The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Scenes in the Senate and House.
Speeches Of Schurz and Logan.
Dilemma Of the Radical Party.
Pacific Mail Investigation.
An Expunged Sentence in the Presidents
Message.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 49, 1S75.-Social matters
during the past week have been Ct but pre-
cIous little importance, since much more inter-
est has been felt in the exciting discussions at
the Capitol. Usually the Senate, oppressed
apparently with mighty sense of it's own
dignity, is extremely dull. A few people who
come to look at Congress, drift into its CALLER
les, use their opera-glasses impertinently and
follow the pointing finger of some friend,
with the peculiarly pleasing and intelligent
expression which one assumes when striving
vainly to find some desired object of atten-
| ton.
The tumultuous House, with its wordy war
fare, its disorderly performances generally,
and its occasional flashes of brilliant debate,
is much more interesting; but this week the
Senate has been alive, thrilling as if beneath
the influence of some huge galvanic battery,
while the question of the rights and liberties
of suffering Louisiana has been the absorbing
topic. The speech Of Carl Schurz, with its
manly utterances its clear exposure of fala-
have read, while we, who listened to the ca
dence of each polished phrase, added to our
admiration.for his genius the marvel that any
foreigner could so thoroughly understand our
institutions became so imbued with their
spirit and learn to express them so perfectly
in our difficult English that we could fl nd no
fault in style or idiomatic construction.
Nothing could more fully have directed our
attention to this than the succeeding speech
Of Senator Logan, from Illinois. He,
his mother-tongue. To be sure his inelegant
sentences were fitting expression of his most
inelegant thoughts; but there were faults of
pronunciation that were inexcusable. The
man has unique ugliness of his own that
fascinates His coarse hair is so dead black,
his face is SO like an Indians in feature, while
the black eyes have a stealthy sinister glance
that is utterly hateful. He speaks very posi-
lively and emphatically; pointing his argu-
ments with coarse personal attacks and jokes
at which one cannot help laughing, though
we despise him for making them. Of course
he sustained the President and out Belknaped
Belknap in his Endorsement of Sheridan's
dispatches. Everybody on their side
Of the question was there of course,
People carried their babies and their lunch
baskets, going early to secure front seats, and
staying late, because-well, can think of no
better reason than that there is pleasant
little flavor Of excitement in such gather
ings which they like. To continue, Bel
Robson, and the second day of his talking
saw Bristow listening attentively. Such
men as Logan can make no impression upon
Secretary Bristow. They have no feeling
whatever in common. During Logan's speech
the honorable(D Senator from Louisiana, with
his hand in his pocket, where he characters
tically carries it, would sit with such an in
tensely satisfied look that we longed to spoil
it, or else, cat-like, he would tip-toe from desk
to desk, softly rubbing his hands in ex-
cess of inexpressible glee.
Upton, Of Nebraska, came next Disa-
greeable he certainly is, but sharp, witty and
INSCRIPTIONS in Selling any possible ad-
vantage. Nobody brings down the house"
SO often, in spite of the Presidents impatient
gavel, while he throws such intensity of con-
temptuous scorn into his retorts as no one |
could who didn't look just like him. Mast
drew his picture to the life in his cartoons a
year ago. Evidently he had "read up SEN
ator Logan's career, for he treated him to |
Of hok do
that tawny face show surprised fushes now
and then.
On Wednesday, the Presidents message |
was publicly read, though, as usual, its con-
tents had leaked out twenty-four hours |
earlier, since, before sending it to the Senate, |
the President read it to various Republicans,
in order to reassure his timid mind.
Adroit it certainly is, casting all the burden
Of deciding these vexed matters upon Con-
gress, which shrinks from the task.
The House has not had much public discus
sion, but it is strange how deeply attached |
men can become to any party organization,
and how unwilling they are to look at any
subject except through the authorized medi-
UNI of their beloved party.
Foster and Phelps and Potter have seen for
themselves. Their report you know in part
nobody knows it fully for there are hushing
whispers from high sources, and they are
enjoined to divulge nothing which can injure
" the Republican party
You ought to have heard Upton when he
spoke Of this. He read Kellogg's dispatches
to the President, in every one of which he
begs for help-not to save the State, not to
protect the people, but to preserve the domi-
nance Of "the Republican party
The telegraph will have told you long be-
fore this that this party spirit chooses to be
blind to your suffering; but patience. brave
hearts There shall come day when au-
thority will change hands, when your cry for
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