The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-24
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
One Honest Man in the Radical Party.
D sgust of the Party at the Report Of
the Sub Committee.
The Work Cut Out for the New Com.
mittee.
Poor Pinch /!
WASHINGTON, Jan. &c

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
eft is useless to disguise the fact that the r
; port Of the Sub Committee is not in accordanc
with the sentiment of the majority Of the House
So says the Chronicle, published here at Wasl
ington, and devoted, oh yes. deroted heart an
SOUL to upholding the Administration now
, power at the White House. Days Of intens
thinking, sleepless hours Of night watching thi
editor gives to his work, and such sentences a
the above are the result.
Of course the conclusion in every mind i
inevitable. Another committee must at once b
sent, which will concoct verdict IN ACCORDANCE
with the 'ssentimert" aforesaid Save the Repub
lcan party if you can, by honest means, but SAW
IT any way! No means were left untried to in
4 duce Foster to change his deliberately homes
i opinions. He was cajoled, he was denounced
he was threatened, but his happy face never
grew gloomy. 1t was impossible to quarrel will
him, and equally impossible to make him see
how necessary was the salvation of the party.
At last Senator Dorsey, Of Arkansas, who had
known him a long while, and whose party devo
ton is notorious, undertook the task of recon.
structing the contumacious committee man.
Said he, smiling:
"Foster, I've come to abuseyou.'
Well,' said our hero, Strengthening himself a
| bit, tossing back that heavy black hair, and
thrusting his hands trhe deeper into his pocket.
'You may as well begin with the conclusion, and
save the trouble of all the abuse preceding"
Thereupon Senator Dorsay proceeded to tell
him how amazed that blessed party was that his
report should antagonize its cherished beliefs,
and what intense personal enmity he would pro-
woke.
OF course cannot repeat the entire conversa-
ton, but Fosters final remark deserves place
in history.
When Mr.. Dorsey had fnishSd, MIR. Foster
looked him steadily in the eye, and said, 'Dor-
say, in all this business am determined to keep
NE respect Of one friend, and that friend, Striking
his breast,) Is myself"
Before this letter can reach you, the new COM
mittee will be with you pressing their investiga-
tons in places where the can find the facts of
which they are in quest. We shall have new
batch OF horrors undoubtedly but the outrage
business has been SO shockingly overdone, that
the second report will hardly excite more than
smile of derision.
The morning papers gloat over. sheridans
lajest dispatch with its dreadful pictures of
starvation and distress, but such state of affairs
could not be without preliminary occurrences, of
which we should certainly have been told, and
Gen. Sheldon the Republican NJ c. from Louisi-
ana, says 1t cannot be true. He never heard
anything about it," The party must be in
desperate straits whenit must manufacture to
order such statements.
THE SENATE
is busy over an extensive appropriation bill, and
as usual there are objections without number to
various items therein. There is great anxiety to
avoid an extra session, so rule has been made |
debate to speeches of five minutes
duration. Atsthe rate at which the wise men are |
an extra session will certainly come
Pray Heaven that it may, for thsn, dear friends,
you may dream Of justice.
nave had some interesting Pacific Mail witnesses I
before them yesterday and to-day. A certain
Mr.. Wetmore has presumed to attaint Mr.. Beck
With insinuations of bribery, and Mr.. Beck
DOESN'T propose to stand it all, so he favored us
With characteristic speech in self-defense..
just now there is lively little fuss over q bill
or Indian appropriations. The claim urged at
aimed it's majority sometime since, as it is urged
hat it has been before Congress since 1910.
THE GALLERIES
re very full. Many lovelyshces and costumes
ause the NJ. C.'s tofdefy the rulesaand gaze
teadfastly toward the heaven in the galleries
here the angels sit. I see over in the section
evoted to the personal friends OF )" member"
be bright face of Miss Phoebe Cozzens, the
retty little feminine lawyer OF St. Louis. How
ould they have objected TO her admission to the
ar? She would make aHeharming addition to
ny assemblage.
PINCHBAoK |,
here with his everlasting smile and the inces-
ant pulling of his whiskers. 1 may be wrong,
ut the impression in my mind is very strong
lat he will nev0 warm the seat he longs 80 {,
arnestly to ill Poor Pinch, had he come upon
le political stage few years sooner, what lion
e would have been in Radical circless The hour ]
The negro is past and the doom Of Pinchtack {
assured. SANS SOUCI |