The Lake County star., 1877-11-15

70 ADvERTIsERs:- The STAR
is noss iAe Only Ruper printed IN
Lake county; circsslates to every part
Of &c territory, rendering Il a dessr /.
able advertising medium.
Special Correspondence.
Conoress-- Democratic VictoTes-1he
P1temf office.
wAsnrNoToN, D. c., New. 8, VI.

wAsmrNoToN, d. c., Nev.s,'77.
The impression is rapidly obtain
tanning that the business which
Congress was summoned here in ex-
tra session to transact, might just
as well have waited until the time
for the regular opening in Decem-
Der. The most absolute indiffer-
cnce to our obligations to the ofh.
GERS and men Of our army, navy and
other creditors, has marked the
course of Mr.. Randall and the sub
ordinate leaders of the House mn.
iority. When even a day is deemed
Of gre 1t importance to the vast in
terests awaiting legislation to be
properly and advantageously rep
resented at the Paris Exposition,
vacation has been taken by both
Houses to attend horse races and
the most frivolous pretexts have
been successfully urged for voting
long adjournments. The exigen-
cies of individuals and party have
engrossed the attention Of those re-
sponsible for the continued refusal
to provide for debts long accrued;
and the members of MIR. Randalps
Committees attest their gratitude
to the men who saved US from the
business and social evils threatened
by the success of last Summers in
surrections, and who have endured
without pay the privations and hard
ships Of the Indian campaigns and
the arduous service on our South
ern border during the past eight
months, by propositions to still fur
ther reduce the army and by cut
ting down estimates twice revised
to reach the lowest point compati-
bic with the efficiency Of the little
army left us. Any review of the
make up Of the Committees an
nounced after the lapse Of two
weeks, only confirms the first i'm
preston that about every interest
has been eutragcously trifcd with
and the worse elements of the par
ty recognized in the distribution Of
Committee patronage. If the ap.
pointment of Mr.. Potter as Chair
man of the Pacific Railroad Com
mittce was made in good faith, j
happened very unfortunately fo1
Rardall's reputation for dealing
above board and against tl,'
schemes of the subsidizers that ht
POTTERY persisted in declining ant
thus secured to Scott's scheme al
undoubted majority, led by one o
the most notorious of his Congress
sional abcttors. The agitations tina
have monopolized so much OF tn
time when the House has been act
ually in session, to the exclusion o
legitimate business, can but retar
the business revival so apparent
few weeks since. The purpose Q
the s.Solid South to exact paymen
for its losses incurred through rebe
lion and to reward her soldiers fd
the part they took, has been r.
ycaled more than once already
the opinion of many shrewd obser'
ers Of the drift of her represent
tiyes: and there can be no mistal
ing the animus of Buckner's pro-
osition for a modification of Il
18th Amendment. Ewing has bee
a great disappointment to h
friends. He appears to have bet
taken at his own valuation by son
Of his Democratic associates al
was selected to engineer the bill
the repeal Of the resumption a.
lie entered upon his mission wi
a great show of confidence. abs
lutely refusing to entertain amen
mcnts, and proposing only limit
debate. His arrogance would ha
come with bad grace from an
member, and in new one We
soon provoked his more experienc
opponents to set legislative snal
into which he walked straightw'
He soon found his bill hopeless
stranded in the morning hour; a
it was only after threats of blo'
ing all other legislation by the u
iority favoring the bill, and imp
tant concessions had been made
the minority, that he could effec
compromise by which q defir
time was agreed to when vote
to be taken. Mr.. Bland, one of
pioneers in the demonstration
silver, yesterday moved the pass
Of one Of the many bills pending
that purpose. 1t passed with
any particular effort at opposi'
the vote being 6 to l.
Tho Democrats made cxtcn'
arrangements at one Of the no
for receiving and cemmunicai
the news Of "great Democratic
tories last night. A room
specially reserved for the mem!
OF Congress and others Of the el
whore a good deal ofliquid refr
Ioent disappeared during the @
ing. There was some cheering
the intelligence OF party triun
In the bulI-dozed States; but
anticipations were SO out ofpro
ton to the achievements OF I
fellows in the States north OF
Potomac, that they separated q
late hour rather crestfallen.
1t is a mistake to suppose,
manp away from Washington I
Ia do. that there was ahy but q