speedily silenccd.
But II is idlcJo hope formngnanimity,
ns,riotism or virtue in dominant party
whicb stands to-day with such a
record as is borne by that of
which the eX-gentleman is the
confessed leader. When it comes to jobs,
subsidies or corruption, that party Is
success; when it comes to craftsmanship
and protecting the vital interests OF the
Republic, it is an ignoble failure.
The specie shipments to Europe from
New York, Yesterday, were 1851 600 OF
which 100000 WAS gold coin.
A resolution offered Tuesday IN the
Penn.vlvania Legislature at Harrisburg,
Representative Wolf passed
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