The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-08-19
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 10, 1876.
DEAR WHIG:-Congress is preparing to
leave US; therefore, the melancholy days"
are come. However, the voice of the ''mud
Singer like the truth, will be heard in
the land, and on the stump we shall be told
how he has fought, bled and died for the
Confederacy. When our Congress leaves
US, life is monotonous, and we shall be
compelled to read all the murder cases and
police news until next December, so as to
keep up the illusion, on the same principle
that induced the man to buy tiger to keep
him company after his wife died.
CONDITION OF BUSINESS.
Congress, since it met in December last,
has passed over three hundred laws, about
evenly divided between public and private
acts. Four thousand and ninety bills have
been introduced in the House. This is
larger number than was ever introduced in
Congress before at any one session. There
are more private claims before this Congress
probably than there ever was before any
previous one, and the much larger part of
them come from the South.
There are pending, on Mondays private
calender, 20S bills from the Senate, with
and without amendment, and the Senate
has as many from the House. There are
nine reports of committees undsposed of,
eleven House bills and resolutions with
amendments of the Senate, forty-two bills
from the Senate on their first and second
reading, eight motions passed and motions
to reconsider pending, and forty bills before
I'll Of ha hola
of the Union. This Ex-Confederate col
lection of brains and wisdom (?) in the
eight months and half has succeeded in
muddling good deal of business and post
poning it until next session, when every
day of the session will be needed to get
through the work. They commenced with
out any old work last December, and have
been eight months and half Matching out
small mouse. With all this unfinished
business before it, and only three months
next year to do it in, the Forty fourth Con-
gress will certainly have their hands full
during its last session, especially if they do
as they did this session, when it took them
three months before the first appropriation
bill was brought out of Committee. The
scene last night
AT THE CAPITOL,
was one of great interest. The galleries of
both Houses were well filled, the Capitol
was fully lit from the crypt to the tholus,
and everything tended to intensity the inter
est in the proceedings that was felt by those
who were there. The House met at s
O'Clock, and called the roll. There was no
quorum present. After a good deal of
shutting a quorum was secured, and the
Bland silver bill came up. Gen. Banks
made very strong and statesman like
speech in its behalf. After the speech,
several Intellectual attempts were made to
adjourn, and all sorts of propositions were
brought forward more to kill time than
anything else. Mr.. kasson replied to Mr..
Randalfs charges of Republican extrava-
gance and boasts of Democratic reform
His speech did him great credit, and seemed
to thrill the audience.
DISGRACEFUL SCENE.
One of the most amusing and yet dis
graceful scenes that has for a long time
taken place in the House of Representa-
tives commenced about the time Mr.. Kas-
son closed his speech. He had gone through
a most scathing rehearsal of the Delinquent
cies of Tilden, and several bills and reso
lutions came up for consideration. There
was some discussion as to whether Sammy
Cox was entitled to the floor. Mr.. Law
renee, of Ohio, insisted that unanimous
consent be given to Sammy to shoot off
his little pop gun. Sammy started out
with the assertion that Mr.. Kasson was the
apologist of Belknap and the post traders
in the House. Mr.. Kasson called him to
order for stating an untruth with regard to
member Of the House. There was great
confusion, during which Sammy Cox, in
the most melodramatic style, rushed over
to the Republican side of the House, rush
ed up the aisle, shook his fist in Mr. X
face, and called him deliberate liar. Mr..
Stevenson, of Illinois, fearing a contest be-
tween Cox and Kasson, threw himself be,
tween them. Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts,
called Cox to order and asked that his
words be taken down. Sam Randall then
started in with a system of bullying and
dragooning, and insulted everybody on the
Republican side who essayed to speak
The reporters took down the Objectionable
words, and they were read from the desk.
The scene itself all through was most dis
graceful. For time riot was threaten
ed, and some of the Democratic members
acted more like
TAMMANY ROUGHs
than members of Congress who wear the
title of honorable 2" before their names.
The general appearance of the House from
~ till 1890 was that of a quarrelsome
crowd surrounding the bar of Elkton's
"Hell's Kitchen ON Saturday night,
only there was no fighting. There was
evidently bar in the neighborhood that
the Rechahtes had failed to close. Perfect
order was finally restored with Sammy Cox
still on the floor, when the Speaker decided
Cox out of order A general squabble
then took place on motion to adjourn.
At A. NJ they were calling the roll on that
motion, when your correspondent left in
disgust-you can therefore judge how dis
gushing the scene was. day, however,
the wheels Of progress still revove and
Congress has decided to adjourn on We'd
nesday at the latest. Happy Wednesday.
Welcome adjournment.
GOOD BYE, MUD SINGERS.
Welcome political relief from continued
blunders, and again, farewell, oh. mighty
dirt hurlers. Thank God, long farewell.
Farewell to schemes that blacken whatever
they touch; to utterances that make loyalty
blush; to rebel bills for paying rebel debts;
to the army of Confederate soldiers en-
camped in the left wing of the Capitol; to
Ben Hill and Tucker; to the inappropriate
Sam McMullin Randall and Sammy Kelly
Cox; to these and all others of the ex- Con.
federate and dough faced mob that has
made this the longest, most expensive, and
most disgraceful session ever inflicted on
the American people. Again, farewell
Joyfully yours, j. II. p.
The only dajlv Garman -,