The daily gazette., 1877-03-08

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tesies aside may have hbeen On all test
questions known to the puhlic. n L think
the Senator Is uniformly on record against
| . majority OF the Judges. .3IilSf3 g'iJ
Mr.. Bayard=The Senator. has not read
the record and does not seem to know
iMr. BlsiasNf except oDronibni,sss case: @ "a 1
think the Senator did drop spartfsanship
oos ons sSfoni1n's 9na1 case.w ed 1870 ys-aJ WoN
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:l0uri' Washington Letter.
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D9aoql'W Alsaaise q Rtsr, erro,s, March i 8, 1871,
q, since I last wrotes ] hayeo obehsld the
iniquity Of the Inauguration OF his IL
Legitimacy Mr.. Returning Board
Hayes. Let no patriot ever1end HIM
self to the crime.by calling him Presi
Il dent, ,or countenapce or encourage, in
any way, his, fraudulent tenure. Sena7
tor Cockrell Of Missouri was the only
Democratic Senator, who, when Mr..
Hayes was atthe capitol last week
went with the Republican Senators to
Iteuder congratulations, oYet9 the Re
publican papers said that the Senate,
without respect to party, hastened to
| the Vice Presidents room to welcome
1.-THE President 7elect! I was, no little
surprised on Monday to see Mr., Whee>
Ter, who claims the Office Of Vice
President, come shambling into the
Senate chamber, to have the oath ad-
ministered, on, the arm OF Senator
McCreery Of Kentucky. How an hon
est man and q Democrat could 90 in
ldecently prostitute himself as to- take
part in the obsequies of liberty, lis
difficult to understand. Senator Nc
Creery rode the entire length Of the
avenue in carriage with Mr.. Wheeler.
He was on the COMMITTEES of arrange
ments, l believe, and, had Mr.. Wheeler
been elected, Mr.. McCreery's part ID
the ceremonial would have been ex-
cusable, but, under the circumstances
it would have been more respectable
for him to have hob nobbed with
man wearing. striped clothes and with
a shaven head. We are surprised when
Kentucky sends man Of easy virtue
to the Senate; Ex-senator, Stevenson
would not have, been guilty of that,
nor would Proctor Knott. Those who
remain for only ashort time in Wash
ington will hardly fail to be shocked
at q certain obliquity in regard to the
proprieties of life and station very
common here as for instance when
Chief Justice Waite made spectacle,
Ln0t To say an ass, of himself the
tofher evening by sitting TO have his
head modelled In mud by Winnie Reem.
at place where the prices of admis-
sion was fifty cente, and where the
other attraction was society girls in
fancy costume. / heard a man next
me ask is that an entirely proper thing
for the Chief Justice to do? But,
when we reflect that the recent ad-
ministration followed the rule of ap-
Ipointing his benefactors and cronies
to the highest and most dignifed Off
ces, and that the said benefactors and
cronies scarcely ever been or aspired
beyond their ancestral dung hill it is
not to be expected that they should
observe the proprieties that come only
with culture and refinement. yI.t
We should perhaps be grateful that
the great retired did not leave us his
horse and bull-pup in the Supreme Court
Instead of Bradley, Miller, Strong and
Waite, But on the whole there is moth
ing to be grateful for, Grant is gone tits
true, but shape and reform the State as
we will, the scent Of the stable will hang
around it still. / observed him closely
on Monday, in the last act OF his sad
presidential drama. He came INTO the
Senate Chamber, arm in arm with Mr..
Hayes, who, though not remarkable in
appearance, looked a nobleman beside
the shabby, dissipated, in every way lit
tie man. The ex-presidentr realized with
out relish that he was playing second i'd
die, and he had not sufficient fnesse or
force Of character to concealthe chagrin.
His appearance and bearing suggested
a boy dragged unwillingly to school
1 How that bladder of conceit and inanity
will shrlvel and shrink.
The Senate Chamber and galleries were
thronged with crowd of distinguished
Ipersonages. A limited number Of the
members of the press were admitted,
only on special tickets. II your CORES
pondent had represented less inAuen-
tial paper he would not have had the
privilege of seeing the August farce. The
ministers and attaches of foreign lega-
tions, in the showy uniforms Of their re-
spsctive courts, led by sir Edward Thorn
ton filed in and were seated on the left,
then came the members OF the Supreme
Court in their long silken gewns, but Jus :.
tice Clifford and Field were net of them.
l u6 0Suhbo WAS AaAthky OkkbAlNoQ. 1uO
new Senators, Beck, Blaine, Hill, McPsr-
son and others were sworn in. The ere
dentials Of Kellogg of Louisiana were OBJ
ljected to and laid aver until next day.
With poetic unfitness the objector to
Senator Lamar Of Mississippi, was
the fat little sntler carpet -bagger aSpen-
Ger which misrepresents Alabama. But
Mr.. Lamar has since been allowed his
seat in the Senate. After Mr.. Wheeler
had taken the oath of Vice President.
the crowd in the Senate Chamber follow
ed Mr.. Hayes to platform east of the
capitol, where he read from a printed
copy an address full of fair promises
prefaced with the remark that they
were not irrevocable. At the close of
each paragraph man in aconspicuous
place on the platform near Mr.. Hayes
waved white han1kerchief, and large
force of organized claquers, judiciously
posted in an audience, consisting of
about six thousand negroes, men women
and children, and half as many govern
ment clerks cheered yociferously. The
procession from the White House to. the