The daily gazette., 1876-12-28
Our Washington Letter.

Chrismcs-A Committee that Does not
Rest-AR 1poiogy for .Nessrs. Chdadler
amt Duel-Judgo Hdimdn WeddiiHg
WIN Thor Mdchine,1i-Turn The C0i-
CHM Lights on Senator Norton-Look.
Looi!-He WU Perform His Mimitable
Ecoi,tioa, Or A. JTW Hare Our Money
Bdck.
WASHINGTON, Dec. q, 1876.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
If General Grant would only 20 to
Long Branch during the Christmas
Holidays, there would be scarcely any
| thing but hot weather, wanting to re-
mind us of summer, for many members
and senators have retired for brief sea-
son TO the bosom of their constituencies
thousands of government clerks, male
aud female, have gone to their homes in
the different States, which they have
not seen since they had forty days leave
of absence, without reduction of pay
to go home and vote for Hayes and
Wheeler or be discharged Washington
is as dull as summer during this season
A sprinkling of cadets from Annapolis and
West Point, (no city has SO many scions
educated at Government expense as
| Washington a few balls, tableaux, and
church festivals coming Immediately af.
ter Legislative turmoil, and in the midst
of incipient revolution has an effect to
make us Indifferent to the vicissitudes of
life and mediate rashness, matrimony, OF
at least to give us that nil ddnirdntu,n air,
so charmingly affected by Miss Shoddy
| where she says, "Yes, this reminds me
when l went to "Venus" on the ssAJti
atic," and saw the pyramid of Cheops,,.
A few members of Congress, however,
remain, working during the holidays or
he various committees among them
he indefatigabe Halman, chairman ro
the Committee on Appropriations Al
most every week results, In 'dtsel9sdrtl
\ which justify the economy Of. which Ii,
has so long been therexponent and, l. 70
which he has been the best abused Demo
orat on tho noor. it;Ht @io{ h1nlV 9itiHr
v Vi, '-0 bus ,dtod tGpo2 ,onnED
d The latest discovery oisi that o the ma!
roll of the Patent Office contains nlarg
number of fictitious raihfs, 'anau thatifa
: vorites represented by these names hav
been drawing pay for, which they Zen
dered no, equivalent ip. Work, 'Thes
frauds Gsi6 oGecasi6on npsg no ssegnsation' tion'i IN Wasbing
ton, we are used, 70, them, III admBdadan
is our motto, they have become monte
nfdus, have 10 orriginallity,' and are n
, longer effective even in pointing q mora
kn4eea, thdte are excuses Tor The frahd,
I'M L. Chaiitl1er c!fntiot he -e&pected to se
everythfnG;;3befo fhe election he wa
direGtfng the icampdigh Or 'levying an
disbhisiGg E1efical assbsS hentg, sintethe
,1he has been fngf6sssed rs 'Yith the Returi
tm1lchio mortal cabinet minister, Ito as
! him to give his entire attentibff to til
, side show called the interior" Depar
Z ment of which the fatent~ Office forms
Y part Nor should the Hon. Mr.. Duel
Commissioner of Patents-be too severel
blamed. He, also has done the party goo
2 ssrNice77notably in achieving an illnm
= mated supplement to an official. Gil cula
I through Which thousands of applicant
r for patents we're, informed, that owing t
thd reduction ~ force iinade'by the las
Congress their eases could not be attend
ed to with tho usualpromptnessI Unde
cover of this circular, the employees o
| the Patent Office were enabled to leav
for forty days and render valuable assist
ande in the campaign -, 4f-.,i XIX.
Now it is feared that Judge Holman
viii insist upon further reduction Of MI
, Duell's force, and cripple still further tn
efficiency of ftheDepartment as politica
: machine. But worst of all, there is
wide spread impression that Mr.. Tilden
win offer Judge, Holman the secretary
j Ship of the Interior Department wher
II his'ienctdld for Ineddling with expenses
t6riPpling nIaciifnery. and saving none,
| \ ID taxpayers. would produce a cohtras
"A gnSomplimentary TO its present admins
thation, and prove more effective thai
Illuminated circulars, OF even than none.
wrtlpE from government, clerks III keep
ing the bloody economical Democrats il
: fH6se}with Whom I have cohversed ar
knot very hopefhl tlatthe joint c61ninitte
! Y ELL effect a solution of the PresidentIa
ditAicultS. The Senator whose infhIenc,
the advocates Unconstitutional method
most fear is,MvJ Morton Of Indiana, an
vet he has placed himsels more squarely
n on record than any other senator, to til
u effect that the Vice President has M
right to count the, vote, and that the in
$ ability of both houses to- agree upon
statepresentingt two returns, must depriv
that state of iis voice intfe electoral col
lei geso I'll e is the author of5a mlI etn body
! hing these ttheoriesy which passed TIL
I Senate noilater than last se ssiDn.1 MI
: Morton has, however, been on both side
,.I of spmany questions. that,it will surpris
/ | everybody if he should be consistent il
, this. nnt,as he turhs this time he wi
trirm Under the scrutiny of. 10000 900 8
j people aided by the magnifying power c
496newspapers; for, although the jour
: nals edited by postmastersjjwhich com
pose so large a proportion of these hop
+ Ho profit by his terginersatiOn, and wil
j fAoubtlGss attempt it's polliation in record
ing his vote, they will record the fact. =
II Democratic memhprs hre lin daily re
Il cdipt ofiletters which give assurance o
q fthe'largest and most unanimous rpolitica
4 demonstration on the Sth of January, il
: -trecognition of the election 2t Tilden, tina
II They are assured that Republicans will
1{fepv generally. participate, and i'm man,
, localities take the lead in urging compli
anee with the verdict of the majority.
C. 4. S.
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