Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-03-14
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Appearance of she City AFTER the Ad-
iOuFnmenG-The Gigantic Schemes
for Plander-Ths AtIsmPs 90 Die
pose Of a 81, 100000 PF1nIinz Omee.
FROM oUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

FROM Our REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
On Tuesday at 70 o'clock the 45th Con-
gress expired and now our city is as quiet
as a rural college town in vacation. The
flags which fioated over the Capitol at all
hours for days prior to the 4th indicating
thereby a continuous session, have been
furled and taken down, the thousands Of
lights which CLEANED from the dome and
windows of the Capitol from dusk to dawn,
shine no longer upon the darkness. Our
streets which thronged with the crowds
pouring towards Congress have disappeared
and quiet now reigns supreme both in and
out of the Capitol. Scores of men whose
reputation as orators, as lawyers or wise
Legislators, made them the noticed of the
crowd, appear no longer in the long drawn
column of humanity which extended dur
ing the closing days from the Treasury to
the doors of the Capitol, and now only the
great unwashed citizen, unknown to fame,
appears upon our famed Pennsylvania
Avenue. On Saturday the great struggle
began both in the Senate and House upon
that legislation which was TO control the
future aud save an occasional recess OF
few hours there was continuous session
until on the 4th both Vice President and
Speaker declared the 45th Congress at an
end. The called extra session shows how
well the Democrats succeeded IN their de-
signs. Thousands of citizens who never
visit the Capitol save in the concluding
hours of Congress poured into the lobbies
and galleries during the protracted session
and gave a busted feature to the Capitol
not seen since the adjournment IN July
last. The Presidents message eonvening
the next Congress mars the feeling of re-
lief that the country was to be spared the
inhiction of Democratic action till next
winter.
The steals and swindles which appeared
in the last ten days preceding the 4th OF
March and which the lobby try to inject
into the appropriation bills were so enor-
nous and so patent that it is difficult to
refrain from wishing that Congress might
not reconvene for years to come, even pre-
suming the impossibility that Democratic
supremacy in matters of legislation does
not necessarily mean most serious injury
TO all our best national interests. Much
as the presence of our Legislators enlivens
our city, making business brisk and pleasure
predominant. yet the fact that the country
has so much to fear from their presence
here, arouses the gravest apprehension that
the good done may be largely overbalanced
10y the i'll results flowing out of iniquitous
Democratic fire-eating laws. Just think of
one amendment which proposed to turn
over the Govt Printing Office, with all its
material, amounting IN value to over q
million OF dollars to one firm for the pitt
full rental of $4,000 a year; a sum not suf-
feient to pay for the wear and tear upon
the printing presses alone, and but for the
determined opposition of one or two Sena-
tors, this measure would have been pushed
through the Senate by the lobby which is
operating for the Democracy. The Post,
the daily Democratic paper here, serves no
tice already upon the Govt Printer, De-
frees, to vacate the premises, and says that
just as soon as Congress convenes every
Republican that can be reached must be
summarily bounced. The proposed steal
of the Govt Printing Office is but one Of
the many now seriously discussed; and the
millions to be squandered under bills which
became laws on the 4th are not ''patch-
ng' to what the immaculate followers of
hand for the 46th Congress. So many of
the new Congressman are here that we are
in the midst of the log-rolling and wire
pulling for Speaker of the House. Sam
Randall, the prince of political manipula-
tors, and of hocus pOcus navy yard sales, is
exerting all his energies and has, as we
jndge, the inside track. But whether he
can retain it under such combinations as
the plucky Blackburn can effect against
him remains to be seen, yet we believe he
will, fo=- thq7oyOrd fail is not in his lexicon
aRI,esyeks - III win for he can do less
slGdeiimes witH'SA-r1-of it. There are
81 eleanliaess now obseregting around the
# ture Of sugar and m0ld gives . -
d advantage over those days when we,
IS boys, hsa N side FOR the sugar cam