Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-29
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT OF
THE "MORNING APPEAL"
WASHINGTON November 81. 1877

Washington November p, 1877.
EDITOR APPEAL: The motion made yester-
day by Senator Thurman to discharge the
Committee of Privileges and Elections from
the further consideration of the credentials
of NJ c. Butler, of South Carolina, has opened
debate which is likely to run during the
called session, unless some compromise shall
be effected.
Many Senators and Members are anxious
to spend the Thanksgiving day at home, and
their desire may bring about an adjournment
before this reaches you. In that event the
South Carolina case will rear its head at the
next session, and debate will go on ad infni-
tum, as Maryland State Senator once said,
''to a certain extent" All things in politics
must have an end, and hence people are en-
couraged to believe that South Carolina and
Louisiana political contests will not be excep-
tions.
At this writing Thurman, Mitchell, Hill,
and Wadleigi have entered the arena, and SO
IA: as the facts arc concerned the Republicans
seem to have the advantage. Thurman, who
IS shrewd as well as 4 learned man, made
mistake in claiming his resolution as ques-
ton of high privilege-a claim that was
speedily put down by Senator Hoar, who
showed that the thigh privilege" terminated
when the case was sent by the Senate to its
Committee. If any question should arise as
to the ability of the Republican Senators to
exc out the debate until March 1879, it can
easily be settled by reference to the volumi-
nous reports on South Carolina affairs which
may be embodied in tLer speeches, and at
their demand read from the Secretary's desk.
Such a course might disgust the reader as we'll
a. the listener; but bad diseases require
strong treatment, and it may be that party
which should give away power now. because
at some future time it is to be wrested from it,
would be held to strict accountability.
1t is somewhere related in the classics that
certain king, who had the prospect of
splendid vintage, was told by slave whom he |
had maltreated, that he would never live to
enjoy it. When the wine was ready, the king, |
in order to confute the slave, had him brought |
forth, and taking goblet in his hand poured
into it ibatien, and reminded the slave of |
his prediction. The latter thereupon said for
the first time what you may have heard since,
to wit: There is many a slip between the cup
and the lip Just at that moment courier |
arrived informing the king that very wild
boar had broken into his vineyard and was
committing great devastation, whereupon the
king threw down the goblet, seized his spear
and sailed out to attack boar which killed
king who never tasted his vintage-thus veri-
flying the slaves prediction, The Democrats
come up smiling every day, and seem conf
dent that March 1879 will dawn upon them
as victors but what with the policy of my
friend Hayes, the interlocutary questions of
finance, tariff, silver, appointments, and the
devil knows what, they may as well keep in
mind the experience of the king who is re-
vived, as Wetmore of the Alta is fond of say
ing, Sin this correspondence. PALTA.
P. S. By the Editor.) We can see where
The aforesaid boar plays part in the proceed
ings treated of by our correspondent; but the
slip between Patterson's cup and Thurman's
lip is not Gin the light of the latest dispatches)
20 evident to the eye of the anxious carpet
Dagger and the trusting skallywag. {