The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-01
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON CRY, May 22nd, 1870.

"ASnANoAoN Oii1, hay S@AeAs LOW
/ Cyrus w. Field Esq, last week,
delivered an argument before the
committee on public lands and for.
| eign relations of the Senate and
House, in favor Of the proposed
Oceanic Pacific cable. The Presi-
dent, Admiral Porter, General Sher-
man, and many members of both pc
litical parties in both Houses favor
this development of American com
MERGE in the East. The total length
of cable required to connect San
Francisco, Cal, with the Sandwich
Islands, Japan and China will be
9,131 miles. The committee on for
eign relations unanimously favor Civ
ing 100000 year for twenty years
instead Of giving land. There is to
be revival in reconstruction; Vir-
tginia is not truly loil" and the
rightlaws clamor for her reconstruc-
ton, which according to DIR. Ben.
Butler, of the House reconstruction
brigade, can be done by Congress
just as well after State is represent
ed in Congress as before. The cry
from Virginia is that the conserva-
tives are outraging the dearest rights
OF Radicalism by trying to keep the
blacks from registering. If it is de-
cided to proceed in this holy work of
again demonstrating Virginia For
ney's Chronicle will suddenly TEEN
with outrages, murders and ku-klux-
es of every imaginable kind. At
present Bullock, of Georgia, having
no occasion to warm up Senators and
Congressman to their work, his paid
for organ the Chronicle has no ku-
klux outrages to publish and until
Butler has decided whether Georgia,
Tennessee or Virginia is to be dealt
with, Forney will let the'poor ghostly
ku-klux rest in peace, but I opine
they will soon do duty again in the
columns of that most truthful sheet,
the Chronicle, through the inspiration
of the goodly John W. Forney. The
tariff bill, known as the bill of abom-
nations, still occupies the attention
of the House. There has been quite
a feeling of relief experienced by the
members in the change from discus
sing pig iron, Bessemer steel, wire
&C., to that of the duties on agricul-
tural products, fruits &c. The du-
ties ON -four meal made of wheat
rye, oats, corn and buckwheat were
fixed at one per cent. per pound, and
on wheat at 30 cts. o bushel rye,
twenty cents and corn, Is cents
bushel. The debate on oranges. lem
ons &C., gave rise to considerable
humor. Mr.. S. s. Cox, of New York
made few remarks. in most witty
and sarcastic vein, on pea nuts in
which the hits at the protectionisss
were most palpable and telling.
The truth is the Democrats, aided by
a large number of Western Radicals
have killed the bill. Mr.. Wood told
Mr.. Schenck, Chairman of the Com
nAttee of ways-and-means, the God
father of the bill, that it was dead,
and that such is the general impress
sion. The anti-tariff members are
now poking fun at the deformed
monstrosity, which was born in the
committee of ways-and-means and
nursed SO tenderly in the House by
the protectionists under the charge
of the head "nurses" the warlike
Schenck and "pig iron" Kelley, but
it has been so shorn of its fair pro-
portions by such Democratic barba--
rians as Cox, Brooks, Beck, Eldridge,
Voorhees, and others that even its
parents scarce recognize their own
bantling. Its condition must have
been fearful when even Honest +"
John Coyode, who always gets his
seat by contest, and who is famed
as the great biblical quotationist,
and bad speller of this or any pre-
vious Congress, discovered the crit
cal condition of the monster and pro-
nounced it to be in urticulo morris
and said in addition that if they did
not go to work and do something
practical to relieve the condition of
the country good many of them
would not be sent back here again ;
very true John but contest of seats
will make it all right, a contested
seat is as valuable to a Radical Con-
gresham as was ga alibi to Tony
Weller, its sure and certain cure
for defeat. The Louisiana Radicals
who have been after the Presidential