, 1874-04-23

WHAT Is THOUGHT or TT.
Special Dispatch 10 The chicago I'ribune.


WASHINGTON, D. G., April 22.-rhe announce
ment OF the veto of the Currency bill created
tue utmost surprise III all Washington. Very
few people horo tonight can or do assumo that
they Ind well-founded reason for believing that
tho President would fail to approve tho bill. It
Is truo, If tho word of honorable Senators may
be accepted as worthy Of crodit that the Presi-
dent hns changed his mind great many times
on this question since the reception OF tho bill
at tho White House, but us tho last change took
place yesterday, which WIS apparently in favor OF
tho measure, upon tho advice Of his Cabinet,
nearly everybody walked up this morning feeling
assured that 1t would be approved. Tonight
1SFLAr1oN1sTs DEaouScE lr1M
angrily for tho vacillation that has marked his
course, wtilo tho anti-inhationistB alludo to it
with a smile Of self-congratulation. Wien tho
log ceasea rolling, they found themselves OH
top, Tlloro can bo no doubt Of tho fact that tho
President has, in ono way or another,
INVOLVED u1MsE1Y DOTH wAYs
on this question. Tonight tho hotels and
places Of public resort aro througed
with excited people, discussing tho topic
OF tho hour. Noatly every man OF impor-
tance in public life has taken tho hint Of an i'm
pending interviewing storm, and hed him to tho
Ult4h, Ut uAb 1AHkAA1tGu INAuH Lullt liz Ia 14Qk
at homo" while the smaller tiah swarm ahont on
all sdos, yolublo and willing to bo quoted. From
tho Vest aud Northwest there is
A aENEnAL HOWL.
Tho Republican Representatives from those
seot ons have no limits to their denrnciations OF
he pfss'dent Ms j. again t to fs hTs
is out, tho tomahnwk III nourishcd, and
the throat made TINT suct. m imitation majority
will DO returned to the next oongrosR az will
suffice to pass III initiation measure over aecond
veto, and will indicate cloRrly that
GRANTS HOPE FOR THIRD TEhst
IL utterly destroyed. These gentlemen toll ua OF
o new party to DO organized within forty-e|glt
hours, the foundation for which will bo opposl-
tlon to Grant and Now England supremacy.
Many Of the moro prominent Republloan Co''-
grosamen openly aud loudly thraaton that thoy
Will no longer support the President nor pay any
regard to hlh wishes.
1EsINuATloNs or A VERY UGLY NATURE
are freely made by tho inlationsth in their blind
dent has yielded. Thoro are blatant assertions
that he has alilod hmsolf with the capitalists
aud Wall-atrect bankers as aEalnHt the people
aud laboring mon. Vague and
rknnlpLE TnnEATs AND rhorHEoIEs ',, =.
are naBntlaquontly uttdrod Ra to tlc uprising or
| tho great WGst aud Northwest against New = I'm.
gland and tho wealthy East We ara told that
t!.o sectional struggle between tho East and tho
West, long anticipated, haB ilnally onenou III
ara liko any other sot Of mon
when perfectly Wild with excitement aud nmart-
Ing with chagrn, giving utteranca to thousand
foollHh speeches which they will DO anxious to
ropuiiato In few days.
Tho more sober look for
DIVISION IN THE RErun11oAN PARTY,
but they also anticipate trouble Of similar
! nature III the Democratic ra1lkB Grants aspra"
tlons for third term are frequently alluded to.
sa!<1 tonight that Grant might succeed in got
| ting nomination from ANAL aud insignificant
party made up Of New England Republicans and
tho h&zd'moner Dsmoosatb, but As might uoyel