Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-04-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

streets, mourning damage Of about
| 81, 900.
FROM WASHINGTON.
March 80, 1870.
Judge Kelley, Of Pennsylvania,
made, yesterday, very able and
statemanlike speech on the Ku-Kluk
question. Craftsmanship of the
first order builds up; it has positive
ideas and creative. An order of
talent which is not constructive but
destructive is only second-class, no
matter how great may be it's de-
structive intensity. DR.. Martin
Luther was constructive; Voltaire
was destructive. The one built up
powerful and augmenting nation;
the other, by his wit, satire, and
ridicule, destroyed, like conf1agra-
ton, existing institutions, without
substituting others; and this terri
BILE genius Of skepticism still hovers
over Franco, until the nation itself
is about to be dissolved.
Carl Schurz is an embodiment Of
Voltaire-intensely critical and de-
structive. If the Senate was sim
ply a debating school without great
interests impending, we might wit
ness, with satisfaction, the Missouri
Senator's logical agility and gladi-
torial ability. But when we know
that while this logical and didac-
tic contest progresses, hundreds of
loyal men are fleeing for their lives;
and craftsmanship consists in con-
structive action to build up and
protect, not to weaken and destroy.
For this reason Shellebarger,
Stoughton, and Kelley deserve well
Of their country.
The new loan progresses finely.
Forty-ive millions of dollars have
been taken, and the subscriptions
continue steadily and in an increas-
ing ratio. 1t is the opinion Of a
high authority in matters of finance
that the first $25O,OOo,oOo will be
taken in our country within the year,
and that recourse to foreign loan,
always more or less Objectionable,
need not be resprted to. In fact
there is enough surplus capital be-
ing accumulated, which seeks safe
investment, to take up two hundred
millions of dollars Of bonds from
year to year.
1t is estimated that the internal
revenue income will not exceed
$l6O, 600, OOO-thus far it is $780,
OOO, 900. The income tax will
not yield very much this year. The
income from customs has not ma
terially diminished, notwithstand-
ing the reduction of taxation.
The debt statement of the lst
proximo will show Il further rcduc-
ton of the aggregate debt, and a
very large reduction Of the funded
debt.
It is not expected that the gen
eral debate on the Ku-Klux bill, in
the House, will be closed until Tues
day or Wednesday. More than
fifty members desire to speak, but
it is not at all likely that all of them
will be gratified. A number will
no doubt be satisfied with leave to
print for home consumption. Shell
charger has sustained his reputation
as man of great forensic ability in
his opening speech.
Poor France and it's intestine
struggles is exciting the sympathies
of all humanitarians. Paris the
beautiful is about to be despoiled.
An encounter in the streets, with
modern artillery, will cause its de-
struction, in whatever quarter the
contest may be.
1t is hard to tell whether the AS
sembly or the Revolutionary Com
mittce will 60 to the wall, unless
Prussia should interfere, in which
case the contest is not doubtful-no
raw recruits or armed mob can
Withstand it's organized and victo-
rious batallions.
1t has been fully determined upon
to change the head of the Pension
bureau. Commissioner Van Aer-
man has, in his anxiety to serve the
government and protect the pen
sioner, entrenched the receipt of a
pension behind SO many artificial
regulations and legal distinctions
so that they amount virtually to a
denial of the pension itself. The
legal profession, almost unanimous
ly, everywhere, have been dissatis-
fed with the conduct of the office,
and the removal of the Commits
sioner is so earnestly insisted upon
that he will not be allowed to re-
main. The only obstacle thus far
in the way has been the selection
of a proper successor among the
many applicants. REPUBLICAN,.