Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-05

in this alone have they shown any activity
or zeal. The business of the country has
waited and suffered while the fate of re-
publican officeholders has been settled.
and new men, such as Pillsbury and
Chase noted for infamous acts in politics.
were sent up to posts of responsibility by
this reform government.
The failures of the democracy were adj
mirablv held up to the gaze of the public
in preamble and resolutions presented
in the House on Monday. by Mr.. Baker OF
New York, and read before that body.
The reading had not gone far before the
democratic members objected to reading
farther, bat the speaker ruled that they
were in order, and in spite of the writings.
denunciations, boots and yells of the en-
ragged democrats they were read to the
close. The truth contained under the
sarcasm stung the democracy to the quick.
When the reading concluded there was a
free fight, and some of the sharpest
sparring of the session. The following
is a synopsis OF the preamble and reso-
lutions, which we commend to the atten-
ton of our readers:
WHEREAs, Congress has been in session
only little more than eight months, with a
J. mocrstic majority of only forty and solid
dem ocra,ic representation in the White
House, and
WHEREAS, During the entire session the two
wings Of the democratic party have tapped
together in perfect harmony, and
WHEREAS, By the united and harmonious
labors and cooperation of harmonious dem
ocratic President and party the country has
beeg saved from the humiliation and extrava.
gance Of republican misruIe and
WHEREAS, at the close Of this first session
Of the Forty-ninth Congress we are glad TO
exhibit rs the first fruits of democratic re-
form, first, the successful defeat of the TO-
glorou. aud unconstitutional efforts on the
part of the people of Dakota to gain adnis-
sion To the Union; second the successful
burial in the House Committee of enabling
acts for the territories of Washington and
Montana; third, an honest, though unsuc-
cessful. effort to reform the tariff and estab-
lish free trade, an effort which failed only by
reason of slight friction between the two
wings before mentioned, and the democratic
party congratulates the country thar the bill
still lives, and that IT will rise
at the next session for the encouragement of
the comm, rcial and manufacturing indus
tries and the laboring masses of the country !;
Fifth, the d mOcratIc party congratulates the
country upon the successfully inaugurated
policy of compelling the payment of the re-
served surplus in the Treasury upon the
public debt in disregard OF plighted public
faith to maintain throagh such reserve the
credit and honor of the government.
Sirth. The democratic majority in Con-
2ress further congratulates the country upon
the following grounds, namely: A The
failure of the National bankruptcy bill B.
The failure of the Mexican service pension
bill. G. The defeat, through executive veto,
of the bin for the relief Of the Des Moines
river settlers. ID. The successful defeat,
through executive disapproval, of private
pension bills to so called old veterans of the
late war, to alleged widows of such, and TO
pretended dependent parents, aggregatlng
over ninety, and thereby saving the treasury
an amount sufficient to pay the salary of the
President each year and to defray the neces-
sary annual expenses of repairs to the White
House and place therein the necessary cook
lug utensils, furniture and flowers, in ac-
curdance with Jetiersoniap simplicity. K. The
almost successful efforts to revive the pop
ular increase tax law by ENGRAVING it upon
general pension bills. +. The defeat of
Nneral pension legislation, such as contem-
plated by the Blair Senate bill and the So
called zone legged bill" g. The strict en-
forcemeut and maintenance of civil service
reform in the affairs of the government, and
the democratic party points with pride to the
fact that more than 10000 postmasters OF
both sexes. including manv disabled war vet
Grams. have been removed or replaced by
inoffensive psrtisans, and the promptness
with which the ruling majority has brought
forward and pushed through the appropra
ton bills, therefore,
Resolved, That the thanks of the country
are due to the democratic party for passing
the appropriation bills.
Resoired. That the democratic party be
| advised to preserve the banners under which
victory WAS achieved in 1884 with their in
spring legend of ECONOMY and reform"
Resolved, That the two wings of the de-
mocracy, with their greenback aad prohibi
ton allies, will ever flap lovingly and har'
moniously together.
Resoired, That we must 'turn the rascals
out
Resolved, Great is the democratic party.