The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-16
Marched In Sneak cd Out.

One other thing the session which
"petered out" on Tuesday has &C.
complished which deserves recogni.
ton and record. 1t revealed the pow
erty Of the mother tongue. Ian,
guage fails to furnish any adequate
description of the three months per.
Torrance. 1t began with proclama-
tons of the most stirring ana start
ling character ; martial music that al.
most deafened the public ear; the
waving of banners the howl of ora.
tors; the peal of newspaper organs
and the heavy tread of a hungry
host with nose up and nostrils dila-
ted with the scent of plumber. 1t IA
pered off to q sneaking lope after q
graveyard whistle, and ended with a
Thank God, there's enough left OF
"us to adjourn" How grandly they
entered on the scene! Even before
they entered, with what blare Of
trumpets and laundering of blank
cartridges they beralded themselves,
and flung abroad, with their sum-
mons to an unconditional ~surrendes,
the frightful catalogue of their deter
mined purposes and dread alterna-
tives! And how differently they went
away! When one considers the vast
parade with which these drum-ma-
jors drew up their lines and let loose
their bass-drums, and kettle-drums,
and chins, and all their wind instru-
ments, at the beginning of the siege,
three months ago, it is hard to be-
lieve that this fraction Of a quorum
which drizzled away on Tuesday to
the tune, On a cracked fife, of Grand
fathers Clock-"never to go again.
with the voice Of the Executive whom
they had summoned to surrender,
calling after them that they bad for
gotten something, is the same proud
array.
Let US see. They were going to
have their own way, or stop the ma
chinery Of the Government. They
don't seem to have had their own
wey to any appreciable extent, and
the machinery seems still to be run
ming. They would compel the Pres.
ident to make formal admission that
the States are sovereign and the Ma
ton subordinate--the doctrine for
which the Southern Democracy en-
tered into rebellion-or they would
withhold appropriation for the Army.
But the Army is provided for, and
the President, so far from making the
concession demanded, Aas reiterated
with the most distinct and unmista-
kable emphasis his adherence to the
Republican doctrine, which was af-
frmed by the results Of the war, of
National supremacy and State sub
ordination. They would abolish
Federal supervision of Congressional
elections, and have the doors thrown
open for free fraud, or they would
stop the business of the United States
Courts by withholding the means for
carrying them on. Upon this point
they were absolutely determined.
But the courts are provided for
with the exception of $780, 900 for
United States Marshals, which will,
by-and-by, be taken care of in the
Deficiency bill, with which the Dem
%ocratic majority usually supplements
its measures of economy-and the
provisions of law which stand in the
way of Democratic repeating and
ballot-box stufing are still in force.
The outcome of the whole business is
that they s~pitefully refused to make
the usual appropriation for the pay
ment Of Court officers, and sulIenly
sneaked of. And as if they feared
the effect of this, we find them argu-
ing, as Senator Hereford of West
Virginia did, in the Senate on Tues
day, that the refusal really amounts
to nothing ; that the marshals will
have their fees and can perform all
their duties without any appropria-
ton. That is they have squeezed
down their performance to the very
last, and least, of the things threat.
ened, and now defend that upon the
ground that it amounts to nothing,
and is practically null