The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
international Press Bureaus Letter.

international PreSS Bureaus Letter.
THE Administrator and the Neu
PozScy-The Hayes-GGrtfezd Contro-
gersy-ScaZps for oaae-The Episto-
larry Wharf.-The Hero Of New On
| leans zoadiatg has Mud Machine
atresh last Effort a Fiasco and
Why-Secret0ry E00rts among the
Hidazgoes and Greasers--No more
Burriez Nonsense from Spain and
no more Cutie Stealing from Merico
The Boundary Question revived.
Grant and has English Hosts
Enter the Festive Roscoe.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 18th, 1877.
With the advent of a new admins
tration and a change Of policy, the
interest which usually only centres at
the National Capital, during the
fashionable season and the season OF
Congress, remains unabated. With
restoring the autonomy of sovereign
states, with attempts, at least, to re-
form the civil service and to do other
extraordinary things. the President
and the Executive Departments are
kept in state Of lively activity.
Outside Of the usual order Of things
there has been considerable disturb
|ance over the Presidents letter to
Garfield On withdrawing from the
Senatorial contest in Ohio, and about
the latter's chance for the Speakership.
This subject was very thoroughly
discussed in March last, and, it was
believed, finally disposed of. The same
parties, however, evidently hard up for
grist for their sensation hopDers, have
resurrected the old corpse in more
CHASTITY form. Garfield, usually dis
passionate, this time too hastily Jump
ed at a conclusion, in denouncing the
publication purporting to contain the
essential features of the letter, as false
III every word and line. Charley Eos
ter, r. B. Hayes member of Congress,
said a few days ago, Garfeld's telegram
will require q great deal of prevarica-
ton before an explanation could be
reached" The President, we know of
a certainty, did write letter, but not
exactly as the sensation mongers had
it. Unfortunately the President did
not keep copy Of the letter, nevelthe-
less, he says he made no promises of aid
to Garfield for the Speakership, but
only said his chances were fair. Gar
field has the letter, and has shown it to
several persons here, but said persons
are now perpleXed as to whether the
letter did or did not proffer Executive
cooperation for the speakership Of Gar
field, 1.-THE event Of Gen. James A. G..
pulling out of the Senatorial lists.
which would certainly have made him
a noble Senator, to open the way for
Stanley Matthews. Garfield now re-
fuses to give out the letter. The in
credulous say that Garfield is too old a
bird to be caught by such chaff, the
logical sequence Of which is that the
President did offer to aid to secure
Garfield the Speakership if he would
not antagoniZe Mathews for the Senate.
This part Of the understanding has
been fulfilled, but the Speakership
part Of the contract is now further
away from realization than ever.
On the head of the Garfield contro-
versy came the epistolary war between
the irrepressible Ben Butler and the
mild-mannered McVeigh. The YER
dict here is that Ben has rather cot
the worst of the fight. His last effu-
sion was not up to his usual standard.
1t is said that the facts which Were. to
| be furnished him were not forthcom-
ing in time, but rather than be frus-
trated he loaded up bis battery. it is
true, with plenty Of decorating mater
lal, and rammed it down with a bounti-
full supply of wadding, but ommitted
the grape, SO that when he blazed away
it made a great report with no one
hurt but the man at the breach. The
hero of New Orleans, however, will
not be snuffed out thus ruthlesslv
The probing of McVeigh's first letter
has aroused Benjamin's anger relnorse-
lessly; the second letter has served
the office of the scarlet manta waving
before the Infatuated bull.
If the administration is rather neg
alive in some things it is certainly
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