Daily Republican., 1879-09-10
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There is nothing that ALARMS Ill
people more in this, the fourteenth yea
after Lees surrender, than to sse tn
government in the hands OF those wit
tried to destroy it, and the means uset
to obtain that control has had much tt
do with the revulsion Of sentiment tha
is now prevalent all over the country
q shown in the recent elections whicf
have been held and the excitemen
which attends the hotly contested cam
paign preceding those which are yet tt
be hsld. A glance at the present Con
gress shows that in the Senate thu
Democracy have 80 votes, 80 from th'
South aud only 9 from the great ant
populous North. In the House thu
Democracy counts 1856, and 100 Of then
are from the South and only 55 from
the great Northern and Western par
Of the Union. Twenty of these mem
bsrs in the Senate and so in the House
have been officers either in the rebel
confederate government or in the rebel
army.
In the Senate, out of2s standing COM
nittses the chairmanships of l6 Of the
most important OF them are filed by
ex-rebel officers, and not only are the
ehairmanship of these given to the ex-
rebels, but the membership Of every
committee of the Senate Of any impor-
.4sncs whatever, is 30 constructed as to
give the South controlling voice in Its
actions. In every case except three,
ahs committees on Revolutionary claims,
Private Land Claims and Engrossed
Bills which have no bearing on the
legislation Of the nation, this majority
of each committee is Democratic and
the majority Of that majority is confed :
crate.
1t having been demonstrated beyond
any reasonable doubt during the late
extra session Of Congress, the first in
which the Democrats have had entire
control of both houses since the war
that all important legislation would be
first shaped in the Democratic cancus
where the Confederates have unques-
tionsble and acknowledged sway, the
make up the committees, which in the
new dispensation are simply the irstru-
ments for formulating and making pub
lie the will of the caucus is very signi6-
cant. 1t will be noticed, also that the
chairman OF the House caucus is Chal.
mers, the notorious butcher OF human
lives at Fort Pillow during the war, a
Mississippi member who was never elec-
ted but by miserable murderous farce
which disgraces even the name of an
election.
This man has the power Of calling
the caucus together at will and when
called uses his imperious Southern lash
to keep his 55 Northern slaves in their
places.
Another glance at the make up of the
Congressional Committees shows that
the great States Of New York and Penn.
sylvan;a, each by unnaturally having
q Democratic Senator, are given the
chairmanships Of the Committees on
Patents, and the Revision of the Laws,
two of the most Insignificant in the
whole of the Senate Committees, while
West Virginia and Delaware monopo-
lize the chairmanships Of the Commit
tees on Appropriations, Finance and
Privileges, and Elections, three of the
leading and most powerful Committees
in Congress.
New York and Pennsylvania COM
binsd send sixty members to the House
while West Virginia and Delaware send
four. Many of the ch chairmanships seem
to have been decided upon chiefly with
a view to make q complete mockery
and to emphasize the incongruities of
the present political situation. For
example, South Carolina, the State
which plunged the nation into rebel.
lion, the State drenched with the in
nocent blood of Republicans incs the
reconstruction acts, the State that sends
the leader of murderers Of helpless and
inoffensive negroes to the United States
Senate, the State emphatically of tissue
ballots, is given the craftsmanship of
the committee on Civil Service Reform.
Rebel Virginia which furnished more
rebel soldiers than any other State in
the Confederacy, is awarded the Chair
manship of the COMMITTEES which regu-
lates the payment of pensions to loyal
soldiers of the North. North Carolina,
q state which has never yet constructed
a single line of railroad except upon
borrowed Northern capital, the debt for
which has since been repudiated, and
the creditors cheated out of their mo.
ney, has the Craftsmanship of the Com
mittee on Railroads. Georgia, which
has probably Aess commerce in the
whole State than either one Of dozen
of Northern cities that could be named,
has the Craftsmanship Of the Committee