The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-16
! WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Special Correspondent.l

From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c. March Is 1877.
So far as conclusions can he drawn
from anything presenting on the sur
face, your correspondent must report
everything as politically quiet-almost
stsgnant-on the Potomac The rup-
rure predict few days since as certain
TO occur between the President and
leading Republican Senators, has not
apparently. taken place; and Demo
Gratis who had contrived to make their
defeat less bitter and humiiiating by
the entertainment of this hope, are
growing tenibly anxious for irs consu
nation But aside from the opposi
ton manifested to some of the Cabinet
nominations when first sent TO the
Senate. and Mr. Blaine's rehement
protest against the meddlesome efforts
OF certain over ofiicious gentlemen who
seem 20 have acted .inadvisedly and
without the shadow of authority, there
is no evidence of the disturbance of
friendly relations which have been so
assiduously inculcated by interested
parties at this point
So far as can be gathered from TIE
political gossip about town, whatever
distrust there may have been, was
founded largely upon Inisapprehen !
sions. There were undoubtedly both !
personal and political reasons for the !
iisinclination at first shown to vote for |
the confirmation of some of the CAT /!
met selections; but they were not of !
sufficient weight to induce any very /
active opposition; and there was very
likely, and very naturally, some disap-
point over the radical character of the |
''new departure" policy adopted by
the President, 9th as regarded the
politics of the new appointments as
well as the method o. their selection. |
Further than this there seems to have
been no ground for the thousands of |
absurd kilograms sent broadcast over |
the country relative to the quarrel, |
between the President and Republi- !
cans of the Senate. 1t is reported that |
the case of South Carolina and Louis
lana will be submitted to the first Cab |
met meeting, and that every means
Will exhausted to arrive at a lust |
and equitable Secision as to the proper
persons TO recognize of those claiming
to have been elected Governors. These
are likely to prove the most embarass-
ing matters that the new 'Administra-
ton will have to feal with which we're
left over az an Inheritance of General |
Grants administration. Ii is not
k"own whether the Senate will make
a decision IN the case of Mr.. kellogg
now or allow it to go over until the
next session, nor has it teen definitely
ascertained whether the President will
call an extra session, or decide that he
has authority under existing laws to
provide or the army till next Decem-
Der.
Removals from Office and new ap-
pointments, except to fill vacancies,
will be very gradual it is announced,
and the swaTIns of Office seekers who
have besieged the President ever since
the first hour of his arrival, are be
coming more and more attenuated as
his firmly expressed purpose to make
no removals among subordinates, eI-
cept for cause, became better known
and more implicitly believed.
While Mr. Murtagh's attack upon
the gamblers and their alleged confed-
crates of the police department. provo
ken an investigation that didn't hurt
either gamblers or police officials very
much, but wrecked him i'll character,
some of the seed he sowed fell upon
good ground, and has already borne
fruit. Saturday night a raid was made ,
upon one OF the most notorious deps
Of the city. Among the captured vera
the well-to do respectable men of soci-
ETY., sporting men and vagrants. They /
were all accommodated with lodgings .
at the Station House, and this morning
the case will come before the Police
Court. 1t will be made "a test case. and
f conviction is obtained, the war will
De carried into Africa, and prosecuted
until our city shall be rid of the cor
'upting presence of these thieves and
'obbers. But they are strongly il
and will die hard f.
OF course there has been some rival I,
y among our churches as to which
hould catch the new President and
lis family. They would concededly j
,rove great attractions, and their dis a
POSITION of themselves yesterday was a
Ioted with great anxiety; but as al
uriDg the administration of General :.
iran., the Methodisis seem likely TO
Tin. Mrs Hayes being reported de
oted member of that church. This q
ooks the more probable as the Foun-
ry (Methodist) Church was yes' erday 81
elected as their place of attendance. az
MAXWELL. sb