Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-19

one or one hundred majority; they
could reduce his vote by throwing
out States, until he had no majority.
Certainly the Fathers never contem-
plated giving any such power to one
House OF Congress, nor will the peo
pie 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 exercise that right
and declare Hayes and Wheeler
duly elected, nor will the intimida-
ton of Watterson's petitioners avail
to deter that officer from the per-
Torrance OF plain duty.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.
Senator Ferry's time expiring on
the 4th of March next, and although
reelected, he will not become Sen
ator for the ensuing six years, until
he has again had the oath of Office
administered to him by the Presi-
dent OF the Senate. For this reason,
it is understood that Mr.. Ferry will
resign as President pro tenn of the
Senate, and some Senator be elected
whose term laps over the fourth of
March. Of course there are several
Senators who would be willing to
receive this distinction, but at pres
cnt it appears that Senator Morton
Will be the choice of the Senate.
Should the Indiana Senator be chos-
en-, there will be man in the chair
who cannot be bull-dozcd, intimida-
ted, nor wheedled into the surren-
der of any OF tile rights of the peo-
pie. knowing his duty and his pow,
er, he will proceed in a direct line to
its accomplishment, and past expert
ence in dealing with Mr. Waiter
sons friends, the "Knights of the
Golden Circle" and other trcasona-
bic people in his own State during
the war, amply qualities him for tie
position to which he will probably
be called.
GRANT, SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN.
These three great captains of the
late war are now in consultation to-
gether here, and the confederate
Democrats who contemplate a bull
doing lad upon Washington, had
better punish the orn.juicc in their
own homes, and avoid the dangers
which besct their path if they under
take to carry out in Washington any
such programme as the one on which
they have entered in Louisiana.
Sheridan looks upon honest, law-abi-
ding, God-fearing Democrats as fav-
orably 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 the
appropriation bills were passed last
August, made Il great hullabaloo
about the immense reductions they
had made in the appropriations, and
asserted that every contingency had
been provided for, SO that no defic-
iency bills would hereafter be rcquir-
ed, and this assertion was made the
Democratic war-cry during the cam
paign. But already one deficiency bill
has been presented, which will soon
be followed by others, Senator Ed
munds gave the Democrats some hot
shot on this bill, and showed up in a
forclble manner the hollowness Of
the Democratic claim. In this con,
nection, it seems proper to allude to
one specimen of Democratic econo-
my. The Post Office Department
made all necessary arrangements to
put three hundred new money order
offices in operation on the first of last
July; but the Democratic House in
sisted upon reducing the aireedy in
adequate clerical force III the office
of the Auditor of the Post Office De
partment, and by that means prcycn-
ted the establishment of those Offices
thereby depriving the people of the
benefits Of this most excellent sys-
tom, This and many SIMILAR reduc-
tons were made to show an appar-
ent reduction i'll expenses, when, in
reality, none at all was made.
THE RAPE OF THE TELEGRAMs.
President orion, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, has arri-
we'd here under arrest, to answer at
the bar of the House for refusing to
to deliver kilograms called for by the
Morrison Committee. Without any
doubt Mr.. Orion will persist in ms
refusal, and 6 to Jail before he will
surrender the communications of his
customers. The sympathy of the
people not actively engaged in poll
tics ID with the company, and the
public will probably not be entertain
ed by reading the political tcle-
grams, JUNIUs.