New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-10
Special Correspondence Of the Reppblcan.J
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ChGap IransperfatIou - CoUsressiena
Feeling REGARDING gIs~RepuAlican Gem.
nisteemsn Hold to 1heir Rights
81 Popular Government',A Scandals Re.
futed-Hot- Headed Southeruers Vim.
dicated = False Kconomizer6 and
Modern keformers.
WAsH1NoDoN, May 5, 1876.
The question of cheap transportation
comes up again this Congress by bill
which has been reported to the House
favorably from the Committee on Railroads
Its discussion is set for the tenth OF thia
month. This bill provides for . double
track narrow gauge railway, to be used
exclusively for freight, from New York to
Council Bluffs. 1t is the bill of Mr.. Hurl-
but, of Illinois, introduced last session,
with the subsidy part left out. Mr.. Hurlbut
thinks it will pass. Mr.. Jones, of Kentucky,
chairman of the Committee ON Railroads,
looks upon the success of the bill favorably,
and so do the other members OF the com
mittee, except Mr.. Davy, Of Nsw York.
He is preparing and elaborate speech
against the bill on the ground that he is
opposed to the general -governmaae grant
ing charters to corporations.
There are many members in Congress,
however, who say that the bill i not prac-
tical; it can never be carried out. The
power given to the States in the bill to sp-
point commissioners to regulats the man
agement of the road can never be made to
work harmoniously. Another great Oh.
stacle in the way of the success of the bill
is the influence, of existing RAILROADS in op.
position to the project. The subject Of
cheap transportation, hcwever. is thou ght
by many to need agitation, and, therefore,
this bill will answer as we'll as any other
means.
Conger, of Michigan. one of the Republi-
eau members of the Committee on Expen-
ditures in the Department q Justice,
makes splendid fight against the partisan
tactics of the majority.
II is certainly to be deplored that ne.
cessity should arise in committee of in.
vestigation whereby minority can only
protect itself by keeping q private memo
randum of the minutes Of the committee.
Yet this is absolutely necessary, and from
this fact alone the witness, John I. Daven.
port, ex-commissioner of elections in New
York city, has been protected in his en-.
deavors to tell a truthful, straightforward
story before tho Committee % Expendi.
lures in the Department of Justice. Mo.
tions of Mr.. Conger have been suppress ed;
they do not appear on the record Of the
At subsequent meetings of the
committee the chairman denied their ex.
istence,' characterized them as "toolish, u
and said tho committee never agreed to
them. The fact is, the majority of this com.
mittee have caught tartar in the person
of Davenport, and all efforts of theirs
to break him down proving futile, the
majority feels irritated, and disposed to
bully and brow beat the witness as well as
to question the veracity of Republican com
mitteemen. Davenport's proofs of Demo
cratic frauds during the elections, if Incl
dentally alluded to by the witness Daven.
port, are all that is required to start the
majority off into fit of indignation.
Taxation .witho hout representation is a
mere byword in 80 far ss it effects the peo-
pie of the national capital. We are the
most satisfied people with our present lot,
and, unlike Oliver Twist, we do not ask for
more. Mr.. Morton likens our people to the
fathers, CALLED with the yoke
Of tyranny, but We carry that yoke. if such
it can be called, with great meekness and
peace, until now we can be said to love, if
not to revere it. Washington City was
never 60 handsome as it is to-day. No man
Or set of men rise up to say they are op-
pressed under our present system of gov
by three commissioners.
Several plans are now under consideration
BY Congress to establish permanent form
Of government for the district, but among
them ALL those providing for commissioners,
As at present, stand the best chance of
ultimately becoming law. Popular gov
so called by the exercise of the
right of suffrage, has few supporters
among some of the heaviest taxpayers and
sven among majority of the intelligent
voters.
The impeachment tri al is already dead
wood" in point of attraction. The galleries
are not even SO full as ON ordinary occa-
sions. Matt Carpenter has ceased to be
and has doffed his bran new
,wallow-tail coat and huge white neck-tie,
and has donned more plebeian attire. The
two ladies who we're wont to occupy frcnt
seat in the gallery, busily engaged with
crochet work and embroidering slippers,
have failed to impress bachelor Senators
with their domestic virtues, and have dis
appeared from the scene. The Sergeant-at.
Arms has vested himself of his new blue
GOAT with brass buttons, and opens the
high court of impeachment" now in q
we'll worn suit of brOadcloth. The dis
married couple from abroad,
with French nurse in white
zap, with the most diminutive black and
tan terrier wrapped in a gaudy blanket, are
seen no more in the galleries. The argu-
nents of the managers and counsel are be-
coming tame, dry, matter-of. fact points of
aw, all pointing to one end, "can the
Senate impeach" in this case. The indica-
ions are that it can and will, if the court
,nce concludes that it is time to 60 to work
IN the main question.
As fast as scandals appear regarding
prominent Republican candidates for the
Presidency, the candidates proceed to
mock them in the head, and thus far have
pretty effectually "squelched" them. SEN