Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-23
REPUBLICAN POWER WANING.
The Defeat of the New Currency Bill,
I'm the House Brought About by
BIaine-the Barren Results Of n Long
and Expensive session

I'm the House Brought About by
BIaine-the Barren Results Of n Long
and Expensive session
washington dune 12) Correspondence OF the
New York World.
Politically, the Capital resembles the last
night Of the exodus in Egypt, "a great vail
was in the land, as there was not house
that did not contain a corpse The Re-
publican Egyptians, from the IharOah in
the White House, down 10 even the small
legislative adjunct, Kelley, are in a similar
position. They one and all have one or
more political cOrpses in their houses.
The President finds his first-bOrn veto,
and his next born memorandum political
corpses, notwithstanding their great ser
vice to the country. Morton, Logan, Fer
nv, MAYNARD, Wright, and in fact, all in
fationists find the rejection by the House
of the Conference agreement corpse IN
their houses. COnkling. Carpenter, Howe,
and Pratt weep over the mOiety corpse that
is left in their houses. Alas, no more
5 1000 fees will drop like ripe pears into
the hands of eminent lawyers who happen
to be legislators, for their advice.
Blaine has a corpse in his house. That
great peace-maker, who for six weeks was
the most industrious cOnciliatOr, succeeded
in SCATTERING his party into thousand
fragments. Even Jones finds small corpse
in his house. His prominence, achieved
by his truly good speech on the LIST Of April,
and the no less good service he rendered by
bringing out the Presidents views in the
celebrated memorandum, required OF him a
short explanation in the debate on the cur
rencv conference before the Senate. As
everybody expected to hearthe roar Of some
forty-pound battery, Senators and audience
erumbled to hear a short, modest, but new
| ertheless pithy, speech. So, there is small
eorpse in the house Of Jones' In short, a
glycerine explosion could hardly have shat
tered the Republican party, as far as Con-
gressmen and Senators are concerned, more
| than has the failure of the Currency bill,
| the veto, and the memorandum. The I'M
| manifest man is Blaine. He certainly de-
| feated the bill in the House to-day.
Not to throw the responsibility Of failure
| on the President was Mr.. Blaine's last, but
| alas hay, chance for the future. rs
Butler has it, .'Of all the ways that are
dark and all the tricks that are vain, none
| can compare with those OfBlaine, of Maine.
| This political heathen, who is heartsick for
the next Presidency, tried all he could to
keep the dissolving Republican party intact.
| The veto message was the great rupture,
and il was in order to heal this rupture that
he exerted his wonderful efforts. He sue
eeeded in patching up the Sherman Senate
and Maynard House bills as compromise,
and had some hopes of the Conference Com
mittee presenting the olive branch to the
party; but in the midst of its sitting came
the famous memorandum Of the President
which was a stroke of lightning on powder
magazine.
| Ii was almost an even chance about the
President signing the new bill. Indeed
both Sherman and Blaine believed he would
But Mr.. Blaine, on Friday night, got un
mistakable limitations that the johnson
panacea, or, IN other words, veto, was II
Store for the bill in the White House
Now, it occurred quickly 10 Nr. Blaine
sharp mind that a veto would shatter TN
party more than ever. Indeed his sagacit
tells him that there is no longer a Republi
can party left: that there is simply win
or a faction in existence. But there 10
, strong Grant party full of life and vigor
the country. Blaine does not share the Tea
] | of a third term. He scouts the very ide
f of such thing. Now, a second veto woul
: have shatteredthe Grant party and destroye
: Blaines last and forlom hope. IL wa
i therefore, question of saving the Presidel
from the onus Of vetoing the Confsren'