Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-24
POLITICAL.
Radical Differences DIsintegratIOn PrOba'
ble..-DemOeratic Reorganization.
FROM the Baltimore eazette

From the Baltimore Gazette
WASHINGTON, May Is, 1870.-Radi-
cal leaders in Congress can no longer
conceal their fundamental differences
of opinion, nor can they longer sup
press opposition on the part of distin-
guished members of their own party
to this profigate Administration.
The current debates in the Senate
upon the bill to carry into effect the
Fifteenth Amendment, and in the
House upon the Naval Appropriation
bill, show an irreconcilability of views
utterly subversive of the integrity of
the present dominant organization.
Mr.. Ferry's speech yesterday is but
"tarts and cheese cakes" to what may
be expected from other eminent men
heretofore classed as prominent Re
publicans. Wait till Summers bill to
force negro social equality comes up;
in the meantime the process of "read-
ing out of the party will go on. Mr..
Ferry is the fifth Republican Senator
formally repudiated by such men as
Sumner, Morton and Drake, who are
each struggling for the leadership of
the rotten end of a party rotten to the
core, and shortly to be riven into frag-
ments.
Some facts were stated yesterday
and to-day in the House deserving of
public attention, especially that of
taxpayers, and especially that
of b~ondholders. l quote from the re-
marks of Republicans alone, and con-
fine myself to extravaganza in the
Navy Department, although mem
beers heretofore counted as trustworthy
| Republicans did not Seruple to charge
! corruption and waste to every De-
partment of the Government. MI.
Dawes, Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations, and, therefore,
posted on all such matters, said that
"the United States navy, which con
sisted of only $500 men, cost $28,205,-
GIL; while the estimate of the British
navy last year, which consisted of 3d.
600 men, vas only $40, O,0OO. Every
vessel in the United States navy cost
an average, annually, of Sl38, 944, and
in the British navy $4,000. Every
ton in the tonnage of the United
States navy cost SOL 10 per annum,
and in the British navy so go. To
keep the American navy ahoat-to
keep it in repair-cost 5000 a
man, while the British navy
cast but $50 a man to keep
it up to the standard. The United
| States Navy Department had esti-
mated for Sc, 975, 900 for repairs, while
the estimate of the British navy for
the year ending March 81, 1870, for
new machinery and repairs, was but
So, 200, 749." And following up the
same line of remarks, Mr.. Logan,
chairman of the Military Committee,
said that "there were in the United
| States navy 1909 officers and but $500
men-one officer to every six men,
and a fraction over, The pay of the
navy was a little I'VE $1,000 900, and
of that over S., 0O0,0 600 was paid to the
officers. There were on the active list
of the navy 7d9 officers at sea, and on
shore $50. Why should this swarm
of officers he Kept without aay neces-
sity for them?n And furtA Ter, that
"there were now in the Treasury De
partment sixteen hundred employees
more than were authorized by law,
and six hundred more than were EN-
| plOyed last year." Such is this EecOn-
omicaF' and 'hOnest'' administra-
ton!
We are upon the eve of stirring
events in the way of lovers quar-
rels." L firmly believe that these
people cannot hold together much
longer. There is so much to tell-and
men are getting afraid of being super.
seded! When all is told, how the
people will stand aghast!
WASHINGTON, May 10, 1870.-The
most cheering accounts of reactions in
public sentiment are daily received by
Democratic members from all parts oil
the great Northwest. These, together
with the defeat of the Radicals in Con.
necticut, and the more recent over.
whelming Democratic triumph in the
State of New York, have greatly
elated the friends of constitutional re.
form here, and it is confidently ex-
pected that a vigorous effort will be
made shortly to organize, upon strict
ly DemOcratic-C Conservative prinei-
pies, a great national party, destined
to bury forever the rotten organiza-
ton now in power. l learn that q
caucus of Democratic members will
soon be convened, having in view this
purpose. Sambo's appearance at the
polls in the Northern States is pro-
ducing its natural effect. A letter re-
ceived this morning by a New York
member states that where one negro
voted for the Radical ticket, that at
least ten white men forsOok the sink
ing cause, and mainly for that reason.
The skies are bright indeed.