Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, May "a, 1872.
TOO EARLY ADJOURNMENT.


The jealousy manifested by the respec-
tive Houses of Congress in relation TO ad-
journment is not calculated to subserve
the best interests Of the Government.
Many grave interests will doubtless suf-
fer by the adoption Of the Senate resolu-
ton by the House to adjourn on the Goth
inst. after the House had failed to secure
the acduiescence of the Senate in the
House resolution fixing the Sd of June
as the time for adjournment. This cuts
seven days off the time which the House,
according to its former vote, believed To
be necessary. The resolution should be
rescinded, and the Senate and House
should agree to continue the session at
least until the Sd proximo. Hundreds of
bills of great importance have been la
bored on in committees for months past
only to be thrown aside for want of few
days more time to carry them into force.


All night sessions of the Senate, such
as that of Tuesday last, when the elderly
men who compose that branch of our ma
tional legislature are worn out in vigor Of
body and mind, cannot make up the loss
of the number of days actually required
for due deliberation on public measures.
Already Washington is full of commit
tees to aid the lobbyists in their efforts to
put through bills which should not pass
and which if time for simple explanation
were given, could not receive sufficient
votes but in the scramble and hurry of
night sessions these jobbing bills are in
geniousy tackled on to important meas
ures, and became laws by the dnt OF
management and necessity arising out of
a com bination of haste and msunder-
standing on the part of Senators and
members.


A single week of working days will
prevent the evil doings of these profess
sional operators on the haste of Congress.


THE REVENUE.


Hon. Mr.. Dawes pressed TO a vote, I'M
der the Monday two-thirds rule for sus-
pending the rules of the House, the Tar
if bill without further amendment. This
action will throw great responsibility on
the Finance Committee Of the Senate,
as in its crude state many errors will need
4 lo1, att 70 hot
of encouraging informers to report frauds
in the Treasury by means of informer's 5
shares. Without some substitute for this
means TO which all civilized governments
resort, it will be impossible to collect the
revenue. Whisky and and tobacco rings
will ruin the entire country, as they have
done before under weak administration
of the government despite the use of or
dinary means. Without them fraud and
force will rule supreme. This is but a
sample of the omissions which the House S
haste in finances will necessarily cause,
unless the slower action of the Senate re-
pairs them. Already "Plugge" and





ton before the Senate Finance Commit
tee and pressed reduced rate of taxation
before it. If this is all the effort they
make to get rid of paying revenue,
all will be well, but the proposition to
tax whisky seventy cents will rouse the
slumbering devil of alcohol, and the U.
S. Government will need all its forces 10
resist the tricks of this monster.


SECRETARY robson ACQUITTED.


At last the report on the Robson in.
vestigation has been made. Mr.. Blair,
the charm IN, who conducted the exam
ination on the principle that the party
charged is guilty until his innocence is
proven, postponed the inevitable report
in favor of Secretary Robson, until the
majority were obliged to delegate an
other to make it. The majority. report
stands up in a manly avowal of the inno-
cence of the Secretary as shown by the
sanderous falsehood of all the charges
against him. Mr.. Blair cannot be con-
vinced against his will that some irregu.
larities have not occurred in the Navy
Department, though he is compelled Ia
admit that none of the charges were
proven, and to acquit the Secretary OF
them all.


1t is we'll known that Mr.. Blair has had
very sore head since the people of
Michigan failed to discover his superiori-
ty to Senator Ferry. Your correspond
ent regrets to see in this course one Of
many evidences that Austin Blair is not
the coming man of Michigan.


His disposition to stand we'll balanced
on the political fence to look over LIB
EKAL shoulder has long been noticed
He is certainly weak brother in the
cause h. has professed to espouse, and
his report is first-cass bid for the enc
my to be taken to his bosom. But he
will find that Michigan is not Connecti-
cut.


CIVIL RIGHTS.


The passage of the Carpenter amend
ment to Summers Civil Rights bill AS a
| preliminary measure TO II vote on amnes-
ty did not suit the imperious Sumner,
and he gave this as reason why he
voted against amnesty. He will perhaps
have further occasion to remember that
however distinguished public servant
may be, his personal wishes should be
subordinate to the will of the people. In
monarchies even, such exhibitions OF
temper are rarely seen and never con-
sidered in good taste, how much less SO
are they under our institutions. The bill