Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-02
THE OPENING OF CONGRESS.

New York World (Dem.): Do its leaders re-
spect the will of the people, or do they intend
to ignore and:endeavor to thwart it? The Pres
ldent's message and the course of his party in
the session which opens to-day will show.
NEW YORK Star Dem.): First day of the
final session of the FIfty-nrst Congress. Now
for one of the most interesting and important
chapters in American history. Con-
servatism is the guarantee of Democratic sue
cess.
New York Morning Journal (Dem): Two
thirds of the projects to come up for discussion
embody principles on which the great political
parties are Numerically opposed; and the fiery
debates ovor these will probably delay much
useful and necessary legislation on less passion
ate and more prosaic topics.
NEW YORK Herald (Dem.): The session of
Congress which begins to-day will be boisterous
and full of healthy excitement. Speaker Reed
is unmoved by the results of the election. how
ever, and declares that he will stand no non-
sense" So we sit in our editorial chair
with our windward eye wide open and an ear
trumpet
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer (Rep.): There are
two or three measures of Importance besides
the appropriation bills that the Republican
Congress must put through. One is the plan
to revive American shipping-an experiment,
it is true, but one that must be tried before its
virtues can be tested. Another is bill pro-
viding for reapportionment based upon the re-
cent census.
NEW YORK Press (Rep.): The second ses-
sion of the Republican Fifty-frst Congress
meets to-day, to be in session, except for
brief Christmas recess, from now till its two
years. term expires on the Sd of March next.
President Harrlson's message will be sent to it
this afternoon, and judging from the reports OF
its contents which appear in our Washington
vigorous document.
PHILADELPHIA Record (Dem.): This singu-
lar power of rejected majority to legislate be-
tween the election and the assembling of sue
ceeding Congress is an anomaly which should
not be permitted to linger any longer in the
American Constitution. If, however the pres
sent Congress should persist in passing the
force bill and other obnoxious partisan meas
ures, the demand for change in the Constitu-
ton in this respect would become irresistible.
Abuse of power has led to most of the reforms
in legislation and government
NEW YORK Sun (Dem): The Democrats
who strove in vain against the policy of force
have seen their appeal to the country against
that policy answered to an extent that the most
confident among them would not have dared to
"A
ity will face each other. If debate is permit
ted, it will be hot and rattling. The:Demo-
Gratis are eager to explain why they were victo-
rious, and the Republicans to explain why they
were beaten. Eighteen hundred and ninety
two seems pretty near, and there will be good
deal of talking.
PHILADELPHIA Press (Rep.): There will be
but three months of the session of Congress
which begins to-day, and out of that will come
ten days or more for the holiday recess. This
will leave no time that can be wasted, and it is
important that every Republican member shall
be in his seat and in faithful attendance upon
his duties at every days session. Only in that
way can desirable results be secured. 1t has
come to be understood that the causes which
led to the recent defeats were not such as affect
the party at large, nor are they such as can be
made permanently effective. They do not lie
against the general Republican policy.
NEW YORK Times( Mugwump): Undoubtedly
the tone of the party management will be to
some degree revealed by the message of the
President, and that gives to that document an
interest it would not otherwise have. But
whatever he may suggest in the direction of
affirmative action, nothing is more certain than
that the best policy for the majority is one of
relative inaction. If Congress would
follow the English precedent at the last en-
apportionment to an impartial conference of
the leaders OF both parties they would secure
a satisfactory result, one in the justice of
which the country would have entire conf
dence.
CINCINNATI Commercial Gazette (Rep.G
The leaders who will have command in Con-
eress till the 4th of March, and in other parts
of the field until the final assault in 1872, are
officers who have been accustomed to winning
victories. Under their lead. and that of their
associates of other years in Congress and in the
executive departments, only once in 30 years
have the Republican banners fallen on the
breastworks In any general engagement. There
have been temporary reyerses in the minor af-
fairs of the "off years." but. save one exception,
the result of every national struggle has been
victory. On the other side the enemy
is boasting as if the hour had already arrived
for putting off their armor But they have yet
to meet again the veterans of 80 years of almost
uninterrupted victories. And to-day the lines
viii begin to advance.