Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-23

By the purchase Of Malone the Re-
publican Senators succeeded. direcsly
after the 9Th Of March. in attaining .
numerical equality With the Democratic
Senators The casting vote Of the Vice
President gave them the control Of that
body. The seBion was called BY the
President for the purpose Of consider
ing certain specific business The Re-
publicans insisted that this specific
business should not be dons until they
had emptied and reflled the Offices q
the Senate % - 70 protect the "Star-
route" plunderen who had helped buy
Indiana. by making Brady's Dan Cor
ham Clerk. and 80 - 20 Strengthen he
Virginia repudiators By making Ma-
homes man RiddleberYsr Sergeaat-st-
Arms Of the Senate. For six weeks
they INSTRUCTED the efforts Of IL Dem
ocrafs 20 do the public work for which
the Senate wAs convened. They did
not succeed in electing Gorham and
Riddleberger. They did succeed in
committing themselves and their party
to the support Of Brady and Ma
hone, Of public plumber throughout
the country and Of repudiation In
Virginia After they had succseded In
doing this completely and in talking
more different kinds a cant and twnd-
die than were. perhaps. ever hsard b.
fore in . like period from Senato1 of
the United States, they have been
finally shamed into acknowledging that
the Democrats have al along been
night and that they have al along been
wrong. Dawes seems % b The oaly
one among them who can muster mp
enough folly and impudence 20 pretend
that their defeas has been nything but
. defeat For about two weeks the
Democratic programme has been car
ried out For about o week the Demo
Gratis had . clear majority In the SEN
ate through the secession Of Conkling
and Piatt- During this single week the
Democrats have done al the business
the Senate was called 20 do. confirmed
all the Presidents nominations which.
like that Of Robertson. ought TO Be con-
firmed, rejected AL The nominations
which, like that Of Chandler. ought %
adiouEned, Il vas in the
power Of the Democrats 20 reorEanixe
the committees Of the Senate, - the
Republicans had attempted 20 reurEan-
ize the Offices Of the Senate; and the
Republican Senators would have been
estopped by the petition every one
of them had taken from objecting
to such . reorganization The Demo
Gratis. Of course, arc entifled % No
special credit for peremPs0rily refusing
to stultify themselveA But who. can
imagine that, IL the Democrats had been
led by such men - Dawes and Hoar
and Logan instead Of BY such men -
Bayard and Beck. any eoasiderAfioa
that they were stultifying themselves
would have restrained them from grab-
bling 1t whatever power they could getf
The net result Of the extra sesssoa b
that the six weeks during which the
attempted 10 Cary out
their programme were worss than
wasted in foolish and mischisvous
"gabble;' while in the two weeks dur
ing which the Democrafic programme
has been carried out all The business for
which the session VS. called By the
has been promptly done The
9" business classes" Of the country are
invited to reflect ON this instructive
and 20 consider whether b
would not be well that the Democrafic
in the Senate should become
y. World