Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-06-28

Inc 4Otn J0ngreSS aulOurned sthe 0te
at o'clock on Thursday morning-9Oth.
In doing 50 it only yielded to the long
since generally ana impatiently expressed
wish OF the people. The character it has
earned is not an enTiable one. Its demagog-
ism, offensive partissnship, turbulanee and
blindness to the demands Of wholesome
economy mark it as hardly surpassed.
Consistency, honesty and self-respeet have
been sacrificed to selfishness, intrigue and
iobbery. Party rampancy and reckless
ness have been put upon tie ascending
scale. and Congressional morals-loO1ng
hack from the adjournment-finds lower
desp. as tims and opportunity have re-
vesled the scope and power Of new meth
eds Of Generalization. Its designs, how
ever. have been somewhat better than its
accomplishments, and its guilt is therefore
modified by the inability to give success to
its Vaccinations. Thus the Resumption
act stands unchanged. This is due to the
failure Of the amendatory bill making
greenbacks receivable for customs and ex-
ehangable for four per cent bonds after
October first. The appropriation for the
payment of the award Of the Fisheries
Commission, BY being tackled upon the
Sundry Civil Expense bill. was carried.
National dishonor has, therefore, been
avoided by standing by the decision of the
arbitration tribunal to which the matter
had been submitted. The strength of the
army has net been impaired, and its nu-
merieal strength remains as it has been, at
25,OOO-a disappointment to those who feel
the safer in the absence of power to en-
force law, and put down insurreetion. The
tax on tobacco and whisky remains as it
was, the Senate having refused to agree to
the scheme of the House fer depicting the
rsYnue to crafty the prsjudice of the
Southern States against paying taxes to
support the Government.
The country may now have rest until the
first Monday in December, when Congress
viii meet again. They may then resume
their labors for short term and as far
as possible unsettls and disturb bust
ness interests of the country by sapping
the foundations Of confidence and security.
The Potter Investigation is evidently not
to be dreadful tradegy." According to
Mr.. Stsphens's alternative it must be a
''grsat farce" And this is the present
outlook. Ne evidence Of any Importance
has been adduced yet, except the facts that
Mr.. Hayes had an adherence of the man
Anderson and refused even to see him; and
that in the endsavor to get an Office in the
Treasury Department, Anderson never
once produced the letter of the Secretary
Of the Treasury, which he now alleges that
he possessed, promising to provide for him.
These facts would seriously damage Mr..
Anderson if he had not damaged himself
beyond any further possible injury. Mean
while the House Of Representatives has
heard from the country and has voted, by
the decisive majority of 2S4 to a that
''the two houses of the XLIVth Congress
having counted the votes cast for President
and Vice-President of the United States,
and having declared Rutherford B. Hayes
and William A. Wheeler to be duly elected
President and Vice-President, there is no
power in any subsequent Congress to re-
verse that declaration, nor can any such
power be exercised by the courts of the
United States, or any other tribunal that
Congress can create under the Constitu-
tion." There is a self-svident proposition
to be sure; but the fact that it is now de-
clared by the same House that few weeks
ago cried down Mr.. Stephens attempted
protest against the contrary doctrine shows
that Mr.. Potter's scheme for unseating one
President and putting in another has Jared
no better than was predicted that it would
The revolution is oyer; and the country
is not "Msxicsnized. The most apparent
effect Of the investigation has been to unite
ali the Republicans in an earnest assertion
of the inviolability of the Presidents title
and warm commendation of his honesty |
of purpose, as witness the action of the Re
publican conventions of Michigan and |
Ohio.