The union Democrat., 1871-03-18
Letter from washington.


with long drawn sigh of relief / cry
Amen; thar tits So. A more vickedly un-
scrupulous body of legislators never met in
council hall. They left great deal of unfin-
ished business and did great deal that
should have been left undone. The next
Congress will have sufficient business to keen
1t In session for two months. In the House
the rule of the odious two-thirds has PASSED
away; the vote in the House after the cleo
tons in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Califor-
MIA and Texas take place will probably be
l42 Radicals and 100 Democrats. The
Democrats are solidly unit, while the Radi-
Gals are discordant, disjointed and dissatis-
fed body, resulting from differences on va
rions questions and especially on the tariff.
Although Speaker Blaine, who has been re-
nominated in caucus, has made no promises,
yet the Western anti-high-tariff members,
who voted for him, are confident that he will
appoint Western man as Chairman Of the
Ways and Means committee. and if he does
not it will cause great dissatisfaction as these
Western Radicals were elected especially on
land members are sure that Dawes of Mass.
will be the man, while the Pennsylvania
members claim that s'Pig Iron Kelley is the
coming man to shape legislation to ''raise the
wind. To conciliate all parties if possible.
some Western man who is owned bv the
Eastern Radicals as was Schenck of Ohio.
will probably be appointed. OF one thing
certain, New England's interests, will be
protected any how.
During the debate on the executive legisla-
tive and judicial appropriation bill in the
House the Illinois ranter, Logan, made fu-
rious attack on thatpar which appropriates
money to build new State Department, out
of Seneca stone. Logan beloved like bull
and fumed and ragged about this job and the
Seneca stone ring. Mr.. Fox asked him
whether the President was not one of the
company. The Radicals took this as an in
suit to General Grant and Logan who began
to perceive that he was putting his foot into
nest of vipers began to back out at the hiss,
and from knowing all about the Job when he
began be closed by pleading ignorance when
questioned as to the members of the Seneca
stone quarry s'ripgn and other matters which
he professed to know ell about. The job ss
Logan called it was not delayed on account
of his believing, and he made last display
previous to his taking his seat in the Senate.
All the steamship subsidies and land grant
railroad schemes went by the board except
the Southern Pacific Railroad which has
been already signed BY the President. 1t is
now positively stated that Henry D. Cooke,
whom the President has appointed Governor
of this Dictrict, has refused to accept the
position, his family being at present in Swift
erland where he purposes joining them, and
also that the negotiation of the New Treasu-
~ bonds will require his personal attention
in Europe. The President has permitted
Mr.. Cooke to name the Governor and be has
suggested the Hon. A. G. Riddle, ex-memher
of Congress, now lawyer here, for the posi-
ton. m
The President in pursuance of the design
in forming Territorial form of Government
out of this negro paradise, where they con-
trolled matters politically, has only appoint
ed one negro to q position among the many
appointments already made, and the result is,
the negroes are assembling nightly and are
entering protests against the carrying out of
the little game which is to deprive them Of
their power. The negroes have found out that
the Radicals in the District have played smart
with them and they now threaten dire ven
geance. They state that "when the cam
paign shall open in 1872 the country will
hear, and President Grant will hear that Ne
gro Suffrage has proved failure in the Dis
trict of Columbia" and they threaten what
they will do in the event of the Radicals ''go-
ing backo on them, and slso that this bill
and the appointments under it are direct
insult to every colored man in the whole
country, and by implication says that the
colored people are not worthy the privilege of
American citizens" The negroes are Just
right and the bill was framed to get rid of
their votes in the District, except the empty
privilege of voting for delegates to the lower
House which will not control anything, and
now that they have found il out, think the
negro elephant has grown to considerable pro-
portions on the hands of Grant and the Ra6i-
Gals of this District.
Senator Sumner now states that the speech
which he has prepared and purposes to de-
liver as soon as his health is fully recovered,
is not TRADE against the Administration and
its San Domingo annexation policy, but on
the subject of general international law. It
seems very strange that such an unfounded
report should get general credence, when it
is we'll known that Sumner invariably gives
out in advance when he intends to speak,
and also the subject. It is hard to disabuse
the minds of the newspaper men here that
the first report as to the attack on Gen.
Grant, is not the true one. The friends of