Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-05-19
Our Washington Letter.
CoRREsP oNDENCE OF THE
DEMOCRAT.
WAsEINF, ONeT ClTlD. q.

thoA OuOkC 1SiSho4 OcOh ~
author CT the Infamous docking sys-
tenn" which was in force here until de-
cided illegal by the First Comptroller
Hon R. w Tayler, had resigned his
position and returned to his dsarly be
loved stamp ground in Massachu
sets; but we now find that his resigna
ton has not been accepted and that dur.
ing the past four months he hos been on
leave of absence in order to enact the
role of Judge and hold court in Massa
chusetts, for which he will draw pay both
from the State as Judge aud the Gov
eminent of the country as Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury. Verify
some persons have the kuack Of turning
an honest penny. 1 now see that the
trick of riding two horses at the same
time can be done outside the circus
ring. There were lively times in the
House yesterday over the Senate bill
allowing the Northern Pacific Rail-
road to issue its own bonds and to sc
cure the same by mortgage, and to fur
thersextend the land grant of the com
panv. The Eastern Democrats and Re
fpubiicans spoke and voted against some
of the provisions of the bill while the
Western Democrats and Republicans
we're generally favorable to the bill
After two hours of fllibustering and ev-
erv conceivable kind of parliamentary
strategy the nsideration of the bill was
POSTPONED until Wednesday next. TheI e
is no doubt of its passage The Sub
commit. e of the House Pacific Rail
road, last night agreed to re commend u
Soutl ern Pacific Railroad. on the 32d
parallel from Marshall, Texas to San
Diego on the Pacific coast, and to grant
the franchise to the Southern Gramscon-
Itinental Railroad Company. The de-
tails relating to the route, running ar
rangements. &c, are such as were sug-
Igested by the committee of the Gulf
States, Messrs. Sherrod, Perez, Sheldon
and Clark. The merits of the differ
ent proposed roads were fully discussed
and the great advantages of the 32d
parallel over any other route and the
moderate amount of land asked by the
.Transcontinental Railway Company
and the fact hat they were already con
structing their road through Texas all
combined influenced the above decision
The action of the House committee n
the caucus of-the Representatives from
the Southern States who have united on
this road will have the effect of cru shing
out the unw~arranted opposition of Mr.
Howard, Chairman of Senate committee
on Pacific Railroad whose of1icious and
unfair attempts TO prejudice the claims
of the Transcontinental Railway nave
injured him very much and rebounded
to the interest of the company This
bill will PISS in a short time. From the
action of the Senate on the House reso-
luton to adjourn on the 4th of July
there is but little doubt that they will
agree to the resolution. The Hon. f.
P, Blair, the old war horse of the Jack
soniau time, has addressed General
Spinner, United States Treasurer, a let-
ter on the financial condition. of the
country, md the National Banks as
Herewith. Mr.. Blair is most
are a curse and should be discontinued
andthat the Government should issue it's
money &c, and calls on General
Spinner to use his influence to break
them up. General Spinner, who has
been writing letters lately on the fnan-
cial question and the National Banks
and has shown up the rapacity of the
banks and other evils resulting from the
replies TO Mr.. Blair and says
he has misunderstood him. He
does not think the banks are a curse
and he is not in favor of breaking tFem
up. He only desires TO make our bonds
uniform, and 20 have banks aid the Gov
arm mt ond Tho nnnnla np1 nn2 hnnnfpnl
a~ntagonistic to them. He feels sure that
a majority of the banks will do so, and
it only now remains tor Congress TO act
wonder that Mr.. Blair was under the
impression that General Spinner tho't
the banks a curse as he had exposed
their grasping tendencies rs specializing
machines, giving the people no assist
ance and using their funds for their own
purposes, and foreshadowing
what they would probably do in a GER
tain case thus throwing upon the Gov
arnment the redemption of their circu-
which would greatly embarrass
he Treasury Department and lastly tell
.ng the banks that the people would
.reat them as they did the Old United
Bank if they persisted in their
attempts to ride upon the peoples
rights. General Spinner was. looking
his old Democratic spectacles
When he warned the banks and now hay
ing put on his Radical glasses he sees
in a different light and the banks
are not a curse. The General means
they would not be a curse il properly ad
but from a Radical stand
they are a curse as they are now
managed by his own showing. And he
the banks are not now disposed
to be opposed to the people and the
They are a load on the
people and, of course, not opposed to
the administration of that party who
are their best friends. When the peo-I
pie rise against the National Banks, as
will one day, they will have no diff
in knowing which political party
is responsible for them. The outrage
perpetrated by Gen. Terry in Georgia in
arresting at midnight, without knowledge
of the charge. a citizen of Warrenton,
Ga, named E. II. Martin and imprison-
ing him and then issuing an order not
to obey the witt of habeas corpus which
order was carried out, thus ~suspendingI
the writ of habeas corpus and virtually
declaring martial law by examining
the prisoner before military officers. I'll
appears the charge is that of murder
which took place a year ago and the
murdered man refused TO prosecute
deeming Martin not guilty of the crime.
1t is rumored that other arrests are to
follow this and the greatest alarm pre-
yaiIs A letter received here states that