New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-12

last evening are set forth In anOtner Coiu"h'
Senator Wade Hampton sets forth elsewhere,
in frank and straightforward fashion, what
he conceives to be the political purposes AMI
mating the Southern people. 1t has always
been well known that the South was lndlfier-
ent to all questions of finance, but 1t Is none
the less instructive to find this Democratic
leader declaring, as he does here, that the
people of his section do not "care copper
what the name of the next Democratic can
didate for the Presidency is to be, or what
his financial views are. There Will be TWO
opinions about the ACCESSIBILITY of turning
over the Government to people who care so
little for questions which directly involve the
good faith of the Nation.
The signs multiply to show how complete
is the Democratic backdown at Washington.
Yesterday the majority in the House meekly
submitted to q motion, by Mr.. Frye, which
postponed until December all consideration OF
the bill providing for the transfer of certain
cases from Federal to State Courts ms was
the bill by which the Democracy proposed to
divert the trials of revenue thieves and ballot
box-s suffers into the State Courts, and much
was expected for Democratic profit therefrom
during the next few months. But the bill
now goes over. Let 1t be also noted that MI.
Blackburn, the fierce and irrecOnciiable leader
of few months ago, who proposed that Con-
gress should sit until March A, 1881, rather
than that the Democratic party should abate
one lot or title of its revolutionary pro-
gramme, voted yesterday for the Army Dill,
and was even too much crushed in spirit to
ioin the little company of twenty Democrats
who voted against the bill because 1t was not
the revolutionary measure which Mr.. Blackburn
had taught them they ought to have Here
is the very abjectness of backing down.
Although much familiar ground was travelled
over Yesterday in the House debate on the
Army bill, it had several interesting features.
One was the temperance OF the typical Dem
ocratic reformer-in this case it happened to
be Mr.. WhitthOrne-who considers the Army
ga sore on the body polite" believes that
we don't want an Army anyhow, and holds
other statesmanlike views. Mr.. Whitthorne
wanted the Army reduced to $1,000 men,
and it is significant of a healthy change in
Congress that his proposition was uncere-
moniously rejected. Another incident which
will have a local interest for New-fork, was
the appearance of a Mississippi member with an
extraordinary amendment authorizing " the Ma
"donal Aquarium Association to gobble up such
parts of the Government reservation OF Sandy
Hook as the Government does not want. Ihls
curious Job was promptly slain. In the gem
eral debate upon the political sections of the
bill, General Garfield made it plain that the
Republican members of the House support
the measure because they believe it still leaves
the President free to support his authority by
the use of the Army, when such use Is
necessary for the preservation OF the peace
and because the political section is, in Cen
eral Garfelds words a mere stump speech,
"having no legislative effect whatever" a
few Republicans, not wholly satisfied with the
bill, voted against it, and large number OF
Iast-ditch Democrats did likewisej but it
was passed by an overwhelming majority.
The House thus disposed of another portion
of its peck of dirt