Middletown transcript., 1878-04-20
washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. D. G., April II. 1878.

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The regular appropriation bills are
now in the positions given below: Pen
sion bill has passed the House and is in
Senate Committee; it will be reported
without important amendment. Three
bills. post Office, river and harbor, and
executive, legislative and judicial, have
been reported by House Committees,
but not finally acted on by the House.
Two bills, the consular and diplomatic,
and the West Point, are in conference
between the two Houses, as is the "lit-
tie deficiency" bill. All these confer
ences are caused by large amounts adj
ded by the Senate to the House bills.
The naval bill, after passing the House,
was increased enormously by the Senate
and the House Committee is now con-
sidering the subject. There will be a
Conference Committee on that subject,
too. The Army. the Indian, and the
Sundry Civil Bill, and two or more de-
ficiency bills have not been reported
in the House yet. There will be de
laws whenever the Senate has increased
the amounts appropriated, as the House
is lately showing q disposition to stand
by its committees.
Hon. Montgomery Blair's Maryland
resolutions arc now before the Judicia-
ry Committees Of the two Houses, and
the bill regulating the manner Of pre-
ceeding in Supreme Court on the trial
of the title Of Mr.. Hayes as contempla-
ted in the resolution, is before the same
committee Of the House. While it is
impossible to see any prospect Of the
passage Of the bill in the present House
and Senate, it is a significant fact that
Mr.. Garfield had few supporters ges-
terday in his efforts to prevent the re-
ception and reading Of the resolutions.
It was plain that all the members
thought the policy Of suppressing evi-
dence and avoiding discussion on the
subject had been pursued long enough.
The administration Nationat Inton
disappeared on Saturday last. 1t had
no right to exist. Its owners thought,
when they commenced its publication,
that decayed politicians, like Fenton,
of N. Y, and honest and impracticahle
politicians like Chamberlain, Of Maine,
to use as examples the two names which
first occur to me, would hereafter con-
troll the Republican party. They be-
lieved that, because the Fentons and
Schurz would be able to rally the hon
est majority of the people around them,
and that, because scholars here and
there showed IN interest in politics, the
scholars and thinking men of the coun-
trv would come to the front en- nasse
They forgot two things: First, that the
Democratic party, practically unit,
held majority Of the people; second,
that the machine politician, like Blaine
Conkling, Chandler and Cameron,
would rule the party or ruin it. From
the first, with ordinary prudence on the
part Of the Democrats, the only ques
ton has been as to the time in which
the Hayes faction should be driven IN
to the Democratic ranks. The Na
tionnl Union, anticipating the fate o.
those for whom it Iabored, is now &
portion of the Post, a paper which de
MES the title Of Mr.. Hayes 10 the Pres
idency. In a business point Of view
the Union goes out with clean hands
Mr.. Lynch insisting that all its debt:
be paid.
Mr. Hayes believes that the mex
House will be Republican. He says hc
will do all that he properly can to Sc
cure that result. He realizes the i'm
portance Of it, especially as the Senate
will certainly be Democratic after tht
4th Of March. In a certain sense th(
title of Mr.. Hayes will be on trial be
fore the next Congress, if not passeC
upon by the present one, and the inter
est expressed by him is not unnatural
But will the people Of the country as
sist him in selecting members Of tht
tribunal by which his case is to betried
VIII the Republican leaders heartily
second this, his first interference in be
half Of the party in general, knowing
that his fears rather than his care fol
them or the party dictates his course
Scion.