New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-09

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Excess Democratic side, S,025.l6o.
The writer then proceeds 10 deal with the chief
sources from which the National revenue has been
derived during the thirteen years from 1866 to
1879 inclusive. which have elapsed since the war.
He finds that during the period named the Govern
ment was compelled to collect from the people n
ternal revenue 81. 055. 1877 $40. OF that sum tho
eleven Confederate States, the authors OF the pub
lie del paid only $2O1 .9O6, 096. while the single
loyal State Of Ohio alone paid S215,O1O.62O or
S13 1O4, 524 more than all the Confederacy COM,
bned. Illinois alone paid S2l1, sS7, 312, and New
York alone paid 1884,, 400, 49, neatly twice as much
as the whole Confederacy.
After reviewing IN detail the agencies bv which
the Democracy succeeded in overturning the Re-
publican majorties in fifteen Of the Southern Con-
gressional Districts the writer proceeds to analyze
the electoral votes of the South in the two
paigns in which General Grant victorious. Ho
compares them with the vote in the last election,
State by State, showing the sudden and overwhelm-
ing success Of the shotgun policy and the universal
determination OF the Democracy 10 crush out every
thing like independence Of political thought and
action wherever that party can get undIsputed
power.
TIRE CoNFEDERATEs IN CONTROL.
All this is preliminary to analysis OF the COM
position and organization of the two houses of Con-
gress, which were made Democratic by the means
and under the circumstances described In the
writer, the power thus usurped through violence
and blood has been recognized and enlarged. In
the Senate the Democracy counts 40 votes, % from
the South, only II from the North. In the House,
il counts 155 votes 100 from the South and only 90
from the North. In the Senate. out of the twenty
eight standing committees the COnfederates nave
the charmansips of sixteen of the most important.
Not only the chairmanships of these are given to
the Confedorates, but the membership OF every COM
mttee of the Senate Of any Importance Whatever
80 constituted as to give the South a controlling
voice in its action In every case except three tho
Committees on Revolutionary Claims, Private Land
Claims and Engrossed Bills the majority of each
committee is Democratic, and a majority OF that
majority il Confederate. III having been demon
strated beyond "a reasonable doubt during the late
extra session of Congress 1.-THE first IN winch tho
Democrats had entire control of both housesl That
all important legislation would he nrst shaped In
the Democratic caucus, where the Confederates
have acknowledged and uuquestloned sway, tho
makeup of the committees, which IN the new DIS
pensatIon are simply the Instruments for fOrDia-
lating aud making public the wii Oh the caucus, 10
very Significant.
WOLVES As SHEPHERDS.
The writer shows that the great States Of New.
York and Pennsylvania, each returning one Demo
cratic senator, given the charmanshps of the
Committees on Patents and the Revision OF the
Laws, two of the most insignificant IN the whole
list of Senate commttees while West Virginia and
delaware monopOiIze the chairmansbips Ot the
Committees on Appropriations. Finance and Priv
ileges and Elections, the three leading and most
powerful In Congress.
Some OF the remaining charmanships seem TO
have been decided upon chiefly with view to em-
phasze the incongruities OF tue present political
situation. For exaInple, South Carolina, Of all tho
States in the Union. the land Of tissue ballots and
red shirts is given the committee on Civil Service
Reform Rebel Virginia sits IN judgment upon the
laws regulating the payment of pensions t. loyal
soId,ers in the North. North Carolina, a State which
has never vet constructed a single railroad, except
with capital borrowed at the North lthe debt for
which has been since repudatedl, has the chairman
shin upon Railroads. Georgia, which probably has
less commerce in the whole state than any oil
dozen Northern cities, has the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Commerce. Tennessee, a state which
In proportion TO it, wealth and population does rs
little for education as any other Southern State,
and probably Ten times LEES than any Northern
State has the cbarnansnp Of the COMMITTEES on
Education and LABOR lie COMMITTEE on claims,
before which must some time come tue mass OF
Southern wal claims aggregating hundreds of mll-
lions of dollars has five Democratic members all Of
| whom SAWS ths writer, are COniederates.
In the lower branch OF Congress similar state Of
affairs is shown 10 exist Twenty-Five OF the tOrty-
two House Committees are presided over by ex-
| lonfederates, while every committee of any I'M
portance h by tue pecn iaIity OF ITS constitution
| placed under the practical control Of ex-Conieder-
ates. -
| The document Is entitled THE Great Usurpation
the Uuitca States under the Confederate Senate
| aud House OF Representative"