The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-26
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.
The New York World well saws:

foreign diplomacy. II is high time to set up
the American fl & where nal men can see II
and understand what it means on the chores
of the gulf Of Mexico. TO that end the OH
democratic ideas about national expenditures
for national improvement Of the navigation
of the Mississippi and ils tributaries must be
applied by congress. The country must re-
turn to aud enforce an application Of the
democratic ideas about internal improve
ments, eGpounded Ia annual and special
messages to congress by the last really deq-
ocralic administration befora the civil war
when Marcy in the state department, Guthrie
at the head of the treasury, and Davis in the
war department set on foot at the public OK
pense tie surveys for the Pacific railways.
The New Orleans Democrat evidently
thinks something ought to be done to pre-
vent trsmpism, but doesn't seem to favor the
New Jersey plan. 1t says:
The New Jersey tramp law makes tramps
criminals, and they are locked up in the
county jais. As, however, il does not com
pei them TO work there, il is inst what the
tramps are eager for, and they are pouring
by thousands into the state. There IRE sixty
to each county now, and more coming in.
The people of the central portion of the
stale are growing over the burden, and de-
clare that they will be bankrupted to sup
port the tramps unless the legislature can
do something to relieve them.
The Memphis Appeal Is cloarly in favor
of woman's rights, judging from tho fol-
lowing:
The women of Boston, undismnyed by tho
opposition so far manifested 10 womAu's sut-
frSge, continue thor battle for what ought
to DO conceded to them as bidhdght.
They write and speak, forciby and earnestly,
and since they cannot lobby they give re.
captions 10 influential representatives and
officials Tho latest reception by them was
given to the governor and the general as
sembly at the residence Of Mrs. Fenno Tu-
dor, on Beacon street, on Wednesday eve
ming last. The hostess was assisted ia reCeiv.
ing by Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone Edna
Dean Cheney, and Henrietta Il. L. Wolcott.
-Four parlors en- suite were thrown open aud
filed by some three or four hundred guests,
who passed in and out during the evening
Over cake and coffee the question nj issue
WAS mainly discussed. The desired result
must come on this track.
The New York Evening Express says:
The republican managers in Washington
are evidently manmlvring for an extra ses-
sion of congress. Their grounds for desiring
it are obvious enough. 1t i9 plain that thoy
will be in much better condition to organ
ize the house and get things in order to their
minds now than next December, when tho
new administration viii have disposed of its
patronage, to the keen and bittor disappoint-
ment of scores of active republican workers,
Then the lines will be- drawn, the admins.
trAtion will have shown It's hand and indi-
Gated its policy, and while there i3 rejoicing
among the favored men whom it has pro-
vided for on tho inside, there will DO weep
ing and gnashing OF teeth without, Plainly
the republican managers hardly dare to wait
nine months before ell1Chng IA organization,
lest the factions within the party begin their
work, and the era of good feeling they wan:
to preserve will end ia worse divisions than II
has baen invoked to heal They also hons
to take advantage of the work done by the
. present congress, and get the crplit OF passing
measures already matured. For these and
similar reasons there ia likely to b9 "a good
deal Of republican llibustoring for the next
ten days. But whatever may be tho motives
OF tbs republican managers the plan Of con
venlng the new congress ut the beginning OF
the term ofthe new administration has much
10 recommend it, and deserves candid
consideration. The members elected In
November, $780, certainly ought II
enter on their active duties before December
1881 more than year after they ware
chosen, when tho issues on which thOy were
elected have been partly forgotten. More,
over, the new congress ought to organize rs
soon as possible after the old ono has OK,
pired. The committees should be appointed
SO that their members my know their spe
oisl duties, and may prepare TO discharge
them for tho public advantage. II is wei
that tho members, many of whom are nov
men, should meet and become acquainted
md look their new duties in the face. Anc
1t is also well for the country TO learn ut the
beginning what policy the administration
viii propose, what materials congress Is made
OF, and what the country Is to expect from
the general government. The pan Of con.
vsning tho new congress in tho spring fol
organization, and the laying out of work
has everything TO recommend it, and i
ought to be elevated into srule. The co 4
TO tho country is a mere trife in comparison
with the general advantage that would Ne
crue from it. Congressman are paid by thC
year, and their whole time belongs TO Tho
people A great deal of silly criticism i
vented on the discussions of the two houses
this is what they meet for II is part, and ~
important part, Of their business. Congress
men arc chosen 10 debate and discuss meas
sures of public policy. And their debates
contriou to the political education of tn
county, And the sooner these debates DO
gin tho more time congress will have TO shsp,
measures in wise and satisfactory way.
The Philadelphia Times has no patie1ct
with or respect tor the senss;ess crusade
being waged by the national banks agsius
the funding bill. The fact is these banker
think they run the country, and the sooner
they are Informed of the fact that they d.
not the better. The Times says:
There is no reason to doubt that the fund
ing bill, as perfected by tho senate, will
become law this week and go into operatio,
forthwith. Its provisions are based on Ia,
present solid prosperity of all branches o.
our industries, trusting to no hazards beyond
those that must enter into all Legitimate
financial calculations. 1t was not conceived
in haste or passed in hurry. II underwent
the severest scrutiny in the house and senate
but comes forth the result of the most mature
consideration of men sbuudantly enlightened
by past experience. The extraordinary una
nimty of the senators on the final vote. in.
volving the conversion Of many whose iest
impulse had been adverse to SO low rate AS
three npr cent il n tpstimonv Ia tho ,,,;,Ja.