New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-03
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One other thug the session WHICH pc'ciS'
"outn on Tuesday has accomplished which
deserves recognition and record. 1T revealed
fine poyerty of the mother tongue. Language
fails to furnish any adequate description Of
Che three months performance. 1t began with
vaccinations of the most stirring and start
ling character; martial music that almost
dcafened the public ear; the waving
Of banners; the howl of orators; the
peal Of newspaper organsj and the
heavy tread of a hungry host with
noses up and nostIiis dilated with the scent
of plumber. 1t tapered of to a sneaHng lope
after a graveyard whistle, and ended with a
"Thank God, there's enough lett OF us to
adjourn" How gIandly they entered on the
scene! Even before they entorcd with what
blare of trumpets and laundering OF blank
cartridges they heraldcd themselves, and
flung abroad, with their summons to an I'M
conditional surrender, the fIightIul catalogue
of their determined purposes and dread alter
natives! And how differently they went
AWAY When one considers the vast parade with
which these drum-majors drew up their lines
and let loose Their bass-drums, and kettle
drums. and chins, and all their other wind
months ago, it IS hard TO believe that this
fraction of a quorum which drlzzled away on
Tuesday to the tune, on cracked life, OF
Grapdfather's Clock" never to 90 again
with the voice OF the Executive whom they
had summoned to surrender calling after them
that they had forgotten something, is the
same proud array.
Let us see. They were going to have their
own way, or stop the machinery Of the Gov
eminent. They don't seem to have had their
own way to any appreciate extent, and the
machinery seems still TO 10 running. They
would compel the President to make formal
admission that the States are sovereign and
the Nation subordinate-the doctrine for
which the Southern Democracy entered into
rebelhon-or they would withhold appIOpria-
tions for the Army. But the Army is provided
for, and the President, so far from making the
concession demanded, has reiterated with the
most distinct and unmistakable emphasis
his adherence to the Republican doctrine.
which was affirmed by the results of
the war, of National supremacy and
State subordinatiOn. They would abolish Fed
eral 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
100000 for United States Marshals, which
will. by-and-by, be taken care Of in the Def
cheney bill, with which the Democratic
majority usually supplements its measures
of economy-and the provisions of law
which stand in the way Of Democratic re-
peating and ballot-box stufing are still in
force. The outcome of the whole business is
that they have spitefully refused to make the
usual appropriation for the payment of Court
officers, and sullenly sneaked of. And as if
they feared the effect of this, we find them
arguing, as Senator Hereford of West Virginia
did, in the Senate on Tuesday, that the re-
fusal really amounts to nothing; that the
mar5hals viii have their fees and can per-
form all their duties without any appropria-
ton. That is, they have squeezed down theiI
performance to the very last, and least, of the
things they threatened, and now defend that
upon the ground that it amounts to nothing
and is practically null.
But it Is said they are satisfied with them
selves and their performances. Senator Thur
man is reported to have said that he shall
remember the extra session as one of the
pleasautest things in his life. Well there's nc
accounting for tastes. 1t will be remembered
that the Chicago citizen who returned from
Oshkosh with couple of ribs broken, one
eve gouged out, both ears "chawed up
his nose broken, and cOuntenance mashed
generally, when inquired of as to where he
had been, answered cheerfully, "Oh, only NJ
"to Oshkosh, having little fun with the
"boys." Some folks have queer ideas abou
fun. The extra session taseO reminds one o