The daily gazette., 1875-03-08
lFrom the New York Journal OF Commerce. !
A Great Relief.

lfrom the New York journal of Commerce.l (
A Great Relief.
The final adjournment of tho Forty |
third Congress causes an instant and /
universal feeling of relief. Expressions |
oil thankfulness are heard on every side, |
and none are louder and heartier than |
those Of the business public It ia a
mournful fact that Congresses of late
years are regarded as enemies of COM
merce, finance and trade. They are ig-
norant OF the first principles of political |
economy. They know us little Of the 1
laws of banking as SO many school-boys. !
And, what is worse, the majority seem |
to care nothing OF the consequences pre- |
cipitated upon the country by their !
crude and reckless legislation, The |
ern. average Congressman looks only to
the erect OF measures upon his party,
or his own recollection, or bis pocket. III
the commercial interests of the United
States do not go to rack and ruin, they
owe thanks for the marrow escape not to
Congress, but to the immensity of the
national resources and the boundless
confidence and elasticity OF the people.
Some few sanguine persons were weak
enough to hope that the Forty third
Congress. having previously neglected,
or iegislated adversely to the wants Of
commerce and trade, would, in the clo-
sing session. make little atonement.
But they only passed senseless and
useless bill for the resumption Of specie
payment at Il distant day by a process
underlined, and piled on heap of new
taxes. The former was mockery; the
latter fresh burden. When we review
| the acts OF the last session-and, for that
matter, the acts of the session previous
we lind only reasons for gratitude that
the Forty third Congress did no worse.
They kept the people in constant fear of
vague, impending evils. These might
take the shape OF new credit-mobilier
| swindles, prodigal subsidies to innumer-
able railroad and water routes, the reyi
val OF the most odious forms of taxa
ton, the imposition of new exactions
and outrages on merchants, war with
Spain to cover the blunders and save the
credit ef the Administration, and (most
dreaded OF alb the establishment Of a
central tyranny over all the States, with
the right of suspcnding the haJeas corp,.s
writ and declaring martial law at will
for the behoof OF Grant and third
term. Such were the calamities always
hanging over the country during the
| last session.
From these, happily, we have escaped
not by grace Of the Radicals in Con-
gress, for they were ready to do one
and all of these things, but through
the dissensions and jealousies which
broke out among them through the
noble firmness and independence of a
small band of honest Republicans, and
through the haste of legislation, which
caused some Of the worst schemes to
fail at the fag end of the session for
want Of time. To those upright Re.
Ipublicans who would not sell or lend
themselves to the President, we ought
to feel very grateful. Acting for this
lpurpose, in concert with the opposi-
ton, they struck the worst feature
the mixed-sehool clause-out of the
Civil Rights bill they succeeded In
limiting the most offensive and hateful
Iprovisions of the Force bill to fou1
Southern States, and delaying its pas
: sage so long that it failed in the Senate
they mustered strength enough to Kill
. the infamous Arkansas Interference,
bill, and to admit the two Conserva
3 tive, anti-Kellogg Congressman from
= Louisiana. In these acts they oppose.
: and put down four daring schemes o
t the Administration, and lin the defea
Q of the Force bilD saved the South from
y the most wanton piece of usurpatiol
Il and injustice ever concocted, and th
k whole country from convulsion. w
:, did not expect that the General Amnes
d ty bill, which rested in the Senate
e would pass and it was too much t
v hope that the Republicans would rt
~ ject Colorado as q State, since they b,
pt lieve that she will send them two SEM
tors. Some allowance must be mad
for party feeling, and the Republican,
as a body, were not long in showing i
&c but they refrained from an excessiy
abuse of their power. Coming to th
miscellaneous law-making, we fin
III reason for congratulation. The subsid
F. hunters got only 'lean pickings. TIL
great Texas Pacific and Northern Pac
fic Railroad lobbies fell back battle,
Id All of the important bills labele
"cheap transportation" met with u d.
served fate.