Viontrost gitmotrat A. J. GEERltgoli, Editor. bit4i**ll.oBl3, I'VESDA V, JAN. 28, 1888. Doings in Congress. Partisan legislation still continses to assume more dangerous aspects. The re construction bill, placing Grant aboye the President in power, in gross violation of the Constitution, has not only passed the House, but as is now foreseen, will pass the Senate. When Mr. Wood denounced it as the most infamous act of this most infamons Congress," we felt that ho ut tered'a painful truth. But he was iniUso ken if he thought the lowest depth had beet. reached ; for a baser act, remained to be projected, which has since been agreed upon by a majority of the recon struction committee. It is no less than this That the Supreme Court of the United States shall have no power to con sider sny act which has been done or may be dime under authority of the recon struction acts of Congress! This amounts to a proposition to abolish the Courts en tirely so far as the great issues of the day are concerned; and gives the present& natical majority of a rump Congress, (who do not represent a majority of the voters, as shown by the late elections) an uncon stitutional power which they are baSely using to fasten negro equality and an ab solute despotism upon the country. Senator Thomas of Maryland is kept out of his seat, to the end that. the radi cals may pass their unconstitutional acts over the vetoes of the President I. Y. Brown, a member from Kentucky is excluded from the House, in the same When the reconstruction act was on passage in the House, Mr. Wood moved to insert the following as an appropriate title to the bill. " A bill to absorb the entire authority of the government into the hands of Con gress, by which the powers of the Execu tive, as Commander in Chief of the army and navy, shall be abolished; the power of the Supreme Court to pass upon the validity of the acts of Congress prohibi ted; Congressional usurpation over ten States established by force of arms, and a new form of government created in place of that which formerly existed under the Constitution of the United States, hereby declared to be null and void," How the States will •vote for the next President With the present exclusion of certain States, it. is easy to see how the States will vote for President this year: The electoral college will be made up of 232 rotes, requiring 117 to elect. The follow ing named nine States are certain to go for the Democratic candidate: States. Elec. Votes. Ohio 21 New York 33 Kentucky 11 Maryland 7 Delaware 3 California 5 Pennsylvania 26 New Jersey 7 Connecticut Total .. There are others which are expected to rote with us, and increase the majority. If the Radicals attempt to cast the South ern negro vote at the point of the bayon et, and count it for their candidate, such policy will cause Fitch a farther reaction as still throw almost the entire North against them, and render their defeat all the more certain and overwhelming. So, in either event, the Democracy will win. Does Congress Represent a Majority of the People ? In reviewing the doings in Congress, this week, we assert that the present bopy does not. represent the majority of the people ; and will hereunder present the proof that the radical members only represent a minority in the States which voted in 1867, and are represented. The following table is made up from the Tribune Almanac, and shows the vote in the seventeen States which have voted within the past year : Democratic. Radical. California, 49,905 42,476 Connecticut, ` 47,565 46,578 lowa, 58,543 90,173 Kentucky, 90,225 47,106 Maine, 45,644 57,462 Maryland, 63,602 21,890 Massachusetts, 70,360 98,306 Michigan, 55,865 80,819 Minnesota, 29,543 34,870 NeW Hampshire, 32,657 35,808 New jerse3i,, 67.468 51,114 New. York , 373,029 325,099 Obio, . 240,622 253,532 Pennsylvania 207,746 296,824 Rhode bland, 3,350 7,554 Vermont,. - 11,510 " 31,694 _ _ . _ Wisconsin, 68,873 /076,507 1,554,945 Demmatie majority, 21,562 s i3therlatates represented and not. bold ing general eleatious last year—Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Neva- da, Oregon, would base shown a similar result, and increased the majority in favor of the Union and laws, and against negro equatii y and the party that violates the supreme law to force it upon the people. The masses 130 W more fully understand the wicked plottings of the Radical lead ers, and will hurl them from power and elect a Congress that will truly represent them. To this great end let all good men put forth a united effort, and union, har mony and prosperity may once again be enjoyed by a free and happy people. Geary on the Pardon Power. Gov. Geary attempted in his late mes sage to screen himselffrom censure for his improper use of the pardoning power, by assailing the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions in Philadelphia, for an alleged misuse of the power to reconsider sentences of prisoners. This has brought that, bench "down on him" with crushing force. Judge Allison, a Republican, de fends the bench from Geary's attack, and shows that his allegations were entirely uncalled fur, "unseemly and unwise," and done in the manner it was, amounts to a "usurpation of authority" in seeking thus "to intermeddle with a co-ordinate depart ment of the State;" and he also shows that'Greary not only omitted to mention the facts, but that "the Governor has misstated the case as he knew it, to ex ist." Judge Allison made the defence, by previous appointment, in the presence - of all the Judges, in open Court, to the grand jury and, the public); and most com pletely unhorsed the Snickersville hero, who does not attempt to follow np his calumnious assault, but retreats in a bad ly demoralized condition. Stanton's Unionism. Senator Doolittle tore the veil off the miscreant Stanton's face on Wednesday last in the United States Senate, and clearly showed that. the usurper in the War Office was.at one time in close accord with the "rebels" and " secessionists."— Senator Doolittle said : "When Albert G. Brown withdrew from the Senate to join the rebellion, Ed win M. Stanton met him outside of the door, and urged him to go on in his course, wishing him ' God speed,' and say ing ho was right."