Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-12
cHEcK11ArING THE PIRATE.

preparations Bill Repeating the Dots Of the |
ResuM1'ti0,s Act.
Washington Special april y Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Prominent leaders in the Democratic
House have under consideration the advisa-
bility of testing the sense of the party on
the question of taking some determined
stand to check Secretary Sherman in his re-
lentless course on the subject of resumption,
and through which he is making daily
bankrupts by the score. The plan is
to call caucus and submit propo-
sition for action, looking to the in
sertion of clause in the Legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill, repeating,
at least, so much of the resumption law as
makes it operative on the LIST of January
next. There is growing apprehension that,
even if the Senate finance committee reports
the House bill for the repeal of the law, the
friends of Sherman, aided by lukewarm
friends of repeal of the law,
can delay its consideration until nearly the
time for adjournment, and leave 1t pending
at the end of the session. Long headed
Democrats, approaching that the party is
pledged to legislation calculated to relieve the
for Congress to adjourn without wiping out
the odious and mandatory feature of the law
| which warranted resumption in 1879, will pre-
sent recreancy of trust which the people of
the West will not soon forget, and failure to
repeal will subject the Democratic nominees
for the next Congress to series of question
| ing for this recreancv which will be hard to
explain away. The plan proposed to force
the Senate to go hand in hand with the
House in demanding the repeal of the law is,
as before stated, to inject clause in
the legislative appropriation bill
which comes up In the House
on Tuesday, repeating the act SO
far as applies to fixed date for resumption.
This will compel the Senate to either accept
or reject the bill thus amended. If it &C.
cepts it, we'll and good; if not, the House is
to refuse to recede from its position, even if
the entire bill should fail. If the Senate
should pass it and the President should veto
the bill, it will cut off the salaries not only
of himself and the cabinet, but
nearly all the civil employees of the
United States. The timid ones say that the
proposition is too aggressive and extreme
but honest Democrats who believe that their
first duty to the people is to relieve their
burdens say that it requires extreme and
l
have already been confronted with the taunt
that even if the resumption law is repealed the
President will veto it, and hence it is 6
waste of time to consider the question fur.
Their, and propose to give the President the
ultimatim either to sign the bill if botl
Houses pass it, or in case of veto to let the
President and his cabinet do without thei1
salaries until he feels constrained to give
force to the expressed will of major
ity of both Houses. If tn,
friends of the repeal of the
resumption law take this course they cal
force the question to vote, aud put tn,
responsibility to where it belongs; and it il
} believed that majority of the pc ople of tn
land will indorse such stand. The pla1
will take shape this week; and if majorit,
} of the House will stand firm, it will be car
) ried out, and John Sherman will b
checked.