New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-04
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican
FROM WASHINGTON.

rHl-Dem0crats Learning Wisdom =
Political Claptrsp and Party Issues
Must be Fought Outside Of Appropria'
tion Bills-Reports Of Investigatina
Committees to Fall Flat-Too Many
| Democrats In the Mire.
WARRINGTON, June %, 1876.
In my dispatch last Saturday gave you
| an insight into the way the public moneys
90 to bolster up travelling Photographic es
tablishments under the name of geological
surveys" The night preceding my dispatch
| when the sundry civil appropriation bill
was under discussion, $l40, 900 was appro
priated in less than an hour to continue in
force those old frauds styled "explorations, >
and establish new ones. In tine cloak rooms
in the lobbies and on the floor of the House
men who exc out miserable existence ae
ARTISTS who paint portraits no one can
recognize, were found eagerly at work to
assist the passage Of appropriations for such
purposes as stated above. These artists 60
out with the expeditions, waste oil colors,
paint, brushes, canvas, gilt frames, ETC.,
furnished by the government. l say waste
these valuable articles, because they are
employed in vicious attempt to represent
mountains, valleys, geysers, etc, 60 prolific
IN the Western countries. Some times-yes,
very often, these daube, self-styled paintings
are purchased by the government at good
round sum, hung in the corridors OF the
Capitol, where they outrage the sense of
art until they are hid away or buried out
of sight in some place underneath the Cspi-
tol, where go much rubbish of like sort has
gone before. There il another trick Of these
dead beats, so-called "explorers," who an
nually swindle the government, and that is
to take their Photographic establishments
along and make duplicate plates of views
representing mountain scenery, which they
sell to Photographic and stereoptical pub.
fishers over the country. These photo
graphic concerns on wheels, under the name
OF geological surveying and exploring
expeditions" are nothing more than q
swindle on the government. The projectors
OF them pay for their onslaught on the pub
lie treasury by distributing among mem
oers OF Congress and government officials
copies OF views along the Upper Colorado"
Yosemite Valley" "Canons of the Yellow
stone,' etc. The government is really en-
gagged in the photograph business. That is,
1t furnishes all the capital, but derives not
one cent Of profit. All this is specimen of
the present economic Confederate House
of Representatives.
There has been no man in either house of
Congress since the Republican party came
into existence to whom every one is go
ready and willing to pronounce statesman
as to the Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill,, of Maine.
He is first class public man every one ad-
mits and the country would be fortunate if
more such men were called into it's delib-
Grafton.
After great many threats on the part of
Democrats and firm determination to re-
sist crippled appropriations on the part of
Republicans, the wise conclusions and cool
Judgment of the conference committees
are beginning to be felt. There must be
some yielding on the part of Democrats
and willingness to appropriate what is
right and no more on the part of Repub-
licans. The leaders of the Democratic
party have come to the conclusion that the
country expects them to provide ways and
means for carrying on the government from
year to year, that no obstaclelshall be put
in the way of the machinery for running
the government, that it's business Joined
with that of the business interests of the
people shall continue without jar or friction
in so far as legislative action is concerned;
that it will not do to stop the
transportation of the United States
mails; that our courts shall re-
main open, our customhouses and in
ternal revenue Offices be able to discharge
their duties; that the fights of political
parties shall be confined to political meas
ures; that no one party shall be allowed to
60 before the country with it's political
clap-trap and ask the people to indorse
them. When by these political quarrels
the business of an order loving community
is at stand still, commercial failures are
imminent, there is no law or order, and all
because party who happens to be in a
majority in the lower House of Congress
sees fit to defy the other branches of the
government. l say, therefore, that the
leaders Of the Democratic party are begin
ming to learn little wisdom, and that the
great issue which the Democratic party
will bring before the country to determine
at the hands of the people, whether it is
not more entitled to power than the Re-
publican party, will be an issue other that
first started but now abandoned, viz: Diff
ferences in the matter of appropriations to
carry on the government during the year
which marks tho one-hundred dth anniver-
sary of this republic.
The House is working hard to get through
its business so as to adj ,urn about the mid
die of July. There are some reports to
come in and be acted upon from the large
number of investigating committees, and
while it was the intention of the Democrats
to 60 on all summer picking out the choice
morsels from these reports ref1ecting on
the official purity of their Republican breth-
eren, and making political speeches there
upon for use during the coming Presiden-
tial campaign, all these once cherished de-
signs have to be abandoned, because the rope
they threw ont to catch Republicans proved
to be boomerang, and it few back and
struck those who hurled it terrible blow in
the face, as witness Pendletcn, who robbed
his own sister; Kerr, who was in the meshes
OF fearful charge against bis honesty as
public maa; Schumacher, member of the
Democratic House, the lobbyist to bribe