Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-26

1t Is now proposed tDat caCu DIalG III sh'
Union shall erect two handsome residences in
Washington for the use Of its Senators. Fifty,
five dollars and half day. besides mileage
and pelquisites, the amount the Senators re-
ceive for the short sessions OF Congress, are
not enough, so they must b. supplied With
palaces to reside in. What the Senators have,
the members of tho Houss-mOst Of whom
thick their proper place is 10 the Seuate-must
have also, or they will be dsoontentcd, and 1t,
under the most favorable conditions, their legis-
lation has been as perniclous as events have
proved it to be. to what misfortunes will it lead
If enacted whom their minds arc purturbed by
the impression that they arc not receiving their
Just deserts. If the Senators have palaces lot
tho Representatives have them also bat tic
better plan would be to have 10 palaces at ali,
and to reduce the pay Of both Senators and Rep
resentalives to eight dollars dsy-what i. was
before the war, and what would be amply SUI
fioient to support them in Washington. There
need be no fear that the country would lose the
services OF any Sucle Senator or Representative
if bis pay were reduced to the amount We sns'
gest, for there is not one Of them who would
resign his position even it the reduction were
greater than that proposed. A seat IN the
Capitol is too attractive to b resigned it
the pay attached to it be sufficient TO support
the occupant, and eight dollars a day will gay
any ordinary mans expenses, and II there are
any extraordinary men IN tho American Coa-
gross, ;he difference between them and their
colleagues lies altogether 10 their ipferloc!ty.
Now that groenback candidate for Cl,6ns rass
has bsca tound to contest Tho Richmonl con.
Sresslon1.. district, the radioa! managers in
Washington are attempting to induce the few
pcopo 10 that district who yet profess allegiance
to the republican party 10 put candidate IN
tho field also. What SUCCESS vii! attend their
efforts is of course unknown to u, but the
resut will be all tho samc-Genera Johnston
will be triuuphsnty elected. The day has
past for the revival Of the republican party, not
only in the third district of Virginia. but in
any district Of tho State, or Of the whole South.
Radioalism is as dead south OF Mason aud
DixoD's limo as it is possible for party to be !;
80 dead that even with the aid Of tho national
greenback labor party it can not be reviFed.-
1t never had any real life thoro and now even
it's simulated existence has b,cn abandoned.
The people Ct tho South, though divided On
several questions relating to the politics OF tho
country. are united in tho belief that tho ono
chief object. to the attainment of which all
their efforts should DO directed, is tho extcrra-
ton. so far as ballots can accomplish it, of
radicalism. root and branch, from the federal
government, and they will not rest from their
labors till that end DO achieved The blight
has been removed from tho two houses OF
Congress, aud was fairly killed 10 tho executive
branch Of The government, though its remains
yet linger there, aud when they also shall be
removed, and not till then, will tho democrats of
the South, at least, agree to allow minor affairs
to divide them.