The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-03
WASHINGTON LETTER,

Washington, ID. G., Feb. 81, 1879.
TIE SALE OF ARMS TO FRANCE RESOLUTION
is the pretcxt for the reform republicans
and the adherents of the house Of Grant to
wage war--unrelcnting war--aganst each
other. The senate JESTER Jim Nyc, OF
Nevada, was advertised as the star attrac-
ton at the senate matinee yesterday The
galleries and door of the senate chamber
wee crowded with the fashion, .intelli-
gence, beauty and wit of Washington, who
were gathered together in anticipation ola
rich treat of humor and fun, for if Nye is
not funny he is nothing. The crowd was
disappointed, for with the exception of
some doggeral verses the end each verse
being Anything to beat Grant, Nye
was, for a low comedian, dull, stale, fiat
and Improbable; his whole speech being
WORKOUT, threadbare eulogy Of Grant and
the republican party. When he had fin
ished, SCI duh was his, wit and stale his |
pluti,udes, that not u single one of the /
''clique ventured TO congratulate him on |
his two hours effort. Nye loves the in
cense of praise, and this GOODNESS on the
part of Lis friends cut him to the quick,
and he looked quite chap-fallen. The
Jerseyite, Freinghuysen, smeared the
president and the grand old republican
party" all over with fulsome praise, and
we knew Just as much when he resumed
his seat as when he began his remarks.
This political debate is like the stories in
the New York Ledger'--it Is to be con-
tinued.
CORN JUICE.
The proposition to consolidate the tax
on whisky at seventy cents will no, in
crease the tax, as the stamp, barrel and
per diem taxes, with the storekecpers' and
gaugers fees, &c, as at present collected,
reaches the amount proposed. There is
but little doubt of the passage of the
bill.
COALITION.
The nomination OF Justice Davis for
the presidency by the laborer reformers, is
regarded here BY all parties as being sig
nidcant, and is not pooh -poohed at by
Grants friends, except by such a blather-
skite as Jim Nye, Of Nevada, who thought
it OF sufficient Importance to attack it in
the senate yesterday. Should Senator
Trumbull and his friends favor the nom-
ination Of Judge Davis at Cincinnati, in
the republican reform convention, the
candidate for the union of all elements OIL
opposition to the present administration
is made. 1t then lie left for the democ
racy to determine what is best to be done
a whether to consolidate the different polit
! cal armies to crush radicaiism-or Grant
IS ism-or to enter the field sngle-hande
e and take the chance of success under tn
., old banner. From present indications
think our leaders will act wisely and wei
being in no haste to determine their lin
~ of action. AS to what they purpose to do
" as Lord Durdreary says in the play, "thi
a is one of those things that no fellow cal
le find out" and all will be settled in goo
q time, and hope satisfactorily.
ia Subsidy Pom whose reputation Ia
been riddled like the bottom of euler
," der, is ever playing tho virtuous dodg
Yesterday he presented u mem orial nslsin
J. an nmondm.nt to the constitution prohib
IS iting dram drinkers from holding feder,
r offices, &c. Pomeroy had better be clear
n. ing his skirts of the bribery and frau
- charges brought against him by the legi
lature Of Kansas. Oh he is precio,
u hypocrte; but then he is very "loil'
Isl Gen. Grant.
THE COTTON TAX.
The bill to refund the cotton tax whiC
=. was collected in 1865, 1866, 67-69, now b
fore the ways and means committee, wi
- be favorably reported and passed by co
=, gress this session. That this tax was u
"a equal and unjust is now conceded Il
"a law not having operated as was intended
.s congress surprising that the burden won
N fall on the consumer, but facts and Fl
v. ures prove that it fell exclusively on t
ID producer. This was evi lenttn 1868, VIII,
d, the law was repealed, for there was
,e perceptible change in the market ut hon
IL or abroad, and the cotton market is INC
sensitive and easily effected. Members
congress who voted for the tax also vot
W for its repeal, and they now feel tina, #
ut justice can only be done by refunding Il
,e money which was collected under la
o which worked great injury to the colt,
IN growers, and which was also of doubtf
10 validity; the supreme court Of the Unit,
TO Ststes being equally divided as to its col
'c stitutionalty, and they now favor the pa
e sage of the refunding bill The return
~ this money will enable many planters
y pay off their Indebtedness to nor,her
> merchants, incurred in raisin
cotton during the four years after the wa
when it was a losing business made so
" great measure by the onerous tax in
posed, which was equal to 10 per cent. {
=. tho market value of the crop. Gov. j. S
Alcorn, of Mississippi, now U. s. senator
speaking Of tho money which the peop
OF certain southern states were forced T.
contribute from their poverty, urged tn
refunding Of the tax us II matter of pol
icy as well as justice, and said "the repara
. ton may be taken wisely from tho atti
| tude of a surrender IN riyht IN ,bo, a