The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-07-11
MARCHED IN: SNEAKED OUT.

One thing the session which "petered out" on
Tuesday has accomplished which deserves rec
the mother tongue. Language fails to furnish
any adequate description of the three months
performance. 1t began with prOclanatIOns of
the most stirring and startling character; mar
tial music that almost deafened the public ear:
the waving of banners; the howl of orators; the
peal of newspaper organs; and the heavy tread of
with the scent of plumber. 1t tapered of to q
ended With a THANK God, there's enough left
Of us to adjourn How grandly they entered
what blare of trumpetS and laundering of blank
cartridges they heralded themselves, and flung
abroad with their summons to an unconditional
surrender the frightftll catalogue of their deter
mined purposes and dread alternatives! And
how differently they went away! When one
considers the vast parade with which these drum
ma drew up their lines and let loose their bass
drums, and kettle drums, and chins, aDs, all
their other wind instruments, at the beginning
of the siege. three months ago, il is hard to be-
leve that this fraction of QUORUM, which driZ-
zled away on Tuesday to the tupe, on cracked
fife, of Grandfather's Cloch-'.neyer to 20
again, 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 We're going to have their own
way, or stop the machinery of the Government.
They don't seem to have had their own way to
any apTreciabie extent, and the machinery seems
still To he 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 rebelliOn-Or they would withhold
appropriations for the army. But the army is
proyide for, and the President, SO far from
making the concession demanded, has reiterated
with the most distinct and unmistakable EN-
phasis his adherence to the Republican doctrine,
which WAS affirmed by the results OF the war, of
National supremacy and State subOr,linatiOn.
They would abolish Federal supervision Of Con-
greSsiOnal elections. and have the doors thrown
open for free fraud. or they would stop the bus
mess 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
s6oO, 900 for United States Marshals, which will,
by-and-by, he taken care OF in tine deficiency
bill, with which the Democratic majority usually
supplement their measures of economy, and the
provisions of law which stand in the way of
Democratic repeating and ballot box stuiling
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 sneaketi OF. And rs ifthey
feared the effect of this find them arguing,
Senator Hereford of West Virginia did, in the
Senate Tuesday, that the refusal really
amounts to nothing; that the marshals will have
their fees and can perform all their duties with
out any appropriation. That is, they have
squeezed down their performance 10 the very Isl
and least, ri the things they threatened. and now
defend that upon the ground that 1t amounts To
noihing. AMI IL practically null.
But il is said they are satisfied with themselves
and their performances. senator Thurman Is
reported to have said that he shall remember the
extra session one of the pleisanfest things in
his life. Wei, there's no acro uniting for tastes
1t viii he remembered that the Chicago citizen
who returned from Oshkosh with couple OF
ribs broken, one eye gouged ont, both ears
.'chawcd up his nose broke1, and counfen-
ancc mashed generally, when inquired of rs I"
where he hal been, answered chcerfully, ION,
only up to Oshkosh, having II little fun with the
bays Some folks have queer ideas about fun.