Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-23
WASHINGTON Letter,
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb 81 Z

WASHINGTON, ID. e. Feb. 81, al.
There has been a most powerful effort
made by the more exttethe Radicals to
induce the President to veto tine bill re-
realing the test-oath. The Southern
Radicals have presented to his Excellen-
cY a terrible condition of affairs, which
is TO result if the test-oath is repealed.
not the least startling among the evils
mentioned is the statement that with the
repeal of the test-oatA Grants chances
for carrying the Southern States in 1872
are more han doubtful ard t1us one
pa ~ after another come to play upon
his weakness for a re election and to
scare him into a veto Of the bill passed.
Others of his pariJ friends however,
warn him that a veto will not only dam
age lis own interests but also injure the
party, as this measure was passed in the
the interest of party in order to coneIli
ate instead of exasperating the people OF
the South as heretofore. But Grenti is
entirely in the hands ofthe MI litary ring
and extreme politicians it is feared that
he will be influenced to vote the bill.
There was a lively time in executive
session yesterday over the nomination
of the Rev. Mr.. Cramer, Grants brother
in-law, VINO was nominated to be Minis
ter to Denmark. Senator Chandler, no
doubt, armed with instructions from the
White House, opened his batteries on
Sumner, who the day previous had re-
marked that the nomination was one to-
tally unfit to be made and that the nomi
nee was utterly worthless. Chandler at
tackled Schurz as well as Sumner and
said he was OF opinion that the delay in
reporting on Mr.. Gamers nomination.
was caused by Summers narrow prcju
J;caS fnUarda tho nraaidanf and fbot hi
action was mean and cowardlv, and thai
it was an outrage, q disgrace, and Il
shame that men of such standing as Sue.-
ner and SchuIz in the Senate should al
low their personal feelings to interfere
with their public duties, and especially
to the injury of a citizen nominated to
office. He should nave added especially
as he is Presidential relative and it
adds one more to the list of 81 of the
Grant family and relatives who now hold
office ; said list being read ia executive
session for the benefit of those Senators
who had never realized the full meaning
of the term %nepotism. Sumner replied
BY denying any personal feeling in the
matter, and said that the delay IN re-
porting was caused by a desire of the
committee to investigate some old charg-
es against Mr.. CrRmer. Among other
things it is charged hat he had engaged
in q row in the public highway. and had
his face slapped without resisting the
same, although he was the aggressor. II
the charge of cowar6ice is brought up by
Mr.. Sumner, because the Presidential
brother -in-law took a slapping without
re~sCnting it, l think it comes with a bad
grace from him The committee after
beating the bully Raging Michigander
on his resolution to bave the committee
discharged intimated that they will re-
port on Cramer's nomination befor'
long. From their present temper it is
not certain that they will decide that the
I slapped" clergyman is fit to repre;e nt
the great American Nation in the aad
of Hamlet Senator Patterson of N. II.
holds the majority vote.
Tie Republican of this city denies
that there are to be my changes in the
Cabinet ; yet / am convinced that such
is the case. Secretary Fish has peel de-
sirous of going out for some time. and ii
is we'll known that Senator Morton will
take his place on the adj jurnment OF The
Indiana Legislature when the Governor
Of that State will appoint his successor.
Senator Merton has been beseeChed by
prominent Radicals in Indiana to re-
main in the Senate in the interest of the
purity. DuI II HOhOE VI OCAhS tCCSL ~
of State, which position will last until
the end of his Scnatorialt term, is too daS-
zling to be put away lightly by the can-
tankerously "loil" hater of the Sou'h.
Grant has yielded to the politici ms to
make his administration strong by GUST
ing those cabinet officers who, In a polit-
ical sense, are of no use to hin and fill
their places with representative men, AID
changes are at present contemplated in
very position except the interior De
partment.
The House Committee which investi-
gated the outrage at West Foint will re-
port on Monday. The outrage was per-
netrated bT the first class and other ca
diets who from their status are of their
party, including cadet Grant who is ore
of the ringleaders. The discipline at
West Point has sadly fallen off, and the
grossest nvoritism is shown to those
whose fathers are high in authority in
do their whole duty in the rattsr, and for
once let US nave no ~smothering of the
truth or a whitewashing Of the offenders,
be they high or low, Presidents son or
the son of a poor soldier.
The Secretary Of the Treasury think,
this n favorable time to put the new
funding loan on the European market,
and he will appoint Judge Richardson,
of Mass, who has been playing two dif-
ferent roles since Boutwelfs advent into
the Treasury that of Judge in Massa
chusetts and Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, his resignation of the laltsr
Office now pending, to act as financial
agent for The Government in Europe. /
no objection, particularly to the
Yankee Judge holding ally one p!acs
or even two at the same time, but / do
object to his being Judge, Assistant Sec
of the Treasury and financial
agent abroad all at once. Its rather
much. BOAZ.