Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-02-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence Of the Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1877.
THE RETURNING BOARD.
The four members OF the Louisia-
ma Returning Board were brought
to the bar of the House on Saturday,
and made answer that as soon as
they had completed the canvass of
the votes, they filed the records of
the Board with the Secretary of State
of Louisiana, as required by the law
of that State; and therefore the
House had the "wrong pig by the
ear" as they could not produce them
if they would. But the furious Dem
ocrats thought they would not if
they could, SO the gentlemen were
remanded to the Sergeant-at-arms to
be kept in confinement until they
produce the records of their Board.
They will probably decide to sit it
out, as their release must come on
the fourth of March, Oh! shade of
Calhoun, and the mighty authors of
the resolutions of ninety-eight, what
has befallen the unregenerate sons
of State rights sires, when a Demo
cratic House of Representatives will
thus endeavor to invade Sovereign
State, and take forcible possession
of its archives, that it may find road
to still deeper lntamy, and provide
means to overturn State election,
and set aside the verdict of the
chosen officers OF commonwealth?
allow have the mighty fallen!"-
One 1.-THE of this usurpation on the
part Of President Grant or the Re-
publican party, would be deemed
sufficient reason for loosing the
mighty dogs of war, and drenching
the land in fratricidal blood. Come,
Mr.. Democrat, remember that you
are laying up store of wrath against
the day Of wrath, and some day, the
precedent you have established, may,
like chickens and curses, come home
to rOost.
FERNANDO WOOD.
The immaculate ex-Mayor of New
York, has, for some cause unknown,
been in violent temper against Pres
ident Grant, during the entire ses-
sion, and has, more than once, taken
occasion to throw out threats of i'm
parchment, and now he has secured
special committee of eleven, of
which he is chairman, to consider
the message Of the Presidency elative
to the use of troops in the Southern
States during the late election. On
the principle of "Set thief to catch
a thief" the selection of Fernando
Wood is appropriate. For the infnr-
nation of those who only know of
Fernando since he set up in business
as a model of responsibility, and
purity of private and official life, it
may be well to revert to the days
when he was dragging the politics
OF New York City down into the
slough of filth and corruption, from
which it has not even yet emerged,
to the day on which he wrote to JET.
ferson Davis, promising the aid of
the Democracy of New York to help
on the Rebellion, and to the time
when he made his furious protest
against the stopping of the shipment
of arms to his good friends of the
South. Mr.. Wood is not likely to
have much success with his little
scheme, and President Grant seems
willing that he should have his fun,
for he is fortified in the rectitude Of
his acts, and has nothing to fear
fiom such partisan prosecutions.
MISSISSIPPI.
Governor Morton's committee is
still taking testimony relative to the
manner in which the election was
conducted in Mississippi in 1874 and
1876; and when Mr.. Lamar presents
himself at the door of the Senate as
a candidate for seattle will be con-
tronted with a record of the most
damning infamy in the history of the
civilized world. The slaughter of
the innocent at Rome, the massacre
OF the Hugenots in France, and the
terrible auto-aa.fe, in Spain and Por-
tugal, are hardly more terrible than
the doings of Lamar and his friends
in Mississippi. 1t can hardly be
possible that an American Senate will
stoop SO low as to admit, as men,
Der, man whose election was secur-
ed by wholesale murder, and by the
most audacious systems of ballot-box
stutfing ever known.
THE SUPREME COURT.
The Supreme Court held a con-
ference on Saturday, lasting several
hours, relative to the compromise
measure; the topic of discussion re-
lating chiefly to such disposition of
the business of the Court, as shall
give the five judges, who are men,
bers of the commission, an opportu-
nifty to act thereon. The opinion is
generally expressed that Justice
Bradley will be the fifth member of
the commission. The Judge is a
moderate Republican, having been
appointed by Grant, and has never
been known as a partisan. 1t is now
understood that Judge Davis will |
not resign until the fourth Of March,
when he is to take his seat in the
Senate. 1t is given out that he de-
cides upon this course, because he
has so many opinions assigned him
to write, that he cannot complete
them before that date. But another
reason will suggest itself to the peo-
pie. There Is a hope that by hold
ing his present position until Prcsi-
dent Grant is out of office, his sue
cessor may be appointed by Tilden.
T1MoN.
The Taxes on Banks.
New York Times, January12.
The National Banks present the