The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-28
WARRINGTON LETTER.
Investigations, Legislation, African
tzatiOn, ExhalatiOn and Starva-
ton.
WASHINGTON, March 9th

The events of the week, from Il Wash
lngton standpoint, may be told in very
] few words. The distinguished exile
| Marsh, returned from Canada with hi
memory stepped IN oblivion. When ht
frst appeared before the Judiciary Com
mittee, he remembered very little that ht
! had told the Committee on War Claims
two weeks before, but, under cruca
cross examination he was compelled t
divulge his knowledge of the fact tina
Belknap was cogniZant of the criminal
itv of his relations with the post traders
at least as early as 1872. This evidence
will effectually divest Gen. Belknap .
the plea that he received the money III
nocently, through his wife, supposlng il
| to come from an investment of his made
prior to their marriage.
impeachment proceedings will be in
stituted next week, and it Is believed by
manyithat if the ex Secretary if not sue
cessfuI in plea as to the jurisdiction OF
the Senate, denying their right To lm-
peach citizen er o6iclo, he will plead
guilty at once. This will, OF course, very
much simplify and abreviate the i'm
parchment business. and, ENABLE Congress
TO give more time to legislative work
Mr.. Marsh in his testimony to-day en-.
tirely e1onerated Mr.. Clymer from the
charge (which, however, was never serI'
ously believed) that he Mr.. Clymer) had
been the cause of Marsh's leaving for
Canada. His evidence proves that Mr.
Clvmer so far from alarming him, TO use
Marsh's language, 'pacited' him, and
WAS in 10 way the cause Of his flight.
Early during the present week, bill
WAS introduced in the House making 1t Il
penal otiense to assess government EN-
ployes, and was the occasion OF an acrl
monious debate, IN which Mr..
Blaine again appeared in his
stereotyped role of bully and
parliamentary trickster, and after he had
paralyzed the bill with amend.
Inents, rendering it practically non
efficient, was passed. 1t Will be
remembered that some time age
there was proclamation to the effect
that no Government employe should be
assessed for election purposes, but the
chairman of the National Republican
Committee, who is in perfect accord with
the administration, still prosecutes the
assessments, and woe to the foolish EN-.
ploye who attempts to shield himself
with the Presidents proclamation.
Since Senator Logan relieved himself
of his long pent billingsgute against tn,
press, the Senate has confined itself t.
dipnitied debate upon Senator Morton :
bill changing the method OF counting the
vote for President and Vice President.
Many members of Congress are sicb
with influenza and there Is much com
plant of the bad ventilation OF the legs
ia.ive hall. The galleries, which are
quite commodious, are always crowded.
with street lazaroni, mostly colored
who make it business Il
iniest the galleries OF the House, and IN
feet the atmosphere. Portions Of The
ca lery are reserved respectively Tor re
porters, ladies, the diplomatic corps, anc
| IN. families of members of Congress- bu
st least two-thirds oi the space is oper
for citizens, or in other words, for The
! convenience of the constituents OF mem
! bars who may have come To ashinStol
to see, among other sights, Congress II
session. They are, however, very FIRE
ouentlv excluded from the portion oi th'
gallery lit is called here the small po2
gallery set apart for them, by the noise
some horde Of street loafers who slceI
and exhale on the seats. A resolution
WAS introduced in the House last week
to admit to this gallery only those wh'
held tickets from members; this wouIC
have given each member an opportunity
! To favor his constituents when they cone
to Washington, without peril to health
and would 50 have gone far to purify
the atmosphere in the House; but Mr.
! Corger OF Michigan, opposed the reSo
luton in n few burning words about TIT
rights of man and the injustice OF elias
| LEGISLATION. and the nuisance Is undated
An almost irvariable remark OF IlSi
tors. from the Western, Northern ant
Middle States, is: There seem to be
great many colored people IN Washing
ton" Even visitors from the South say
There are great many niggers here,
and negroes express the OPINION ina
there are almost as many cOt0red peopi
as plam in Washington. The reader cal
make his own Inference rs to the Shad
of our population Since the war TIM
city has been kind of negro paradise
| had almost said, he'll. They came froE
MARYLAND and Virginia. not Slngly, bu
IN battalions, during the regime of tn
Board o. Public Works, and constitute,
Boss Sheppard's constituency; but, sine
the Distr ct has been deprived of tn
franchise, and the pubic works hav
been suspended, Otheiio's occupation
is gone, no more does he vote he re
mains in the city however,shucKs oysters
blacks boots, phys the razor and waits OF
de table; but, how very man,
Of them manage to subsist, is eaSie
learned from the records OF the Rome
Cont As class they are improyiden
and incompetent; they will apply 10
work in half starved condition
but thew haveIo sooner found sItus
ton and lined themselves with two
three square meals than feeling the re
vivifying return of prosperity. they nj
back upon the streets.
There is no doubt but that there Is IL
very sharpest distress among the yer.
large number of Government employee
deprived of work by the temporary snS
pension of the Bureau of Engraving an
Printing a morning paper ruollshe
thirty letters to day, mostly from females
imploring Cong ess to grant an appro
priation for the resumption of work /
this Bureau, and afford them an
those dependent on them an honOrabl
escape from impending starvation
Their condition is very sad and pity
full, and there Is an effort to fix upon tb
present Congress the opprobum Of il
humanity and cruelty; but the prescn
Congress is in no way responsible 70
this condition of. things, and the sppro
blum is really with the party that BIS