The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-06
OUR wAsHINGTON LETTER e.

| ~ '0ohAhs,oh, IL. -. january ZUGn. lSI 4.
The minority report of the House Com
mittee Of Elections in favor of the West
Va. contestants Messrs j. j. Davis and
j. Marshall Hagans has just been pub
lished here in full. The Committee.
being divided in three parts, have made
no majority report, though three seperate
ones have been presented The report
In favor of the gentlemen named is Ger
'tainly in accord with the sound sense of
the President regarding Interference with
the Texas election. In the contesting
districts, as In Texas, there was full
vote Of the people cast, and Hon. J. J.
Davis opponent being beaten by fair
and full vote, concluded to try again on
fine spun technicality. The people re-
cognazed only the August election and
In October not 1.-THE of the votes were
polled, and he claims success without
having any substantial opposition. Sup
pose technically there was some trivial
error committed, tho precedent can do no
harm, because on and after the next
election Congress has fixed day certain
for the election of members, but the re-
fusal, after fair vote, to receive mem
bers and thus disfranchise state would
be a serious wrong. and would be the
very reverse of the action Of the Presi-
dent in the Texas election matter which
Is generally approved by all parties.
The veterans of the Mexican war at
their Convention formed permanent
organization and closed their proceedings
by visit to the White House. The
President came in quietly and to their
agreeable surprise, instead of waiting for
the veterans to pass in line, he began at
once and passed along the line shaking
each of them heartily by the hand.
Most of these soldiers showed the mark
of age. and some of them were manned,
but they seemed to enjoy their visit to
the capital as well as the reunion with
their comrades.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will lecture
at Lincoln Hall in this city on Thursday
evening next. On the following night
Mr.. Golf will occupy the same stand.
Both of these gentlemen will draw crow
ded houses whenever they appear in
Washington. Philip Philips sings here
on Wednesday evening at the Congrega-
tional Church. and Daniel Dougherty
Esq. crates upon ''Orators aud Oratory''
the same evening. Last night Theodore
Thomas gave a concert and altogether,
with the theaters in full blast, we are
duly amused and instructed nightly.
A new attraction of our city hereafter
will be the Corcoran Art Gallery which
is opened to the public to-day in the new
building dedicated to art and presented
to the city along with the gallery of paint
ings and statuary by W. W. Corcoran
Esq. The collection is very valuable
one and will be a popular resort of visi-
tors to the capital.
All sorts of smelling COMMITTEES sent by
Congress into the different Departments
here are the common talk of the city.
Genl. Garfield, who was pretty vindic-
lively investigated himself during the
last Congress in regard to the Creds'
Mobezier scandal, is reported as intending
to show others how good it feels to be
: disse cted. The reporters for the n. Y.
Herald are making big head lines show
ing several mares nests which the re.
do1table General has already discovered
in the Treasury Department. Wha.
seems to be new and astonishing to him
however is neither to those who have ex-
perlence in department matters, and the
smelling committee will not be likely to
grow famous very rapidly on the capital
they can make for the opposition SO far
as has yet transpired.
It is rather an unusual thing to see a
coordinate branch of the Government
which agrees with the Executive in po-
litical principles taking unusual pains to
scrutinize and criticise the conduc of the
Executive Departments These matters
are generally left for the action of the op
posite party. but the impression in the
minds of many Republicans that this is
contrary to the policy of the party is a
mistake. FROM the origin of the party
its watch-word has been principles not
men" Unlike the Democratic party it
is no. bound together by the cohesion of
public piunder. and never has been.
A reasonable latitude for criticism within
the party lines has always been allowed
by the Republican party. and especially if
any abuse is reasonably looked for or
charged upon Republican Official Lat