New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-29
Especial Correspondence OF tho Republican
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Especial Correspondence Of the Repuohcan']
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, March Is, 1876.
Between $50, 600 and $4,000 Of tho peo-
ple,s monev viii be expended in conducting
. worthless investigation into the election
Of George A. Spencer. United States Senator
from the State Of Alabama. Some fifty Wit
nesses have already presented themselves
before the committee in answer to the sum-
monses sent forth by the prosecution-the
Alabama memorialists. Ten moro witnesses
were subpenaed yesterday under the order
of the prosecution. The expenses OF these
witnesses range from $3.50 to $500 each.
They come from - tar ~ New Orleans, and
even Texas. If any honest result was to be
obtained from this investigation the coun'
try would uphold the enormous outlay OF
money necessary to set aeide an impure use
of the ballot in senatorial elections. Every
unpreiudiced observer of the testimony
elected from Witnesses before tho Senate
Committee ON Privileges and Elections, now
trying Spencer, can but be satisfied that
tho prosecution has failed to draw out .
single point duplicating Spencer in the
work of bribing or using other cor
rupt means to secure the votes. OF
members of the Alabama Legislature
in his iSpencer's) interest. The usual
tactics Of . political candidates friends
have been reserted to by Spencer's man.
ayers. and on the maxim of ''those who are
not for M arc against ue," the D Democratic
wire-pullers in Alabama were outwitted by
their keen and energetic Republican
brethren. Tho tactics of political man
sgers are questionable in nearly all elec-
tions, but those resorted to by the Alabama
memorialists, through their attorney, Gen.
eral Morgan, to give FREQ excursions to .
host of Democratic State politicians to the
national capital, and pay their entire ex-
penses while hero out Of tho public tEoas-
ury, will result just - General Morgan in
tends it shall, j. g.. to advance his own po-
itical interests in Alabama and enable him
to get MP scandal to be used ON the stump.
and secure material for Democratic docu.
ments ct the expense Of the general gov
ernment.
The New England Democratic members
Of the ex-Confederate House do not take
kindly to the humble sphere which their
| Southern friends in the House and Bour.
bon Speaker have allotted to them. They
begin to realize that, Democrats though
they be to tho back bone, they can never be-
como one of the family in all that the name
| implies in tho high toned household com
posed of Southern chivalry." A New
England Democrat in the Forty-fourth Con
gress is pitisble sight. do not hesitate
| to cav that he realizes his humilisting posi-
ton. Contrary to his expectations while
lsboring for . Democratic majority in the
House Of Representatives, with the belief
that when such . result was obtained ht
was to become chief among the foremost
he finds himself looked down upon - ~
inferior, . "mudeill," the represen tstive o.
. laboring "hireling" people, who have NJ
hesitancy in assuming the groveling posi-
ton of manual laborers. Democrats in tht
| North will become still further convinced
before long that it requires something els'
beside the success of the Democratic party
to oonciliste these e1.Confederste gentle
men who hold the reins of the Hous>
of Representatives. Northern men may
vote the Democratic ticket, but let them re
side short time in the national capital and
hear the conversation of Southern Repre-
sentatives and learn the feelings of Hous'
employees who served in the Comic derat'
army, and it will not take long to convince
them that these Southern gentlemen hsv'
not lost al that sectional hatred they hat
for the North, and that the casting of I
Democratic ticket by Northern Democra
by NO means gains their love. Consigned
to inferior positions ON the committees, q
Democratic members from New England
are, of unrecognized influence by the Hous
officers in filing positions in the gift Of tn
House, they certainly have obtained littl'
st the hands of the political party to whicl
they claim membership. The Oldest Demo
cratic member-Ba arnum, of Connecticut
aided by his colleagues, sought . position
for prominent constituent at the hands o
| t00 0VuO0 Ou00k0S o0A 00OAAAAA& ~>e 0k
pointment for him in the House postofdce
Tho man on his arrival was set to worl
cleaning spittoons and driving tho mai
wagon. He had done better than that II
the land Of wooden nutmegs," and hi
Democratic friends from Connecticut fail
ing to do anything better for him, he Re
turned home, muttering something abou
the "ingratitude of republics" and Demo
cratic Congressman in partiular.
Walking through the corridors Of tn
Capitol, the visitor can not fail to observ
around tho committee room doors q hungry
looking, seedy, oadsverous set of huma
beings who appear to be anxiously watcf
ing the doors Of the rooms. From time
time their anxiety Is sppeased ss they gree
ono of their number who is ushered fort
from tho committee rooms and they hea
their own names called out, with the adm'
nition to " stop inside, Mr.. -" Thea