The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-03-19
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
hayes nud the Extreme RadieRla-The
President Weai&ening-Matth VS.
and the Union and Pacific Rail-
ronds-The New Hampshire Flee
tiOn-Ihe Indian Bureau.

Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., March Is, 1885,
There are indications OF yielding, on
the part of Mr.. Hayes, TO the two classes
most opposed to him
EXTREME RADICALS
and leaders of the Republican party.
Recent events make probable the retire
ment Of at least two. and probably three
cabinet officers, an attempt to bring back
the soldier element by profligate dis.
bursements of the public money to 1t,
and an attempt to revive in the north the
old time sectional spirit. Happily, MIR.
Hayes has gone so far that he cannot, by
returning to his former associates,
recover the ground he once held. Hap.
PLY the house has a Democratic majority
and the senate is nearly tie. Happily,
too, the vast majority of those who sup>
ported MIR. Hayes in his Cancellation
policy were more disinterested, more
honest, more stable than he, and will not
remain in party which seeks to
strengthen itself hereafter by revival of
old and dangerous quarrels. Mr. Blaine
takes little stock in the contemplated
bargain. Indeed, he is not one Of those
who believes that the next campaign can
lie won on purely sectional issues. lie is
anxiously seeking new questions on
which new spirit can be infused into the
Republican party.
Stanley Matthews, yesterday, spoke in
the senate chamber to an audience about
equally composed OF senator's and people
having an interest in the
UNION AND CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROADS..
He spoke three hours in favor OF ac>
cep.ancc, by the government, of the set
Element proposed by those roads. Sen.
ator Matthews may not have had the
money of the corporations in his pocket,
but his speech was the speech OF an adj
vocatc, not Of a person trying to do
justice to both parties to dispute. The
committee bill, which he opposed. seems
to provide a means by which, without
Gripping the companies, the govern
ment can secure the reimbursement 10y
them of the large advances made to as
sist in the building of the roads. The
scheme of the companies, which Mat
thews advocated, postpones the settle
ment and provides for payment at
time when the roads will not be worth
the amount, principal and interest, which
the companies will owe the government,
the companies meanwhile to pocket the
current profits.
Not being in need Of any new facts to
convince him that the Democracy will
elect and inaugurate the next president,
your correspondent doesn't try to ex.
tract encouragement from the reduction
of the Republican majority In New
Hampshire. There is q lesson, how.
ever, In the fact that the Democrats did
not carry the state.
THAT LESSON
Is found in the fact that we have a n0m-
inal Democratic majority In the house
OF representatives, and ought before this
time to have put through this body
bills reducing the expenses of the gov
crnmcnt, and consequently taxation,
ten or fifteen per cent, but have tailed
to do anything Of the kind. II was a
step in the right direction, the other day,
when a census Of Democratic representae
tiyes was called to consider the army
bill and make II II party measure. Econ,
my Is what is needed, at this time, and
every voter In New Hemisphere knows
Il, and would have been more likely to
have voted the Democratic ticket II the
house had given us better promises of
retrenchment and reform.
In former letters have urged the
TRANSFER OF TIE INDIAN BUREAU
! from the interior department to the war