The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
Washington Special to the Baltimore Sun.

The President has had consultations
with the members Of his Cabinet, and
with several leading Republican Sena-
tors and Representatives, with refer
ence to the proper policy to be pursued
concerning the anticipated political
legislation of the new Congress. A
the result of these consultations it is
announced, on the authority of mem
Der Of the Cabinet, that the President
has determined to plant himself inside
the strict party lines; that as to every
thing, except the repeal of the cleo
ton laws, ne will abide by the propo-
sails made by the Republican members
Of the House, and will interpose no OBJ
lection to bills to repeal the jurors test
oath, etc, and to exclude troops from
the polls. But it is declared that the
President will not sign any separate
bills which repeal the Federal cleo
tons laws, and that he will veto any
appropriation bill to which such re-
pealing provision may be attached.
The President, it is said, has determin-
ed to meet the ISSUE squarely, and to
throw upon the Democrats the respon-
sibility of Withholding the appropria-
tons. The two members of the Cabi-
met who have always been regarded
as the most conservative, Secretaries
Evarts and Schurz, are understood to
be very strongly in favor of this course.
If the President pursues this policy
one undoubted result will be to length
en- the session of Congress. It is GER
| tain that in such action he will meet
the hearty approval and receive the
warm support Of the stalwarts in both
the Senate and the House. One Sena-
tor of the stalwart sort said to your
correspondent, to-day, that if Hayes
would do this it would make amends
for all his past shortcomings, and it
would give the Republican party the
whole North in 1850. Such calcula-
tons are perhaps, more sanguine than
the circumstances justify. The two
great parties are pretty evenly divided
in the North, and, as politics go, such
IN issue may not, and probably will
not, have any influence of consequence
in detaching voters from one or the
other party. The ''starving-out" pro-
cess is also a very effective method of
operation, and the mass of Republican
Officeholders, with the President him
self at their head, whose pay is bound
up in the appropriations, may become
50 hungry that they will be perfectly
willing to let the election laws 90. 1t
is true that the President is said to
save at least $40, 900 per annum of his
salary, and if this be the case he will
have a reserve for himself which will
last till the end Of his term of office
As a general thing, contest between a
constitutional executive and the legis-
lature are exceedingly apt to end in
the triumph of the latter, as in the
very nature of things, the legislature
must have an immense advantage
over the executive. For this reason
no matter how stubborn the President
may be, it is not likely that he can
prevent the new Congress from sooner
or later repeating the election laws. 1t
is suspected also that though the Presi-
dent may feel disposed just now to
raise the issue with the Democratic
Congress, he may change his mind
before it becomes a bitter contest, as
the fact has always been patent since
his entrance into the White House
that certain Senators and members
who did all they could to elect him
have less influence with him than
other Senators who did all they could
to beat him. It's in the power of the
President to embarrass the new Con-
gross, if he is so disposed, in a much
more effective way than by entering
into undignified and hopeless strug-
gle over the election laws. And he
cannot forget that the class of men
who are urging this course upon him
are of those who have been the bitter
enemies Of his administration. The
great problem which will confront the
new Congress will be to provide the
absolutely necessary revenues for TIE
support Of the Government, as large
deficiencies are inevitable on account
OF the lavish pension appropriations
and the reduction of the tobacco tax,
etc. The President, in his message
to Congress on its assembling, will call
attention to this point, and urge the
Necessity VI MAKING provisions 10 meet
the exigency. This is rock which is
dangerous to Democratic sailing, and
the manner in which the subject is
treated may rebound greatly to the
injury Of the Democratic party. But
as to the election laws business, all
the experience of politics in this coun-
try win bear out the opinion that if
the President makes the issue, so far
from its injuring Democratic prospects
it will solidify the party and intensity
the devotion of its adherents.