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Show THE Ait MY APPSOPfilATIOW. The special object of the extra session ses-sion of congress hag been accomplished. accom-plished. The army appropriation, bill was passed yesterday, the senate receding re-ceding from its amendments in which the house refused to concur, and now ; the bill goes to the president for his approval. The bill is substantially the same as was originally passed by the house, the only important amendment amend-ment by the senate being that raising the strength of the army from 20,000 to 25,000 men. The debate on the bill took wide scope, and brought out some interesting opinions in reference to the use to be made of the troops. These expressions of opinion show in a great degree the popular feeling on the subject. The general sentiment seemed to be in favor of a reduction 't of the army, some arguing for cutting it down to 12,000. Few would object to an army of sufficient strength for all of its legitimate purposes; but the great majority of the people are op- ' poaed to this power being used outside of its proper sphere. They want no j more votina through crossed bayonets; no more federal troops taking charge ol the polls and conducting elections; no more seizures of state houses and guarding of usurpers by the military; in fact no more interference by the ' army in politics or internal afiairs of a Btate. If an army of 100,000 moa were necessary to protect the frontier settlers the only use of an army existing to-day we believe every democrat ia congress con-gress would vote the money to pay it. It waB tho improper use of troops by the last administration which defeated the appropriation bill in the 44th congress and made this extra session necessary. Tho people's representatives representa-tives were delermiued, if possible, to prevent a further abuse of power in that respect, aod failing in their efJorts, refused to provide the requirod money. Had the troops not been withdrawn from the southern states and the governments of Louisiana and South Carolina given back to the people, another rofusal to appropriate money would doubtless have been the result. There ib a strong feeling throughout through-out the country against the use of federal troopB to quell rots and disturbances dis-turbances in states from local causes. Congressman Blaokburn of Kentucky expressed this sentiment when he said during the discussion of the bill : "The popular method of preventing such disorders as disgraced the coun try last summer is not to be found in an increase of the army, or in supplying sup-plying more cannister and grape to shoot down impoverished laborers of the land who dare to complain of the robberies of which they are victims, by reason of the persistent olass legislation of the last fifteen years." j The old doctrine of states looking! after their internal afhirs is being revived re-vived with the coming up of the democratic party, and it is to be hoped will be pursued until the re-1 re-1 public destroying policy of the admin istratiou for tho last fifteen years, of assuming and exorcising all power, shall have been lost sight of. The army now can be recruited to 3,000 men, at which strength it may be kept. This force ia ample. The Indian disturbances are probably at an end ; but, if not, there ought to bo enough troops to prevent any more serious trouble from theredskius. The chief business of the army, apparently, will bo the protection of the Mexican frontier, and the bill directs that a efficient number for that purpose be k - stationed along the Rio Grande. The army, or that portion of it which has been in the west the past eeasou, has a hard time of it. The labors of men and officers havo been arduous; they have been required to face terrible dangers, and all will be glad that they are about to receive the money coQipcnsaiioa due thorn. One' of the closing scenes in the Turco-Russian war was enacted on' Sunday, when the Russians stormed Kara, and after a desperate fight, occupied oc-cupied that important city. Kara was said to be a stronghold that could not be carried by assault, and so long aa the garrison had anything left to sustain life it could hold out against more force. That was the course things took in 1855, when the fortifications were not as Btrong as they are now, and when the garrison was not numerous. It took several months to reduce the place by investment invest-ment and starvation, and in a single attack on one of the outworks in the fall of the year the Eussian assaulting party loat 6,000 men. Now, impregnable impreg-nable as the city was thought to be, 15,000 troops storm and take it, killing kill-ing many thousand lurks. Little more is left for tbe victorious Muscovite Musco-vite to accomplish. Turkey is crushed and can withstand the czar's forces but a short time longer. Any hour may bring the news of Turkey suing for peace, which she will have to accept on any terms that the czar : sees fit to grant. |