Clearfield Republican

Killed.

The new financial compromise bill, which passed the United States Senate on Thursday last, by a vote of 32 yeas to 23 nays, was defeated in Congress, on Saturday, by yeas 108, nays 146. This is probably the end of finance legislation for this session. Those, therefore, who have been so eagerly looking to Congress for relief must go to work and help themselves. The Philadelphia Press rejoiced at the passage of the bill by the Senate, and continues as follows:

It is given out, as if by authority, that if it passes the House the President will certainly veto it. This seems probable enough, for a man who could consciously sketch such a financial policy as that laid down in the memorandum sent to Mr. Jones, could not wholly approve this compromise measure, with its expansive features and gradual approach to resumption. A large majority of the House are unquestionably favorable to the bill, yet there is a possibility that they may timidly vote against it, rather than face another veto and the consequent danger of party disruption.

If, as now seems probable, the President should decide to veto this bill, and refuse even a measure of relief to the people, the duty of their representatives in Congress is clear. They must rescind their resolution of adjournment and continue in session, and send bill after bill to the President until they secure a sufficient majority to override his veto, or convince him that the purpose of the people is unalterable, and that more is to be gained by heeding their voice than listening to the flattering tale whispered in his ear by a gentleman who represents nothing but a silver mine.

Congress must act. He who hesitates is lost, and so it will be with these Congressmen. The country may suffer for a while, its industries stagnate, and its laborers hover on the brink of starvation, but there are elections, those occasions for affixing the stamp of popular disapproval upon administrative policies, and the ballot, which is the instrument of the people's revenge.

Oft-told tales tire the hearer, particularly when he is familiarized with them by daily experience. There is no necessity for again going over the painful chapter of our last year's history, nor for recounting the wrongs that have been inflicted upon this afflicted people. But the nation sees with regret, if not with indignation, a representative of the money-changers the chief counsellor of the President, and the prominence awarded him in this discussion. It is like adding insult to injury, and it will require more than Christian forbearance to abide it.

The Press does not now "support the government" so vehemently as it did some years ago. Then it was a crime to oppose it, now it's a virtue.