Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-11-12
FORTY NINTH CONGRESS.
MAKING READY FOR THE COM
ING SOLONS.

ING SOLONS.
The North Carolina Delegatfon-Dr.
Tyre York-The Abuse Of Witnesses
The Rifles Fair-Losing $2O, 900 on
the Streets of Washington.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Everybody
and everything are beginning to pre-
sent different aspect From the ho-
tel-keeper down to the market-house
caterer, from the ofice-seeker down to
the wintering tramp, hope begins to
burn. Congress is coming. The Forty
Nine Congress will soon convene.
When Congress goes away, the retinue
follows. Parasites, lobbyists, and 9TH
ers of like professions, scatter. No one
ever knows where these professional
folks go, much less whence they come.
But all return. Fifty-eight percent of
the Forty-Eighth entered the Forty
Ninth Congress. There is enough sea-
soned material on hand. The Repub-
licans have gain of more than 20;
THE DEMOCRATS,
a loss of more than a dozen, in the
House. Indeed, the latter have lost
some of their best material, Such men
as "Joe" Blackburn and "Sunset" Cox
are not easily replaced. The Demo
cratic majority may be squeezed to
43, but even so, there is loss of 40
percent on the positive majority in
the last Congress. Experience has
taught, the bigger the majority the
safer the Democratic party. A larger
majority, in the Forty-Eighth Con-
gress, did not prevent several insight
ly predicaments. Maybe the MAORI
ty was cumbersome. But the majority
in the Forty-Ninth Congress is Just
enough to Justify assurances of safety,
This is saying much. The Democrats
never did know how to handle and
nurse a majority like
THE REPUBLICANS.
The Republicans would give all the
South for Just enough to constitute a
majority. In the minority, however,
they will seek consolation in heavy
blows at the Democrats. They will
assert the rights of the minority.
Their gain is seasoned with the loss of
several matchless statesmen! We
might eulogize the unfortunate, but
let us be content with the mention OF
Tyre York The Republicans can
not defeat the Democrats, fairly. Per
haps they will make no attempt. But
they are human, and will, in divers
ways, irritate the enemy. They will
wear out the patience of a saint with
fillibustering. The tenor of their re-
marks will recall maranatha.
BOTH HOUSES
give promise of amusement. The mas
terly speeches of Bayard and Lamar
will not be heard in the Senate, but
Logan, and Malone, and Conger will
keep the galleries in suppressed
roar. Their philippics will be marked
by the broadest comedy, time having
fully developed the happy vein they
have struck. Belford, and White, and
ty-Ninth Congress, but the House still
retains Reed, of Maine. He will re
sumo the leadership! Randall, Nor.
rison, Springer, Blount, and every
Republican, will simply follow! The
territories did we'll; Antonio Joseph
of Ojo Caliente, N. NJ, takes the place
of Tranquilino Luna, of Los Lunas
The territories had been too tranquil
But everybody is becoming infected
with the Democratic fever. There
will be a mighty effort, in both Sen
ate and House, to prevent contagion
but it has spread too far. Instead o
fighting against what is inevitable, th'
| Republicans had better be vaccinated
THE N. C. DELEGATION
has undergone changes. We shall
miss Gen. Scales and Gen. Vance, bu
Reid, Henderson, and johnson afford
in q measure, consolation. Yet W,
never could see why OHara longet
to return We can imagine the pleas
ure Cox, Green, Bennett, Cowles
Skinner and others experienced in rep
resenting the people of their State
But it is hard for man to experience
a pleasure he could never understand
We hope, however, that the people o
the second district will yet realiz
their misfortune. The North Caro-
| INA ueiegdIiOH uoes MOI ueSeTVc
have its Democratic intelligence ques
toned. 1t is deserving delegation
James Madison, James Monroe, Johl
| @. Adams, and Andrew jackson say
it come to Congress bakers dozel
strong. And, to-day, all out of tn
nine might have been Democrats. Still
one stands little chance against tel
including Senators Vance and Ran
som.
/ ABUSE Of WITNESSES,
which the SENTINEL reproduced fror
the Argus, at Goldsboro, unconsciousl
| describes an evil ct the Capita
Congressional Committees have tn
reputation of abusing everybody an
everything abuseable. Lawyers, o
the other hand, have the reputation {
being gentlemen. 1t is not nicely
then, to draw the conclusion that th
man who abuses witness is neither
lawyer or gentleman. Yet here wi
nesses are abused, insulted, and occa,
ionally imprisoned. We do not wis
to spare white shysters, but it is tn
truth when we say that the negr
shysters at the Capital abuse witnesss
beyond description. This occurs dali
in the Police CoArt, where the negr
lawyer has misdirected his energy.
is a common occurrence to see negr
pilion a white man In the witness bo,