The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-30
The Scranton Tribune Is q Repubh-
can paper and it will support the
nominees of the next Republican city
convention. Dare the Scranton Re-
publican say as much2
The Session Of Congress.

On Monday the new congress-, eiecteu
last year, will assemble in it's first
session. 1t has been the habit of many
newspapers to speak of it as a Repub-
lican congress, but 1t is such only In
30 far as the lower house is con-
cerned. The senate is a decidedly
mixed body, being neither Republican
mol Democratic. If Senators Jones and
Stewart, of Nevada (both elected as
Republicans). should conclude to act
with the Republicans the latter would
then have exactly one-half the senate,
but there is no probability that the
Nevada senators will take that posi-
ton. More likely they will continue
to act with the handful of Populists
and Silverites and attempt to drive a
bargain Of some kind with the Demo-
Gratis. The Republicans cannot hope
to control the senate until after March
4, 1897, independent of the Democrats
and Populists combined.
While the Republican house will be
p6werless to enact new legislation or to
repeal existing laws, that body never
theless has resting upon 1t the grave
responsibility Of adopting and carry
ing out. in so far as one house of con-
gress can, the accepted policy Of the
party the majority of the house repre-
sents. The Republicans of the lower
house should pursue precisely the same
policy as If the senate and the execu-
tive were politically in accord with
them. This congress is confronted by
circumstances and conditions at once
grave and serious. The treasury has
been unable to meet the authorized ex-
pendltures of the government. The
secretary has been compelled to sell
bonds from time to time to
replenish the funds in the treas
ury, thus greatly increasing the
interviewing debt Of the coun.
try. From month to month the
deficit increases. What plan of relief
the president will recommend to con-
gress is ~conjectural. 1t is not prob
able that his suggestion, II he makes
any will commend itself to the Repub-
1ican house. His views are diametric-
ally. antagonistic to Republican policy.
This will only emphasize the duty of
the Republican house. The country
elected an overwhelming majority Of
the representatives to the present con-
gress as a protest against a continu-
ance Of the policy Of Cleveland and
the Democratic party. 1t follows that
upon the Republican majority impera-
lively devolves the duty of inaugural
ing the change the country, demands.
II the Republican house cannot con-
troll the senate and the executive II
can meet the expectations of the ma
ton by passing such measures as the
present exigency demands and throw
upon the senate and the president the
full responsibility Of defeating them.
The Republicans of the house will have
performed their whole duty when they
shall have passed and sent over to the
senate such bills as will bring relief to
the depleted treasury and enable the
government to meet it's current ex-
penses without still further increasing
the bonded Indebtedness.
The Republicans in the house cannot
escape their responsibility and their
obligations to the country by the weak
plea that It would be useless to pass
relief as they would in any
event be defeated in the senate, or
vetoed by the president II they passed
the senate. The Republican house is
not responsible for the nondescript
senate or the Democratic executive.
The Republicans in the house are an
swerable to the country only for the
record that body makes at the ensuing
session.
We repeat, that the house should
promptly inaugurate a thoroughly Re-
publican policy and pass such meas
ures for the relief Of the treasury and
Of the country as It would II the senate
and the executive were in full accord
with the house.
GeO0raphy IA well az euphOny and