St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-03-10

ADJOURNMENT OF CoNGREss.-
special to the New Orleans Plea
yune describes the closing scene:
of the 47th Congress, as follows:
The 47th Congress, controlled by
Republicans in both branches, has
passed into history with all its sins
upon its head. At its first session
it refused to revise the tariff; then
in the dog days, when there was nc
time for adequate revision, it at.
tempted to make show of doing
SC, by cutting down the sugar du.
ties. This failed, and the same
fraud has been practiced at this
session. The lobby of the tariff
men have controlled the situation
all through the winter, and have
finally secured what they wanted
immunity and booty.
The Republicans have failed in
two darling objects: the admission
of Dakota, and the bill to create a
new batch of Federal judges.
SO many Of these men were re-
pudiated by the people that they
felt no inclination to attend to the
regular business before them. A
great many valuable bills have thus
failed, including the shipping Dill
and the bonded distillery DILL.
A still greater loss to the country
is the failure of the River and Har-
Dor bill. This was due to fraud on
the part of the Secretary of War,
in Withholding the estimates, and
6llibustering by railroad hirelings
in the two Houses.
Since last night hardly anything
has been done except the routine
work of the appropriation bills.
The Republicans, in their anxiety
to steal $4,000 for negro poll
tician in South Carolina, found
their road blocked by the Demo-
Gratis. They could not go forward,
and did not have the honesty to go
back. The result was a practical
cessation Of all business except the
appropriation bill by the House.
Meanwhile the members became
tired. They drank, slept, and court
ed the ladies, and did everything
but get up the fights which the
packed galleries were eager to be-
hold. The Washington mob of
flunkies, fools and Government
clerks literally filled the Capitol,
surging here and there, and adding
to the degradation and demoraliza-
ton of the scene of inebriety which
the closing hours of this
Congress. The reporters gallery
was taken from it's rightful occu-
pants and converted to the use of
personal favoritism.
The Sabbath morn opened with
/ repetition of the scene. and the
'rowd was greater, if possible, than
he night before.
Finally the House Of Representa-
ives came to its end. Mr.. Speaker
Aeitfer had been thanked in the
customary phrases of parliamentary
but not without an hon
st protest from Mr.. Blanchard, of
and others.
The Speaker improved the occa-
ion to deliver an address convey
ng an absurdly false encomium
pom the merits and virtues of the
louise, and several suggestions in
ended to perpetuate his own fame.
The fiction. though startling, was
OF bold, for he faltered repeatedly
1 its delivery, whether from con-
cience or bad manuscript is not
recisely known. The only com {
liment paid him to-day is, that ..
aving acquired his Office by dis
raceful compact with the Pennsyl- t
ania interest, he remained faithful '
the end. and kept his word by t
acking the tariff conference COM t
ittee, and endsavoring to beat a il
II devised by his party friends \
hich did not go quite far enough \
suit the conspirators who put o
IN in office.