Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-11-03
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
October 81, 1877.

OclOUeT OIL, loi I.
The political events of yesterday We're
the announcement of the House Com
mittees by Speaker Randall, and the
presentation of nearly one thousand
bills and resolutions in the House.
The Committees are in some sense a
surprise to all, hut, to most, will be an
agreeable surprise. The personal feel
ings OF Mr.. Randall are exhibited less
than was thought probable in the COM
position of the important Committees,
and be has evidently done his best to
put the working material of the House
where it will do the most good to the
country. The Chairmanships are on
the whole judiciouslv distributed, though
New England with five Democratic
representatives gets zone.
| suppose that never before was such
number of bills and resolutions pre-
sented in one day. Another. oppoftunl-
ty will not be had for week, and num-
6ers seem to have thought the only
hope of securing action on their meas
ures at the extra session would be IN
presenting them as soon as possible.
Among the more important OF them
was bill appropriatlng money to ara
in orr representation of the Paris Expo
sition next year; to revive the Alabama
Claims Commission reducing rate OF
postage to two cents; repeating tenure
of office act for the removal OF all po-
litical disabilities; to simplify existing
laws for collecting duties on imports ;
making the Department Of Agriculture
one of the Executive Departments; TO
releal the act providing for resumption
of specie payments: to make u. >. notes
receivable for duties on imports; aud
one appropriation three million dollars
for the levees of the Mississippi River.
In the Senate nothing was done. The
Louisiana Senatorial contest, III Com
mttee on Elections, promises to be very
long ard very bitter.
Mr.. Hayes yesterday sent in for con
firmation the name of h. ii. Stoughton,
as minister to Russia. Thus. OF the
men who managed his case before the
Electoral Commission, three are IL high
Office bv his observation-disclosures, Matth
ews and Stoughton. All the members
Of the Florida Returning Board have
Federal office from him, and also the
two managing members-WellS and
Anderson-of the Louisiana Returning
Board. Thus reform marches on in the
civil service. BY The way, Evarts re-
ceived his former appointment as At
torney General by reason OF bis defence
of Andrew johnson III the impeachment
trial.
The Senate confirms from day to day
a few appointments that are not o3Jec-
tionable to any one, but has not com
menccd on the main body OF them.
Representative Foster, OF Ohio, says
that he aud Hale, of Maine, are the par
ties who caused Republicans to gather
two or three times at ihe house OF Sec
reiarv Sherman to agree upon means
OF avcrting open rapture in the House.
The resolution endorsing the policy
Of Hayes was not offered yesterday in
the House, though 1t was thought some
Democrat would offer it. Many Demo
Gratis, as well as all the Republicans,
seem to wish the resolution kept back.
The population Of this District Is
about $4,000; its property, at high
valuation for assessment purposes, is pat
at ninety millions of dollars; It's debt,
bonded and floating, is nearly 1t not
quite thirty millions. New York with
seven times our population: hundred
times our wealth, and a thousand times
our trade, has only debt between three
and four times as large as OURS. Our
debt was created by Republican ap,
pointees of Grant, aud not by men cleo
ted to office by our citizens. We wish
it inquired into at the earliest possible
day by Congress.
This morning Mr.. Hayes and party
started for Richmond, where the people
have prepared to receive him grandly.
There is to be an election in Virginia
shortly, but as there are no Republican
candidates in the field, there is no one
who remembering Ohio, might object
to his trip. His presence cannot defeat
a Republican party where no such party
exists. In the winter he goes to New
Orleans. HILlON.