, 1877-11-10
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Oct. y. Isl

| EDITOR STATESMAN SINCE my last iette
there has been presented Iii the senate sew
eral bills providing for the coinage OF sllve
dollars, and making them legal tender fo
all debts. public and private, where Geithel
contract or express law made payment ii
| gold necessary There is growing convic
ton that something of this kind Will become
| law. Senator Jones, chairman OF the silver
| commission created by the last congress, ha:
presented an exhaustive report, and with ii
a bill directing the coinage aforementioned,
The report is strong argument III tavor oi
remOn"tIZation-
Senator Edmunds' resolution providing tor
a committee of seven, to which the House
adds eleven members, to consider the laws
for counting and declaring presidential votes,
was passed The committee IS not yet ap-
pointed, but Will be an able one from both
houses.
Senator Wallace introduced bill direct
ing the secretary of the treasury to issue
small bonds, running sixty years. payable III
coin, and bearing interest at the rate OF )
and 65- 100 cents per annum. These are de-
signed IS safe investment for small sums,
IN place. of savings banks, which do not seem
to be 81 at all.
Citizenship for Indians is provided for by
the items of a bill introduced by senator Beck.
Messrs Spoffori and Kellogg, of louisiana,
have begun the argument OF their CLAIMS to
the senatorship from that state before the
senate committee Oh elections. 1t IS the gen
eral opinion that the republican party IN the
Senate can be held together long enough to
seat Kellogg.
In the House little has been done except
to discuss the claims of Messrs. Beilford and
Paterson, of Colorado, to the seat from that
state. Speaker Randall, will probably an
nouuee his committees, to-day or tomorrow,
and the business of the session will 60 on
Monday was bill day " in the House, bat
by decision Of speaker Randall the day was
occupied with other business and the two
hundred and ninety three representatives
and eight delegates must wait week before
they bring in their ton OF bills.
The pressure of congress present is found
by Mr.. HAYES to be vastly different thing
from the scattered supplIcations or remon-
strances of the individual members while at
home. The reform order is semi officially ex-
planned to mean only that Otiice-holders shall
not interfere with nominations. Senators
and representatives are to be consulted as 10
federal appointments as long as they prove
safe advisers There are indications that fur
ther concessions will be demanded and made
before tie nominations now before the Senate
will be confirmed.
But most wonderful of manifestations of
the spirit OF reform, Simon Cameron Is TO be
made minister to England, From the early
days of Cameron to this time 1t would be
hard to find one act which appears to int him
for the position If Forhey Is to be believed
Cameron Was rs terrible to the Indians, iinan-
cially, as the Freedmen's bank WAS to negrpes.
His senatorial record is barren OF honorable
achievements He WIS forced out OF Lincoln 5
cabinet by an indignant republican congress,
and sent AS minister to l,usSia, where, 1t is
understood, traGds IN contracts Tor war m;:-
teriul are is frequent as the contracts them
selves Now he goes to England. Verify,
rs Cameron himself SAID, when Hayes cabi-
net WAS announced, This is a HI Of 4
time" Later dispatches show that the great
fraud finally went back Oh Old Cameron and
gave the English mission to Welsh, Of Phil
adclphia, a mau who is utterly unknown
outside his own domestic circle.-ED.
L ne army ciSifitSiS "Eo eiiS
Washington monument foundations have re-
versed their former decision, and now say
the monument may be safely completed
where it stands As Congress appropriated
large sum for the purpose year ago, there
wOuld seem to be no reason for further de-
lay. Secretary Sherman may refuse to allow
the money to be paid out. To be sure 1t
Was he, then senator, who introduced the
bill making the appropriation, but he does
not let consistency control III these times
Some member OF the House has discovered
that no mileage can BE- drawn for travelling
to and from Washington to attend an extra
session. a bill will be promptly passed to
remedy that evil There is great question,
however, if it would not be better TO leave
things as they are. Most members travel on
free passes, aid the expense is light. Il the
bait of mileage is added, We may have I'M
portant business neglected at regular sessions
for the mere purpose of forcing the president
to call extra ones. Mileage is not the abuse
it once was, but there Is substantial profit
IN 1t. Yours, REX-