The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14
From the Nations Capital.

commenting on the actions of Con
gress, SAYS:
a careful ecrutIny Of tie record
will show that about all of any am
lance that has been done 10y Congress
since it assembled III extra Sess'oI
last October, is the pa sage OF the
silver bill. Six long months frittercd
away in lombss;;c speeches; and the
prime workers in the reconciliation
movement are more unhappy to-day
thar wnen the ilitIitory step was ia
ken, because inhltion from present
up arances, has received its quietus.
The large number of bills introduced
10 revive the Objectionable fea-
cures OF the Bland bill are conclusive
81 their intention 10 continue the ag-
i~tation. But a large majority Of both
HouseSlappear content with what has
already been accomplished in the way
of general financial legislation; and,
the speedy decline OF gold and the
appreciation Of government securities
since the passage of the bill over the
VETO, tends to confirm the opposition
against any doubtful experiments.
l verify believe bills and resolutions
enough have b,el introduced since
last October to keep Congress busy
five years, were they all to be d,lib-
eratcly taken up aud disposed of &C
cording to lOutiLe; but only a few,
happily, will never be reported from
the Committee Rooms. They, will
die there. The President has tipped
the fat all in the fire by vetoing the
bill sent him to secure to the timber
thieves immunity from punishment.
What he has gained through II wea-
ry months of cancellation aad 10y
turning Republicans out Of Office to
put in Democrats, he has lost in OF
short hour by refusing to extend to
this class of public %plundelers, tn,
same grace that saved thousands Of
political murderers in the South from
the gallows which the enormity o
thdt crimes had richly merited. Con
cyRtted ''erring brothers are as il
rye of the kind that haven't a wore
accommodation Tor the ninety auG
nine favors rendered, If the hun
dredth is deli d. The abuse is jus,
as rank, the intratitude just as out
spoken as though they had each and
all been refused, If the Republican
prosecutions throughout the recon
structed South since Specification"
was first inaugurated and the wits.
KEY war on the X venue othci lis all
through that region are not enough
to prove the general feeling of hatred
ana hostility still cherished againsl
the 20 CRIME t and those who con.
tributed to defeat secession, the new
outbreak in behalf of the timbe.
thieves ought surely to be sufficient
The whole Gulf coast is virtually H.
arms against the Government be-
cause it would protect its own. Aud
the insolent speeches Of 90 t cause
representatives in Congress, and tn,
supercil oas mann rs toward Repub-
leans and their spineleSs apolo5ist
are q con tant rebuke to those VITO
have laborrd under the guise OF
friendship to manacle the loyal ele
menti in aud out ,f Ccnsr,s IS and'to
r,haOl,itate the Southern braggart
Of his Whispering NOrthern lick.
spittle.
One of the appropriation bills has
got through at last. But the Snip
of State was brought up all standing
yesterday by a proposition OF the
economists to make past alleged Re.
publican corruption and extraya ,ancc
a bretext for appointing to fat places,
/ half dozen more of the loafers and
dead beats hanging about town. The
pretext WAS the need of that amount
of experts to Glover's COMMITTEES
in search of parti an capital. Polk
with all his ingenuity was unall. t.
provide fot all of these long-haired,
whiskey -guz2ling hangers.on. They
are generally con u nts Of tn,
chivalric members from the South, o.
the old ch:o tic Democratic Office
seeker of Washington. They cal
turn, their and to almost anything
exccp h,n st labor. They hang
a ouud the hotels by day TT arOu ID
the, CAY ito, subsisting on free lunch-
es. OF all the humbugs that have
ever c rScd the face of this fair plan
e Reform Democracy" is the most
az INT and contemplate. DE Writ.