Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — The Senate and the House. [ARTICLE]

The Senate and the House.

There is a growing jealousy between the Senate and the House as to their powers, aiu some of these days there wil be serious conflicts in which the House must win. But there is a stronger distrust of the Senate among the people, who are coming to regard it as a selfish club of millionaires, monooolists and corporation lawyers. It is always found on the side of the strong against the weak —of the corporations against the people, and of monopoly against fair trade. It will be treated with political dynamite one of these days when the people get so thoroughly aroused as to set aside immaterial for material questions—Pittsburgh Post, No doubt the debates and movements of the next COll- - will develope the most exciting contentions of a legislative character that have ever been known in Federal affairs. The House is Democratic and is backed by the executive department in its contests for prerogative rights with the Senate, which body as at present constituted is anti-Republican and antiDemocratic. it is controlled by corporation lawyers and millionaires, all under control

of corporations as some kind or another. In a recent test vote on a railroad land grant forfeiture the Senate stood by the railroad corporation by a vote of 32 to 11. The railroads have had their way in the recent Senatorial elections in a way quite charming to them. Among the Senators just elected are Voorhees, Vance and Vest., Democrats, who voted with the eleven above noted against railroad discrimination. On the other hand, the Republicans have elected Evarts in New York, Platt in Connecticut,Cameron in Pennsylvania, Spooner in Wisconsin, Ingalls in Kansas, Jones in Nevada, Teller in Colorado and Stanford in * California, all corporation Senators, and some of them notoriously so, especially Evarts.—Louisville Democrat.