Abstract

The Week

The article focuses on issues related to politics in the United States. The majority in the U.S. Congress has for good reasons been slow in getting to work upon the business of the session. In the first place, they are divided among themselves as to what the business should be, and whether an early adjournment is desirable or not. Then, as regards the cause of the extra session, the Democratic ascendancy in the House is too feeble to make compromise out of the question; and it is clear that the objectionable riders of the two appropriation bills are only kept from being removed and introduced separately on their own merits, by consideration of the delays which the President might lawfully interpose in vetoing them. The debate over the appointment of the new officers in the Senate of the U.S. Congress was very entertaining. The Democrats were intent on making a clean sweep and made it. Senator William Wallace spoke for them briefly, expressing great concern for the proper dispatch of the Senate business, but adding that they had persons abundantly qualified to fill the vacant places, and was going, to put them in.