Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-01-18
Our WASHINGTON LETTER
wAsHINeroN, u. G., Jan. 10, 1877.
THE STATUS OF AFFAIRS.

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wait much longer for solution OF th
difficulty involved i'm the election q
our Chief Executive. With each pass
ing day the field OF doubt grows less
and the straws at which the drowning
Democrats are catching are fast hecon'
ing fewer and weaker South CarUlin'
his been confirmed to- Hsyes- an,
Wheeler, by the report Of the Commit
tee of the House, and Florida will souI
| follow; when thesonly votes in disput,
will be Louisiana and one in Oregon
The natural Republican uajoIily II
Louisiana Just rs there il in South Car
olina and Florida should set at TEST an \
doubts aS To the lsgitiInate position q
that Stale ON the Republican. side
Since 1867 that State, at each election
has cast her vote for the party oil law
and order, and there was nuthing in
the late Presidential electiun that could
have induced her loyal people to ior.
sake the principle which they had fol
so many years supported. The sapi,sr-
ent change in vote is indisputably due
to fraud and ntimidati0n-tfres lat tteI
extending from the simple threatening
of the employees by his employer Ia
blOOdshed and midnight murder. The
Senate subcommittee, investigating
the alleged informality i'm The electoral
vote of Oregon, Is developing a Ease
quite unpleasant to the Democracy and
those responsible for the difficulties in
the vote of that State. The use of 50
many thousand dollars in connection
with the violations of law and prece-
dent by the Governor and his nnscru-
pulOus satellite Cronin remains unex-
planned. Is s.nF HisT
: COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
TIE interest centered upon the count
ng.Of the Electoral vote remains uaa-
baied. The committees tn determine
how it shall be done have not yet EN-
lightened the public with the result of
their laboTs, and there is little hope of
an early agreement Noone supposes
they can effect solution of the prob
lem They are aided and confused by
the opinions of individual members OF
both Houses who bring their view 8
into notice through Numerous bills and
resolutions of most conflicting nature.
The Democrats resist, however, with
ntmest tenacity the Republican claim
that The President of the Senate is. duly
by the Constitution and
precedent to count the vote, and insist
that officer can only act in ministerial
Just as both Houses OF Con-
gieSs may dictate. Under such di-
views no partisan presumes
the committees can arrive at ii satisfac
tory conclusion in lieu of the old and
accepted rule of the past which put tt e
whole matter iI the hands of the Pres
ident of the Senate as a judicial affair.
THE DEMOCRATIC STH or JANUARY.
The anniversary of Gen. Jacks0n's
great victory over the British at New
Orleans WAS exclusively appropriated
by the Democrats, and set apart by
them as day OF seIf.gloritication and
incendiary speeches. When they
cheered each other to thoughts !. of new
treason and destruction of the Consti-
tuition under the auspices of this de-
parted hero, they forgot his words in
1882, "that the Constitution must and
shall be preserved" Let them note,
as the people of the loyal North do, and
follow this spirit of the conqueror of
the British and nullifiers; the latter
called in later days secessionisrs.
THE BOARD OF. POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
sCangress. by the very prompt pass
age of bill abolishing the Board of
Police, and devolving their former du-
ties upon the three Commissioners who
constitute the head of the Government
for the District of Columbia did Il wise
act. This action grew out of the on
slaught made on the gamblers by the
Daily Republican. The charges made
by this paper led to an investigation
with results not at all complimentary to
the efficiency or reliabilityof the Board
Df Police The President at once &C.
moved its members and recO nmendedl
Il new Board; while Congress at once
ibGlishe'i it and put our police force
where it should he, under the direction
Of the District Governplent-its COM
1t is believed the Presi-I
lent will approve the bill.
THE TREASURY ROBBERY.
The mystery connected with thel
.aking of $l2,O0 from the Treasury has
been solved by the arrest and incar-l
in prison of Mr.. Winslow, a
,ierk in the cash room, and one through
whose hands all money packages pass
ID. The circumstantial evidence
against him is very strong. The writing
IN the bogus package which WAS sub
substituted for the genuine he admits |
Is> his On his person WAS found sam |
,Ies OF paper identical with that in The |
package, and tn Sc in connection with
iis sections and statements prior TO ar
est warrant full belief of his gulf. He !
) about fifty years of age and hae a
wife and four children. Being possess
d OF some means no particular motive I
'ut greed can be assigned for his un-
wise and unlawful action.
THE BENNEIT-MAY DUEL.
The relatives of the May fami y wLO
eside here profess to have no more
nowledge OF this rencOntre than that
iven by the papers. May, himself, has
et been here-his former home-tsI
as been reported, and we are rs much
Il the dark a' the world generally.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The heavy lobby which the Central
'acific Railroad has had here has Sc
ured compromise bill from the
House committee on Pacific RAILROAD 8,
" which it is permitted to construct
he western end of the Southern Pacific
1t is IL be hoped that such an
nfshy will not be permitted TO be-
ONE law by the people who have
Uttered SO much at the hands of the
central Pacific and its Credit Mobilier,
~ which Wa not only get a second |
mortgage as security for CT millions of
,Onds, but are swindled out of all in
crest. With this fraud as part owner
,f the Southern Pacific r. ,ilrOad we |
ose all the benefits of competition and
'ivalry. ...
SUICIDE.
A nephew Of Senator Morton pois-
,ued himself this week while under
he influence of liquor. He was very
worthy young man, with no bad habit
put an occasional debauch. On tecov-
,ring from these he always suffered
terribly from remorse. and it is pre-
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