Show TIlE FAILURES 011 CONGIIESS Ir All ho dlilnt I loll you BO journals I of tbo country coiuliictcil in tho interest r of Republican bosses will now proceed 1 to rise tho clinnucs on the work of Con o r gross just closed mid to split hairs und v inject innuendo into otherwise flenk f knccd arguments all trjlng to show that ii this Congress because it contained a majority ma-jority of Democrat in tho House was r r remiss in its duty to the country Our i Kcjmblicnn contemporary trills out a fee o bio toollo tootle on the Biibiect this morning shotting plainly the whichncHs 1 of tim who and the muchness of the when combined with that multiformity l of the whyfoio undei the promising bend lino Tho 1ailurcH of Con glOss and in tho course of the string of t vapid Innuendo it contains is y found tho wonderful statement Hint the failure of CongretH to paso mora IcKislution wit duo to this lack of good 11 i n c on oti ttr Ky w 1 cieutlvc Tho average Ucpttblicnn reader t will understand this to mean between f the Democrats and the 1rosident which tho truth in i that fIt all tho inicrulous legislation leg-islation which occurred on privato Ion t sion bills the fighters ami obatructors t Hero Uepublicans both in the Senate J and House who aimed to bulldoze the President and failed Of course our f contemporary was forced to tuy Something Some-thing on the subject and this quarrel between be-tween Congress and tbo PresIdent was tho only I point it deemed tenable The magnitude of tho ipurrel can bo noted m I ourcontcmpoiarys telegiaphic columns where it is Pet forth that of f nil the bills for privato pensions vetoed by tho 1iosi dent utid on which the llepubllcans made such a hard llsht agntnut him only I two w ero passed over the veto out 0 of a total of moro than n hundred The t assertion that not 0110 bill was passed which the Nation was looking to see < passed h g another caso of the muchness r of the wbyforo inasmuch as that the same telegraphic columns contain a list of 1101 bills passed among which Ire tho follow ine The Presidential succes I sion bill to increase the navv to help settlers i forfeit of railroad lands to raise the pension of widows and dependents of deceased Boldicru from S to 12 per month adding boos than 0000000 por annum to the Pension roll and n hundred others of more or less national importance and significance It is admitted by our coutemporaiy that a multitude of unimportant laws liavo passed sand yet it is claimed that Congress has dono nothing And so our neighbor jogs alone beating tho bush of facts with tho whip of inuendo until it I stumbles upon the startling piojKHition that the halo Congress overloaded with legislation and some relief f is necessary Tho DEMOCRAT DEMO-CRAT published an editorial calling attention atten-tion to this fact nt tho time Republican Congressmen wero deluging the Committee Commit-tee 011 Invalid Pensions with worthless I claims solely as a cause to breed dissension dissen-sion and create party capital and our contemporary was then as dumb as an oyster How ever w o lire plcised to bo able to agree with our neighbor that relief is needed in that direction but wo cannot agree with its suggestion that special congresses of special interests shall crystaiizo loiblatioti for Congress Con-gress just as u concentrator treats oro for than Hinultcr There it is a small modicum of Intelligence among aCougross which has boasted of many a noble man there and they would mako u pronounced kick against being used as tools for such partisan ends r Tho whole articlo proves an abnormal condition of tho bile III our contemporary and that owing to the continuation of sols titial heat its funny bono is out of line i To our readers commend the recapitulation recapitu-lation of tho work of the last Congress published in our telegraphic columns c and assure them Hut with the drag of tile Republican obstructionists considered consid-ered the Tortyninth Congress compare favorably for its work with any of HB I predecessors |