The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-01
Our Washington Correspondence.
WAsHINGroN, D. c., Jan. q, lS72.


The anxiety of the administration for an
early adjournment was again manifested by
Senator Morton-the Presidents bugle-call-
ing up his resolution of adjournment in the
Senate yesterday. There was considerable bit
terness of personal character INDUCED in.
When Senator Schurz offered his amendment
not to adjourn until a civil service reform bill
had been passed, the sneer which accompanied
Senator Morton's mot much," settled the ques-
ton of civil service reform. Senator Schurz
quoted Senator Morton against himself in his
present haste for adjournment, and desired to
know if this measure is not political trick,
what is it? Morton looked black as thunder
cloud, and growled out that he would not an
swer the insnuation. Schurz disclaimed any
insinuation, only that he had quoted Morton
against Morton. The tones and manner of
these gentlemen, who are 40 longer dodgers in
the same garrett showed the feeling which ex-
listed between them. No sooner had this
passage blown over than the irrepressible
Charles Sumner lugged his negro friends into
the question by offering resolution that civil
rights should be given to colored people before
amnesty to rebels. Senator Hamlin said On
this very important amendment the Senate
should deliberate calmly, and he suggested the
singing of "Old Hundred" Sumner did not
like the ludicrous turn things were taking, and
he replied rather sharply that the Senator from
Maine had better lead off. Sumner stood all
the while the laughing was going on and
at last he said he believed he now stood
alone, as he had stood before, and he was the
only true friend of the colored people. At
this point Senator Wilson spoke in rather a
low tone, that Sumner had no right to say such
things, as it placed others in false light.
Sumner heard the remark, attempted to go on,
hesitated, and after few words inaudible in
the gallery, sat down very much affected and
hurt at what had been said. To be laughed at
was much for the dignifed Chawles to stand,
but to bear the sharp criticism of his colleague
was more than the Sumnerian nature could
withstand and he sunk into his seat, well
nigh crushed in spirit, amid the compla-
cent looks of the Grant clique, who reveled in
his discontinue The administration resolu-
tion was carried, and the 29th of May designa-
ted for the adjournment of Congress. A few
Grant Radicals had opposed any stated time,
but they all wheeled into line like so many
sheep after bellwether.
The Ways and Means Committee on the
syndicate and Secretary Boutwells manipula-
ton of matters financial will make white
washing report on Tuesday next in the House.
The Democratic members of the Committee
will make no minority report, but will state
why they cannot endorse the Secretarys action,
and will show most conclusively that the syn
dicate pocketed over two millions of interest
money, from the interest for three months on
the government bonds lying idle on deposit,
which the Secretary had no more right to per-
NIT than he has TO give away that same sum
from the public funds to any other ring, clique
or firm The truth is, the Treasury of the
country has been manipulated by the Jay
Cooke ring for some years past, and this syndi-
cate swindle is only continuation of the farm
ing out system which appears to permeate
every department of the Government.
The Radical leaders in both Houses of Con-
gress, especially in the Senate, are scared at
the proportions which the Schurz- -Trumbull
reform movement has assumed. Some of the
more timid are for conciliation, but the Nor
tons, Chambers and Conklings are for reading
che recusants out of the party, which probably
will be done.
The latest coalition movement, and one
which meets great favor here in Democratic
and Radical reform circles, is the proposition
of the Pennsylvania Independent Reform Re-
publicans, rs they call themselves, to place the
name of Ex-Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, of that
State, on the opposition ticket, second to that
of Ex-senator Hendricks, of Indiana, whom
they claim is the most available candidate
around whom 10 rally all the different opposi-
tions to Gen. Grant, whose denomination is
conceded. Mr.. Hendricks great popularity all
over the country, and Gov. Curtin's immense
strength in the Keystone State, which it is es-
sential to carry, seems in their estimation to be
the proper combination to rid the country of
the incubus which now is dragging us down to
destruction nationally, financially and morally,
through the personal and official conduct of
those who disgrace the highest places in the
Government. PALMETTO.
THE DIVORCE LAw.-The editor of the
Aiken Tribune, in letter from Columbia,
writes as follows concerning the divorce law
| recently enacted by the Legislature: