The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-11-16
What Will They Do With 1t.

| WARRINGTON, November ll.-Ihere
is probability that the SD Congress will
be called in extra session next March
Immediately after the Inauguration of
President Cleveland. The Senate will,
| OF course, be convened to act upon the
nominations of the incoming President,
but there is 80 much legislation for the
Democrats to accomplish that 1t is the
| opinion Of the party leaders that the
the work cannot be commenced too soon.
The great tidal wave of last Tuesday
has brought with it complete control for
the Democrats Of every branch of the
National Legislature. For the first time
since the war that party will BIZ domi-
nant and will be enabled to place upon
the statute books the laws which the peo-
| pie have desired for so long in vain. The
Senate is Democratic, overwhelmingly
30, on questions affecting tho tariff, and
at least tie on organization. A general
reorganization may be looked for next
March, with the Democrats assuming
control of the Senatorial Offices and of
the committees. The Democrats have
not enjoyed this control since the 4Gth
Congress, which met on the first Monday
| in December, 1879, and adjourned on the
4th of March, 1881. In that Senate they
had majority of nine.
The first work for the new Congress
will be the preparation of tariff bill.
Upon this labor men like Springer,
McN1illin, Wilson, of West Virginia, and
other tariff reformers, who have been
leading q hitherto hopeless fight, will
enter with enthusiasm. They are thor
| oughly familiar with the subject and will
bring to bear upon their task the expert
ence gained through many patient in
vestigation and hard fought battle.
There will be diverse interests to recon-
cile and extreme views will have to be
brought into common focus,
The responsibilities that now rest upon
the Democrats are great, but no one
doubts for one moment that they will be
acquitted with credit. AS the great tariff
reformer and Ex-Congressman, VIM. r.
Morrison, said to your correspondent,
"The Dem ocrats have been waiting for
good many years for the responsibilities
to come, and they are not likely to shirk
them now"
But the tariff, while the most impor-
tant matter to engage the attention Of the
Democrats, is but one Of number Of
topics that must be legislated upon. For
years that partisan action Of a Republican
Senate has defrauded three Territories Of
the West of the rightof Statehood, simply
because they cast Democratic majorities
at each election. Idaho, Montana,
Wyming, the two Dakotas and Washing
ton were all admitted without question
because the Republicans knew that by
their admission the votes in the Repub-
lican electoral column would be materi-
ators sent to the National Capital to swell
the majority of that party. Ifit had not
been for this action the Democrats would
long since have been in control Of the
Senate. Happily the day of righteous
ness and justice has como at last.
New Mexico, which has beon vainly
seeking Statehood for many long years,
will enter the sistsrhood through the
agency of Democratic House and Sem
ate, and Arizona and Utah will also be
admitted. This will give the Democrats
nine additional electoral votes, and will,
moreover, add six Democratic votes to
the Democratic sido of the Senate cham
ber,
The present House has already passed
Acts for the admission Of Now Mexico
and Arizona, so that as soon as the new
Congress comes in it will not take long
for both houses to agree upon simple
act of Justice to the defrauded Territories.
The repeal of the Federal election laws,
which have been disgrace and blot
upon the statute books, will be another
important thing to demand the attention
of the Democrats. This will be done so
quickly that the heads Of the Republi-
cans will swim with the rapidity of the
action.
Then there will be financial legislation
which will demand careful thought and
study. Altogether it is not difficult to
see that if the Democrats hope to accom-
plish the work which is laid out for them
to do they will have to commence next
Spring.
There is already considerable gossip
about the Speakership of the next House.
A good many Democrats think that Mr..
Crisp will be reelected, but it must be
admitted that this feeling is not unani-
nous. However, there are yet several
months in which this question can be
discussed and settled. In the meantime
there is no doubt Of the unanimity of
opinion among all men in the party that
tho iniqutous tariff must be reformed as
quickly as possible, and this work will
be begun, the country may rest assured,
at tho yory earliest practicable moment.