Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-01

honesty; but there Il is, and there IL speaks
in the Nations councils. The sixteen lately
seeding states Qncluding Delaware, Mary
land Kentucky and Missouri, which did not
secede) have thirty.two Senators. Thirty
nine Is q majority of the Senate, so that the
South needs only. seven Senators from the
Other states to make n majority of all She
will never fail 90 got them II seven Northern
Democrats are there There are twelve there
now,
IN THE HOUSE OF RErREsENTAT1vEs
there are 293 members. A majority is ll7. The
South has 106 members, lacking only Al of
majority of all. The Electoral College con
sists of 3G9. majority is 1856. The South has
1888, lacking only ~ of n majority. Consider
the sway these numbers have. In the Senate
there are twenty eight committees, and com.
mittees not only prepare but virtually con-
troll legislation In both Houses and this must
be so more and more as the Houses and bust
mittees the South has the Chnirmanship of
seventeen and the control of all. The south
ern ChairInanships are of important Commit
tees. Delaware, with 10000 people-about as
many as the City of Cleveland, o., or Il single
rural county in New York-has the Chairman.
ships OF the Committees of Privileges and
Elections and OF Finance, both very import
tant committees. The great State of New
York, with 100000 people and her enormous
interests and tax paying, has for her Demo
cratic senator the ChairnHnship of the Com
mttee on Patents. West Virginia has the
ChaiImanship of the Committee on Appro
hrlatlons, which holds the purse. strings OF
the country. The great state of Pennsylvania
has the Chairmauship of Revision of Laws-a
committee whose business was finished years
ago. Virginia has the Chailmanship of the
Committee on Pensions; Georgia of Com.
merce; Texas of Post. Offices and Post roads
Missouri of Claims. North Carolina of Rail
roads ana so on. ! have said the South has
control OF the working committees.
THIS IS TRUE
I'm this way: On every Committee there Is n
majority OF Democrats, and of these majority
in all cases consists of Southern Senators
The same conditions prevail in the House,
There ale foity.two Committees. The Ohair-
M a "a = -ft "a 1np
the Committees are so constituted that the
majority is Democratic, and of the majority
more than half is southern. During the two
years which this absolute power in both
Houses has been so lodged the existence OF
the veto power and the approach of the Presi.
Dental canvass have suggested urgent reasons
for going slow" Many expected bills have
not been introduced; many that have been
introduced have not been pressed"; some
that have been "pressed" have run against
such obstinate opposition as to secure pres.
ent postponement or some notifications. But
whenever the hour strikes that the veto pow
er is in Democratic bands-whatever the solid
caucus DEGREES will be written, the caucus
will be controlled by those who represent less
than one seventh of the people OF the Union.
STUBBORN FACTS.
After showing by large mass of statistics
how the great commercial and industrial in
terests OF the country centered in the North,
and asking whether theSouth should be per.
mitted TO control them, he said
southern commerce is simple tardy and de-
pendent. Northern commerce is complex, in
tenscly active, highly organized and indepen-
dent Northern methods and progression
have constantly increased their fruits The
reverse il true of Southern methods. In 1860
the imports of New Orleans were SO, ,922 773.
Last year they were only $40, ,8i0, ,2G. They were
less last year than in any year from 1866 to
to 1878. In 1860 exports from New Orleans
were Sl07 7sl2 $50. Last year they were only
500, ,ST4-less than in 1870 and 1874. The ton
mage account varies this statement, but only
apparently, because steam vessels have been
more used of late, and steam vessels count
more rapidly In tonnage than in cargoes Like
retrograde and stagnation appear ut other
Southern ports. Baltimore is not treated as q
Southern port, because it is the ocean ter
minus of u great East and West line OF traffic.
Now turn to Northern ports: