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WASHINGTON, MARCH e5, 1879.
:. IT begins to look rs il the foodgates of
general legislation are to be opened.
THE veto is powerful weapon but n
vigorous and active minority in both
Houses may be able TO get along with
out It,
THERE is no call for change of the Fed
eral election laws except in the interest Of
dishonesty and fraud. The laws as they
exist harm no honest citizen.
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The question, the real question, now at
issue in this extra session of Congress, is
whether the State governments or the Ma
tional Government shall have superior con-
troll over national elections.
ORDINARILY Congress would pass the
pending appropriation bills and then pro-
ceed to the consideration of other business,
including matters of apurely political char
acter. But this is not an ordinary Congress.
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The Constitution requires that Congress
shall provide appropriations for the support
of the Government. When it fails in this
requirement il becomes revolutionary and
assumes direct antagonism to the supreme
law of the land.
OUR Government must just now present
fine spectacle to the view of foreigners
1t is practically under the terror of threat
ened revolution, incited by the current
Democratic desire to destroy the purity of
the ballot-box.
THE constipation of craftsmanship pro-
duced at the Capitol by fear that general
legislation at this session will ruin the
Democratic party, will possibly be relieved
The House managers in the Democratic
caucus have resolved to pull the plug out.
MIR. SPINGER's proposition to guard the
ballot-box in the future against tissue bal
lots is a substantial admission that they
were Democratic power in the late cleo
tiOns so great that they should be guarded
against. They are peculiarly of Democratic
invention and use
THE skilled, disciplined, and intelligent
Republican minority in Congress can, If
proper exertion be made, defeat the pro-
posed repeal of the national election laws.
This object should be the first in the minds
Of every Republican Congressman and the
Presidential veto should be regarded as a
secondary consideration-a last resort.
SENATOR JONES is watching and waiting"
an opportunity to introduce his telegraph
bill when Congress shall open the door 10
general legislation. The action of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company in exposing
the sncredness of private dispatches to pub
lie view in partisan interest has greatly i'm
paired its hold upon public confidence and
respect, and its monopoly character is some
what jeopardized thereby.
WONDER if it ever occurred to the rebel
element now 80 rampant in Congress what
"beggarly account Of empty boxes" would
be visible in their peculiar line if only rife
clubs, masked or otherwise, had been kept
two miles from each and every election
precinct" in the much-yaunted "Soiid
South2' Be that as it may however,
why don't some loyal Representative offer
an amendment to that effect TO the proposed
bill repeating the supervisors law?
GLOVER? Oh! yes, GLOVER was a men,
ber of the Forty-iifth Congress, a so-ealled
Democratic investigator, and there was O
rumor week ago that he would like to be
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. But he
must have gone and died since them al
any rate he is not heard of and seldom
spoken of now. Such is the fate of q Ger
tain class of statesmen (?). As OLD RIf
asks Are we so soon forgotten when we're
"gone ?" GLOVER answers; We are! We
are!!
THE Kingston IN. " Freeman says tha,
the editor of the Southern States " is the gen,
"tleman who last year was supposed to have
stolen between $4,000 and $1,000 of the
fund sent from the North for the aid Of
the yellow fever sufferers. Having, as il
lis understood, lost the money in gambling
he will probably wait till the next epi.
"demic season opens before decorating the
Capitol with portraits of the GLORIOUS
leaders. These pictures will 20 up as
"sOon as he has another chance to rob the
dying, undoubtedly"
WHILE we are taunted with the unnleas-
mt fact that there are but two Union gen.
erals in the United States Senate to somr
twelve or fifteen from the Confederacy. and
but solitary subordinate office in tina,
body that is filled by Northern man, and
he not very far North we have the oonsola
ton of knowing that the North and Yves
are full of Union officers and soldiers, VIII,
are engaged in the business pursuits of life
and who are not unmindful of what j
transpiring at Washington.