Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-16

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WASHINGTON, D. G., Nov. 10, ~.
Congress has accomplished little since
my last beyond the passage Of the Bland
Silver Bill BY the House, which is now
in the hands Of the Senate Committee
on Finance, where it is provoking warm
as it's members are divided
in opinion as to its merits. Morrill, and
Dawes, Republican, and Bayard and
Herman, Democrats, are opposed.
Messrs. Ferry, Jones, of Nevada, ALI
son and Howe, Republicans, favor, thus
leaving Wallace to determine the nature
OF the Committees action. The oppo-
sition desire to amend, in the Commit
tee, but those favoring want the bill re-
ported intact, leaving the Senate to
amend at will. Mr.. Bayard is very out
spoken, and claims that the bullion coin
age clause gives the Nevada silver min
ers one dollar for go cents, profit of
8 cents, which should go to the Govern
ment, rather than to a few persons
whose incomes now amount to millions
a year. Stanley Matthews claims that
the bill, passed by the Senate, will be
by the President. In the
House, parties are divided precisely as
in the Senate, and it seems impossible
to draw party lines upon this important
question. Many voted for it in the
House who are known to be opposed,
and only in the Senate, where the legis-
lator is more removed from immediate
accountability to his constituents, will
we get anything like an honest express
ion of opinion upon it. 1t was put
through the House by choking off all
debate, under the operation Of the prev
ious question. But this course will not
be tolerated in the Senate. Mr.. Ewing,
in the House, accepted a compromise
nti-Resumption bill in lieu Of his own,
which, through his bad generalship, was
lost upon the Speakers table, and will
likely secure vote upon it in few
days. Yet this measure, like Mr..
BANDS, will provoke interminable de-
bate in the Senate, and that, too, with
out regard to party lines. The Army
Bill is under discussion in the House,
and we have parties also dividing upon
it. The whole Texas delegation favor
an increase of the army, because OF
their Mexican troubles, and as a conse-
quence Of so much heteredoxy among
our partisan legislators, the chronicler
finds difficulty in determining in advance
what will be the fate of any measure,
and must certainly refrain from discuss
ing it's merits, because, otherwise, he
will likely find every other reader OF his
Il ho ho
in opposition to the views expressed
Beyond the fact that silver will be re-
monetized in some form or other, no one
can now indicate the extent, and how
the utterly diverse views OF our legisla-
tive solons on financial matters can ev-
er be reconciled is, indeed, problem.
One Senator favors an immediate issue
of 100000 of greenbacks, and opposes
Resumption in any form. He has
many in Congress who share his views,
and claim that unlimited issues of pa
per are in the end best for the country.
Mr.. Buckner, of Missouri, has introduce
ed bill proposing 18th Amendment
to the Constitution, under which the
10th Amendment is to apply only to
those who were citizens on March Both,
1870. 1t will apply both to colored
men and Chinese, the former not being
citizens technically on that date. 1t
will, Of course, never be adopted, as the
colored man has effectually passed out
of the arena Of politics, and the people
will not now entertain any proposition
which again makes him the bone of con-
tentlon,
GENERAL MATTERS.
Two colored men are now under trial
for forging deeds of trust and obtaining
money thereon. These parties had evil
IDENTIFY white confcderates, who sold the
forged papers at heavy discounts, but
who were shrewd enough to escape in
dictment. The frauds amounted to
many thousands of dollars, but have
served the good purpose Of making cap
italists examine closely into all real es-
tate titles. We have not as yet a class
of swindlers among us who, like their
fellows in New York, will sell any piece
of property that purchaser wants, and
in their offices make up bogus deeds
But we are nearing to that point through
the above criminals.
Since my last, Jack Frost has paid us
his unwelcomed attentions and swept
away all the floral beauties of our gar
dens and parks. The beautiful colors
of our forest trees have disappeared
and Nature generally is fast putting on
her winter attire, and preparing for the
long sleep of months, from which April S
sun shall arouse her again into freshness
and vigor. One most desirable peculi-
arity Of Washington climate is that few
of our transforms are followed by cold
weather. Yesterday and last night was
one continuous rain, and yet the clear.
bright sky and warm sunshine and alb
sence Of cold wind of to-day, seem more
like May than November. Proximity
to the ocean undoubtedly serves to
modify our climate and to deprive the
rain-storm that the West and North
send us at this season, Of the dreaded
chill and rigor which nearly always fol-
lows it in those sections. Residence
here during fall and winter proves un-
doubtedly beneficial to many persons
who have contracted lung, bronchial OF
rheumatic diseases in more northern
climes. Coming here during the War
from the West and campaigning with
the Army of the Potomac gave us an
opportunity of contrasting the climate
Of the two sections, and we prefer this
to that Of our native place. There the
thermometer goes down to 100 and ZOE
below zero every winter, while the hard
est freezing of winter here rarely lowers
it to zero. This modification of temper
ature extends throughout the winter,
and though we have snow and freezing,
yet neither is so prolonged as further
north. The telephone is becoming one
of the essentials here. The Police Com
missioners will substitute it for the tel