Show jhb CONGRESS the fifty first congles Con gres has left anch a record as has never been made by any previous congress but it is a record that does it no credit the republicans have usurped the most arrogant sway and have put to naught rulea of congress of long established usage during this term while some of their enactments are legislative atrocities speaker began early to put himself up a an american czar by usurping powers never intended for a speaker of the house of representatives ta tives he compelled members to answer to roll call at the passage of some measure whether such a member desired to vote or not and though tho rules of the house distinctly say that no measure can be passed without a quorum present always managed to make a quorum he has been the greatest autocrat america has ever seen and has certainly ruled with a vengeance he became go bold that bot a few days ago he refused to sign a bill that had passed the house thereby taking upon himself the very functions of a chief executive of the united states as he hoped by bis re fasal to sign the bill to be able thereby to defeat the measure might makes right hag been the motto of the dominant party at the capital and speaker REEDS rule endorsed by the republican party is a fair sample of the spirit that has pervaded all their acts of government though they pledged themselves that they would ease the burden of taxation endured by the people through high tariff and the silver we find their attempts proving almost futile the silver has scarcely been in force two and we now find that wall street goodites gold ites have no trouble of governing the silver market as heretofore and before the present year is ended wo may again experience the old depression in the sale of silver the tariff law is already being felt for the worse in the trade circles of america it is a measure framed with a view to injuring aone of the moDO pHea and rich syndicates of the country for such are the main pillars of the go p on the other hand it will work even a greater hardship on the agricultural portion of the community than before any attempt was made at the reduction of the tariff these two laws together with poor excuse of an enactment striking at trusts are the result of the legislative work of the fifty first congress innumerable appropriations have been made however andi the treasury has been rudely depleted of its millions surplus left by the democrats when they went out of office A great many monstrous measure were introduced and but for the lad of time would have been passed chief among was the federal election bill a well calculated to precipitate another war on the nation had it become law on a seallor scale but still not less dastardly in principle was the bill introduced trod to disfranchise all cormons mormons on account of their religious belief both of these ara fair esam of what they had in their hearts to do but thanks be to god that their eail purposes were not accomplished tha next hope to find with an entirely different complexity from the first which will inre a better government for the people of I 1 tho united states |