The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-12-22
DER WASHINGTON LETTER.

NASnlNUTON. d. G., Dee. s, 1871.
In tho Senate yesterday, an order
was adopted fixing next Saturday for
consideration of the silver bill. The
vote on what was considered a test
question was forty to eighteen. If
this should indeed be the vote by
which the bill passes TIE Senate there
will be the necessary two thirds t"
overcome the veto. The vote in the
House is uncertain, it not being known
whether the measure has tW".'hlrdS
of tile votes there. The surprising
result in the Senate shows that Sen
ator Jones, when he announced, be
fore the extra session commenced,
that large majority of both Houses
was favorable to reconciliation,
spoke by the book.
Senator Stanley Matthews intro
duccd a concurrent resolution rrcItlnG
that all debts of the United States
are payable at the W'lirn ct nc
United States in silver Iellals OF NE
grains each. This is the standard of
the RECOMMENDATION bill now before
Congress.
The House did nothing yesterday.
Three reports from the Election Com
mittee we're received in the Colorado
case. The Democrats reported IL"
favor of seating Paterson. three Re
puhlicans in favor of Bedford, and one
member thought there was no valid
election in Colorado.
When so solemn a body as the Uni
ted States Senate perpetSatcs JOKE
We nav safely expect it to he a great
even if a clumsy one. The selection
of Kellogg of Louisiana, as a mem.
Der of the Special Committee to con.
slider the laws relating to the count
inc of votes for President, is such a
Joke. 1t need no comment. 1t Will
amusc every one. 1t will make a
part OF history.
Mr.. HAYES "Sticks." The New
York Custom House nominations and
nearly all the others known to be dis
tasteful to the radicals Senate, ana
which were ignored at the Extra ScS-
sion, were again sent in on yesterday
This, of course, shows tho futlI1ty OF
all efforts made to patch up peace
between the Executive and its OPP
posers in the party. lonr corrcSpon
dent has never believed since the day
the Cabinet of Mr.. Hayes was an
nouuced, that there could be any
peace in the party as long as Hayes
was in the Presidential chair INC
explosion has not come as soon AS was
expected, but it is at hand.
; The Washington Monument ASso
citation yesterday, at very full meet
} ing, resolved to send a Committee
before Caugress to ask that the fnnd'
voted year ago be used at one" tt
complete the shaft according to the
| original design. This is as it shoul'
be. A dozen different qualifications
: of that design have been sngycs ed
among them one which would put
statue of Washington at the head %
y the half finished shaft, at heigh
Z where we could not know whether i
: represented the Cardiff Giant, Ton
i Thum or Stanley Matthews. 1t is
pleasure to state that, while ,i.cs'
plans have had the effect to della.
work on the monument, none of thrs
have received support enough t.
make their adoption probable. LIE
us have it as "the fathers" wished
Any change is failure.
Democrats throughout the country
if they wish for Washington dali
paper, should for good reasons pa
tronize the Post, the second numbe
of which appears this morning. 1t
Il bright as a new silver dollar, thor
ouyhly Democratic and well printed
:. ALBION.