Year: 1873

buncombe but most of them mean business


and warn us of some formidable lobby com


binations, right and left, before the end o
the session.


Among the other bills introduced in the


Senate yesterday were bills to modify the in.


ternM revenue laws; to authorize national


banks without circulation; to amend or repeal


the Bankrupt law; to explain the act in rela-


tion to duties on tonnage; to restore free post


age to newspapers in the counties in which


they are published, and to establish free bank


ing. In the House bill was introduced for
the admission of Colorado as State, and'her
admission having been recommended by the
President in his Message we have no doubt
that Colorado before the close of this session
will be enrolled as the thirty-eighth State Of
the Union. crowning the glorious temple Of
States with the s'Dome Of the Continent" A
bill was introduced providing for the distribu-
ton Of $25, ,OO0. 900 currency among the States
that have not had their fair share; bill to
strengthen the public credit; bill to repeal
the tax on bank checks; blu to repeal all
taxes on whiskey and tobacco Cpity it does not
provide for the abiliion Of all taxes on all
other things). and bill for the issue of frac-
tional currency and 3.65 bonds to be inter-
changeable.


The House, through the engineering of MI.
Maynard, of Tennessee, passed bill. under q
suspension of the rules, proclaiming uni
versal amnesty, and substituting for the So
called iron-clad oath the modified oath now
administered to persons from whom the rebel
disabilities have been removed. The bill
passed-yeas 141, nays 29-an affirmative vote
considerably more than the two-thirds required
to make the action of the House, on its part
effective for an amnesty. In the Senate, we
apprehend, Mr.. Sumner will repeat his ul6-
matum of the last Congress, that his Civil
Rights bill shall be tackled on as an amend
ment, and as an equivalent to the Southern
blacks for amnesty to the Southern whites. II
is probable, too, that, backed by the Presi-
dents Message, he will succeed this time with
this proposition. While the Amnesty bill was
awaiting the action of the House Mr. Law
bill, JEFF Davis might not obtain seat in
either House of Congress; to which Mr.. May
nard promptly and properly replied that the
late President of the late Southern Confed-
eracy, as well as its Vice President alexander
H Stephens) might have seat in either
House under this amnesty, provided the
people should think proper to send him.
And why not, when even JEFF Davis has ceased
to be Southern MumboJumbo, and is re-
garded more in pity than in anger by the
great body of the people of the North, al
though the twenty-n mine implacable republicans
in the House voting against this amnesty do
not appear to think SO ?


During the day Secretary Robson sent up
q statement to the House of his expenditures
undertaken in the absence of Congress to put
our ravy in fighting condition, and an up
peal for the money required "a, 500,00O) to
complete the needful repairs Of our available
iron-clads and wooden vessels, which paper
was referred to the Committee on Appropria-
tions. The country approves the activity Of
the Secretary in this work, and the appropria-
ton required will doubtless be readily granted.


The special order tor this day in the House,
and in the Senate too, we believe, is bill to
repeal the obnoxious salary law of the last
session. Public opinion on this subject has
had its effect upon both houses; but there is
something childish and pusillanimous in the
scare betrayed by the members and in their
morbid anxiety to set themselves right We
await their action upon the bill of repeal,
strongly suspecting that they will make
botch Of it and humbug; but we shall see.