The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1879-07-10
EDITORIAL MATTER,
The End of the SCALED Session.

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On Tuesday evening the LIST of July,
the ever to be remembered Especial ses-
sion" of the 46th, Congress, adjourned.
In the House, to prevent hasty action
on ton of bills that demanded enact
ment into laws, recess was taken from
: o'clock to four, which time was gene
/, rally occupied by the members in hand
shaking and the usual preliminaries to
} parting. A few moments before five, the
speaker briefly expressed his thanks for
courtesies, etc., and announced the ses-
sion adjourned.
The closing hours in the Senate were
remarkable for their lack OF excitement:
An Executive session lasted from half
past three to five, and yet when the doors
were thrown open, the Senate clock still
lacked five minutes of that hour. Capt.
Bassett, of Sergeant at Arms department
who came to the Senate Chamber as q
page, fifty years ago, "to grow up with
the country" and has been on duty there
ever since-glided up to the clock and
turned the hands back five minutes with
his cane, wlrile the President pro tenn,
Mr.. Thurman looked another way. One
more enrolled bill from the House was
expected, and it would not do to allow
the Senate to die before it was sigued.
In the mean time all legislation ceased,
and "Senatoral dignity" was at dis
count. The members and officers were
scattered about the Chamber, conversing
in loud tones, while many friends gather
ed around the Presidents chair discuss
ing the events of the pastand Indications
for the future. Time wore on and the
hands of the clock were about to register
the moment of dissolution, when BROTH
er Bassett again turned time "back in
its fight" giving the Senate six minu-
tes truce, and in moment Col Adams,
Clerk of the House, appeared with the
last bill. which was at once signed by
Mr.. Thurman, and rushed to the de facto.
Mr.. Thurman then made very brief ad-
dress and adjourned the Senate sine die.
During the last half hour there was a
mingling of Senators on the floor, with
out regard to politics, and general in
terchange of courtesies and kind words;
for despite the vast political gulf that
divides them, and the frequent asperties
of debate, the kindest and warmest per-
sonal feeling exists between many Re-
publican Congressman and their Demo-
cratic adversaries. During this reunion
uponneutral ground--in tle" "zona libra,
as our friends on the Rio Grande would
call it-Conkling took no part; striding
up and down the hall for few minutes
seemingly lost in contemplation of those
halcyon days of his political omnipo-
tence, when Morton, and Wade, and
Sherman, and Schurz, and dorsey, and
Conover, and Mitchell, and Spencer, and
Sergeant, and Ames, et al, occupied the
seats now filled by Voorhees,, Thurman,
Pendleton, Cockrell, Walker, Call, Gro
yer, Morgan, Slater, Lamar and others
of the party of reform and constitutional
government; reviewing the past, and re-
calling the ephemeral rapture of the
hour when by the reversion of the "bot-
tom rail, a proud and apparently help
less people seemed forever consigned to
servitude to their ancient servitors, and
the control of the Senate, in the Ian
guage of the New York Tribune "assur-
ed to the Republican party for the next
fifty years, he scowled upon the merry
groups that everywhere met his gaze,
and seizing his hat rushed from the
Chamber without single "adieu" to
any one.
The first session of the 10th Congress
is thing of the past; its record is with
the historian, and Its members have
returned to their jealous masters to
give can account of their stewardship.
| The necessity for this session became
apparent soon after the result of last falls
elections was known. Our advcrsalies,
discovering that We would have only safe
working majority in the new House if our
full strength was present, cunningly con-
spired to capture this branch and control
its organization, through the medium of
the Federal Courts, and there is little doubt
that the conspiracy would have succeeded
had the recess extended as anticipated to
December.
To thwart this conspiracy there was but
one plan of action, and that was by cner-
getic legislation to deprive the ring of
which the de facto was the facle tool, of
the means and machinery essential to sue
cess, or force Especial session which would
neccssitate the immediate organization OF
the Forty>Sixth Congress.
The organization of the House of Rep
rescntatives in the interest of the Demo-
cratic Party, was the first great victory of
the called session, and an event that will
have an immense influence upon the future
of the country: Had the Radicals
controlled it, there would be little need to
poll the vote in 1880, for, regardless OF
the result at the polls, the conspiritors
would name the President and seat him.
or if resisted, plunge the country into civil
war-hoping to avoid the latter contin--
gcncy through the conservatism of capita
which would rather sacrifice liberty then
hazard the depreciation of the Bonds.
Organized as elected, in the interest of
the people, it holds the control of the purse
and sword, for the perpetuation of Con-
stitutional Government. More than that, ii
holds the opening of the returns of the
election in 1880, in Its hands, and the un-
disputed right to declare the result and