Year: 1871

uonal CapltOl on Monday next Ii Will DC inc
long session. and it will probably be proiracted
till well into the dog days. We have no doubt
that full quorum will be present in both
houses on Monday, and as each house Is duly
| organized we expect that the Presidents Mes
sage will be read in both before the days ad-
| journment, and that during the afternoon and
evening it will be communicated by telegraph
to all parts of the country, and, more or less,
in its essential points, to all parts of the civ
| ilized world.


We have already given to our readers the
| information that General Grant, in this Mes
sage, abandoning the policy of Secretary
Boutwell,, of maintaining system of oppres-
sive taxations in order to hurry up the re-
demption of the national debt, will take
new financial departure-that he will recon-
M nd the abolition of the income tax and our
internal taxes excepting stamps and the
taxes on spirituous and malt liquors and
tobacco, and that he will also suggest the pro-
priety and expediency of large reductions in
our external taxes or duties on imported goods.
These recomm endations will be- we expect,
the Distinguishing feature Of this Message, and
we cannot doubt that they vii! be as accepta-
BILE to Congress as We are sure they will
be to the country. We have for many
months been pleading the policy of tightening
our burdens of national taxation, in opposi-
ton to Mr.. Boutwelrs policy of rushing the
payment OF the national debt We have con-
tended that there is no wisdom in the latter
policy, and that it is one of great Injustice to
the present taxpayng generation, which has
had to bear so much of the heavy burdens of
the war; and We are gratifed to know tina t
General Grant takes the same practical COM
mon sense view Of the subject. Let the re-
concentrations suggested be adopted by
Congress and carried out in an immediate
abolition Of the income tax and in liberal re-
ductions in the tariff schedules and this new
policy will bs a trump card for The ad minis
tration and the republican party in the coming
| Presidential contest


| We suppose that these measures Of financial
reform and the apportonment Of the House of
Representatives under the new census, will
be the main business Of this session; for it is
not probable that beyond these important SUBJ





debate, except in the consideration of the
annual appropriation bills. We expect that
the President will crow little over the Joint
High Commission aud the Treaty of Washing
ton, and upon this matter he is fairly entitled
to the appreciation of the country. We expect
that be viii point out the good fruits of his
Quaker peace policy with the Indian
tribes, and that Congress will be satisfied
with the evidence of the Secretary of the
Interior on the subject We expect that in
his general retrenchmcnts and savings the re-
port Of the Secretary of the Treasury will be
satisfactory, and we expect that upon that
''twin relic of barbarism, Mormon poygamy
the Message will be very interesting. The
prosecutions commenced against Brigham
Young and other Mormon saints, for ''lewd and
lascivious cohabitation,' are by the advice or
consent of the President, aud we expect that
he will submit his reasons and his purposes to
the two houses in view of some legislative
measures of assistance for the peaceable
abolition of Mormon polygamy as public
nuisance which cannot longer be safely toler-
ated


For the last month or two in North and
South Carolina, but particularly in the
Palmetto State, General Grant has been
prosecuting very active military cam
paign against those mysterious noe
turnal mosstroopers, the Ku Klux Klans;
and if the half is true that has been re-
ported Of the number of those Klans and their
atrocious doinss and their political pur
poses, q considerable portion of the Message
ought to be devoted to this subject. We pre-
sumo, however, that General Grant will con-
tent himself with a brief mention of the Ku
Klux, and by referring the two houses to the
report Of the Secretary of War and the ''accom-
panying documents, in justification of his re-
pressive measures under the Ku Klux law of
the last session. 1t is possible, however,
that in connection with these Ku Klux Klans
as political combination, and with ballot
stufing, repeating, &C., he may suggest to
Congress some further legislation for the regu-
lation of our political elections. At any rate,
as we are advised, this subject will not be ne
elected by this session of Congress.


We expect in the Message that General
Grant will put his foot down against the con-
tinuance of these railway land-grabbing spoli-
ations, for they have gone far enough; we
expect that he will have something to say on
civil service reform; we hope he will throw
some light on the present apparently dilapi-
dated condition Of our navy not available for
active service and he will surely not commit
the bunder of passing over the present state
of affairs in Cuba and our relations with Spain
as trifing matters. The time has come when
our government may wisely abandon the
policy OF non-intervention in Cuban affairs,
not with the view Of annexing the island, but
for the purpose Of vindcating the claims of
humanity and of insisting upon the