Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-01-29
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

States have attracted an unwOnted degree
of attention at this time on account of the
political and personal changes that have
impcnded. and the complications of an
unusual nature which afflicted many of the /
Legislatures having the duty of selecting
new men to represent their States in the
Senate for the next six years. The case of
Massachusetts was the most exciting per |
haps, us Dawes the father and leader ofthe
House, Hoar> one of the ablest members
and former member Of the Cabinet, and |
Charles Francis Adams late Minister to
England and the most accomplished dip |
lomat and statesman in the country, were
candidates, and the seat to be filed was
the seat of Charles Sumner. who was the
first orator of the Senate during his long |
term of office. The sudden election Of
Dawes was unexpected, as all the letters
from Boston has indicated long, close,
and bitterStruggle, to end in the ultimate
probable defeat of both Dawes and Hoar.
1t appears that Dawes succeeded thus /
early by the laundering of the Hoar men
and the Democrats, in casting their votes
for Adams before the opposition to Dawes
had had time to harden. Had the Demo- |
Gratis waited until the Dawes and Hnar /
men had pulled hair for month and got
their blood up to point where they could
say ANY body to beat tie other man, they
would have had some hope Of transferring
most of the Hoar folks to Adams or Bull |
leck with affair prospect otsuccess- Now
thew have cast their votes Tor Il man who /
is not of their party, and have failed max |.
ing no point. Bad management that. /
Old Mr.. IiaMlin comes back with flying
colors. He is the most faithful Senator of
all as regards the interests of his State,
doing all that the people of Maine call
upon him t. do in the Departments, in the
committees. or elsewhere, with none of the
grumbling which some Senators indulge
in when their constituents ask their assls-
tance. The faithtulness of the old war
horse has counted in his favor this time
sure. and enabled him to return at time
when the popular mood is for rotation.
Spraruc seems to be on the point of retir-
ing hy general consent, and will not leave
so large a hole in the Senate as To attract
general attention by its size, and yet he
came very near making his mark there.
His great wealth. his marrying into the
family of Mr. Chase then in the height of
his influence and power, the talent and
ambition of his beautiful wife, and his
honorable war record Is Governor and in
the field afforded an amount of capita! To
I've turned to political account, such rs no
Young man in this country has for Il long
time had and ii he could only have made
The people believe that he had brains, I've
would now he one Of the coming men.
One thing thou lackest" WAS fatally true
of the Rhode Islander.
Buckingham Of Connecticut, has been
good average Senator-diyniiied, pleasant,
sensible, and true TO his convictions. /
Eaton, his successor. has never been in
Congress, aud has bis reputation still 10
make. though he is not a young man. Fen !
ton of New York, has been regarded on !
the whole as rather soldier of fortune, :
whose political principles sit lightly upon
him. but a man at fan ability, considerable /
cunning, and making up AL deficiencies by |
good looks and highly pleasant manners.
Herman. who succeeds him, is fully his |
equal in mental ability, but with less adj |
roitneSs but not likely To increase the in /
tellectual force of his State in the Senate .
very much if any. Randolph, of New Jer /
sey, will he a decided advance upon Stock I
to-paiitics the same. +
Mr.. Scott. Of PENNSYLVANIA, is a man Of
decided ability and good character, and /,
his loss WILDE telt. Wallace his successor
is reputed a good managing politician, /,
but is not known much out of his State. T,
He is probably a man of talent, and after
some experience may make good Senator.
Pratt. Of Indiana i the giant ofthe Senate, |
and 10 man can fill his chair. He weighs
/ $50 pounds, which makes a good deal of
/ Senator when he sits down. He is a very
honest man, and careful conscientious
! legislator. good speaker, and man to
trust. He is - be succeeded by Mcdonald,
one Of the rising men of Indiana. but for
a sitting member. we say give Us Pratt
/ Ii takes good deal to move him from his
position. when once he is fairly settled in
| il. OF the others We must defer speaking
till our next.
! They have had Whitelaw Reid Of the
! Tribune before the Committee of Ways
and Means to tell what he knows about the
Pacific Mail. He was q disappointment,
| for after all the articles in his paper in
tended 10 enlighten mankind upon this
very subject, he did not know so much as
J Horace GTeele" kner; ABOUT farming ne
| had heard that somebody had surmised
! that Beck and Dawes had fingered some
J of the money. but who told him and who
( did the substituting he could notrcmember.
, Irwin, after trying the jail accommodations
/ for n week concluded il was mode of
/ life not suited to his temperament, and to
! get out, decided To answer the committee,
which he did, though his answer did not
add much to the information given by
! Albert. The payments to Forney amt the
other newspaper men were confirmed, and
the 800. 900 dollars to Schumacher He
gave the name of \. I. Whiting, of Cali
fornia, as having had 100000 dollars,
! Whiting being q conneXion Of Senator
| Cole. who was an ardent advocate of the
subsidy The facts so far developed, in
dictate that the 100000 paid to Schumacher
went to the Democratic side of the House,
and the 125,O00 paid to King went to the
| Republican side of the House, and the
100000 to Whiting was for greasing the
aXles in the Senate. Irwin was Of opinion
that good Brother Harlan, then in the
Senate, got some of the money to control
six Senators, and he replies to it by show
ing that he spoke and voted against the
bill This shows that he did not sell his
own vote, but it does not disprove the al
! legation that he manipulated the six
Senators. His own vote may have been
| blind, but whether the committee will
follow up the clue remains to be seen.
The lobby invested largely this year in
the Choctaw appropriation, by which p,
100000 dollars was expected on an old
treaty of 1857. There was no question as
to the treaty, but the point against paying
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