Year: 1872

a LEADER FOR THE HOUSE.


The opening action of the House OF
Representatives evidences the sad need
of leader such as Thaddeus Stevens, the
brave nnd able commoner who could
sneer down quibblers and castigate bores,
while he was equal to the greatest intel
lectual emergency.


The importance given by speaker Blaine
and the House to the Creci1 M0biHe,
SANDER is one of questionable wisdom in
view of the time that will be occupied in
the investigation and the large amount
of important business which needs the
careful attention of that body. But the
most absurdIy impulsive specimen of
misapplied generosity on the part of Il
Republican House to an opponent was
the refusal to accept the resignation Of
Mr., Banks (who had deserted to the enc
my of the craftsmanship of leading
committee Of the House, and thereby rem
dering it quite probable that two other
committees will be conducted in the in
terests of political opponents to the end of
the session-the chairman of committees
having the appointment of clerks and
control. Much MS your correspondent
dislikes to criticise political friends where
subjects Of criticism are furnished in am
pie quantity by political enemies, yet he
cannot refrain from calling the attention
of members ofthe House to the fact that
they were not sent to their posts to take
care of their personal inclinations and
private friendships, but as servants of
great party who elevated them as its rep
resentatives, to look first of all TO the sure
success Of its principles.


That Mr.. Roosevelt, of New York,
most unmitigatcd bore and fcrocious OPP
poncnt of our District Government, who,
at the opening of the late campaign,
wrote an incorporate and most mae
curate Democratic campaign document
against improving our district, should be
to dragoon the House into anoth-
cr investigation as to the cost of contem-





waste of time that seems entirely unjut-
fed by the wild and reckless assertions of |
n man whose head is known to be far
from level on this already too much in
vestigatcd subject Of obstructing improve
ments at the national capital. Had the
great commoner been living he would
have squelched Roosevelt's investigation
with dozen whitening words referring
to his absurd record rs Il member of the |
District Committee.


POSTMASTER GENERALS REPORT.


Your correspondent had promised from
Postmaster General Creswel model ar
gument on the subject of the proposed
national postal telegraph system, but the
force and conclusiveness of the actual ar
gument contained in the annual report of
the p. o. Department was not anticipated |
by any one. The New York He,uid is
now an advocate of the national system,
and the arguments of the New York
Times and other papers of the monopoly
ring are not only satisfactorily answered
but their assumptions are shown to have
been made in ignorance of the true mer-
its Of the case. The respectable country
press have everything to gain and moth
ing to lose by the reform. Most of them !
have already advocated change in the
system which at present excludes the
provincial press from telegraphic news,
but careful study Of the report referred
to will convince them that their true in
tcrest will be subservcd, and the entire
public vastly benefited by the passage of
such law as that so often pressed upon
the attention Of Congress by Mr.. Cres-
we'll