The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-14
Washington Letter.

IlAC N0pIlOA lAS AooI ~" NaJ - eH~
session, but at least the agony IS
over, and we may very soon look for
peace and quiet throughout the
country. Congress remained IN SEES
sion throughout the whole Of Thurs
day night and it was not till between
four and five o'clock Friday morning
that the last State was counted and.
Hayes declared elected. When the
formal. declaration of the election
was made, the announcement was
received with but little demonstra-
ton, the assembly evidently remem-
bering the injunctions that had sew
eral times during the night been I'M
pressed upon them, to abstain from
any marks of approval or disappro-
val. One man Kissed and another
clapped his hands. So ended the
greatest and most threatening strug-
gle for the Presidency that has taken
place in the history If our nation.
May we never know such another.
1t is to be regretted extremely
that some of the scenes that have
lately been enacted at the Capital
should have occurred, disgracing the
country, as they have, by the shame.
full acts Of several Of her Represent
tatives. For instance, Friday quite
prominent congressman got into a
regular rough tumble, tooth and
nail fight with one Of the House
door-keepers: He heard that Mr..
Harris (the door-keeper) had'refused
to take a card from a visitor to him
during the debate on the Presiden.
tial count, and in high dudgeon,
made for the door and without
word pushed Harris from his seat
on to the floor. As the surprised
doorkeeper rose to his feet the gen.
tleman (?), struck him a blow on the.
chest which Harris returned with one
under the eye Of the pugllistic les
islator. ~
The ARRAY was then put. an end
to by the interference Of other Rep
resentatives and "Me man auAo
fights" carries black eye for his
folly. Again, Thursday member
of the House utterly refused to obey
the Speakers ruling, leaped upon
the top OF desk, screaming at the
highest pitch Of his voice in frantic
efforts to make himself heard amid
the tumult that prevailed, and, final
ly, was forcibly pulled from the desk
and Quoted only by the appearance
Of the Sergeant-at- ar ms with his
mace.
During the counting Of the elec-
toEal vote it has been the custom of
the Representatives to rise as the
Senators entered the hall for joint
convention, but Friday morning,
when they were announced for the
last time, the majority of Represen-
ztative lin a childish. pet because
their game was up and they saw
themselves defeated,) remained sit
ting. Now, are not such actions
and such demonstrations as these
utterly unworthy United States
Congressman. no matter what his
State, color, Or political sentiments ?
The city was plunged into a state
of tumultuous excitement the last of
the week by the announcement that
a horrid murder had been commit
ted in the Treasury, The facts Of
the affair, as they have since APP
Peared, are as follows. About noon
Thursday a man entered the Treas
ury building and sent a card to Mrs.
Mary Storer, a widow who has been
employed as clerk, in the tedemp.
ton bureau for some ten years past.
The card bore the name of "John
Dits", and Mrs. Storer Immediately
stepped )1nto the passage to speak