The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-01-18

| Grant does not talk as does w iuleISoL,
nor w1i5e flowing newspaper articles, but
when the time comes he acts with a
celebrity and certainty of purpose which
would soon land Mr.. Watterson ard his
confreres on the scaffold and disperse
their armed bull-dozing politicians to
the four winds of Heaven.
THE DEMOCRATIC CLAIM.
A majority of the committee on the
powers and privileges of the House has
adopted report which alleges that no
electoral vote can be counted without
the assent of both houses Of congress.
This action, If sustained, would give to
either House the power to reject the vote
of any or all the states by simply oblet-
ing to its being counted and would
give to one House of Congress the pow
er to nullify the viii of the people at
pleasure. Ii would make no difference
| to the Democrats, who at present con-
troll the House of Representatives wheth-
er Hayes had one or one hundred ma
jority they could reduce his vote by
| throwing out States until he had no ma
,jority. Certainly the Fathers never con-
templated giving any such power to one
House of Congress, nor will the people
allow the exercise of any such power
The constitution has made it the plain
duty of the President of the Senate to
open and count the votes and he will ex-
ecute that right and declare Hayes and
Wheeler duly elected, nor will the in
timidation of Watterson's petitioners
avail to alter that officer from the per
Torrance Of plain duty.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.
Senator Ferry's term expires on the
4th of March next, and although re-
elected he will not become & senator for
the ensuing six years until he has again
had the oath of Office administered to
him by the President of the Senate
| For this reason it is now understood that
Mr.. Ferry Will resign as President pro
tenn Of the Senate and some Senator be
elected, whose term laps over the 4th of
| March. Of course there are several
Senators who would be willing to receive
this distinction, but al present it appears
that Senator Morton viii be the choice
of the Senate. Should the Indiana Sen
ator be chosen, there will be man in
the chair who can not be bull-dozed, in
Inundated nor wheeled into the surren-
der of any of the rights of the people.
Knowing his duty and his power he will
proceed III a direct line to its accom-
plishment and past experience in dealing
with Mr. Wattersou 5 friends, the Knights
Of The Golden Circle, and other treason
abie people in his own State during time
of war. amply qualities him for the posi-
ton to which he will probably be called.
GRANT, SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN.
These three great captains of the late
war are now in consultation together
| here, and the confederate Democrats,
/ who contemplate bull oozing raid upon
Washington, had better punish their
| corn juice in their own homes and avoid
the dangers which beset their path if
they undertake to carry out in Washing
ton any such programme as this one on
which they have entered in Louisiana.
| Sheridan looks upon honest, law abiding
God-fearing Democrats as favorably as
any man, but those of the Louisiana
stripe he looks upon as banditti, and
would need no special urging to treat
them as such.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
| The Democrats at the time Of the APP
preparation bills were passed last August
made great hullabaloo about the i'm
mense reductions they had made in the
appropriations, and asserted that every
contingency had been provided for SO
that no deficiency bills would hereafter
be required and this assertion was
made the Democratic war cry during
the campaign. But already one def
cheney bill has been presented, which
will soon be followed by others. Sena-
tor Edmunds gave the Democrats some
hot shot on this bill and showed up in q
forcible manner the hollowness of the
| Democratic claim. In this connection
it seems proper to aliude to one speci-
men of Democratic economy. The Post
Office Department made all necessary
money order offices in operation on the
first of last July +; but the Democratic
House insisted upon reducing the al
ready inadequate clerical force in the
Office of the Auditor for the Post Office
Department, and by that means pre-
vented the establishment of these offices,
thereby depriving the people Of the ben
efts of this most excellent SYSTEM
This, ana many similar reductions were
made to show an apparent reduction in
expenses, when in reality none at all
was made.
THE RAPE OF THE TELEGRAMs.
President Orion, of the Western In
ion Telegraph Company, has arrived
here under arrest, to answer at the ban
of the Horse for refusing to deliver tel
egrams called for by the Morrison Com
mittee. Without doubt Mr.. Orion viii
persist in his refusal and go to jail be.
fore he will surrender the communities
lions OF his customers. The sympathy
of tie people, not actively engaged il
politics, is with the company, and the
public will probably not be entertained
by reading the political kilograms.
JUNIUs.