Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-04-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondents of Courier.

our WASHINGTON LE1IEk.
Special Correspondents of Courier.
WASHINGTON. D. G..
April s. 1876.
What . day will bring forth no one can
tell and this is most particularly true OF
Washington and Of the tower Of oaoole'
New investigations are being ordered ev'
cry dav and the prayer Of the newspaper
men is now, egive rs this dsy our daily
Bread and mtae ana 1000
|of the finest from We.ckerss and worm
|ley's are included in that prayer. lhe
last proposition of this kind comes from
Blackburn, of Kentucky, who proposes %
investigate where President Grant does
his official business. suppose the oh1eo'
lis to prevent Grant from going TO Long
Branch IN the summer They ought to 20
back and investigate the bones OF WASH
Iington, Adams and jefferson who each
spent the summers at their homes-or OF
jackson who spent his at the Kip TAPS
which by the then modes OF conveyance
vas further from Washington than New
Orleans is now. This investigation bust.
ness is getting to be a farce Of the broades'
kind. One of the clerks of House com
mittee has been accused OF doing some
thing while an agent of the Freedmen $
Bureau il Texas. 1t was sometime be-
fore the flood, believe, and now that
clerk is being investigated. Who the
devil cares what that clerk This name is
Boughton) did? I'VE people are tired Of
this thing. aud the Democrats need nc
more hope to make platform and can
vass upon ..investigations' tina" the he
publicans can upon waving the ensan.
guined under-sarment that Morton has
adopted Is his banner. The people know
that there has been corruption IN Office
they know that laws have been violated
but they do not believe that every official
in the Government IS thief nor willthey
regard success in thief taking as the OILY
qualification for office.
The brilliant light that shines like ne"
star from the DONE of the tower announced
that the babblers. or at least part Of them
were assembled. concluded to see them
by gas light, and calling my carriage. IL
runs on rails III the center OF the street
and charges nickel to transport any one)
! went UP TO the tower. A few OF the
ba .,blers were collected in one wing of the
tower. and they said, for The purpose OF
discussing an appropriation bill. Sd
down ex aecting t. hear great chunks Of
financial wisdom thrown out for the de-
location of the members, but instead
heard repeated some IF the old hackDeyed
political speeches. I'VE are the salt o:
the earta,'' said the Republicans. I'VE
are city set upon bill, responded the
Demo rats. And so it went. a Calm
survey of the surroundings, from strictly
dod t.care-a d-n standpoint in politics.
convinced me that if the lights of 10th
parties were hidden under bushel" thc
conntry would be no loser; and Of another
thing. that the men who did the talking
knew their audience. Wisdom about
finance, appropriations, or anything else
put before that body would have been
'scasting pearls be ore swine." left dis
gusted more THAI ever with the bah blers.
The long-hsired Custer, the gentleman
Of the army who has made great reputa
ton for fighting Indians and who played
toady to the Russian urand Duke Alexis
when he was here, has heen quite promi
testified before a comml,er end stated
some facts as to one General E W. Rice.
The next day Rice published card, over
his full name. in the National Re publican,
|denouncing Clusters ties tllnony as false
and calling him liar. Custer has acquired
great prominence by promptly letting
RICE alone. His prudence is generally
|commended.
Hallett Kilbourne is still in Jail. He
had an order on FrcuEd, the House caterer.
for his food while confined and he has
been living in style. In fact he has PLAYED
an ext ensive joke or the House. His
breakfast and dinner last Sunday cost
twenty one dollars and twenty cents. ex.
elusive of wines. His bill has averaged
SIS per day during his confinement and
tie House kicks against paying it and
propose to confine ri bourne hereafter
to prison fare. Mr. Lynde, of Wisconsin.
was SO lost to all ideas OF right ard de.
Icency as to intimate in resolution offered
by him, that newspaper correspondents
and editors could be bribtd. lie INQUIRED
of Secretary Bristow through his reso,u.
non to know how much, if any money.
had been paid our OF ke treas u. ' to edi
tors and correspondents. Bristow prompt.
|ly answered mary red" and Lynde il
lsquelched. He must have an idea thai
correspondents and editors are like orflin.
larry Congressman Of his Galore. and can
be bought te DO somebs y g dirty works
The political situation in Eurone Is
Threatened with csnvulsions. The En-.
lperor of Russia is atout to give way mis-
son who IS bitter hatrr of Bismarck. ard
the wise acres say that if he docs. it will
not be long before Russia and France vii:
be allied to curb the German empire and
|enlarge both Russia aud France.
SAXON.
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