New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-25
the South to now verify these assertions.
and by their votes aid in giving peace ana
renewed prosperity to the nation d
Special Correspondence Of the Republican.
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.

.EEAIRs AT THE CAPITAL.
WAsHuGToN July 81, 1876.
The quality of the economy and retrench-
ment practiced by our retormers OF tno
House will be appreciated by mention OF
a few items, collected at random, which are
unprevided for.
A bill recently passed authorized the Is
sue of $5O,OO0O0O Of subsidiary coin; but
the House bill provides no means for coin
ing the silver SO the silver bill is a dead
letter.
Another law provides that taxes IN this
district shall not be collected unit! Decem-
Der. and by the refusal of the Ho use to ap-
propriate money usually supplied by these
deferred taxes the public schools must be
| closed, unless the calamity shall have been
| avoided BY legislation before final adjourn
ment.
No provision is made for continuing work
| on public buildings in various cities, now
partially completed, and where there will
result loss of hundreds of thousands OF
dollars if left in their present condition to
| the destructive action OF the weather and
other casualties.
In the sundry civil service bill the appro-
| priation of a few thousand doilars for the
| examination of the rebel archives, by which
| has been defeated claims amounting to
millions of dollars in the past, on the eVi-
dence furnished Of the disloyalty Of the
| claimant, has been stricken out.
The whole pretense Of retrenchment Ia
| fraudulent: for the losses that will result
| to the government and to individuals, as in
the case of closing the public schools and
| taking off the fast mail service, will exceed
| by millions all that is saved.
| To still further illustrate the unscrupu-
| Ions character of Democratic methods for
partisan purposes, the case of Secretary
Robescn, who is now menaced by impeach-
ment, is instanced. After desperate effort
| during the entire session to obtain evidence
! of his alleged criminality, it is now pro
| posed to turn over the evidence to the Ju-
| dietary Committee for its opinion as to his
liability to impeachment and this menace
il 70 be held over his head until after the
November election. Their treatment Of
Representative Hays is not whit less in-
famous, and for the same purpose evidently.
He was accused of selling cadetship. and
although the investigation, which com
pletely exorerated him from the charge,
was completed long ago, it was only yester-
day that a report was made, saying that
while the evidence did not convict him OF
fraud, vet il cast on him many suspicious.
The Hamburg massacre, where the ku-
Klux of that vicinity, including merry
party imported from Georgia, INDUCED IN
their wonted pastime of killing "nIggers. "
has been considered in the House. The
leader, Butler. was commended for his
gentlemaniy and Christian virtues and
the butcheries excused on the ground OF
csrpet-bag governments. The remedy pre-
scribed was Democratic restoration to COM
plete power. 80 they would do the killing
lawfully, perhaps. Lamar, of Mississippi,
properly denounced the barbarism, and
called for the condign punishment OF the
perpetrators. Other Democrats only de
plored" it. Cox never appeared to more
advantage, as in the very dust at his i'm
perious masters feet he attempted to make
merry over the ghastly butcheries. He
earned the contempt of the Southern mem
bers by his tiippant sycophancy. Town
send, of New York, painted his political
character with master hand, and drove
him into retirement.
Senators Morton, Logan and Boutwell,
have devoted part of one day during the
week to giving some needed information to
Senators Merrimon, Davis and others Of the
Democratic side.
Several of the appropriation bills 80 long
in controversy have been agreed to, and
the deadlock is virtually broken, though
not ended Five other bills remain to be
compromised - four of them now tefOre
conference committees, and the other, the
| river and harbor Dill, in the Senate.
The report of the committee to investi
gate the last Mississippi election will soon
be made. 1t is claimed that it will show a
condition of intimidation, fraud and terror
ism almost rivaling New York city or Bal
timore in their palmiest days of Democratic
supremacy.
The letter OF Mr. Wheeler, like that OF
Governor Hayes, is received with many ex
preston of satisfaction by every one here
save the Bourbon element; and to them the
ominous silence of their great reform can
didate, Tilden, brings many misgivlngs
The eyasive disposition of the Democrats
of the Banking and Currency COMMITTEE is
making the inhationists thoroughly mad.
They entreat and threaten by turns. But
the assurances of two prominent Demo
cratic State officials from Indiana that
Hendricks will refuse to run unless the
Democrats of the House repeal the resump'
ton act, is causing lively stir all around
the Democratic camp; and it is asserted
that several of the heretofore sound East
era men have, at last, yielded allegience to
the rag child. Democratic comments upon
the !enght of time it took Hayes to prepare
his letter are heard no more; and the un'
certainty and doubt enveloping the recent
mating between Tilden and Hendricks
leads them to regard the probabilities oi
| the future with much distrust.
MAXWELL.
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