Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-06-02
Our Washington Letter.
wasnrxarox, D. 6. May 2oIh Z

Our Washington Letter.
wAsHrxsrox, D. G. May Goth 20.
The COMMITTEES, investigating The
lcharges against General 90. Howard,
will close their labors in abuot two wesks
Gen Wood, claims thatthe prosecution
have fully proven all of the charges
made, and have unearthed additional
corruption. The report is looked for
with great interest. The Committee or
the District of Columbia, yesterday
agreed to report q bill providing for q
uuifoim system of education in this ex-
p~erimenting ground of Radicalism. In
order to carry out the idea, SO often ex'
pressed by Radical orators, that q miss
fgiYing of the race is necessary to tht
success of their party, in other word:
Yankee dominion, it has been deter
mined that in preiudices, as they tern
them, of the Whites against the negro
can only be dissipated by actual contac
with them and that the most efectua
manner of reaching this conservation j,
20 mix them in the schools which will nj
doubt, be done here preparatory to max
ing q law to this effect, for the who'll
country has already proposed in Con
lgress. The 9aukes free lovers who rule
here and who have arrived at that ad
vanced stage miscegenrtion which i,
poetical in its workings have taken Iheil
text from Pope, slightly altered, and in
tend carrying out the hint therein con
tanned. 1t is as follows:
.sDiuah is q picture of such frightfuI
mien,'
ITO be disgusting needs but 10 be seem
"Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
1--WE FIRST endure, then pity, theI
embrace"
Those at . distance would be Idumb.
found at the laxity of morals displayed
Iby the salt of earth" party here. ]
am well aware how hard it is to believe
that the morals of one party OF men are
better than anothe; bus the Legitimate
results of the teachings of the Eastern
free lovers, crops out in che Iooseness
with which they hold the marriage tie,
aud their talk of afinites and the great
love they bear the. degraded negro who
is practically carved out'hereI much to
the disgust of more persons who hare
what they contemptnonsly call .folG boEz
ideas with regard TO those tres which
alone binds society together respect
purity end virtue. Thr AtheIetic base
ball club Of Philadelphia were beaten
yesterday BY the O~lydseiseefshis sity an
q ;iHely contested game. The olympies
won bys14 to Ii. A great victory as
the Athletics are one of the best clubs
IN the country 1t is stated that Mr..
Davis, chairman Of the appropriation
|Committee, intends shortly to make an
other speech on the appropriations for
the next fiscal year, in which he viii take
an entirely different standpoint from that
he assumed at the brgining of the pres.
eat session. Mr.. Davis made two speech
es, one IN which he attacked the admin
Iistratien as being w~astefally extrayagant,
but he was '.seenp by Grant AMI mani
fpulated TO the extent of his going. to
New Hampshire and d~isavowiug all that
he had previously uttered in the House
ia few weeks previous. When he got
back he was asked come questions BY
the Democratic members and he found
cred about considerably, but was favor.
able 10 his last love, the President and
ECONOMY reform; where he will be fonSd
when he makes his ad sertised speech viii
be hard to say, but no doubt, he has good
reasons for making large appropriations,
being the cheapest in the end, on the
~prlnciple "that a long way around is
the shortest way acrosS." In the House
yesterday the discussion on the Diploma
tic and Consular bill was lively; rich and
animated taking quite q personal turn.
The Democrats wanted to send to Rome
q Minister resident instead f q CoEsuI,
as was the rule some years back. Mr.
Banks. Rad, also desired it and gave
his reasons Mr.. Cox was in favor of
abo!ishing the position of all foreign
ministers as has been proposed in the
British Parhments, but if any were to be
sent u should be sent to Rome, the
mother of art, SCIENCE. and literature. as
well as to Turkey, a heather Mahome-
dan; Polygarnous nation. He also pitch
ed into the RECONSIDERATION and Tree
loyeism of Massachusetts,; Mr.. Davis,
of Aassachusetts, opposed the sending
of q Minister to Rome and very plainly
showed tina the was aetIated by q narrow.
illiberaI, higotEy and fanatieism which is
common to bis section. Mr.. Brooks
ADVOCATED sending Rome 9 Minister res
idcnt, and opposed to the p~uritanicAf
Dawes to cast aside his religions preiu-
dices and act fairly and literally. Mr..
Bingham got off q triale against the
Catholic church, and the Pope's sylla-
bus, in which he bi played considerable
venom. Mr.. Dawes dragged up the,
dead and buried, false, charge that Mr..
Brooks was q K~now-nothing and the
blatherskite Honest John Covode,
who has no better sense than to glory in
being a Know-nothing, added the weight
Of his ignorance to the same charge,
amid the convulsiye Laughter of members
both sides of the House, who think
that Congress should vote Honest"
John q suit of motley and a cap and
bells. Mr.. Voorhees, delivered a most
scathing rebuke to Mr.. Dawes for his
unfareness and for the want of candor
in charging % Mr.. Brooks with being al
after he had heard him
deny it on three different occasions.
His structure on Dawes want of charity,
kindness and fair dealing we're most Sc.
we're. He also alluded to Dawes ances-
tors, who had burned witches, and con-
and the brutal spirit that caused
the sacking and burning ofchurches and
would have burned catholics if they
dared. Nj. Voorhees, also addressed
20 Mr.. Brigham whose ~intoler-
did not surprise him as he had no
- th;1k that he had ono bind