The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-17
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
A Letter Made Up of Entertaining
Gossip and Fresh News From
the Seat of Government.
Newspaper Row Sold and Mystified--
Senator BOgy's Little Game--MOre
About the Presidential
Complications.
WAsHINaroN. Jan. Z. 1877.

Gathering profession occurred last week |
The correspondents had been on the alert to |
discover what the committee on the electoral |
count were doing about the notorious prob |
lem. One night they were all seized with |
fit of intelligent inspiration, and telegraphed |
to their journals all over the country that !
the committee, in joint session, had agreed |
on three terribly important points
/. That the vice president had no author
ity, under the constitution. 10 count the re-
turns.
2. That it took lS5 votes to elect.
3. That no set OF returns were to be reject
ed without the concurrent action of both
houses
When the country cast its eye over the
above next morning it would probably "b-
serve that ii was important-lf true. 1t ,,
in fact the most startling and valuable DIT
of intelligence that had left the capital this
session. The correspondents, strangely
enough, had tailed on the news exactly
without cdsnparing notes or holding any
caucus whatever on the matter. BY common
consent it was set down as true beyond all
doubt, for each man had the authority OF
some big gun for his statement. The next
dav. however, brought dIsmay TO the news
paper corps Senator Bayard picked up the
New York dailies, and finding that he had
been quoted in several instances as authori-
ty for the report blandly circulated a
double-barreled denial; the committee had
come to no such agreement and no such
rumor could be credited TO him. Ii the
bows could have traced up some hoary SIN
ner creeping into the virgin confidence OF
newsmongers and retailing the item with an
air of circumstantial gravity, the matter
would have been at once explained
on the basis that the CORES
pondents had been cruelty seduced
from the beloved pathway of truth. But no
such solution has been reached and the cir
a mi
The democracy and anxious business men
| everywhere can't be congratulated on such
a state of facts. No agreement has been
reached of any kind, and up to this present
writing no promising symptoms have come
to hand. Life is brief; 1T may also be stated
IL this connection "a hours make day IN
| this latitude. and 80 days make month.
Time has wings, and they are futtering and
and tapping in the breeze over trade CEN
| tiers, wide prairies sleepy church yards and
| sleeper senate chambers, and meanwhile the
hour hand moves on with relentless precl-
| sion to the 4th of March. where are weg'
as the Hon. Bardwell Slote would observe
POLITICAL LITERATURE.
Well. we've got a book so far from John
| Sherman, printed by the government at the
| urgent and dying request of his alcoholic
majesty of the white house. Then we've got
another book, compiled by the house branch
of the electoral committee, contain
lng 2OO pages how and those primiti Hc
| legislators like T. Jefferson and ]. Adams
and ]. Madison, Esq, botched the presiden-
| tial business before the invention of that
| stem-winding, selfregulating process known
as the returning board Then we're going
to have some more literary treasures. The
seductive Bogy displayed a handful of
manuscript in the senate on Friday, saying
he held in his hand the democratic view of
the Louisiana situation, compiled by the
/ Trumbull-Julian committee and requested
| it be printed. There was no objection,
whereupon the smiling Bogy retired to the
seclusion of his committee room, slipped
| down the three aces he had showed up his
| sleeve and played a face hand on the
printers-that is, the senate had been or
dering the Louisiana goods from sample, for
| Bogy delivered the Louisiana report in a
Saratoga trunk, and Clapp had to knock out
the rear end of the government building to
| admit Louisiana from a democratic stand
point. This will be some slightrevenge for the
mental anguish inflicted by John Sherman
quarto on the Pelican state. Think of the
other contributions to English literature
soon to be burdening the press Two
| gigantic reports from South Carolina, one
from the senate and the other from the
house; four reports in all probability from
Florida two from the senate and two from
|
The expense of printing these things is
enormous, but they must be had. The worst
of it all is the time necessarily consumed in
placing them in pamphlet form before con-
gress. 1t will be no doubt three weeks be-
fore the last report is in circulation, by
which time January is in his grave, and
there are just twelve working days left be-
fore the important 18th for debate and
maturing some harmonious settlement.
Look at the matter in that light and the
prospects are not overwhelmingly cheerful
for any settlement at all.
VETERAN CORRESPONDENTS VIEWS.
Several days ago / was lounging in the
room of Ben Perley Poore, the Nestor oil
Washington correspondents, who has been
clerk of the senate committee on printing
since the days of Herod the Great. Suddenly
the door opened and IN came a tall. plainly
dressed and very distinguished looking gen.
tleman of about 60. He had small, keen and
rather kind blue eyes, English whiskers, and
spoke with most charming ease and polish.
IT was the venerable Sir Edward Thornton.
He seemed uncommonly interested to find
out the latest phase of the presidential diff
Guilty On leaving he said; Il trust most
sincerely that congress will agree upon some
nice amicable settlement, but doesn't it
seem to you that they are making rather
slow progress
Major Poore shook bis head approvingly at
the English minister's query, and then pro-
ceeded after he had gone to call attention to
the snail method of legislation now in vogue
when we are drifting ahead so rapidly to the
brink of a troublesome cataract 1t was his
opinion have given about the time required
| to prepare the report on the southern states,
and to his notion this presented rather