New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-12
POLITICAL NOTES.
The Reunion Party is the name of it.
leaves Tor I'll.

The Reunion Party is the name of it. Fall
By one wise act Gov. Chamberlain has
placed the whole country in his debt
Senator Patterson is the most "amOosn lit
tie cuss" that the Southern question has developed
The Louisville Courier-Journal favors Mr..
Randall for Speaker of the next House OF Representa-
tives
The South Carolina Senator who tried to
kick against Mr. Hayes is doing well as can be e1
pected.
A singular fact about the contest for the
speakership is that the Republican party has but two
candidates, both OF them are from the same state
Patterson ought to establish political
weather BUREAU TO advise him of the probabilities for at
least "a hours in advance that he could stay Topped
for day or 80 together.
If about half q gross of candidates for the
United States Senate from Louisiana should unfortu'
nately accept an invitation to quiet little dynamite
party the situation in New-OreIns would be suddenly
smplfed.
If Mr.. Pinchbacll succeeds in stalking over "
enough colored members to either Legislature in Lou
lsana to give it clear Returning Board quorum, he VIII
have deserve the good will OF the state than
all the acts or his past life put together.
The exuberant and explosive emotion of Mr..
Nicholss friends over the result In Columbia might
afford to restrain itself from indulgng in any rsSy can
nopade oven with blank cartridges. Burning gun
powder has a very unpleasant smell In New-orieans.
AS majority of the Democratic members OK
the next House are from the South they will doubtless
demand much greater consideration than they have here
ofore had The Boston Herald gives the following Dht
Of their intentions: The Southern Democrats III tho
nov. Io,sc are going to try TO control OF two i'm
portant committees, namely the Appropriation Commit
teo and the Committee the Pacific Railroads. the OBJ
ect being to secure important Southern Improvements
and the Texas Pacific subsidy Atkins OF Iennessee,
aslanta In.V mi N
COMMITTEES OF the next House, expects 10 DC
the on adgocac Of e Texas
II il a significant fact that the most iniiuen-
ti,l Douocratc Journals the Southwestern states
admit rhe probability Of the House being organized In
the interest OF the Administration Nearly all 'he Ne"
Orleans papers hold that view. and The 'cog her""
comedies with them, will be seen from the ioho"hs
taking into consideration all things IL Is NOV 81 SUI"
pllsing that the Republicans. or the Bayesies' IL We
may be allowed the OF the word, claim that they WI"
be able to elect the Speaker OF the House They propose
TO give nearly all the other House offices, ana tie orgah
cation of the Pacific Railway Committee 10 ,ne s9u
Al least, We hear this their plan iVr ,,r SOUTH
ern Democratic principles and his friends oners a
Southern Pacific Railroad 1t would be rash 10 sa' ''''
they have no chance OF success -,
The prediction that the President would
draw TO his support the and conservative ec
ment in the country is being rapidly verified me ~
Louis Republican, abiding to the benehcent resu"
which are likely 10 flow from his Southern policy, says
There is no aftermath for Democrats but 10 accept ana
applaud il. Democratic Administration could not
have done more or better Mr.. Tilden himself could
not have gwen us wiser benign Southern pol
icy; and bitterly Democrats, five weeks ago, disputed
the rightfuness Of the presidential authority In Mr..
ayess hands, they cannot but acknowledge the wisdom
and patriotism with which exercised It up this
time He has solved the Southern question IN manner
and by method absolutely above criticism, and III VIII
be worth while Tor any public man. DeHocrat OF ne
hal
luton"
The political issue Of the future, now that
the Southern question is near solution The Chicago
Tribune thinks will be taxation. II remarks: This
issue embraces in detail differences TO how much
money shall be expended in the way OF public improve
mcnts and on the public service, the limitation OF tho
debtcontracug power, the ways and means OF raising
the revenue the principles OF reform and high
tariff as applied to the production Of revenue the coec-
on m well as the assessment Of taxes, aud the admins
tration OF the public moneys II Is an issue on which
what may be called the selisuppor,ins classes viii DO
always practically accord whether they live north or
south OF Mason and Dxons line, and whether comes
up In a national local shape; and they may always
expect the OF the taxdeyourers
including all those who cannot make living outside OK
holding contractors and subsidy hunters inc
demagogues who persuade ignorant people that lavish
generally the ipecunous and irresponsible classes VINO
have 10 property representing surplus earnings ana
who are indifferent To the amount OF taxes imposed ana
the ia which they are assessed and collected
The PHILADELPHIA Times thinks it hears the first