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WASHINGTON LETTER.

The Impending Crisis in DE Republican
Party adjournment Of tie Senaie Cont
.Jirmaiions. The Siprems Court Vacaney.
Secretary Selurz, eic., ETC.
WAsmSGroN, D. c., March 20, 1917.
Some one tells story OF Ylnsee Coroner
who, having seized a mummy in a travelling
show, AMI held an inquest on it, made out his
bill Of expenses against the county, adding
compound interest from the time Of Moses =
William Lloyd Garrison seems 10 have made
up a similar" bill as,in>t the South, and 10
insist on collecting it, aud he would Withhold
from her the simplest, plairest, yet most vital
If constitutional rights, until payment is made.
His recent letter To- Senator Blaine has sick
ening significance % those who know that
most powerful faction Of the Republican party
embracing lis trusted aud able lealers have
in their hearts the same bitterness aud hatred
towards the South as animates him IN his Old
age Blaine may not at once pursue the hight
/ he commenced against Hayes. Morton may
swallow The Offices and profess 10 support the
arm that distributes them, and many may be
silent and hesitate h condemn because they
believe that after all Hayes will be driven back
into raGicalsm, but whenever the occasion
comes the spirit that animateS them viii be
found to be the spirit Of Garrison They are
the true BJurbons-they neither earn any
thing nor forget anything.
If blooishcd 10 the South is necessary 10
keep the rank and file up to the point OF sup
porting these men, does any one believe that
bloodshcd will not follow the removal Of troops
from Louisiana and South CAROLINA; or that
the Extra Session Of Congress, necessarily to
be called as early as June, will meet and adj
ourn in tie midst Of national harmony, II
/ these men fad the mass OF the people inclined
to support Mr. Hayes in his policy of nOn-in-
reference in the South Ifthere is any such
deluded man, South or North, he should be
sent for treatment by DR.. Nichols.
Much is always sail abou, the fact that
Members of the House of Representatives, COM
ing fresh from the people, know their wishes,
and no doubt the acting President has glowing
reports of support OF his " policy from many
Of these men, and from the army Of Office seek
ers. Bot the three or four thousand radical
clerks in the Departments here, who pass a
mouth OF two in the Congressional Districts oi
the whole North. and who are 10 constant cor
respoudence with every section, AID who are
b the Congressman as many 10 one, are lar
safer guide if we wish 10 get At the dominant
sentiment in the Republican party. later
course with them, aud with the now oifce-seek-
iug Republicans who come here u rejoice over
the defeat Of Tillen-nOt the elevation oi
IIayeS-will convince the most hopeful oicon-
servative men, il he be open tn conviction, that
the same spirit that planned reconstruction ."
for the South is still dominant IN tie Repu6li-
can organization.
The Senate adjourned on Saturday, having
substantially confirmed all the appointments
of the acting President, including mat OF Fred
erck Douglass. The intention is now said to
be TO appoint Prof. LangSion. another colored
man, Commissioner Of Agriculture. think
Langston knows rs much Of Agriculture as
Douglass does of Law Mr. Hayes did wise
and acceptable thing in giving office to two
educated colored men, but there arc no tw"
Offices in bis gift for which the two men are
less fitted.
Speculation is lively rs to the Justice to fiji
the vacant seat in the Supreme Court. The
failure to appoint Bristow while the Senate
was in session is not taken as proof that he
will not get the place II appointed then, he
would most likely have been rejected by the
Senate. Its known that Hayes would like to
appoint him, and be may do so now, hoping
! for favorable action by the Senate At the Ex-
TIA Session. That Extra session will probably
make Us all wiser THAI We are now.
Secretary Schurz promises TO make the In
terror Department the light of the world The
educated and peace-loying Indian shall cult
waite hops aud barley on all the lands Of the
Department, the good Inventions shall he pat
on 81 ,,,;,l ,ut Tho rttycb,sa of C,l ,is-iDuorS
OF Examiners. aud the deserving soldier shall
receive his pension in a reasonable time. We
shall see. Wise aud more practical men have
attempted The same task, aud have not only
failed miserably, but have themselves yielded
to temptation. Bishop Clenso was sent to
South Africa to convert the heather, but the
heather converted Bishop CoIenso.
MEMO.