The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
Old neutrality-suspicious. ons-Secretary RobeseR-
Democratic Conspiraey-Speaker Kerr Gen
erai.
WASHINGTON, ID. c June 6, 1876.
\ storm of indignant denunciation
against the n.anagers of that avaricious
monopoly, the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, for the shameless
breach of faith of which they have
been guilty, in selling to the most lib
eral junk dealer, the correspondence OF
their s-correspondence that is
regarded to be Just as sacred as though
under seal and in the custody of United
States mail officials by all honorable
men of whatsoever party. No clearer
evidence is needed of the despicable
spirit animating the managers of that
wealthy monopoly that its princely
revenue, amounting TO millions of dol
lars annually, might be increased by
the addition of few paltry liars
than is furnished by their recent sale of
their patrons secrets TO Ii rag and junk
dealer; where the creature of n bitterly
partizan eX rebel. cOppcrheai Congress
found and bought them with the hope
that they nigh. contribute to the ext
gen:ies of a political party striving to
regain the national supremacy it lost
through its reasonable assaults against
the life of the Government which had
nursed and protected it. Were the
money thus secured 10y trading on the
confidence reposed H.. il u:der the most
solemn assurances of secrecy, to be
multiplied Indefinitely, it could not
offset the weight of odium now resting
upon it. Whatever the verdict may
be relative to the part played by the
noble reformers in the House in the
matter, the feeling of scorn and con
tempt which every honorable mind
feels toward that company is unInista-
BILE
The end of the fiscal year, so near
at hand, is quickening the minds of
members of Congress not wholly alb
sOrbed in schemes sforsecuriDg partizan
advantage, TO the perils meuacing
every interest of the nation. Should
the first day of July find the appropri-
alton bills now under consideration,
not passed; and disposition to bar-
monize views upon them begins to man.
ifest itself. Some of the more expert
enced Democrats in both Houses, those
who from long service here appreciate
the absurd character of.the reductions
proposed by the crude and immature
legislators brought into the House ac-
cidentally in 1874 by the so-called
''tidai wave" will undoubtedly act in
accord with the Republican majority
in the Senate in their practical efforts
to provide for a proper administration
of the government; and if the bills
fail the Republicans of both Houses
will not fear to go before the intelligent
voters of the country upon the issue
that was forced upon them by the OBJ
in the House. The in-
and failures of the House
are manifest even to Dem
ocrats in their unredeemed promises
relative to amnesty, tariff, finance, civil
service reform, and in short upon
every subject which found their raj
lying cries in 1874, which, coupled
with Republican carelessness and
apathy, gave them temporary control
of the House of Representatives.
The opportunity so tardily accorded
to Secretary Robeson, only after re-
peated demands on his part to meet
his accusers, has shown the baseless
of the calumnies sent ont of
the committee room against him with
the seeming approval of the Demo
cratic members of the committee; and
the spirit of persecution. contemplate
neaness and partizan hate that have
marked the course of this committee
are bpt reflex indications of the ami
mus underlying every investigation
ordered this session,
The Democratic conspiracy against
Mr.. Blaine is still the most prominent
topic of conversation amongst all class
es OF people here. IL is rumored that
he will read the private letters before
the committee that he captured from
Mulligan. His friends are this morning
and exhllirated; and it can
lot be denied that if the sympathies
IF the masses here are Indicative of
hem as they exist elsewhere, a shout
If rejoicing will 90 up all over this
broad land il he is as able to meet and
dispose of the ISLANDERS and charges
against him as he has done heretofore.
Mr. Kerr is under a clodd, and
hould he be unable to satisfactorily
Xplain to his party friends why lie
elected a recipient for his official fa-
'Ors from the ranks of the enemy, he
must inevitably lose caste with his par
y, aside from the question of having
eceivsd pay for his influence in the |
natter under investigation; although |
believe the majority OF the people
ere will hold him guiltless of that
barge unless corroberating evidence
D sustain Harney's assertions can be
acured.
If the Senate decides to go on with
;elknap's trial instead of postponing
till December as has been proposed,
lany weeks must be consumed before
n adjournment can be effected
All tie other usual matters of gossip
ave yielded for the time being to the
interest taken in Mr.. Blaine
| his struggle with his ex-rpbel, cop
,priestly and personal enemies;
nd whatever the effect may prove to
, on his nomination at Cincinnati, his
eat abilities and the nobility of his
laracte- as shown under adverse cir
INSTANCES so depressing as to have
ushed an ordinary lnah to the earth
e acknowledged. and his place in the
ARTS OF his friends is more than ever
surad Rrp