The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-22
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. d. G. Nov. II, 1877.

Vith Mr.. Schleicker's amendment
Mr.. Hayes to keep four
'ull regiments of cavalry OH the bor-
Ter of Texas, for protection against
Mexican raids. The House limited
the numerical strength of the Army
10 10000 men as the maximum, with
, reduction in the appropriation of
about . million dollars or more. The
Senate Committee have also made
to the effect that the
Army shall be recruited up to $4,000
men, as is allowed by the present ex-
isting law, with a reduction in the
present expense of the staff of the
Army, and army headquarters, and a
committee of the two
Houses will be necessary to reconcile
the differences between them, although
from the present temper of the House
they will not recede from the Bill as
passed by them, so that If the Senate
. ubbornly refuses to pass the Bill as
sent to them by the House you need
not be surprised if the Army appro-
priation Bill fails altogether at this
extra session.
THE NAVY APPROPRIATION
bill passed the House last Tuesday,
not however without very heated
discussion wherein ex-Secretary Robe.
son was pretty roughly handled for
maYIeasance in appropriating the funds
Of his department to illegitimate pur-
poses, an account Of which has been
heretofore ventilated through inves.
tigating committees of the last session.
THE SILVER BILL
will have eliminated from it by the
Senate Finance Committee, the free
coinage clause as passed by the House,
as Mr.. Bayard and Mr.. Herman, both
Democrats. insist that if there is to be
any profit in the coinage Of the silver
dollar it should inurc to the benefit of
the Government, and not TO the silver
spectators. Mr.. Bland, father of the
Bill in the House, was before the Sem
ate Finance Committee, advocating his
bill and replying to arguments there
made by the committee of bankers and
brokers of New York and Philadel-
phia, who are hotly opposing Mr..
's BANDS Silver Bill" The discussion
became quite animated and somewhat
in which Mr.. Bland shook
his fist at the bankers delegation, ad-
dressing them as "you men of Wall
and saying to them, "you do
not pay the debt, it is the farmers OF
the West who pay the debt, and they
intend to pay 1t with the cheapest cur
rency they can get, and if you press
them too much they will not pay it at
all, but will wipe it out as with a
sponge" concluding his remarks with,
&c the moneyed aristocracy of the
were responsible for the labor
riots of last summer, and their recur-
ence on q larger and grander scale III
the future should capital crowd labor
again." @
80 THE EANTI-REsUMPTION BILL
which was referred back to the Com
mittee by the House, is in charge of
Mr.. Ewing, OF Ohio, who informs us
that he fully expects to defeat all at
tempted amendments, and push the
bill through with the first amendment
free banking, by. a rousing
THE SENATE DEMOCRATS,
at their late caucus determined to
make an effort to defeat the purposes
Of the Republicans in delaying action
On the Senatorial contested vacancies
until the last moment and thereby put
themselves right before the people.
JUDGE sPoFFoRD AND KELLOGG
have been before the Committee on
Elections in the Senate and delivered
Ihort arguments in their own behalf.
II is a foregonc conclusion that the
Senate will seat kellogg.
THE TEXAS PACIFIC BILL
will not be presented to Congress un-
ii the regular session next month
The bill Is already in proper shape,
ind desperate fight will take place
'ver this measure by tho opponents
md friends of the Bill, the latter of
whom are very sanguine of success.
SUNSET cox
Who intimstes that his opposition is OF
10 mean strength, intends to oppose
he item ofSl2.OOO for expenses of "ob
aiming material and reporters salary OF
editors and expenses of editing reports
that appear in the estimates made by
he Secretary Of State. for the Paris
now in the hands Of the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
L looks like snake in the wood-pile
md is rather an extravagant pay for
them literary fellers."
THE BALL OPENS,
With the first formal opposition TO any
" Mr.. Hayes nominations, by the
Senate in Executive session. upon the
of Mr.. John L. Stevens,
,f Maine, as Minister to Sweden and
Norway. Mr.. Window who opposed
he confirmation called for the yeas
md nays, and as there were not over
J half dozen votes in the negative, Mr..
Hayes won, and Stevens goes to Swe-
len. The anti-Hayes Senator'S, said it
vas not test vote and they only
wanted to see what Mr.. Hayes would
10 about 1t.
MR.. RANDALL
las concluded not to interfere with
he Committee on the Pacific Railroad
n the selection aof their chairman,
made vacant by the resignatian of Mr..
Potter, and the robes of Office will
therefore, be thrown around Mr..
m rock morton nv the c0mrn;ffoo