Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-24
Another Fight Among the RAIDS
at Washington.
Double, double, toll and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

G4AN warm AaAR4 NAAAAANAA N4N&A--
The radical party IS fast going to
pieces, and the old witches upon
brOOm>sticks haunt its poor, sin,laden
leaders in the cross roads aud by
ways; they commence TO look hag>
gard and worn; misery keeps snawing
npon their vitals, and satan is after
them with his hot pokee to give them
their reward. Il Is all bubble and
trouble with them now, and each day
seems to give birth to new discontents.
The radical party. which fattened up
the ill.gotten spoils of the war, IS
FAST crumbling to pieces, and Grant
i the monster upon lis back to ride it
10 the devil. The history Of Grants
administration is one of disgracsiul
wranglings and quarrels among its
leaders, who have been gouging out
each Others eyes and pulling each 9th
ers hair on account of the spoils A
pretty page does this furnish in the
proud historv Of the United States
Such an exhibition Of corruption. We
uality, perjury, official plundering aud
decentralization in high places, cannot
be summed up in all the past history
uf our country. from Washington
down 10 Buchanan, as is found under
the administration of Grant
4 Washington correspondent of
10th inst, chronicles a further un-
pleasantness, rs follows:
Washington, March 16.-The irre>
pressible conflict in the Republican
party, inaugurated in the Senate last
week in the sacrifice of Senator Sum-
ner, was developed in the House to-
day in one Of the most extraordinary
aud remarkable scenes ever enacted IN
the hall Of Representatives, which IL
Iustrated even more forcibly than did
- ,.sccapitation of Mr. Sumner the
disintegration and demOralizrtion go
Ing on in the Radical ranks. The
bolt of General Butler frSm the action
ol his party friends yesterday. as set
forth at length in his letter addressed
to the Republican members Of Con-
gress, and published in the main in to-
days World, was the cause of all this
commotion. II brought the Speaker
down from his chair on to the
floor Of the House and compelled BIN
to defend himself, while four other Re
publican members appointed with
Butler got up in their seats, and, after
denouncing the policy agreed on yes
terday, declined to serve on the cons
nittee and withdrew. This boiling
letter was not only published in the
leadiug Republican paper here, but
was printed by Butler in circular form
and laid on the desk Of every Republic
can Senator aud member. 1t is about
the boldest step of the many bold ones
which the redoubtable member from
Essex had undertaken, while the feel
ing Of satisfaction of Buffers friends
and the indignation of his Republican
enemies were wrought TO the highest
pitch. 1t was no wonder, then, that
for nearly two hours the Republican
side INDUCED in elimination and re-
elimination, in charges Of corruption
and trickery, Of falsehood and sland.
and invective and denunciation almost
unparalleled in the bitter contests of
political opponents The Democratic
side focked into the aisles and enjoyed
the fight with as keen a relish as if it
we're another New Hampshire tri-
umph while the crowded galleries tes-
tiled their interest by palpable APP
plause over Speaker Blaine's scathing
review Of Butler, no less than at the
furious points made by the latter on
the Speaker. But the misrepresenta-
ton and falsehood which the leading
Republicans fastened on Buffers let.
ter were almost the marvel of every
one and even Butler himself, driven
to the wall by counter-exposures, ad-
mitted that the occasion and the scene
that filled it were disgraceful to the
party, the House, and the country.
Judge Kelley first led off in a denial
of Buffers first point, that the high
tariff men aud the Democrats struck
hands to authorize the committee on
yesterday. Butler said he certainly
understood yesterday that the high
tariff men were anxious to adjourn,
and that they wanted to prevent all
the other legislation. Peters then in
quired Of Butler whether a majority
of the Republicans present had not
voted for the resolution as it passed (?
Butler replied that it was sprung upon