Year: 1873

''The telegram sent to the New York
Post asserting that it is understood here
Tin Washington) that Senator Carpenter
will be deposed as presiding officer of the
Senate, has no foundation in any author
itative source. 1t is pure fiction of the
brain of the Posts correspondent, or that
of others in no sense authorized to speak
for the Senate. - Washington Chronicle


We happen to know that the above de-
NAL, from swift witness who has indus
triously labored to foster the corruptions,
and to sustain the corruptionists, that
have crept into the Republican party. is
poor subterfuge. There is q demand,
as Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress will find in due time, for the purifi-
cation of that body, and the work must
begin at the outset of the session, in the
organization of both Houses, We raised
a seasonable voice of warning against the
salary grab though unheeded; and we
propose to be equally explicit in serving
timely notice on members of the new
Congress that decisive reforms must be
made at the next session, beginning with
its very first work. Carpenter, the sala-
ry grabber and the Jealous defender of
the great iniquity, must be deposed from
the position of President pro tempore of
the Senate. or there will be such a storm
of popular Indignation as no Congress
man of the country can withstand. We
are not saying this in any dictatorial
spirit, but with full knowledge of the
feeling prevalent on this subject through
out the nation. The Senate must purge it.
self of Carpenter, as its temporary presid-
ing officer contipgently at only two re-
moves from the Presidency of the United
States, or the people 'oiH, at the first oppOrtse-
nity, purge the Senate of every member 0ho
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pose.


In the House of Representatives, we
say with equal explicitness, that Mr..
Blaine, Mr.. Wheeler of New York, Mr.
Orth of Indiana, or whoever is chosen
Speaker, must refuse to give leading
position on any committee to single
member who has been compromised by
the salary grab scandal. 1t will not do
to appoint Mr.. Garfield Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, or to put
Mr.. Dawes at the head of the Committee
of Ways and Means. And so on through
the whole list of the Republican members
who, holding high places in the last Con-
gress, have brought defeat and disgrace
on the Republican party.


After the organization of the House,
its first and most imperative duty will be
to repeal the salary increase, root and
branch, according to the promises given
in obedience to an overwhelming public
sentiment. There must be no lodging,
Sinking or delay on this question, if
members have any thought of looking
their constituents in the face next year.


There are many other reforms of which
we shall speak in due time, but those we
have mentioned are at the foundation of
all the work to be done by the next Con-
gress, if that body is to make any pre-
tense of needing the clear expressions of
the will of the people. 1t will not be
merely dangerous to trifie or daily with
these matters; it will be fatal-fatal to
the men who fail of their plain duty, and
fatal to the party that tolerates any such
delinquents after their character is
known. 1t requires something more
than to talk reform. Reform must be ac-
conlpkshed.