The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-01-20
"1RREcLAIMABLE IDIors."

That's not very pretty language for q
| great newspaper to use in speaking OF the
great men of IFS own party, neyertheless
that's VII Ia; the Chicago Times calls the
| Confederate majority n the present Con-
| greas. The Times SAYS what 1t thinks
abou, the conducl of is party in Consres
| without any ambiguity, and TO show our
readers how democratic Journal regards
the situation ia which this Democratic
Congress has placed itself, We copy the fol-
lowing from the Times OF the 18th:
Ii the Confederates at Washington had
not been irreclaimable idiots, they would
have deposited Mr.. Duluth" Knott in the
| bottom Of the Potomac rather than suffer
him or any other man to report back from
| the judiciary committee the Jeff Davis
| amnesty bill, which was consigned to that
! committee after the Confederate defeat OF
| Thursday. What strange faulty, what in
| corrigible genius OF stupidity or Of malev-
olence presides over and directs the coun-
sells Of the majority in the present House
| of Representatives, it is hard TO imagine.
If the Cynfederates were gifted with the
! intelligence Of oysters, they must have
| known that an invitation to JEFF Davis t.
resume in American politics the qualitca-
| tions of an oiiiceholder could not pass with
| Banks amendment, or any other mans
| amendment They must have known that
| to let the measure come back again would
! only be setting themselves up TO he knock
| ed over again by the ''blasted Blaine" ard
his compact following. In disregard of
this, and "all that IL implied" the measure
was reported back, and the Confederates
were routed again.
The most amazing thing in this whole
business is the fact that Blaine, who has
POLITICALLY ruined himself" 'blasted his
prospects," and .'lost his influence" carried
| his point again by exactly the same STRAIT
egic audacity which he employed before.
Insis:ance upon the previous question pre-
vented him from introducing letter from
| an ex-governor of North Carolina, which
he wished to employ as banderita to incite
the Confederate bull to..a further display Of
"southern fury" But after the roll-call,
he got the floor by moving reconsidera-
| tion, and thus again made himself master
of the situation, while the poor goose Ran
dali, the Confederate "leader" upon the
measure, could only look on as spectator
who could not even "get in a word edge
| wavs"
Ii is difficult to understand how the au-
dacious leader OF the minority could thus
capture and bold possession of the floor in
the face and in spite of al parliamentary
resources OF the majority, with their own
| chosen leader in the chair. Where were
the wits OF Sam Randeil, OF Fernando
| Wood, of little Cox, or my other Confed-
crate who ever looked into Barclays Digest,
that the "blasted Blaine" should thus seize
and run the parliamentary machine to suit
himself? Is Mr.. Speaker Kerr parlia-
mentary incapable? Or is an explanation
OF this extraordinary power of the "blasted
Blaine" 10 turn that incongruous assembly
of Confederate humbugs out OF their own
wits, in their own chamber, to he found in
| a spirit OF ''pure cussedness" on the part oi
Mr.. Speaker Kerr toward lot OF Bourbon
| ic politicians with whose reaciionary nom
sense he is not in sympathy, and whom he
is willing to see punished for their s;upen-
dous folly? The Times has a serious suspi-
cion that there is some ground for this lat
ter opinion. Whether this be 70 or not, II
must he said that Mr.. Kerr l. not making
the sort of speaker which the Confederate
majority have need OF if they would avoid
being clicked" frequently by the minority
under the leadership Of the "btas;ed
Blaine"