The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-29
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The Presidents Reception on Friday
night at the Union League Club was the
most brilliant affair of the kind ever
seen in this city. Nothing could be-
more significant than the heartiness Of
the respect for the President manifested
by the 5000 guests, comprising persons
OF all shades Of politica! opinion.
| In anticipation Of the Presidents visit
here there has been suspicious unanip-
ity and cooperation among eastern jour
nails in the Conkling and machine poll
tics interest. inferentialy urging him to
abandon his civil service theories and
pledges, in the idea that they are not
sustained by public sentiment, and that
the Executives attempts to uphold them,
therefore. are useless. The plea is that
the temper of Congress is manifestly
against the attempt to wrest from mem.
bers the asserted right to dictate appoint.
ments, and that this having been mani
tested in the New York case, the Presi-
dent is absolved from all responsibility
to make good the pledges of the Cincin-
natl Convention, and especially as per-
sistence in such pledges is likely to pro-
mote intestine strife in the Republican
party and thus render it powerless
against the common enemy. Those who
thus argue seem to assume that the
machine politicians are the Republican
party,
President Hayes, however. appears to
see that they ignore the masses. without
whose votes the leaders are powerless,
He manifests no disposition to dismiss
Everts, Schurz and Key, and put him.
self in the hands of those who have
labored with some success to obstruct
the fulillment Of the pledges of his letter
of acceptance. There are no indications
that he considers himself absolved be-
cause other party leaders ignore their
pledges made in the campaign. Besides,
be does not consider that political
party can release him from the obliga.
tons or pledges made to the whole peo-
pie subsequent to his nomination.
The World says: General Escobedo
arrived in town yesterday. He will re-
main for only five or six days, when he
will start for Louisiana to look after
some plantations owned by him there.
He may perhaps stop at Washington on
his way south, and also at Cincinnati,
where he has some young relatives at
school. He is accompanied by his son,
q youth of about twenty years, who has
but recently returned from Paris. To a
World reporter Escobedo said he saw no
reason for experimenting any serious
trouble between the United States and
Mexico on account of present border
troubles. An order issued by the Diaz
government some time since, directing
the commanders of Mexican troops to
pursue Texas Marauders from Mexico to
American soil, had been rescinded, he
understood, and what other difficulties
there might be had existed now for a
long time without giving rise to war.
Therefore he did not see why they should
now. Cattle thieving was failing of
both parties, and neither could very well
afford to make that the basis of serious
complaint. He had lived on the border
for too long q time now to feel much
sympathy for either side.
A Times Boston special says: Butler
in his recent speech said: In sixty days
the silver bill will have become the law
of the land. 1t will pass Congress, and
II the President vetoes it (and don't
believe he willy, it will be passed over
his veto. 1t will pass the House by a
three-fourths vote, and in the Senate
there will be enough strength to pass it
over the veto. The objections to the
free banking clause OF tue bill and the
claim that the bill Is designed to benefit
tue silver industry Of the country, were
considered aud inveighed against. He
argued that the statutes of the United
States previous to 1869 permitted the
payment of the bonds in grsenbacks,
and that the Act of 1869 only removed
all doubt as to the purpose of the gov.
eminent to pay in "coin. which term
he contended included both gold and
SILVER. He closed this portion OF his
speech by predicting oil sorts of pros
perity as the result OF the passage of the
Bland bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a.
One, and perhaps the principal reason
why so little progress has been made
towards q solution of the Chinese ques.