The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-04
Oar Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, d. CT
EEB'Y l, 1876.
rom our Special Correspondent.

FEB'Y l, 1876. {
From our Special Correspondent.
; Two hundred Indiana editors
have been here. They visited the
Centennial grounds and New York |
before coming TO the Capital, and |
were treated with courtesy and con-
sideratiOn by all, the only exception
being an article in the New York |
World, while in that city. While
here they visited the President, and
were cordially received.
The politicians are busy as bees
the Democrats especially. There
are so manV discordant elements to
be harmonized in that party, that
the work is more onerous than the
labors of Hercules, and there is no
Hercules in the Democratic party to
cleanse their Augean stable of its
accumulated filth. The Confeder-
ate element is determined and inso-
, lent in its demands. The hard mon
ey aud The soft money men are
, cismoring for their respective
views. The few Union men in the
party seem to be ashamed of the
company in which they are found,
3 and the copperheads and dough-
= faces bow down to the Confederates
r and worship them.
r The New York Tribune is in great
q tribulation. 1t reminds one of a
B. student of some astrologer, who, by
. using some of his masters arts, had
1 raised a devil, and then could not
= control it. The Tribune undoubted-
~ did more than any other paper to
It bring about the present condition
It of affairs, and now it mourns over
d its work. In the meantime the Re-
publicans are serene and confident.
O The action of the Democrats here
has rendered success certain, and
while rival aspirants for Office. and
q their friends, are working busily,
there are no splits to be healed, nc
It differences of import.
d When the Republican convention
n at Cincinnati names the candidates
g all the Republicans will unite, and
+ they will be elected without trouble
D. while many of the Confederate
I. brigadiers and their northern sym
q. pathiZers now here will "be remit
IF ted" to the privacy of home.
10 The much-talked of Spanish Cir
as cular has been printed. Secretary
4. Fish, in his letter to Minister Cush
ID ing, which he directs read to tn
IN Spanish government, recapitulAte
d. the situation of affairs in Cuba, ant
L. says:
"In the absence of any prospec
:. of termination of the war, or O
10 any change in the manner in whicI
Ii it has been conducted on either side
". the President feels that the time j
"a at hand when it may be the duty O
other governments to intervene
solely with the view of bringing t.
Ill an end disastrous and destructiv
1g conflict and of restoring peace il
he the Island of Cuba. No govern
"A ment is more deeply interested il
the order and peaceful administra
us ton of this island than is that of tn
i'll United States, and none has suffere,
sts as has the United States from tn
IN condition which has obtained Their
during the past six or seven years
III The President will therefore feel
i'll his duty, at an early dav, to submit
in the subject in this light, and accom-
~. panied by an expression of tn
views above presented for the con
'ul sideration of Congress.
l1s This conclusion is reached wit
he reluctance and regret. 1t is reach
n ed after every other expedient Ina
been attempted and proved q fai
ure, and in the firm conviction ths
the period has at last arrived whe
at no other course remains for thi
to government"
DIV Spain has responded by promil
.as ing all that is demanded.
~ The Senate this week passed IL
ito law defining the rights of HON,
ts. stead settlers On lands granted
ms railroads. The point in the law
ay that lands granted shall not be col
hs, sidered withdrawn until the motto
nd of withdrawal has been filed in Il
of local land Office, where the land
ed subject to entry. This is what Il
tie, settlers demanded, and the roat
it have claimed that land was wit
ed drawn when notice was filed in Il
he General Land Office. The roar
he will fight the bill in the House, b
ere there is little doubt of its passag
zen The bill was introduced by Senat
lid Ingalls,, of Kansas.
ks FALSE ECONOMY.
&c" In their frantic efforts to go b
e fore the people on the platform
y: retrenchment, and show that thu
% have effected great saving in e
~ penditures, the Democratic cor
io' mittee on appropriation, under Il
MS lead of the salary grabber, Rands
Z are trying to cripple the diplomat
leu and consular service and the We
icy Point academy. When the Dem
mo cratic party was in power, the 81
NE tenn of consular service was 80 q
pt- ranged that the cOnsuls, at the POI
Inc where a large number of Americi
eat ships traded, received immense 81
ore aries, the ordinary revenue of t
consuls at Liverpool and Hawai-
being over $4,000 per annum, al
mis-, many received nothing. This sy
to tenn was changed by the Repub
abb cans, and the pay of consuls W
In limited and made more equal, viii
Vil- the service was rendered more I
her fective. The effort is now bel
lat. made TO cripple the service.
.en 1t is notorious that our ministG
of and diplomatic agents abroad
emf not receive pay more than suffice
six to enable them to live decently, al