The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-07-20
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The Situation in Washington.
WASHINGTON. July 10. Is,


WAsHINGToN, July 10, 1876.
EDITOR EAGLE:- For the last few
days we have had most intolerable no
and dry weather here, and the presen
month is net likely to witness an!
chang for the better.
Congress is still pounding away ana
doing but little under the circum
stances. The several appropriation
bills have passed through the furnac'
and ought to be models of perfect
craftsmanship when agreed upon by
the joint committees and passed by th'
two houses of Congress. The grea
stickicr between them is the legisla
lative, executive and judicial appro
priation bill, and on this bill the Dem
ocrats are endeavoring to make a!
much capital as possible out of it
This affects the most persons, and thu
least saving 10 the Government, say
two or three millions of dollars. Thu
Republican party has, annually, since
the war, reduced this bill from five tc
ten millions OF dollars per year with
out bowling economy and retrcnch
ment. all the session, i. e., in discharg
ing clerical force as fast as the public
service would permit. The law fixing
the rates of salaries of first, second
third and fourth class clerks was passed
by Democratic Congress in 1854 and
has not been changed an iota under The
Republicans, aud the Democratic
House hope to gain public favor by
reducing the same rates of salaries
they themselves made in 1854, and thi:
is the sticking point on the bill. They
did not think il too much then when
their friends were in office and every
thing down to the specie basis. They
caught few Republican rascals and
they run on a few Democratic thieves
whom they never intended should suf-
fer from their own Investigations.
There Will ever be individuals who
will betray trusts in public or private
life, and for any body to harbor a
thought that immaculate purity is uni
versal III the ranks of the Democracy
is to turn their backs on truth and his
tory. | can't conceive of a party so ra-
pacious, so rampant and SO monopo-
lizing as the Democratic administra-
ton would be if installed to control
the Federal Government, and person
on the ground last winter in The or
ganization Of the House could not fail
to see the greed and absorption so
manifest in their countenances. After
the Democratic party have four
years run at the public crib. then il
there is any thing laying around loose,
unappropriated and squandered, it will
be the greatest wonder to me.
They held ratification meeting here
a few nights since and the old wheel
horses enthused over Tilden and Hen
bricks, and endorsed these candidates
for matchless purity of character. This
will doubtless be news in New y ork
city among Tilden's near neighbors
and where he is best known. II half
of what | hear of him is true, and |
will not dc him the injustice to count
more than half true, he must have been
a great schemer, tricky, dishonest and
the head of the Tweed ring" until he
saw imminent punishment awaiting
the whole "shebang," and then he
dropped out at the eleventh hour and
assumed the role of iniormer and re-
former. With Tilden President we
shall see Tweed At the Court of St.
James, Toombs in the Cabinet and
jeff. Davis Secretary Of State. and civil
service reform that will make your
head swim. a party that made it pos
sible and fostered q great rebellion,
costing billions of property and debt,
and produced such noted reformers as
Floyd, Tweed, Thompson, Brooks,
Kerr and multitude of
others. "salary grabbers," etc, had
better not preach remission of sins uu-
til the old stock dies off and out.
To-day, in conformity TO their plat
form at st. Lonis, they propose to re-
peal the resumption act in the House,
rs it is generally understood that Hen
tricks is little shaky on the platform
Is it stands, and he wants makeshift
IF some kind to inveigle the Hoosier
voter. The Independents claim In
Llama and have good organization
low in the field, and they propose to
,ust Hendricks and Tilden wide open.
Baker, of the Commonwealth, was
lere few days ago en- route for the
how at Philadelphia, but as yet | have
,een unable to see any one who could
wear to his presence.
Judge brown has another famous and |
Iotly contested election case on his |
lands, and this time between two West |
Platt vs.. Gooche, the for |
ner a Republican and the latter Dem
crat of the first water,-served in the |
Congress, and he being |
eformer the Democrats will not likely |
eel like giving up such material in the
resent campaign.
Hon. u. G. Haskell, the coming repre-
from the second district, is
ere. Judge Goodin received him with
pen arms, and one would have sup
osed him brother, as the Judge was
hcwing him around so as to acquaint
i'm with the latitude and longitude of
Washington life and things. 1t is gen
rally believed here that Haskell can
raveI over the track without much
ifliculty. as Goodin has recorded him
IF as (modern) Democrat, and the
econd district is not overwhelmingly
this our Centennial year.
think Goodin himself has some
oubts about this being good year
II Democrats in the second district.
Judge Brown seems to be about the
ast concerned about congressional
fe of any man know of, and is not
FIRING around ABOUT a reelection.
he men who are sought by common
onsent, without themselves skirmish-
g for nomination, far and near, are
lie safer men to trust, and ninety-nine
Uses out of hundred can be trusted.
ONE members of Congress are home
bout half the time looking up their
lances, and | believe Brown has hard
been out of Washington since he
me here, much less out in his district.
PLUTO.
GOVERNOR HAYES.