Mohave County miner., 1890-12-13
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90 the calm which always precedss Q
storm, and no sessloa ever gave advaace
indisations oi being more interesting and
stormy than the short session Of the
Fifty-frst Congress, which was raped 70
order in both House and senate at noon
to-day.
The reading Of the Presidenti message
was the only business transacted in either
House to-day, and for Che present Il is the
exclusive topic ot conversation wherever
you 20. Republicans consider i an extra
ordinarily able, patriotic and statesman
like document while democrats denounce
1t as political stump speech. Its real
status Is 10 be found between those ex-
tremes. II is like all Of Mr.. Harrisons
public utterances, extremely well prepar-
edit would be difficult ior anyone to say
what he does in more choice language; /;
and il contains no more partisan politics
than dozens Of similar messages from
other Presidents have contained. It
certainly has already resulted in giving
Mr.. Harrison q much higher rating
among the members Of his party In Con-
gress than he has heretofore had, and
it also proves him to be the possessor Of
more moral courage, or as tho boys put
IL "sand" or grit" than he hss been
credited with having, and already some
pf his close friends are saying that it will
give him denomination In 1892. don't
exactly sos IL in that light, but still,
stranger things have happened. Under
ordinary circumstances . President 10
always renominsted by his party. The
question is wether the republican mana
gers will consider recent events Ordinary
circumstances, which 10 10 say the least
doubtful.
/ The republican quorum did not msteri-
slize in the House to-day, and many hot
headed democrats are predicting that it
will not, except by fits and jerks during
the session; but the republican whips
say they viii have quorum within 4s
hours and II looks ss though they were
correct. The party has to mach at stake
this winter for its members OF the House
TO absent themselves and it is is not
likely that any considerable number Of
them will exact considerable patronage
from the administration as the price of
their constant attendance upon the ses-
sions of the House but this ID only an
unyouchsd for rumor.
One Of the queer aspects Of the political
situation is that the democrats sll talk ~
though the Farmers Ailiancs. movement
10 TO result in certain election Of demo-
cratic President in 1882. II ID already
evident that when the democratic House
comes in an attempt is made to capture
the votes of that organization by adept
ing q number OF the measures TO which
the Alliance is pledged. It is Of course
too early to say wether this movement on
the part Of the democrats h, sincere or
what effect it will have upon the next
national contest.
According TO republican authority the
democrats have been "hollsring before
they got out Of the wood" on the appor-
tionment question, by saying that they
could offset any gains tho republicans
could possibly make under The new sp-
portiorment by redistricting the States
in which they control the legislatures. Of
which there happens TO DO an unusually
large number just now. The republicans
say that they win prevent this by adding
paragraph to the apportionment bill
prohibiting any partisan retistricting or
gerrymsndering by state legislatures.
There is lots of talk among democrats OF
defeating the passage Of the apportion-
ment at this session butiit as all moon
shine. Does any sensible person for
moment suppose that the republicans,
while in coutrol Of both Houses Of Con-
gress, are going TO allow themselves 10 be
euchered out Of the advantage to be gain
cd by passing an superintendent bill2 III
80 he will find himself mistaken. The
passage Of an spportionment bill is one
OF the certainties OF the session, in fact it
is the only legislation that 10 certain.
The Postmaster General in his annual
report strongly reeomends his postal tele-
graph scheme; he says that one cent
postage is desirable, but presents lot Of
figures TO show that he thinks 1t ought
not to be given the people, because il
would create a large deficiency In tina
postal revenues. This sort of argument
is getting TO be decidedly chestnutty 1t
was used against two cent postage until
the the public demand became too strong
for the politicians, and 80 it viii be in
the end with one cent letter postage
the people will have IL.
The democrats have suddenly discover
ed That what has been all along apparent
10 other political observers, that an extra
session Of the Fifty-second Congress in
the Spring viii be a very undesirable
thing for them, and yet it is almost
certain to be made necessary by time lost
at the present session in political contro-
yersies, which under the circumstances
will be almost unavoidable.
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