Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-01-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Feder APpOi m m EMS Contested Elections
Revenue Taxes-The Ta'iR BiIi-The
Gold Panic-Radfcal ExtraVRgance-
Virgtnin-DemOcracy VS.. hadicalIsm,
Sc, Sc. Sc.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 10, 1870.

on account OF lIl-lealth. Ihe Senate mas
confirmed the nomination of q. Wilson
Schaffer to be Governor of Utah. The
Governor of Nebraska, who is here, says he
shall call special meeting of the Legisla-
ture of that State in twenty days to ratify
the Fifteenth Amendment. The disap-
pointed applicants for the Circuit Judge
| ship of the Virginia and Maryland Dis
trict have organized quite an opposition
| to the nomination of Hon. Geo. A. Pearre,
and it still hangs in the Senate The old
worn-out bugaboo, rebel sympathizer, is
strongly urged against him.
The Committee on Contested Elections
yesterday came to the conclusion that the
notorious Van Wyck, Radical, was entitled
to the seat of Geo. W. Greene, Democrat,
who was elected by IA majority of 318 votes
The result would have been the same if
his majority had been 5000. Those Radi-
Gals who have been members of Congress
are cognizant of the Radical deviltry and
the committee, for past services rendered
the party, for personal reasons and be-
cause they know ga thing or two," when
they contest a seat are sure to give it to
them, no matter how the case stands
The whole thing is a farce.
It has been decided by the Commis-
| sioner of Internal Revenue and the Comp
ptroller of the currency that the revenue
tax on salaries continues after the 31st
day of December, 1869, as also does the
tax on dividends and interest paid in
bonds, &C., by railroad companies and cor
| porations.
Next week the tariff bill will be before
the House, and a lively time is anticipated.
| The bill that will be reported from the
committee will be torn into 'snithereens 3"
| before it gets through, SO diverse are the
| interests and so much are they opposed to
the majority of the committees views
OF that body Mr.. Kelley and Mr.. May
nard are the special representatives of the
| iron and coal interests. Mr.. Mccarthy
represents the salt interest, Mr.. Blair the
lumber interest; while the two Democratic
representatives are for free trade. It seems
to be settled that a majority of the House
| will remove the duty entirely from coal,
salt, lumber, hides and blankets and re-
duce it to the minimum on iron, tea, cot
fee, and sugar will be reduced, if the West
ern members can accomplish it. The re-
duction of the duty on coal and iron will
bring forth a wall and an array of figures
from that would-be political economist
and scientist. VIM. d. Kelley, of Penn
sylvania, whose effort in favor of his favo-
rite hobbies, now that the war is over,
generally thins the House and gives those
who, out of courtesy remain, the ear-ache.
| The House Committee who are investi-
eating the cause that led to the gold panic
last September, and also if any officials
were interested in the combination tn en-
formed. are daily hearing testimony in the
matter. Jas. Fisk, Jr., and Jay Gould
will be here to-day and give their testi-
mony. The Presidential brother-in- law,
Abel r. Corbin, who was charged with be-
ing in the ring in connection with officials
high in power in Washington, and who
was subpoenaed to give testimony, is too
sick to come. He was too sick to be seen
just after the bubble burst whereby he was
let down so suddenly last September
Come, Abel, no playing sick. If some
body is to be white-washed, Abel should
come forward with the materials to work
with.
Mr.. Dawes, Radical in the House, de-
livered a speech, in which he denounced
the extravagant estimates for the next fis-
cal year. They are nearly $50, 900, 900
more than the last. He showed very
plainly that there was no attempt at econ
omy, and he exhorted his Radical friends
to stand by their pledge of retrenchment
! and reform, and to vote down the millions
asked for improvements which the public
necessity did not demand. Mr.. Dawes has
certainly grown reckless to thus arraign
his party for a violation of its pledges,
and to corroborate the charges made by
the Democratic press against Rad
icalism. Mr.. Dawes forgets that it is
the policy of his party to control this coun-
try by means of just such jobs as increase
the expenses $50, ,000, 600 in one year with
large deficiency bill for the last year.
| 70 ~uin ho 1o6 hr ~ %bok
} the money is well spent in benefting the
} people of the country, l. e. the Radicals
and the voice so loudly raised for economy,
retrenchment and reform, the battle cry
! of the Radical party at election times, will
} be heard recording it's assent to all the ne
cessity of party demands by the mono
syllable "aye" when it should be s'no" to
: be consistent, but consistency is not an
: adjunct of Radicalism.
The House having passed the bill admit
! ting Virginia into the Union without con-
/ ditions, the bill was taken up in the Sen
ate. At present writing the adoption of
the House bill without conditions is very
r uncertain. If amended and sent back to
} the House Butler, who was absent from
the House when the bill was passed, promi-
ses to tie the State up to all kinds of con-
} ditions and it is to be hoped he may not
have the chance of wreaking his fendish
malignity upon the State of Virginia.
He has been On the floor Of the
Senate prompting Sumner and Drake,
the head devils of Diabolism, men
without souls, honor or humanity.
The debate in the Senate, in which the
Democrats do not participate, is interest
ing to the student OF history as evidencine
the progress we have made in the direc
, ton of the centralized form of Gov
ernment and the IconOclanism displayed
by the unbelieving and irreverent puri
tans and their followers. There was @
I reading out of the party Of those who diff
fered with the ''Maiignants." Mr.. Thayel
denied reading Mr. Nye out of the party.
MIR. Nye said, 1 know what you said
your heart bled for us, you wept over
me" was about to say "weep not for me
but weep for yourself" He continued, "the
plain English of this argument is, we will
hold this State in it's present condition ot
uncertainty until the Radinol .,a,.tzz -