Year: 1869

General Butler achieved yesterday an I'M
portant victory in the House, in the vote of
seventy to ninety y-nine whereby that body
refused to concur in the Senates halfway sub
stitute for the House bill absolutely repeating
the Tenure of Office law. General Butler
with the submission of the Senate bill
attacked 1t as deception, contending that 1t
| did not meet the case, that the modification Is
substantially the law as it stands, and that
this unconstitutional act, having served Its
purpose, should be utterly abolished-that it
was incompatible with the rights of the House
and usurpation of the powers of the Presi
dent In these general views of the measure
General Butler was promptly and effectually
supported by General Logan, and when the
House adjourned on Thursday it was mani
fest that the Senate substitute for Buffers
repeal would be rejected


Yesterday when the subject came up in its
regular order desultory fight was at once
commenced between Butler and his supporters
on the one side and the radical anti-repealers
on the other, and this skirmishing was con-
tinued down to five o'clock, when the original





Committee was withdrawn and the direct
question of concurrence was reached. The
result is the victory of Butler and the re-
pealers, including the democrats of the House,
who welded the balance of power


The subject now goes back to the Senate,
and the question is, Shall the Senate recede
from its amendment" Assuming that it will
not, q committee of conference on the dis
agreement between the two houses will be the
next proceeding, and then we shall discover
whether the republicans of the House sup
porting Butler will stand firm or yield to the
pressure of the Senate or party caucus Of the
House. Both houses having adjourned over to
Monday we may expect some caucus manipu-
lations In the interval but if the House
repealers would gain the front rank with the
administration in bringing the Senate to the
ultimatrm of Buffers bill they will avoid any
party caucus on the subject.


In the beginning of Johnson's administration
the republican conservatives, with the demo-
Gratis, had, as they now have, possession of
the House. The policy Of Congress and the





they acted with anything like sagacity they
could have shaped the measures of Congress
and the issues of the Presidential succession.
But the democrats, when brought to the pinch,
deserted the republican conservatives and
bolted over to ''Old Thad Stevens" and hence
all the disastrous consequences that followed
to Johnson's administration, to the conserva-
tive republicans and to the democratic party,
with the triumph of the radical programme.
All that was left undone BY the democrats to
give success to the schemes of Stevens was ac-
complished through the radical caucus system
of whipping in. Now, if the conservative or
out-and-out administration republicans of the
House wish to hold their ground and become
masters of the situation they know what to do;
and they must know, on the other hand, that
if they consent to be inveigled into a party
caucus their fate will be the melancholy expe-
\ rience of Raymond and his followers of. the
sessions of 1865 and 1866. Power or dis
grace is thus the alternative now presented to
the supporters Of Butler in the House on this
Tenure of Office law. Their only course of
safety is to stick to the repeal.


The State of Public Sentiment in England.
We publish in another column a commun-
cation referring to the present state of public
opinion in England. The letter regards the
variable changes of public sentiment in most
unfavorable light for the mother country, and
not at all calculated to sustain that degree
of prestige with which John Bull desires to be
regarded throughout the world. Economy,
now the order OF the day under the liberal
Ministry, may not be the most judcious course
to pursue, if by that economy England is to be
reduced to the condition offs third rate Power,
as our correspondent contends she will be event.
ually by the curtainent Of the navy estimates
which is now being inaugurated. In refer
ence to the Alabama question, it is argued that
It will be settled on such terms as the United
States may think ft to propose, for the simple
reason that England will prefer to suffer
humiliation rather than assume that inde-
pendence which formerly characterized her.
Another subject also seems to be source of
not little uneasness, and that Is the gradual
advances Of Russia in the East. The Russian
press has sounded the alarm, and the Moscow
Gazette, in the shape Of semi-oficial sug-
gestion, believes that negotiations between the
Russian and English governments should be
opened regarding the future relations Of the
two countries In the East. From perusal of
the communication Il will be readily perceived
that there is some cause for that unsettled
state Of public sentiment referred to by our
correspondent


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