Show individualsPORTNINTHCONGRESS FORTYNINTH CONGRESS The Congress which assembles two weeks from next Monday will be one of more than usual interest It will be I important in a political as well as in a legislative sense For the first time in a quarter of a century the legislative T branch of the republic will find the executive branch of the government Democratic The Democratic adminis tration will be faced by a Republican Senate while the House of Representatives Representa-tives will be Democratic Politically the session will be ina party sense important outlining and fixing the policy of the administration with reference I refer-ence to its own party and to the country Cleveland has been President nearly nine months and today very I little is known concerning his policy j nationally considered and nobody t knows as yet whether he is going to be a Democrat Republican or Mugwump in the matter of V the exercise of his s t party influence He will now hate to V 1 define his position and take sides because be-cause one or another of the political factons will force him to it It will V also be interesting to watch the course of the Senate with reference refer-ence to Mr Clevelands appointments If it wants to the Senate can greatly I harrass and annoy the administration by refusing to confirm the nominations Many of these nominations should without doubt be rejected for the appointees ap-pointees are unworthy and incompetent incompe-tent if the Senate shall refuse to confirm con-firm purely on the ground of the unfitness unfit-ness of the candidate for the place it will do good service to the country if Ion i I-on the other hand rejections should be s made on political grounds as some predict pre-dict will be the case a serious conflict would arise and the administration be Injuriously hampered Such a course might result in good eventually in that It would expose a weak and inconsistent F feature of our governmental system and thus bring a remedy The execu tve patronage is entirely too great the appointing power vested in the President g Presi-dent extending beyond all reason in a s republic where the people are presumed pre-sumed to say who shall fill the offices Iflhe appointive offices were reduced to onetenth their present number it would prove beneficial to the country In nine cases out of ten the man who is I elected is preferable to the one who is appointed and his service is much more satisfactory to the people Aimoug tne most important matters to come before Congress this winter are the tariff the silver and bankruptcy laws A hard fight will be made against I j he continuance of the coinage of silver dollars < < as required by the Bland act a and unfortunately for the great silver mining region of the west the outlook is gloomy for silver It is next to certain cer-tain that the law will be changed in some way as the administration and eastern Republicans and Democrats are arraigned against the silver dollar as is the great money interest of the country Any change of the law will be an injury to the silver interests The chief struggle strug-gle of the session will undoubtedly be r over the tariflr and some goodresults may be expected to follow Utah as a 4 matter of course will come in for a share of the deliberations and discussions i discus-sions TJie session promises to be long and lull of interest |