The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-08-09

next Monday or Tuesday.
-Four appropriatIons biils>-three oi
them before Confsreuce Committee:
remain 60 be perfected and passed.
This morning it is rumored that the
House will recede from its demand
that Indian affairs be transferred to
the War Department. Ifcorrect, the
Indian bill can be easily compromis-
cd. It is thought probable that an
agreement on the legislative bill will
be reached in day or two, and that
instead Of reduction of clerical force
of 1900, the two Houses will compro-
mise on 200. h o5l d7uorai I
Very little progress has been made
on the consular and diplomatic bin
and any predictions as to the terms of
a compromise most be based entirely
on speculation. The Senate Committee
have again reported the river and
harbor bill to the Senate, with the APP
preparation restricted to $4,000, 900.
An attempt was made to adopt the
bill in its entirety just as reported by
the Committee; but objection was
made and the Items are being consid-
cred seperately.l Representatives and
Senator'S who labored SO hard for the
prOhigate appropriations, contempla-
ted by the bill prior otis recommittal
to the committee, rest under all the
odium of wasteful extravagenceu with
out any Ofithe personal popularity
they hoped to gain by securing fat al
lowances for their constituents n I
From the record it appears that dur
ing the presentsession there have been
discharged about 115 subordinate off.
GERS and employees of the House-not
because they were incompetent, for
they were admitted to be the reverse
of that OF these about one. half we're
Union soldiers, and quite number of
them we're disabled in the service.
They have been replaced by like
number of Democrats, many of them
notcriously incompetent and of bad
character, and nearly one-half of
whom earned their places by an ac-
tive participation in the rebellion. All
this has come from the delibera.t Z. & df
ton of a DemocraysS s~H House. where
members, in 49, ,I.as.' n, .t
80 1sssSrhe northeast ana west,
:'ress such profound grief for its
Democratic encouragement and aid to
The rebellion, and in the south main
tain its part of popularity by the
avowal of sentiments quite the reverse,
but who everywhere howl delefully
for civil service reform. This House,
which insultingly drove, out compe-
tent Union men and replaced them by
ex-rebels, many Of them incompetent,
and some Of them .rufians, was en-
dorsed by the St. Louis convention,
which nominated the two reformers,
and gentlemen with strong Confeder-
ate syDpathies during the war, if their
own acts and words can be accepted
as a reflex Of their sentiments at that
period. This House has squandered
a long session OF Congress in adesper-
ate huntfo offending Republican Of
fcials, and after spending hundreds
Of thousands of public funds in pro-
curing the attendance of -disreputable
women andaeriminals of every class,
almost, evidence sufficient to convict a
single man has not been obtained;
but in that time, an indignant pubic
has moved its members to drive out
several of its recent appointees for
gross incompetence, idiocy or crimi-
nal practices. |
President Grants recent message to |
the Senate, relative to the brutal
Hamburg murders, is warmly applaud
ed by Republicans, and leaves no one
in doubt as to his intentions to execute !
the laws and to punish assa ssins, black |
or white. a.
.H1oag 5ya maxwell.