, 1879-03-02
IN THE HOUSE.
A. BAD DAT FOR SUBSIDIES.

! extending the time Tor two years, from Oct i,
1875, 10 prc-emptors on the Fort Ridgely Res
ervation, Minnesota, pnssed
The Conference Committee appointed upon
! the Deficiency Appropriation bill Was one not
likely to surrender any pet scheme Of the Rouse
| It consists Of Blount, Of Georgia; Sparks, Of
! Illinois, and Baker, OF Indiana.
| The Conference Committee on the Post Office
Appropriation bill, which includes the Brazilian
subsidy, is absolutely hostile to the subsidy
| scheme, aud would let dozen extra sessions
come before they would yield the principle Of q
subsidy. The conferees are Bloune, Of Georgia;
Clymer, of Pennsylvania; and Baker, Of lndi-
! ana The Roach men are not as confident to-
night that anything can be accomplished through
the Conference Committee; indeed, they are
despairing. It Is even inrimatcd that kilograms
are liable to come any moment from Brazil
announcing that the Emperor has ordered the
withdrawal Of the subyentiou from that Coy
ernmeut, as the subsidy from the Brazilian
Government was made entirely dependent upon
the ability Of the owners Of the lines to secure
.. similar subsidy from the United States. Some
Of the Roach men say that it will be necessary
to Withdraw the steamers, is they ca1not ba
run without Government aid.
THE FIRST GREAT DEFEAT or THE DAT
was that Of the Sugar bill. MIR. Burchard made
his long and elabofate speech. Fernando Wood
and Robbins, representing opposing theories on
the WaVs and Means Committee on the sugar
question, BECAME SO angry that they declined to
shake hands rs tellers, something quite unpre-
cedented, and then the opponents OF the Sugar
bill, in the interests Of the re6ners, moved to
lay it Oh the table. The temper Of the House
was such that this would have been done, when,
to rescue the bill from the ignominy and the
presoge Of defeat, the House consented that It
might be withdrawn. Nothing more can be
done ut this Congress.
TILE RoBEsoS IMPEACHMENT.
Wietthornc, Of Tennessee, the would-be in,-
peacher Of ex-Secretary Robeson, next tried to
have an hour set for the consideration Of that
momentous question. This the House refused,
and Robeson goes free.
THE PATENT BILL FALLS.
Next came the bill to revise the Patent laws,
in which Mr.. ]. q. Raymond, OF Chicago, and a
good many Eastern patent lawyers, have taken
such great interest for TWO years A two-thirtis
vote WIS necessary to pass 1t, yet the House
refused to order the yeas and nays, SO little con-
sideration was given to it, and the measure fell.
TILE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Next came the Northern Pacific, which had
some rcsofute friends, and, as the result
showed, a decided majority, the vote on lts
passage being yeas 1874; nays, los. But this
Eas not enough. as two-thfrd5 was necessary,
and the proposition to extend the time for the
construction Of the road fell for this Congress
TEL1ow FEyER-
Finally came the yellow-fcyer bill. Northern
people can scarcely imagine that
community, an Empire almost, that had
been r2Tagcd with the scourge of
yellow fever, would not welcome
any aid, whether called the Federal Govern
ment or what not, that might promise to help
to rescue that section from the epidemic. But
State Rights on the one hand, and personal
jea1ousies on the other, helped to defeat tho
bill that had been passed BY the Senate, which,
Of course, was the only one that had any pros
pcct to become law at this session, aud the
Southern Democrats, preferring to hug their
lelusion Of State Rights rather than to permit
the Federal power 70 show the symbol Of its
authority in the form OF hospital-dae,
defeated all measures the effect OF which would
have been to place the General Government in
any position except that OF the most humilfat-
ing subordina1ion with respect to the Southern
States. a motion to reconsider, however, was
eEterGd, and It Is possible that the recess may
have shown the Sourhcrrers the madness of their
folly. But they seem welded to their delusiou,
and prefer to welcome epidemfcs to 1ccoenfzfn.
thJ9Fcderal power, even il it comes in
the form Of protector OF life and
health. There was but one sensible man
from the whole South who had the manIiness
to speak upon this question. That wcs Casey
Young, of Tennessee, who, with the yellow
fever traces still in his face, told his colleagues
that he hao spent four years Of afs life in Q
fruitlcss effort to make the State. superior to
tic Federal Government; that it had cost
million Of lives and countless treasure; and
that now the widowed and orphaned South
demanded that the qelusion be abau-
dopcd. But Casey Younc's ELOQUENT
p1ea vas of no ayafl. Representa-
tive Chittcudep. Of New York, deserves
to he classed with the deluded South. for, while
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