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Show THE WORK BEFORE CONGRESS- Duly live Luii'licl an J ttfen-ry-livc bilLj were mliuduued in Ixjili houses ul' coui'ros.H on Monday. WIk'Q the ,si.-iou commenced thore wore nearly ciyht hundred bilk um the calendar, making more i Iian thirteen hundred measures which thoir authors and jnenils Iiojh; to have acted upon before the hummer adjournment ! Hie i largest number of these are probably j private bills, apiihcalionH lor pensions aod clnims oi' variotw kinds, besides ih-i railroad, canal, and dteam.ihip jobs and the land -g rabbi nj Hchemeg which jearly increase in number. Tho varied eitent of congressional leghda-tiou leghda-tiou and its assumption ol' many of ihe powers that onco wero regarded strictly &a Stale prerogatives bring every year the politicians to WashmK-ton, WashmK-ton, and there is no apccte3 of legislation legisla-tion that congress in not asLcd and expected to indulge in. ltefore the close of tho session another thousand of bills will be added to those already presented. No one supposes that one-tenth of ilicao measures will bo even considered in committee, much less that they will over bo reported in either house. They have all been referred to the committees, where the majority of them will He until tho congress adjourns. ad-journs. Many others will be lost in ono or tho other body, and perhaps two or threo hundred may become laws. Wo do not propose to overhaul this vast batch of incipient legislation; bat may merely mention Moroe of the prominent measures which are likely to engross the attention of confess. Jn regard to foreign alfnirs, wo do not look i or any decided action from this congress. Buu Domingo annexation annexa-tion might be achieved, if tho Republican party had not b--oonie frightened in relt-ronik- fo the opposition manifested by Sumner and the New Koland interest generally. This annexation project i about the only American idea that has been evolved at Wii-diingtou during dur-ing the proscnt administration, and for the benelit of Sumner's pet negro re public at llayti, Urant will probably have to give it the go-by. The Democratic Demo-cratic congressmen, with their usual recent stupidity played second fiddle to Sumner in opposing the annexation of San Domingo, and lost the opportunity opportu-nity of making a good record tor their parly. The same short-sighted policy is likely to prevail in reference to Cuba and Mexico; tho Republican organization organiza-tion cannot sympathize with the manifest mani-fest destiny idea; and Urant is handicapped handi-capped by his own expressed determination determin-ation that tho executive of the United States should have no policy. As to the treaty of Washington it is yet questionable whether that will prove a source of great popularity to ils authors or tho reverse. It will not prob ably como up for review during this session oC congress. The tariff and internal revenue kjs-tcins kjs-tcins will probably be overhauled; the pending election demands it; and this is the best guarantee that something of a popular character will bo done. The abolition of tho income tax will doubtless bo achieved, as this is a pet Republican measure; tho tax is also anti-American and inquisitorial; but practically it ia but just while nearly everything that the poor man eats, drinks or wears is heavily taxed, through an unequal tariff system, that the wealthy should pay a small per cent-ago cent-ago of their income to the government. If congress would do equal and exact justice to all tho people, they would abolish the swindling tariff and apportion appor-tion tho expenses of the federal government gov-ernment directly among the several States. Then wc should comedown to bed rock, and bring about a direct ac- j couutability of tho representatives to the people who pay the taxes. But this great reform will have to await ; the incoming of the new national party j of the no-distant future. In that day j it will be found thai the eopc of eon- ; grc-sional legislaliun will have been vastly curtailed, and that the Spates will have returned to their original position po-sition in the government prescribed by the constitution. With a singular diu gaid of consistency consist-ency the 1'rcsidont has made a sort oj" recommendation to congress of a measure meas-ure of general amnesty, while yet engaged en-gaged in a military expedition to subdue sub-due the 'alleged kukluxism in portions por-tions of the south, and it is alleged that other localities will require similar treatment. As the movements of the administration in the south arc believed be-lieved to be largely governed by political po-litical neecsaiiy, the most reasonable view is that nothing will be done at this acssiou of congress. Without the military arm to be wielded at command, com-mand, in that ,-cction, very few of the southern States would give their votes for Grant. ' Something may be done with Utah if it be the pleasure of the politicians j for whom she has been so long a foot- ; ball. If the licpublicati members or congress were gifted wilh even ordinary i foresight, they would hasten to get this vexed question off their hands at any! cost. They might make quite a feature fea-ture of the admission of Utah as a i State in their next campaign, as ao-; other of the results of their "magnifi- j cent and masterly statesmanship." ! This will be perhaps the key-uote of'i the canvass, for if the Republicans do uot aeeept the responsibility, the oppo- ' :-ttioo party should be quick to catch up the issue and turn it to popular account, ! for it is evident to our mini that in a ; vjry -bort tune all the political portic3 1 will lo as auxious to bring Utah into the L'uiou a; they have heretofore been j to keep her out. Au immcDse mass of --pe-jiul legislation legisla-tion will come before congress, every Stale and locality noiug in Ibrve to Washington to receive their share of the benetits likely :o be distributed by the representative.- of the people. These lavish gilts and subsidies are beginning be-ginning to attract wide attention, and it is to be hoped that there may be some check imposed upon a public generosity gen-erosity which, if continued, would soon iaipoveri-di Uncle Sam entirelv. It' senator Simmer -hall KUececd in u.ii'-iing a nrjiru tiif .iisl of a whit,! iu:in cveiywI.Oiv, vr -imtl (jkC paiii to inform Mir ji'.iden el' the I act. It loiiit lm welt if this veteran crumbier were appointed irr-in-i n.-jro cumuli--" stoti'T, with full powers to carry out his equalizing .-elit-iu- Hut We do not think the K.-publtran. parly are quite reu ly to endorse his p!atlirm. Tin 1 'alifiiriiian will d.uiand seme . legislation prohibiting Chinese cmigra-. cmigra-. tiou; but this raee w becoming quite a favurite with New Kngland and other ' oalem capitalists, us a labor -cheupen-' ing expedient, and any such measure' would be intliieniially oppov-d, and not likely to succeed. We look for some negative beneficial : legislation from the present congress, simply because the presidential election will render it necessary that the Republican Repub-lican party fell all have a fair record lor the pupular vote. |