Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-01-20
Our wa.h,ngton Correspondence.

Our washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, a c.. Jan. 16, 1871.
The Senate not being in session on Satur-
day the House was the attraction for those
who care to listen to dull and prosy speeches,
generally read, which are only gotten of for
the benefit of the member who delivers it in
bis own district, said effusion generally being
printed by his organ at home, when his adj
miriug constituents fancy that their member
must have almost raised the roof Of the cham
Der by such display Of eloquence as that
speech indicates when the truth is, there was
probably not two dozen members on the floor
and the galleries quite empty. Such is con-
gressional humbug.
On Saturday Mr.. Armstrong, of Pa. moved
to pay the Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
$10,500 and the associate judges SO, 900 per
annum. This was amended by Mr.. Hale, Of
Maine, making the salaries So. 500 and Sc, 900
respectively. Messrs. Potter, Dawes, Beck.
Bingham, Hoar and Butler favored the iu-
crease on the ground that the highest order of
talent should be secured and that low salaries
was not economy in>any sense. Economists
of the land grabbing school who have voted
time and time again objected to the increase
Of salaries. Mr.. COLLECTOR Benjamin, Of
course. objected, he always does, as did Ella,
Benton and Kelsey, the latter warning his
Radical friends in most dismal whine that
this increase Of salaries was load which
would break down their party. Mr.. Kelsey
must have been asleep for some time past as
he does not appear to be aware that his party
is already broken down and gone up.
The Radical politicians who are locking to
the Indian Bureau IS a source OF power and
plunder, wherein to.quarter meritorious aud
needy Radicals, and ito draw supplies from
for the coming Presidential election, have a
hard fight on hand ere they can control that
nice, soft, easy place for pickings. The In
dian Commissioners in their recent council ED
here have by resolution stated that the Com
missioners Excepting Commissioners Parker)
intend to run the Indian Bureau themselves.
They are very independent and speak plainly
and assert that ii interferred with 10 the dis
charge of the duties imposed upon them by
the President they will at once resign and re-
tire. The President has assured them that he
will assist them 10 whatever they may deem
best tor the practical benefit Of the Indians.
As the Commissioner of Indian affairs, Gen.
Parker, is subordinate to the Board of Com
mssioners and religious communities, he is of
little importance. The answer of General
Parker to the charges of Mr.. Welsh, one of
the Commissioners, will be met by charges
even more plainly expressed than before
Mr.. Welsh will pursue his charges of fraud
aud peculation until an investigation is had
and the "big injun" ousted from position
which the Commissioners think he does not
fill creditably. General Parker has faiIed to
break up the "Indian Ring" Can the Com
missioners do it?
The United States Senate has much Offend
ed Horace Greeley by their action in confirm
ing Admiral Porter. Greeley, it will be re-
Grant, or rather toy1 b Dar Ddfniugo, which
was the same thing. Grant sent for Horace
and in couple of interviews a reconciliation
was effected and Greeley nominated Grant for
the Presidency in 1872. With all the ardor
of a convert aud in the tenderness Of bis heart,
OVERLOOKING with the milk of human kindness,
he is much grieved that the man who malign-
ed bis friend, the President, should be elevated
to high position, and be felt it bis duty to the
man, whom he has nominated for President,
to take the Senate to task. He did not on
this occasion however use cuss words, as usual,
but be pitched into the Senate and Admiral
Porter sharp and gave advice to the President
to beware of Porter. Accordingly his high
mightipess will beware.
| 1t is now we'll known that the President
| had written to Ben Wade offering him the
| position of Commissioner before the resolu-
tons were passed by Congress. A little re-
spect for propriety would have restrained any
one else from such an action. but Grant will
be Grant.
| The President failing to cast an air of sane
tity around his San Domingo scheme by hav-
! ing Bishop Simpson one of the Commissioners,
and of concilatiDg and aattering the Germans
by General Sigeps going as secretary, has
managed to pick out three as rabid negro
lovers as the country affords and, of course,
they will report favorable on annexing San
| Domingo aud her negroes. Ben Wade loves
the negro better than himself, thus carrying
out the 18th compartment as laid down in
the Radical profession Of faith. DR.. Howe is
life long abolitonist, and Andrew T. White
the friend Of the ambrosal Conklng, the Sena-
tprial D. Orsay, is not only rank negrophobia-
list but is anything 10 the hands of Conkling,
by whose influence be was appointed. Mr..
| White had an interview with the President
yesterday. The President told Mr.. White he
was earnestly anxious to have everything
probed to the bottom, and then he grew face
tious and said that be wanted all vilainy ex-
posed. if they could find any, and especial
search made for those lots on SANTANA bay,
said to be marked Grant, Babcock, etc. sm
of opinion that the Senate skinned enough
vilainy without probing to the bottom to find
it. aud exposed it too, and this was done by
his Radical friends who did pot fear to utter
the truth with regard to the most gigantic
fraud ever concocted by jobbers aud swindlers.
The National Council of the Union League
have been called in by the President to devise
ways aud means to enable the Radicals to
carry Pennsylvania in 1872. The Radicals
in that State, which is one all important in a
Presidential contest, are in sadly denoralz-
ed condition, being cut up into factions and
cliques, and the State is anything but safe for
the Radicals from present appearances: Gov.
Geary, who took Grant to task lately for
sending troops into Pennsylvania, headed the
League. It was gloomy and dismal meet
ing.