, 1876-08-06
While the Minority Lift the
Veil from the Partisan
Investigation.
Tlden's First Blood at HAMBURG the
Theme Of the Senate De-
bate.
The Conference Committee Final.
iy Agrees on the River and
Harbor Bill,

iy Agrees on the River and
Harbor Bill.
RAGS! RAGS!
FINAL PERPETRAT1OE OF THE DEMOCRATIC
ELEcTloNEER1Na DODGE.
Special Dispatch 10 TIE Tribune
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 5-The House to-
day farly declared itself IN favor Of an indefinite
postponemcnt Of the period OF the resumption
Of specie payments. Whatever other name po-
litical ingenuity may discover to describe the
act, the fact remains that the House, nftcr vot-
ing down proposition which looked to an ar
rangement for the preparation OF some means
to facilitate the restoration Of specie payments,
passed bill which repeals the date clause of the
specie-resumption act without conditions. This
result was not reached without a des-
perate struggle between the pronounced
friends of resumption and the opponents
Of the measure, great majority
OF whom were tnhationists. The Banking and
Currency Committee this afternoon, as indicat-
ed yesterday, presented their report for the un-
conditional repeal of the date clause OF the Spc-
cte-Rtsumption act, with the announcement that
NO AMENDMENT WOULD BE PERMITTED.
The Committee, however, Was SO confident OF a
majority for the bill that Sunset Cox lost both
his head and the control of the bill together In
an hour after he presented it. The opponents
Of the measure would not be put down
without an opportunity to record their
votes upon some measure which looKed
towards the substitution, OF sorncthing better
in place Of the date clause Cox resolutely re-
fused to permit an amendment even to be voted
fha n1nrEfIn1 tn fhp bill 1r6 hp RfA-
publicans and Democrats alike, resorted to fill
clustering, prevented quorum, and forced
call Of the House. After an hour and a half OF
nonsense, Cox felt that
and permitted the Hewitt bill to be offered as
substitute. The Hewitt bill simply provides
for tho appointment Of commission,
with instructions to report bill next
t. ae to rf the t9 SPEEDY s rst%ra
to specie payments. Cox's parliamentary blum
der Law in the fact that he permitted this
Hewitt bill to be presented as an amendment,
in the shape OF substitute, instead OF as an ad-
dtional section to tue nlil: Ian Inc error
The result was tint the first direct vote was
upon the substitute. Had there been majori-
ty for it, the Banking and Currency proposition
would have been Utterly defeated, and the
whols dn from the ht bv sma
majority, the vots being 90 yeas to 1oa
days. It seemed at one time that the
Hewitt substitute would prevail, and, pending
the rol1-call, Cox and the leaders OF that fat
The The responsibility @ for the result of the date
clause must be ascnbed to the Democrats.
Though q considerable number of the members
Of that party opposed fhe bill,
4 GREAT MAJORITY WAS FOR IT.
themselves in direct artagonism to the repeal
measure. Cox was challenged to explain
WHY he did not propose some Of the affirm
atiye measures suggested b. Iilden,s Letter,
but declined to answer. The bill was finally
forced through entirsly as an clectioneering
trick. There we're fey honest votes for it ex-
cept those cast by Representatives who are OF
the conviction that no date should be fixed for
specie resumption.
THE GIBSON BILL,
creating Commission, was also passed as sup
plement after debate Of two hours This
measure has no necessary connection with the
rcpeal bill, and was not presented in any such
relation. 1t is maintained that there is enough
left in the Resumption act now to permit the
Secretary Of the Treasury to sell bonds
and hoard gold preparatory to resumption, even
if the date clause is stricken out. The Repeal
ing act was passed by vote Of los to 81.
Some Of the Western Republicans tonight who
voted for the repeal are aPprehensive tnat Inc
cast against the repeal will have bad effect in
Shared by very few. there is no honesty what
ever in this Democrat: voting, as there Is not
act upon it. The acton to-day will have no
other effect than as an electionecring dodge
HOW T1LDEa's FRIENDS ACTED.
Tilden's letter, or message, Us the Democrats
are anxious to call it, vas not recclTed with the
satisfaction here which Tilden's friends had
hoped. Protractcd delay had east suspicion on
the document which an examination o. inc
text does not remove Comparatively few OF
the Congressman have fully informed tnen1-
selves of the contents, and those wno nave " "
jesuitica1 bid for the grcenback vote ~ tns la';
Democratic party. That it is, however, olu
for that vote and not an honest e1r
preston Of Tildcn, opinion m many not ot
the ec9basSk Democrats m nsivate ea conversa
tion. In the House this was especially o1sefsSo
when the conduct oi Hewitt, Of Ncw fork'
Chairman of the Democratic National CqInlnit+ i.t
tee, and of Ben Willis, was observed. He"lIt
and Wills arc the Confederate friends o1
Wldeu, were among his most earnest support
ers at St. Louis, and have been recogni3zsa IN
the private councils OF the party here as 1lIuens
chosen friends and followers. when, there
fore, Hewitt and willis led the opposltl9nn n 10
mittcc for the refeal of the Resumption act,
the greenbackers in the party did not hesitate
to declare, with much carnestness, tnat eltner
TildeHs declarations in his letter we're aypoG;llt
cal, or else his most chosen trlcnds ano Aol1o"0
ers had been mislcd.
The result Of to-day's action In the house,
so far as that part of the letter goes, Is at least
to create the distrust in the minds OF t1e WY
earnest inflationists from the South anu neSt
in the Democratic party that Tlden is not deal
inc honestly with them. The inflationists, in
the morning before tho friends OF I1laen iau
taken their positions upon the repeal Dill, "e1e
disposed to accept Tilden's letter as at least
CouSTENANc1SG THEIR OWN V1H"S. " w., ~
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