The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-01-25
FROrI WASHINGTON.

cess OF incubation has developed d
plan adroitly drawn, having On its
face the elements of a square deal,
and yet the more perfiexing does it
present itself 1t can be centorted
with an admission on the part of
those VINO signed it that the Consti-
tation presents no remedy to heal
the existing difference, and the vir-
tue is arrogated to five Senators and
five Members, and five old plugs who
wear black gowns, to suggest reme-
dies that our forefathers neyerdream-
ed of. To put it more tersely, thir-
teen members of the Joint Commit
tee, selected with view to their
eternal fitness, say to the American
people that an American Congress
has so far degenerated in statesman
ship as to be unable to know their
rights and knowing, dare maintain
them-that the Senate and House
ooAfoss their weakness to rise above
the party lever, anu crawl through
the knot-hole of the Supreme Court
to give them strength. Morton alone
of the Committee will have nothing
to do with what he is pleased to call
"the unclean thing"
Information has been received here
that the Circuit Court of Florida, in
quo warranto case, has decided that
the Tilden Electors were chosen, and
that an appeal from thedecision will
be taken to the Supreme Court of the
State.
Mr.. Hewittsays tonight that while
the act does not materially alter the
Presidential situation, it will tend to
strengthen and confirm the public
belief that Tilden and Hendricks
Electors have carried the State.
John G, Thompson has bagged the
Executive Committee CT the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 10, 1877.
The Compromise Electoral Bill and
the situation in Louisiana were both
discussed for some time in the Cabi-
net to-day. The latter is in statu quo
so far as Grant is concerned, Gamer
on, Zach Chandler, Morril, Tyner and
Taft are all bringing every possible
pressure to bear on him to recognize
Packard as he recognized Kellogg
1t is stated that they all urged this
openly in the Cabinet meeting to-
day, but he refuses to say more than
he has said, or to order Augur not to
interfere so long as no violence is
committed. The President and his
Cabinet also differ in their opinion
of the compromise Bill. He likes it,
and SAYS he shall advocate it, The
rest don't like it, and urge him to
oppose it. The truth of the matter
appears to be that he is getting tired
of being used as a cat's-paw to pull
their chestnuts out of the fire, and is
much less manageable than he was,
1t is ascertaiued here tonight, on
what purports to be sure authority,
that Ex-Governor Chamberlain, Of
South Carolina, has notified Govern
or Hampton that unless President
Grant gives him (Chamberlain) as
surances before tomorrow night that
his government will be sustained he
will turn over all the paraphernalia
ofthc Government in his possession
to Hampton on the 23d of this
month.
The dreary discussion Of Louisiana
affairs was continued in the Senate
to-day. 1t has gone on SO long, and
has so filed the Congressional records
with the horrible stories of murders
of thousands of innocent Southern
Republicans, the same narrowing de-
tails that Morton and Sherman have
so often told and re.told, with tears
almost running down their checks,
that they have become familiar as
household tales, But to-day Senator
Bogy, tho champion of Louisiana at
the end of the Capitol, put new in
tcrest to the subject by an able vim
dication of her people in an earnest
speech, which carried away the gal
lerics, if it did not convince the SEN
ate. The galleries were full, and
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