- Although publicly stated before, Stan ton has never denied this, and yet he is now one of the puny gods before whom the Radicals fail down and worship! The 11. S. Supreme Court. Not only is every Judge now on that Bench a Northern man, but the majority of the Judges are Republicans, appointed by President Lincoln himself. But Lin coln's old party dare not trust them to de cide-any important question of law, for fear they will sustain the constitutional rights bf the States and people. Pennsylvania Legislature. An amendment to the State Constitu tion' has been offered in the Legislature, to the effect that negroes be made voters, and that such persOns as cannot read shall be disfranchised.. Wo are content to let the , railicals press , ibis issue, and do not fear the result. But we do not think they dare face the music until-after election, they hoping that Congress will be able to force negro suffrage upon the State. In any event a direct vote will not be had on the question before 1869. -119 The Proposed Reduction of General A bill is now before the Rump Con- gress to reduce Gen. Hancock below the military rank necessary to enable him to act as a district commander. By such despicable means the traitors in Congress expect to bring back a reign of terror and military tyranny in. Louisiana and Texas. In regard to this infamous scheme the N. Y. Times (Republican) says : " Congress proposes to degrade Gen. Hancock from the rank of Major General, because his course in the Department of New Orleans does not meet the approba tion of a majerity of that body. General Haudock won his rank by such service to his country in the battlefield as few men ever perform, and such as it is a disgrace for any public man ever to forget. The men who propose to take this action in regard to Gen. Haneoek, are the• very met-Who insist most loudly on the duty of gratitude to soldier; but 'they keep their gratitude to the soldier strictly sub ordinate to their party interests and pat ty zeal. The proposed measure is utter ly unworthy of Congress and discredita ble te the party which brings it forward." Or Judge Woodward has made a speech in Congress upon the. question of paying the Government Bonds in green backs or gold,. which will appear in our next issue. 73,627 —Attorney General Brewster has noti fied the State Senate that the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company has Violated its charter by not finishing the read to Erie. Hancock.' Minority Report on the new " Recon struction" Bill. The undersigned, a minority of the Committee of Reconstruction, so called, submit among others the following as some of their reasons in opposition to the bill 2 tot, That a Congress ex parte is asked (first section) to abrogate and destroy all civil-and State governments in ten States, four of them as follows : Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina an Georgia, being of the original thirteen that star fed the Government and created the Con stitution, while boar others of that thir teen (making eight in all) have past been demonstrating through their popular election that they recognize these State goveruments, and guarantees, as far as the popular voice, their preservation as legal State governments. Self govern tneot and representation are cardinal principles of a republic and ordained in our Federal Constitution, but the section ignores both, and robs ten States of this Union and twelve millions of inhabitants, of all protection from the Judiciary or eoutive branches of the Government, while dooming thew to a miliiary despo tism. 2d. That a Congress, thns representing but a part of the people, and that part now in a minority, even if a lull Congress, in a parliamentary sense of that word, would be but one of three great branches, of this Government, with no right and no power to invalidate or to deny the recog nition of the Executive or Judicial power as asserted in the bid. The Executive or Judiciary has as much right to proclaim or predicate that Congress shall not be recognized as Congress has to enact for the Executive and the Judiciary ; both are as much the Government and the creation of the Constitution as the House or Senate, and the executive, elected by the whole people, better represents the principles of popular government than a Senate—a mere arbiter—the creation of the States. 3d. That the invalidation or malifaction of the executive and Judicial power in States is not only an abolition of the Federal Constitution, but in direct con flict. with the great military acts of 1702 and 1795, and of March 3d, 1807, putting. the army and navy and militia of the Uni ted States in certain cases at the disposal of the President; also in conflict with the fundamental judiciary act of 1789, and al so in conflict with act 4, section 5, of the Constitution, which while guaranteeing to every State a republican form of gov ernment, also guarantees on application of the civil authorities of the States protec tion against domestic violence, such as contemplated in this bill. 4th. That the second and third sections are in utter violation of the Constitution, art. 2, sec. 2, which declares the Presi dent to be Commander in Chief of the Ar mies of the United States, inasmuch as the General of the army is authorized to be Commander in Chief, and to remove by his orders alone, any or all officers of his army of the United States indepen dent of the Constitution and people's elec ted Commander in Chief, and thus inves ting a General of the army with this su preme dictatorship, is as if in solemn mockery set forth to recognize civil gov ernment in form. sth. That the whole act is revolutiona ry and incendiary in arraying Congress, but one branch of the Government against the co ordinate branches, in all repeats the Constitutional equals of Con gress, and in some respects the Constitu tional superiors of Congress, and thereby calculated, if not intended to involve the whole country in commotion and civil strife, the end of which no human eye can foresee. JAMES BEOOES, of New York. JA3sES B. BECK, of Kentucky,