Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-12-05
THE MEETING or CONGRESS.

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THE MEETING OF CONGRESS.
If this portion of our country had MOTH
ing else to thank President Hayes for. it
yet owes to him that feeling Of security
which is the essence Of political health and
with which they may turn their attention
to more directly practical affairs than
national politics, feeling certain that there
is an occupant of the executive mansion
who in his annual message will have no
new law of doubtful constitutionality, to
be supported by illegal exercise of the ex-
ecutive authority, to propose to congress.
It is true that such measures suggested as
they would have to be to congress with
a Democratic majority in both houses
would be waste of time, but still we
must give the credit for not having po-
litical agitation even by suggestions. His
message which was read on Monday reads
very much like one addressed to the whole
country, and not to a section. He appeals
to congress and to the people of the coun-
try to unite in bringing general public
opinion to bear in favor of supporting the
laws enforcing the security Of suffrage
throughout the land.
On the subject Of the currency he endor-
ses the suggestion of Secretary Sherman,
that the greenbacks Treasury notes. now
in circulation. some $3.50, 900, 600 in amount
shall be retired and cancelled until re-
duced to three hundred million. the
amount fixed by the Resumption act. Tho
suggestion of the Secretary is that q por-
ton of the sinking fund be invested in
these notes. He also recommends the sus-
pension Of the coinage Of silver dollars as
two-thirds of those coined still remain in
the U. S. Treasury.
Y The proposition of President Hayes and
Secretary Sherman. for drawing in the treas
ury notes, will not meet a united support
from their own party in Congress and
already resolutions have been offered by
Western Republican members opposing
any reduction and urging ''letting well
enough alone.'' The policy OF the Demo
Gratis, with few exceptions, will be opposi-
ton to any tinkering whatever with the
finances.
There is little else of interest in the mes
sage something in a great measure owing to
the fact that the newspaper press is 30 ac-
tive nowadays that everything connected
with the government is forestalled by the
correspondents. Indeed in the case OF
this very message of President Hayes
which was only read in congress Monday,
copies of it we're stolen and sold to news
paper correspondents at $500 each, by
which arrangement it was published in
the New York ''Times. !" Chicago ''Times''
and Cincinnati Enquirer of the previ-
GUS Saturday. And this followed on the
heel of the fact that the annual report Of
Secretary Sherman had been similarly
stolen three days before and sold to the
New York Tribune" and two Western
papers at $3.50 per copy.
The Republicans are evidently ''coloni-
zing'' the Democratic State of Indiana
with North Carolina negroes for the next
Presidential election. A second party Of
them arrived in Washington city, Mon.
day, on their way. They numbered one
hundred and twenty, and had only money
enough to reach that city. They were fur
nished by the Emigration Aid Society
with tickets for the balance of the ronte
This party met several colored immi
grants in indianapolis. returning from
Green Castle, Ind, to the South, who ex-
pressed their disgust with the exodus
movement. They say that affairs in Indi
ana were misrepresented to them, and
that the necessaries Of life are as plentiful
and easily attainable where they came
from. They advise their friends in North
Carolina to stay where they are