Year: 1869

tunity. Senator Sumner has also prepared
speech, said to be the result of great research.
From him we shall no doubt learn all about
hew the Romans and the Greeks resumed specie
payments after protracted suspension. The
financial troubles aud triumphs of France aLd
England will be set FORTH aud possibly an ornate
biographical sketch given of some Of the great
political economists who have figured in the
histories of these countries. Nobody, however,
expects,mGch enlightenment upon so practical q
question from an impractical man like Senator
Sumner.


Special Legislation.


The immense amount of time consumed by
the impeachment trial last session necessarily
postponed large number of bills which may
properly be classified under the above head.
Some Of them are upon the Speakers table and
some on the table of tde President of the
Senate. vigorous effort will be made to get
some of these through the present session
The most important is the bill granting O
subsidy to the Pacific Railroad, Eastern
Division. This will be opposed by a fac
tion in the House. It's friends. however
are very numerous, and include some of the
most able and persistent men in the House. As
it has already passed the Senate, it stands a
good chance of getting through the House; for
being already upon the Speakers table, it will
OCcnpy very little time. Besides this, there are
any number Of oils of more private aud less
important nature. These, however, do not
enlist any varied interests, and will have to
wait their turn.


che Tariff Bill.


Mr.. J. X. Moorhead may be a man of excel
lent intentions, but he blundered so frghtfully
in his attempt to manage the small Tariff bill
Just before the recess, that he came near killing
it. He had far better have lett it in the hands
of General SchenCk, the Chairman of the Com
mttce of Ways and Means who not only pos
sesses the tact but the tenaclty to put bill
through the House. 1t is averred that Mr..
Moorhead had another obectin view besides the
passage of the bill when he took 1t out of the
hands of General Schenck. 1t is we'll kno Wn
that he is a candidate for United States Senator
for the State OF Pennsylvania. He had
an idea that the passage (mainly through
bis e1orts) of the Tariff bill
would give him great prestige with the Legsla-
ture of that State. And so he thought he would
secure Whatever credit there might be in such a
maneuvre. OF course, the bill stirred up oppo-
sltion, and when the storm was at its height
Moorhead discovered that he had undertaken
to command a ship when he was really ignorant
of the first principles of navigation. 1t ls said
that he appealed to General Schenck TO help
him out of the difficulty, but the 'leader of the
house" would do no such thing, especially when
Moorhea3 had manifested so great an anxiety
at the outset to attend to the matter himself.
At the earnest solicitation Of the friends of the
tariff from all sections, the bill will
probably be recommitted to the Committee
of Ways and Means. There it will be so amended
as to include a larger number of interests in Its
provisions; for in its present shape it takes in
very little beyond two or three special interests
peculiar to Pittsburg and vicinity. When it is
again reported to the House, it may, with
management, get through, but hardly iu time
to help Mr. Moorhead's Senatorial prospects.