The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Silver Biil-The Belknap Trial-Seeretary Robe.
sOn-Appropriations-NO Strife between the
President and Attorney General.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 9th, 1876.
The question of restoring silver to its
former position as legal tender is just
now attracting great deal of attention
among our national legislators and
among intelligent men outside of Con-
gressional circles. The House Commit
tee on Mines and Mining has reported
4 bill, providing for the issue of coin
notes of the denomination of $50 and
multiples thereOfup to $4,000 to be paid
by the several minis and assay offices of
San Francisco, Carson City, Philadelphia
and New York for the net value of gold
and silver bullion deposited thereat,
seventy-ive per cent of which in coin
or bars is TO be kept on hand for the re-
demption of the said notes. Section 4th
of the bill declares that the coin notes is
sued under this act, shall be received for
all dues to the United States, and that
the coin mentioned shall be legal ten
der for all debts ofthe same, public and
private, not specified to be paid in gold
coin. 1t is predicted that such a bill
would be defeated in the Senate, should
it pass the House. The proposition to
repeal the Resumption act is also stir
ring up much bitterness of heart in the
Democratic camp. 1t is matter fraught
with many and great perils to the Ku-
Klux-BourbOn organization and it is
pretty generally believed that Hen
bricks acceptance is conditioned upon
vote by the Democrats In favor ofrepeal.
Should the infiatlOnlsIs triumph. the tall
of the ticket naturally becomes the head,
and the head the tail. The members of
the Banking and Currency Committee
have evaded the issue up to date, butthe
-softs" have become so bold and aggres-
sive that this shuflling and evasion will
be not much longer tolerated 1t is re-
ported that Wike of Illinois, a Democrat
ic member Ofthe Committee, and always
a pronounced hard money man, has
yielded to the arguments, or menacesOr
both, of the repudiators, and that he will
now vote for a repeal of so much of the
act as fixes the date for resumption at
January l, 1879. If this is true it gives
the inflatiOnists majority in the Com
mittee, enabling it TO report a bill for
repeal to the House, which would insure
Il hot strife.
The progress of the Belknap trial has
been interrupted by the illness of Mr..
Carpenter, one of the counsel for defense,
and one of the House managers. The
evidence is all in and the Senate awaits
the convalescence of those two gentle
men. Much interest is excited by the
probable action of those Senators who
voted against jurisdiction. If they be-
lieved that they had no legal right TO try
him, how can they vote to convict him?
The immediate impeachment Of Sec
rctafy Robson has apparently been
abandoned. The only pretext is tech
meal informality whereby Mr. Robson
saved to the Government hundreds of
thousands Of dollars. The only reason
for delay is, probably, the fear that the
Senate would insist upon an immediate
trial, thus exposing the contemplate
partiZan trick to the great damage Of
their party prospects for success IN No
vember. The &c pnhe testimony that
has been taken during the past seven
months, at an expense to the Govern
ment Of more than half a million of
dollars, will likely be referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee for its opinion as to
the Secretaryis liability. The evidence
Is so voluminOus that no report could be
reached for months, putting the innO-
cence Of the accused in doubt until after
election. the next best thing to a cOnyic-
ton which they well know could not be
secured on the equities Of the case.
No meeting of Conference Commit
tees was held on Saturday, this leaving
the appropriation bills as at the last re-
port on Friday. Five remain to be COM
promised. including the river and harbor
bill, which, as prepared by the House
Committee and passed by the House has
almost universally been condemned as
an unmitigated steal, perpetrated by the
reform Democracy. There appears to
be a growing disposition in the Senate
to remit to competent engineers the
matter Of river and harbor improvement,
and rescue it from the hands of unscru-
lOus log-rollers in the House. Were the
DtAhlldp DUlSlNco- ul-pOceu VI IL houih
not probably take Congress three
DAYS To conclude all its business and adj
jOurn. A partial basis tor compromise
had, at the date of the last report, been
agreed upon in the case Ofthe legislative,
executive and judicial bill-One of the
most important and most difficult OF adj
justment-still in dispute.
Notwithstanding all the reports sent
from this city, detailing the strife be-
tween the President and the Attorney
General relative to the formers action
in pardoning Avery, there is good au-
thOrity for saying that no pardon had
been issued up to this morning.
\ grateful change in the temperature
has occurred to the intense relief fman
and beast; and the number Of our resi-
dents contemplating immediate suicide
has been correspondingly decreased. The
panic in the Departments relative to the
discharges has moderated down to a set
tied despair. LOGAN