The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence BoLIvAR BULLETIN.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March ).

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This difference ofopinion will make no differ
ence in the result, as the majority will be
strong enough to carry the bill as it comes
from the committee
Revels, the negro Senator, has initiated
Brother Sumner, inasmuch, he has given
orders to the doorkeepers not to bring him
any visitors cards while in session, as he |
does not wish to be disturbed in the con-
sideration of public business.
General Butler, as President of the |
Soldiers and Sailors Asylum, drew two
hundred thousand dollars to-day from the
fund set apart in the Treasury for the sane.
Oh no, you don't catch Benny in any small
pool like selling cadetships alta few hundred
dollars apiece He has a soul above it.
But show up 'big thing" and Dr.. Ben.
Buffers hooks" cramp themselves as natur-
ally as flies gather around a molasscs barrel.
The committee on the cadetship business
appear to have come to halt They are
not permitted to 90 back to any previous
Congress to show up venal ones, and
| opine we have cot through with the ezpuls-
| ions as some folks are getting scared, and
those Radicals whose cases are before the
committee, except Butler, of Tennessee,
will be permitted to crawl cut. Honest
John Covode, Of Pennsylvania, who was
charged with selling his cadetship, at the
eleventh hour comes before the committee.
! his honest face beaming with virtuous indig.
nation and demands that the investigation
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Things were fixed, somebody had evidently
been seen. lie was allowed 20 select sub
committee of two, who are to proceed to
Philadelphia and examine Bill Millward, a
former member of Congress, who is too sick
to travel-and to whom Honest" John gave
the cadetahip, for nothing of course, and the
Honorable Bill sold it for $1,000, to a party
who was not resident Of Honest" Johns
district, and all the blame falls on the
| Honorable Bill and Honest" John is purer
and whittier than before if possible The
committee will report that there is not the
slightest evidence to i'm plicate General
Munger IN any such transaction as selling
his cadetship as the Radicals charged, and
fondIy hoped they could prove All they
have accomplished is to have brought an
honest mans name in connection with a vile
crew of mercenary Radical politicians. So
far there has been no evidence to point to
a Democrat in the cadetship bribery cor
ruption.
Ulysses relations are constantly keeping
him in hot water Brother-in law Casey,
Collector Of the Port of New Orleans, who
was here a few weeks ago, to settle the
middle which it seems he had brought
about by retaining Copperheads in Office
under him, as charged by the Radicals of
New Orleans, is again in trouble, and this
time Mr. Boutwell,, who for family reasons,
let him off easily, is disposed to proceed
firmly in the matter Mr. COLLECTOR Casey
had better look sharp to his reserves, or he
will be fanked by the willy Secretary, and
New Orleans will not be the plum it might
be under happier auspices.
The bill introduced in the House for an
airline railroad from Washington to New
York, is an old trick that has been defeated
before. The Senate Committee on Com
merce, held that the Congress had no power
under the Constitution to grant any such
right. The question belongs exclusively to
the States, and Mr.. Swans amendment to
the bill, which was voted down
by party vote, chat the
road shall not be built until the sanction of
the States through which it is to pass has
been first obtained" was the application of
the long and well recognized principle that
the right over the question belongs entirely
to the States. This bill, at this time, is in
tended as q precedent in order that the
Radicals can PASS a bill taking the railroads
of the country from the companies, and vest
the control of them in Congress-. e. the
Radical party, by which the immense power
and patronage will be used for party ends.
This has already been considered in caucus
by the leaders. I have no faith in either
branch of Congress, but believe this daring
violation OF the Constitutional rights of the
States will be stayed in the Senate.
The impartial reader who will examine
the whitewashing majority report of the
com nittee who screened parties high in
authority, from the charges made against
them, in being interested in the gold
swindle in New York, last Septic mber, viii
only have to glance over the minority report
made by Mr.. S. S. Cox, of New York, and
Mr.. Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky, to dis
cover at once the barefaced attempts to cover
up the tracks of the guilty ones. The
minority report is concise, clear, and truth.
full, no effort made to throw suspicion upon
any, only following up the chain of evidence,
most evasive, unsatisfactory and conflicting