The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-03-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondents Fremont journal.

instances, painstaking observance,
here the 22d. Business places was
closed to considerable extent.
Some of the departments were closed
all day, and others the latter half Of
the day. The numerous temperance
organization, of the city resolved to
unite for a grand temperance de-
monstration in the afternoon. A
number of our prominent business
and moneyed men combined to give
a 18th anniversary ball at the Mas
onic Temple at night. And-so-forth.
The ball is regarded as one of the
grandest affairs of the kind, if not
the grantest, ever achieved in this
city.
I wish 1 could say as much for the
Temperance demonstration. 1t was
in equal degree failure, 1t is said
that there was some misundestand-
ing about the hour or the place at
which it was to be held. BE that as
it may; the large 10th street Con-
gressional church was advertised as
the place; Senator Wilson was to
preside; several names known to
fame were announced to speak;
and the Congressional Temperance
Society, the Washington Temperance
Society, and the innumerable Divis=
ions, &c, Of various secret Temper
ance orders, were all 10 turn out their
multitudes Of members to attend;
but when the hour of assembling ar
rived the church had not been
warmed--and the weather was nip
ping cold, the coldest snap of the
season-aDd people came only TO go
away disappointed, excepting a COM
parative handful. Matters were
somewhat retrieved in the evening
in another church; but l never wit
messed before among Temperance
people, 50 "great cry" followed by
so "little wool" rs this. But they
will make up for it another time.
They "never say die"
Mr.. Rogers, member from Arkan-
sas, stirred to ire dire our Depart
ment ladies by his assertions that
numbers of them obtained their
places through improper relations
with members. 1t was in the course
of the House debate to give the Wo-
men clerks equal pay with men for
equal work. Fhe philosphic mind
ed ladies, however consoled them
selves that the debate, Mr.. Rogers
slander included, Injured t9 their adj
vantage. Mr.. Rogers irated some
men and women into the woman
rights ranks, and other were CONVEX
ted by the confession Of Mr.. Dawes
and other members, that for woman S
sake the salaries had better not be
eoualized, while men had votes and
women not, the former would compel
the creatures Of voters, member of
Congress, and such, to give them the
the PLACES occupied by the ladies,
as soon as the only obstacle t9 their
invasion, the economy of lower sal
cries, was removed, "Let us vote
these said the ladies who had never
said so before. "Being constituents
as we'll as the men, we shall not only
be able to beat them off from our
share of places at equal pay, but we
shall present reason to be respected
by our constituted, why they should
IiiS;2k iS;;:2,k twice before they ;;'2lunteer to
assign disereditable agencies for our
place holding" Some Of the ladies'
commenting on Mr., Rogers clinch-
ing statement that he kncw whereof
he affirmed, thought the lady clerks
or applicants ofhis own recommend
ing we're placed in a truly enyiable
light
Senator Schurz's civil service Dill
provides for the examination of all
candidates for places and throws
competition open equally to males
and females on equal terms, In the
House, too, on Mr.. Dawes, motion
the bill providing pay for the lady
clerks in the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau was amended by providing that
the lady experimenting the female
force be paid $140O instead of 5000,
as now. This last bit Of justice is,
however carefully kept out of the
papers (except the Globe, which is
bound to publish all that occurs)
for fear of publicity raising a hue
and cry against it and defeating ii
in the Senate, or perhaps making the
constituted unpopular with their
constituents. So we creep along.
Well, Mr.. Wittemore, (membel
from S, C. convicted of having sold
one military and one naval cadet
ship) has escaped expulsion from
the House by resigning his seat,
Having confessed to the taking o.
money, he could not hope even with
the helpof Gen. Butler as his counsel
to escape in any other manner, that
he gave the money to the poor OF
his District, iftrue, could not be al
lowed as a legal excuse, however
mqch it might morally extenuatf
the offence.
This has been the Rcst ipterest-
ing matter Of Congressional proceed