The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-07-26
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The Close of the SessiOn-NO
Cause for Comprehensive
Deadlock BrOken-RiV-
er Appropriations
VIM. McFarland-TiI-

er Appropriations
VIM. McFarIand-TiI-
den and Triumph.
WASHINGTON, DC, July Is, '76.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
The hot weather and anxiety of 8
number of members to get home will
hurry up the adjournment, and now
that the deadlock has been broker
and the bottom tumbled out of the
Belknap impeachment, there is nc
reason to suppose the session will
be prolonged more than few weeks
We hear many complaints of Con
gress not doing enough. We always
hear complaints. 1t is in the nat
ural order of things. But people
who complain must remember sever
al things in extenuation-the House
is Democratic while the Executor
and the Senate are Republican, and
consequently will not endorse any
thing they can possibly avoid that
would advance the interests of the
Democracy, and consequently be at
the expense Of their own party; and
then this is the Presidential year
and both parties approach almost all
questions with doubts and hesitancy
With all these obstacles the Demo.
cratic House have accomplished q
wonderful amount of good work.
They have exposed fraud and cor.
ruption that fills the atmosphere all
around the world with its stencil,
and have pointed the way to Reform
which must save the country.
AS before mentioned the dead
lock is broken, but the Democratic
House won the victory and all honor
is due the Appropriation Committee
of which Hon. Sam. j. Randall is
Chairman, and our own gallant At.
kins, a member, for the noble fight
they made. They pointed the way
to save $40. 900 to the Govern
ment in cutting down expenses and
cutting off useless offices, but the
Republican Senate threatened rather
than have this misfortune befall
their army of off1ce-holders, they
would refuse to concur and stop the
wheels of Government. They play.
ed bluff and lost.
In the appropriation bill, Tennes.
see has been well cared for by her
efficient and ever watchful members
excepting, always, Hon. j. M.
Thornburg, who opposed the appro-
priation to our rivers and the Mem
phis Custom House. We get $780,.
900 for the Tennessee river, $4,000
| for Powers river and the Clinch,
! $4,000 for French Broad and.a sur.
vey ordered for the Holston. The
first appropriation was ably advocat-
ed in the Committee by Gen. Atkins,
one of the members of the Commit
tee, and Judge Mcfarland, Gen.
Dibrell and others in the House and
by Senators Key and Cooper in the
Senate. But for the timely aid of
Senator Key, in the Senate, the bill
would have been amended so as to
cut off all appropriations but the one
for the Tennessee river. Your mem
ber, Judge Mcfarland. made a gal
liant fight for it and Senator Key by
his commanding influence and tire.
less efforts saved it. Hon. Casey
Young got 100000 for the Mem
phis Custom House-a grand victory
There were bills for forty-three Gus
tom houses and his was the only one
that passed. So your readers viii
see our Tennessee delegation are
coming back to the old reputation o.
the State when Bell, and Polk, and
Caruthers, and Gentry, and johnson
adorned our national councils. The
fact is no delegation in the House
compares to our delegation, take
them all in all. The Democratic
members are all good men. Your
member is one of the best in the
House. He has attended closely tc
the interests of his people and al,
ways been at his post of duty. NJ
new member occupies a higher posi-
ton with the members. He has al
ready done much for his people ant
will do much more. Any measure
he advocates will always meet thC
deliberate attention Of the House
for they know it has merit in it o.
Mcfarland would not advocate it
He has nobly redeemed your Dis
trict. and if your people are true t.
themselves and their own interests
they will return him to Congress b.
an overwhelming majority.
The Tilden wave is proudly OF
the rapid increase, and that it viii
roll on to victory in November,
have seen no well informed politi
clan who doubts. Everything point
to success, while on the other hant
the RAIDS are fainting and falling b.
the way-side and read their doom il
the coming contest. They are a
certainly booked for destruction a
if they had taken passage on tn
pandemonium train. Grants recen
action in turning out Jewell show
the party have given up Connect
cut, and his dismissal of Pratt is eV
idence they have no hopes of Ind
ana. Let your people be of goo
cheer. The day of redemption is a
hand, and as the people cry abroa
for Reform, behold now is the tim
for their salvation.
NORTH CAROLINA.
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