The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-01-27
Our Washington Letter.
The Agony Overflow the EIecs
tiOn Shall be Rbecided-Claan.
dler Stumps an Investigating
COmmiftee-U.S.F 9. Fish COmmis-
sion.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20, 1877

WASHINGTON, D. G., Jan. 20, 1877.
EDITOR CHIEF:
At last the great agony of so many
past weeks draws to a conclusion, the
committee upon the manner of count
ing the electoral vote having agreed
last evening upon method of so do
ing, which it is expected will be re-
ported to the Houses of Congress to-
day. In substance their report is as
follows: That q board of arbitrators,
to whom all disputed questions shall
be referred, shall ae appointed, five
of whom shall be Judges of the Su-
preme Court, FIVE Senators and five
Representatives. The four Judges,
who by length of service have senior
ity of Office, shall be taken first and
they, from amongst their associates,
shall select another to make the fifth
member of the Supreme Court portion
of the tribunal; the President pro
tempore of the Senate to appoint the
five Senators and the Representative
to be selected 10y the Speaker of the
House. 1t is useless to prophesy as
to the Representatives that will be
chosen, but the Senators will proIa-
bly, be Edmunds, Conkling, Morton,
Bayard and Sherman, and the Judges,
Swayne, Miller, Clifford, Davis and
Field. the first two Judges being Re-
publicans, the last an independent,
and the others Democrats. 1t only
remains now to be seen whether or
not the two Houses will accept this
tribunal.
The House committee upon the
late election seems to have made
rather Il " water haul so far as their
investigation of the doings of the Re
publican National Committee are con-
eerned. The principal witnesses be-
fore them this week have been the
two Chambers, Zach. and VIM. E., |
and they have truly proved elephants
upon the hands of this Committee.
Without waiting for the action of Mr.. |
Orton, Secretary Chandler has laid all |
his kilograms in full before them, and
they now appear to feel very much
like those other dogs who wasted so
much valuable time barking up the
wrong stump. Experience is a sad |
teacher, but by it these gentlemen
will have learned wisdom before they
conclude.
While business in Washington and
all over tho country is almost para
lyzed and commerce seems nearly at a
stand still, there is at least one Gov
erument Bureau which goes steadily
on with It's good work, unmoved alike
by political murmurings or sectional
strife. refer to the United States
Fish Commission, of which Professor
Spencer +. Baird is the llead-and its
work is truly one of great moment,
for than fish there is certainly no food
more healthfHl, and should this COM
mission receive the support and en-
couragement it deserves, there will
be no food more cheap. In fact it
may be stated us IL maxim that exactly
as the demand for labor decreases
does the work of the U. S. Fish Conn.,
mission increase In Importance to the
people of this country.
Amongst other importations of val
liable food fishes, this Commission has
lately introduced from the waters of
Germany some of the better varieties
of carp, several thousands of the small
fry of which species will be ready for
distribution next Spring. As this is
a fully dOmesticated fish, adapted to
warm and muddy ponds in the South
us we'll as to waters of larger and
cooler nature, it will be readily seen
how valuable an addition it is to our
stock of f00d-fshes. Among its pis-
catorial brethren it holds similar re-
lation to that of the chicken among
birds, and may be propagated in
ponds, millponds, sloughs and
lakes. Amongst the distributions of
this bureau throughout the country
during tile past year We're 5000, 900
shad, 4,0OO,n00 California salmon, a
half million of lake white-fsh, and
several thousands of the land locked
salmon. SENTINEL.