Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MoNIToR.1
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1877.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNrroH.1
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1877.
The business cut out for the extra
session, viz. :: voting appropriations to
discharge Indebtedness now existing on
Army, Navy and United States Courts
account, and to provide for those arms
of the public service for the balance of
the present fiscal year, hang. fire, await
ing the designation of the proper CON-
mittees by Mr.. Randall to which the
message, cut into appropriate chunks"
is to be referred. 1t is obvious that
President Hayes meant to leave members
of Congress no pretext for lingering here
longer than the 9Th prox. and he is re-
ported as very DESTROYS that the business
imperatively necessary, be promptly
transacted and then that an adjournment
be as promptly effected, leaving him am
pie time to prepare his annual message,
after the estimates of Department and
bureau heads shall have been received.
the last session of these appropriations,
protracted debates over them can now
only come from factious opposition, a
desire to embarrass the Administration or
to enhance home popularity so as to
make it available at the November cleo
tiors. The exigencies of Democracy re-
quire no bamboozling of voters under
the state pretence of economy and re-
form besides the demagogue resorts of
last session would be rather perilous now
than otherwise. The hurried requisi-
tons of several Democratic governors,
last summer, on the Federal government
for troops to protect them against the
strikers, has reduced Bourbon represen-
tatives to just one grievance, the old
howl of fraud and though the Demo-
cratic legislator of average manhood
would consider himself estopped from all
further silly complaints of the working
of measure for which that party was
practically unit, yet the stream of We
tuperation and foul abuse of the Presi-
dent bnrst its barriers at the jubilation
meeting over the Ohio triumph, and is
still running at full head. Blackburn,
who if at all sensitive to the adherence
with which the name is still remember
ed, would court seclusion, uncorked him.
self and there was no installing the ma
lignant sentiments still animating him
! toward all those who struck at the Con-
federacy or contributed to its final col
lapse. Representative Banning, who is
unpleasantly associated in the public
mind with the exploits of Eph. Holland
and his gang of imported repeaters and
rufians, continues to attract attention
/ by his vigorous denunciations hurled
against the turpitude that encouraged
, Mr. Hayes to hold on to the Presiden
r tial chair, procured by rs to z" though
Mr.. Tilden was more than anxious tx
e relieve him.
: Gen. Hawley and other influential cit
liens are laboring diligently for early
and favorable action on the recommend
7 ations relative to representation at tn,
Paris Exposition, and the unanimity o
! public sentiment in favor would seem t,
: preclude any apprehension of opposition
o With the exception of a small sum t.
b enable us to be represented at the Stock
i holm Prison Congress to which we hav
S been formally invited by Sweden ant
= Norway. and an appropriation needles
t for repairs of the Patent Office, nothin,
n further in the way of money is asked
a and few days hard work would dis
s pose of all the business actually needle,
d to be done at this session. But Senate
k Ingalls, has given voice to the wishes O
e many western constituencies by the in
e PRODUCTION of bill providing for coinin
e silver dollars and making them lega
e tenders for all debts. public and private
e save those specially contracted to b
e paid in gold. He will not be entirel
n destitute of Eastern and Southern sup
n port, and the matter of resumption
J, threatens to precipitate itself, SO that j