Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-07
WASHINGTON.
Congressional Investigation of
Arkansas.

The Committee ON Their Way TO work.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The select COM
mittee appointed by the House of Repre-
sentatives at its last session, to investigate
Government affairs In Arkansas, will meet
at Little Rock Wednesday next. The sub
committee consisting of Ward, of Illinois,
and Sayler, of Ohio, spent about month
last Summer and took mass of testimony
which is printed, makes a volume of some
five hundred pages. These same gentle
men, together with Pollard, the chair
man Of the committee are to
take up and continue the investigation.
OF the other two members Of the commit
tee, one, WoodIord, of New York, has re-
signed as a representative, and the other,
Glass, of Alabama, will probably be pre-
vented by his personal affairs from taking
any part in the proceedings
Eeonomizing at the Wrong End.
Eighty workmen have been discharged at
the navy-yard here. A further reduction
will soon take place.
The Reason why.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
The National Republican laments the
recent reverses and attributes them to the fact
that the Republicans have had no leader in
Congress, strong enough TO stand up against
the popular demand for the investigations
thai have been made into the conduct of
Congressmer and other Office holders. 1t
maintains that if these investigations and
the consequent exposures had been pre-
vented, the Republican party would have
been successful again this fail, and it pines
for man like Thad. Stevens, who viii put
a stop to such foolishness.
Jere Black for United states senator.
Pennsylvania politicians say that the
Hon. jeremiah 5. Black will be elected
United States Senator by the new Ligisla-
ture of that State, while Massachusetts,
people hopefully predict the election of
Chas. Francis Adams.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Elections
Continue to be the general topic of con-
veTsation. The Republicans here appear
somewhat stunned by the magnitude of
their disaster. 1t is hard for them to real
ize that they are no longer 10 have their
own way about everything. They are con-
selling themselves with the hope that the
Democrats in the House will un-
dertake the fruitless Office of i'm
peaching Grant, and also commit other
blunders calculated to help them. The
Washington Chronicle suggests that the
Democrats in Congress may defeat one of
the vital appropriation bills next session,
and thus compel an extra session Of the
new Congress. These and other wild sug-
gestiOns shows what a stunning blow this
defeat is to Radical leaders and politicians.
There is already considerable speculation
touching the
Organization Of the Next House of
Representatives.
The names of Messrs. Wood and Cox, of
New York, Randall, Of Pennsylvania, Kerr,
of Indiana, and Payne, of Ohio, have been
discussed for the next Speakership. Gen.
Banks is also spoken of, but he does
not call himself a Democrat, and this is
regarded as putting him out of the range
of probable selection. There is no prom
inent person vet spoken of for the Clerk
ship of the next House. The present force
IN that Office is made no altogether of Re
publicans, and, Of course, there will be
many changes among them. Mr. Barclay,
the Journal Clerk, remains under all dy-
nasties, and is not likely to be removed.
Il Will Go Very Hard
With the Republican Chair1nen Of Com
mitteeS to lose the control of the beautiful
committee-rooms, cOnsecrated, as the vera
cious Roscoe Conkling says. to the princi-
pies of total abstinence; but they will have
to stand it. II is not probable that the De
mocracy will initiate the disgTaceful eN-
ample of their opponents in packing COM
mittees or deciding election cases upon
merely partisan grounds.