The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-19
Our Washington Letter.

Our Washington Letter.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL NUISANCE REFUSING TO ABATE
| a..M~ ITSELF.
The CAPITAL, March 10th, 1S67.-We are likely
to have our hopes Of an early adjournment most
unceremononsly dashed, by the action Of the
House. As intimated in former letter, tho
strength Of oven the very few members who favor
impeachment grows to be something colossal,
when exercised upon House that has nothing to
do but wait patiently upon the movement Of the
Senate. And thus it is already being proven in
the Representative Chamber, and fear, with o
power OF arrcsting congressional adjournment to
which there will be little avniling opposition.
The movement was made yesterday in the SINH
lltude of resolution by LoaAN-BEN. BuT1ER's
right hand man-to instruct the Speaker to COM
| pete the formation Of Committees for the Fortieth
Congress-, commencing with the appointment Of
the Military Committee. This motion, which wns
| put twice, under different guiaes and which, if
carried, at once places the House upon business
footing, and induces an indefinite prolongation Of
the session, only failed by vote Of ffty-dve to
slxty-fves aud required but the change Of five
votes to carry the proposition. LOGAN himself
avows that it was only thrown out as 50 feeler,n
and that, in approximating 80 nearly to success
| ful consummation he sees the sure promise Of ul-
timately obtaining his end
Tho significant fact, however, which points with
such dubious certainty to heightened sitting of
this extra extraordinary Congress, is in the action
| OF the House Committee on Expenditures, which,
under pretence Of Investigating and reporting
upon certain abuses in the New York Custom
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peachment junto, and with thelatter is connivinE
to protraet the session as to enable the Judiciary
Committee to complete their case against the Ex-
ecutive and present the several counts for his in
dictment aud impeachment.
Ibis coalition WAS formally apparent yesterday
by the adoption Of resolution providing that tho
Committee on Expenditures shall investigate the
conduct OF HENRY a. SMYTHE, Collector of the Port
Of New York, with view to impeaching that officer
should he be found to have been guilty Of bribery
or other crime. This is all TINT appears upon the
surface, but the key to the plot is in private un-
de1standing that Immediately after disposing OF
| the Presidents veto to the Supplementary Recon
struction Bill, which is before the Senate, the
Committee above referred to will report in favor Of
| impeaching S1Y7HE- The House, having author
lied the preparation Of the report cannot well de-
cline to give it immediate action, and so at least
four weeks Of further business is at once made
Especial order" not to be arrested.
And then comes the coup detat Of the impoachers.
The Judiciary Committee, which is putting forth
herculcan efforts toward the preparation Of evi-
dence against the President, have promised, upon
the faith of Nit. BOUTWELL,, of Massachusetts, to
be IN readiness to report by the lsst week in April
By the programme I have already Indicated the
House vii. be made to wait upon the Judiciary,
and thus is opened the prospect Of an endless ses-
| sion, .'-
| THE AMENITIES OF DIPLOMATIC LIFE. ~
| Yesterday, Senior FEouNDo GoH1, the newly ar
rived Spanish Minister, presented to the Presi-
dent, and passed the time Of day" with our Sec
| retary Of State. Mr.. GoNI is dark handsome
| man, about forty years DID, whose diplomatic life
has been passed mostly in South American Repub-
lies. Like al newcomers, he is q stickler for the
pomps and circumstance Of his position, and in
| visiting the Executive mansion yesterday he per-
| sisted IN wearing the full uniform of his order
Notwithstanding the advice to the contrary Of the
! attaches Of his legation, who have been hero long
enough to become Americanizei into contempt for
such mummery. Howbeit, the Minister repaired
to the State Department in sfun cap and feather,
and thence was escorted to the White House by
Secretary SEWARD. OF the subsequent interview
with the Chief Magistracy, there is nothing worth
recounting, as it partook entrely or that school
boy defamation which has been in vogue for the
reception cf foreign representatives in this coun
/ try throughout the last decade
\ It may not be uninterestinc to remark hovavar
that lsABE1IAs agent was not little disconnected
at the outset Of the morning ceremonies to fud
Mr.. SEWARD waiting to receive him, clad n robes
no more decorous than pa-ti-colored dressing
gown, and q very limp collar and or await His sur.
prise was still further heightened when, on step
ping into the dinsy old carriage, which the Depart
ment hires by the year for the use of the Premier
| Ne found seated opposite the doorkeeper of Mr.,
SEwARD's apartments, who was accompanying the
party as c bearer Of the inevitable portfolio Of
State paners. Her Maiesty's Minister had been
startled : ghtly by MIR. sEwARp's rakish morning
costume, but ut being forced to sit uis-n-ris with
messenger OF the Department, and rub his gold
| lace ard decorations against the fimsiness and
seedlness OF sEwAAD's old coat, quite unsettled
his reflections for the remainder Of the day. as I
learn privately from parties intimate with his Le-
cation. ag ~ 5.3;.s 80 s 4
It does seem little cruel that becausa sr.wapn
ls siatternly old fellow-unkempt and fossiGsed
oven when brought to the surface on State occa-
sions-we cannot peremptoriy put stop to such,
outrageous woundings of the serabiities Of every
foreign minister who for the first time comes with
IN our midst Let the t.Bluex Book" hereafter pre-
scribe the clean linen IN which the head of the
State Department shall be arrayed from week to
week, and at the same time, expressly tabcoiuo the
presentment OF that foriorn old morning gown m on
public occasions. as-ts N :-gS. IA
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About one hundred Indians, representing q score
or more OF tribes, are still soiourning in the oty
Their appearance has created squ1te q sensation,
and the barracks in which they are housed al the
expense Of their Great Father is sought and visit
ed with something like the ayidity and zest which
attracted public attention utter tbs Japanese few
years ago. They are frequantly waited upon tby
hosts OF ladies' in quest Of 3 moving
novelty, and are made toperform various app,roxi-
mate gyrations to the war dance Of their native
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| A.few days since one ot the members Of the
Prusaian Legation conceived sths idea:of INVITING
about twenty Of the dusk wretches to sort Of
tea-drinkng, at which hundred or 80 Of fashion,:
able people lent their asaigtence. Both the ladies'
and the Indians were not little startled at the
gorgeousnes Of their respective costumes, and Il
was hard to say which u the twain were the most
highly cotored. @ 3,:s 5.$; VIDEX 4.
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