Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
EXTRA SESSION.

All the late reports FROM " ae"
ington concur in representing that
an extra session Of Congress is IN t
evitable. The appropriation bills =
..-or several of the most important 7
of them-w:ll fail. Unless, then, c
says the N. o. Picayune, an extra
session lie called, and the needed
appropriations are made, it will be
impossible to carry on the Govern
ment after the lst of June. 1t is
useless now to inquire which party
,s responsible for this result. And,
in fact, it is after all matter OF
little consequence, so far as addi-
tional expense is concerned. No
damage can come to the country
from a meeting Of Congress eight |
months earlier than the usual time.
Nobody's rights are endangered ey
lit. and no one will suffer from it.
except, perhaps, the few Federal
officials who expected to make large
profits out Of the Federal prosecu-
tons in the political cases. and the
Republican politicians who suppos-
ed that, in some way, they might
be able, for another term, to hold
on to the statutory devices and
contrivances b; which, for so long
a time, they managed to suppress
the voice of the necrle in the South
ern States. The simulated indig-
nation paraded in the columns OF
the Republican papers on account
,, OF what they allege to be the IN"
usual and uujusti6ab'e course OF the
Democrats in attaching to the ap'
propriation bills sections repeating
t the Objectionable laws will not i'm
5 pose on tho common sense OF the
a American people. In fact tbs
O course is not unusual. 1t has been
II several times purs@ed by the Re
" publican party itself. In 1856 they
- attached a proviso to the army ap'
J. preparation bill, prohibiting the
r, use of the United States troops il
s. support of the Lecompton Govern
- ment ia Kansas. Ga several &C
B. casions afterward they adopted the
TO service of "riders' to appropriation
<, bills when they wanted to carr
~ some favorite measure. At the las
is session &! Congress the Democrat
zee of the House inserted q provlso
me the army appropriation bill, pro
OF hibiting United States troops i'll II
th1 neichborhood o! election polls, ar
ned their use at elections as posse
keen the peace. The Senate
,ses first rejected this a" endment, b
ch afterwards rcceded. 1t is hard
explain the despc,a ate resistance
Republicans to the Democratic pr
cramme now, except on the iheo
real that they believe that they mi
'eb- succeed in sciziAg The organlzati
". of the House. If they have al
such idea. it will be rudcIy a
son. f'r c1ectually dispclIed when Congre
l'' meets. The Democrats have
, F. clear majority over all in the ne
y House. They will organize 1t az
,you thoroughly Democratic body. i
pretcn$iors cf the little squad
H. 70 Greenbackers will not be seriou
Pub entertained. Very little attenti
a IT, will be paid to their claims, and
and attention to their demands. III
John may as well accept that result
inevitable, and give up their 70
l. M: ish and incon>equent'al caucus
'''" over questions on which they
ONE. not be permitted to have the si'e
ayou o,t ;rAnence The Senate q
Po- will. for the first time in eight
e, for years pass into Democratic cont
Thus the Forty-Sixth Coug
trsc sf' will be Democratic in both brat
es--a political pEe"onenon
les & 49,. rnl,ovn TO this general
'o' ~ rhe last Democratic Congress
pred on the 4lh Of March, le
lust twenty years ago. Accn''
TO the predictions of its enemies
ing of Democratic party has dlcd n
owing times since that day; but it
pears to have possessed a lar
az t1 to developed capacity OF re$nrrec
ID. 25, It elected a President in 1876
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