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Show The Mutiny Of Congress CONGRESS will meet on Monday next. It will have but three months of life and then the Democrats will, in the new congress, have control of the House, while their power in the senate sen-ate will be materially strengthened. Considering the bitterness between the two sections of the Republicans, Re-publicans, and the natural opposition of the Democrats Dem-ocrats to any measure which the Republicans are liable to propose, we doubt whether much of good will bo accomplished in the short session. The Democrats will be the more determined by the knowledge that alter the 4th of March they will have full control in the lower house. At the same time the Republicans ought to keep in mind that if there is any special legislation which they want to see passed, it will have to be passed (at this session or indefinitely postponed. That fact ought to call up their party loyalty and all their patriotism. Very much will depend upon the president. If he is as non-assertive as he was last winter and spring, not much can be aone. ir lie could take the initiative and in ringing words point out to the Republican majority what, in his judgment, should be done, It would profoundly impress im-press the majority. We hope the tariff commission commis-sion will have ready some amendments to the present law, with the flugres added of the effects of the present law. Such amendments might be accepted without prolonged debate. The Republicans ought to be spurred on by the thought that if anything for at least two years to come is to be done toward beginning of the restoration restor-ation of the merchant marine, it must be at this short session. If nothing is done, what a beautiful beau-tiful spectacle our country will make at the opening open-ing of the Panama canal. Great Britain and the continent will in low but joyous words say: "How generous is the great republic to build for us this magnificent waterway between the two great oceans, when save a betsarly few warships, she has not a ship worth the name to send through it. And the masses of the world's peoples would not know her flag were they to see it." We suspect there will be no one in congress, Republican or Democrat, who will dare to call attention to the destruction of our export trade to the Orient or the cause. We would be glad to see Mr. Aldrich present a financial system that would at least partially rr meet the wants of the country, but do not much expect it. He has been in the interest-gathering groove so long himself that we fear it has become second nature with him. We sometimes think that a great war with some first class power would be good, despite its drain of life and treasure. It would shake our wise men out of the grooves they have been rusting rust-ing in for years. i |