The weekly Louisianian., 1873-01-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Jan. 13, 1873.

| A~SssAAOy NAAAOAs Va WuASA GucIo Ast
been SO much talk lately, camc o,
Saturday evening, at Willard
hotel. It was quite an enjoyabl
| afklir. Speeches of rare wit ant
humor were made by Ben. Perle,
Poore, Hon. s. s. Cox, Mr.. Stanle,
and others.
The Credit AIobilier Investigating
Committee resumes its labors to
day. Mr.. McC6.nb gave out OF
Thursday, to the reporters thai
they would be furnished, during
the coming week, with rare ant
rich developments; but remarked
that, after the investigation closed
he expected Congress wonld, unde,
the direction Of VIM. B. Alley, cause
to be erected, in honor of Oake<
Ames, O monument of brass.
The prohibitory liquor bill for
the District Of Columbia, which is
now before the Senate, is causing a
great deal of squirming among the
rlm-sellers Of Washington. The
authorities are being strongly urged
by the different temperance societies
here to rigidly enforce the Sunday
liquor law, and, TO that end have
caused the police commissioners to
pass resolution that no license
will be granted to any hotel or res
taurant proprietor who shall have
violated in any way tho liquor law
of the District. It can easily be
proven that at least two-thirds of
those proprietors have sold liquor
after II o'clock of a week day and
Oh tho Sal'5aths during tho pas
year. There will he at once q
liquor ASSOC ia!ion organized with
paid attorney, or attorneys, in th'
interests of the rum-seliors.
Tho postal telegraph bill whic!
las the unanimous favor of thu
Senate Post Office Committee, will
bring forth fierce opposition from,
the Associated Press Monopoly. OF
course if it is possible for Mr.. Or
ton to defeat this bill, it will he q
much easier job, under the plea OF
to defeat Mr.. Cresswell's
plan for the purchase Of the entire
linz. This hill soon to
.ome before the Senate provides
hat the Postmaster General shall
70 authorized to contract with
company that will transmit mes
ages at the following rates: Any
istance not exceeding $50 miles,
wo cents a word; 500 miles, one =,
ent, and messages sent by night ,
OF exceeding 1000 miles, one cent /
word. It will be seen by compar- I
g the proposed rates with the G
resent cost Of telegraphing that it a
sduces the cost of telegraphine +
lat it reduces the cost oftelesraph-
q to about one-tbird of the pre- $
mt cost, and without expense to d
le government. G
The bill for ref',nding the cotton i,
< Of '65, '66 and 81 has assumed I
lch proportions that within week s.
Q press of the whole country will a
em with the subject matter of this e.
q, pro and con. The pamphlet c.
opies of which are on the desk of c.
cry member of Congress.) con- VI
sting of memorials from nearly Ill p
Q Southern States through their IL
the Chamber of Com ty
srce Of Memphis, the Merchants HI
tchange of St. Louis, followed by to
ndensed arguments Of Honorables W
R. Curtis, Hughes & 'Sharkey til
d Herchel V. Johnson, tables Gu
owing the value of domestic pro- tu
CO and cotton exported from vo
81 to II, inclusive-price of cot as
in Liverpool and New York OF
ring and since the repeal of the er.
ton tax; and Liverpool and LON m,
\ cotton movements from 1843 to tn
|2, inclusive. A memorial ac- iu1
this pamphlet praying lea
the passage ofthis bill, is signed Sc,
every member Of the cotton an
wing States and several from I,
or Southern states. les
10 many are the bills INTRODUCED ap
he House Of Representatives re- vo