New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-06
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican.
MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON, June 80, 1876.
The hide bound Bourbons here, the class
of men who to this day believe human
slavery to be Of divine origin, who we're
violent sympa.hizers with the slaveholders'
rebellion and are always ready with apollo
gies for the atrocities perpetrated upon dis
armed Union soldiers in Southern prison
pens, who believed and acted with Tilden
in 1864, when he declared it as the sense of
his party that the war for the preservation
of the Union was failure, and who even
at this distance from those troublous times,
habitual]y refer to every member of the
Republican party as q id Yankee" are
boiling over with the happiness brought to
them by the announcement Of Tilden's NOM
nation, and they would regard his election
in November as the tardy triumph of the
cause submitted to the arbitrament of the
sword in 1861 and ''subjugated, but not
conquered" in 1865, under the apple tree
near Appomattox Courthouse. But to an
other class here, more progressive and who
have learned something by experience, the
intelligence from St. Louis brought many
misgivings and was regarded as ominOus
of disaster. With them Hancock was the
Moses to lead them ont OF the land of cap
tivity.
Tonight at twelve o'clock, unless the
House acts upon the suggestion made to it
By the President. and which the Senate
favorably acted upon yesterday, the func-
lions of many departments of the govern
ment cease for an indefinite time, from
blow administered to it by the House ma
jority, acsuated by it's Confederate wrath
thereto.
The progress of legislation has been
necessarily slow and spasmodic during the
week, because of the absence of many
Democratic members of Congress at st.
Louis, and the absorption Of those remain.
| ing in the contest there between those two
reform" leaders, Morrissey and Kelly, who
engineered the Tilden and anti-Tilden
| wings.
| The disgraceful act Of the House in send
| ing it's detective, Thompson, to New York
| Junk shop for evidence OF Republican cor
ruption. and of the telegraph company
which sold the confidence of its patrons
was properly rebuked the other day by thu
| introduction into both Houses of measures
calculated to protect the rights of those
similarly circumstance in the future.
The Senate Military Committee has re
ported favorably upon the equalization
bounty bill, but with amendments whicl
exclude sailors, marines and other volun
teers borne on the rolls as Indians or slave
from the benefits Of the bill, and prohibit
the deduction of State bounties.
The two silver bills passed by the Hous
have been before the Senate, and after dis
cussion were again referred to the Financ
Committee. A new bill, free from the cru
dities and Objectionable features Of thos
referred, will probably be reported. tn
naval appropriation bill has finally beel
compromised and, passed. All the othe
more important bills are before conference
committees with very little prospect, las
evening" OF any immediate adjustment.
is now considered more than doubtful
| pow 49,
head of the treasury department. Nj
New is strongly urged IN case it is inall
declined by Mr.. Morrill, Mr.. Blaine
friends have been much panied to hear
his Frustrated condition on his arrival q
his home in Augusta, Maine, and the hop
) is almost universally expressed that tn
! cooler air of the North and his exemptio
from all dsquietipg causes may hasten hi
convalescence. The people of our city, an
especially the clerks and other employe
of the departments, are in a feversh stat
of unrest because of the uncertainty as
the appropriations and the consequent jeol
: ardy to their means of living. These col
templated measures Of 'reform''-the Gu
ting off of the appropriations-wil ia
, with peculiar weight on the national cap
tai. MAXWELL.