The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-12


view. bill will probably be framed
at the Treasury Department for in
PRODUCTION in the Senate as a com
promise measure, or else an effort
will be made when the Bland bill
comes up to amend it so as to make
the silver dollar equal to green
back, and legal tender to the same
extent as the United States Treasury
notes. This will not be done, how
ever, if an amendment prevails re.
stricting the legal tender limit of the
dollar. Another proposition, which
was discussed, was to coin dollar
worth intrinsically as much as gold
one, on the basis CT the present price
of silver, but this was finally thought
to be impracticable with the COM
mercial value of the latter f1uctuating
from day to day. The President is
anxious to avoid veto and an open
rupture with Congress on the finan-
cial question, and very determined
effort will be made to compromise
the situation.
PRESIDENT HAYES VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, January 3.-The
Democratic organ, The Post, has to-
day an article setting forth the opin-
ions OF President Hayes in regard to
public topics that have caused con-
siderable comment, although not
received as authoritative. The iourn.
al in question reports the President
as saying, in conversation with
persons who have approached him
on the subject, that he has exhausted
the powers under the Constitution to
pacify the South, to avert the war of
races which seemed mpeNding at
one time, and to withdraw all obsta-
cles to the normal operation of the
principle of local government:
He has put an end to Federal inter-
ference, and has called the attention
of Congress and the country, in his
message, to the results of that action.
/. Having done this, his power to act is
exhausted. He deprecates the efforts
which are being made in various
quarters to prolOng popular agitation
and perpetulte sectional feeling, not
because of its reflection upon him or
his motives, but because it tends to-
eXasperate the people of both sec
lions, and thus to prevent that clear
understanding between the North
and the South which is essential to
the restoration of perfect unity Of
patriotic sentiment. He expresses
the lief, however, that the utter
ances Of those who, in their capacity
of managing politicians, are seeking
to stir up strife will not find amoNg
the mNas4es OF the Northern peop 9
any considerable rpSpOnse; tn 1t when
the Congressional campaign comes
Oh it will be found that the people
are no longer eXcitalde over these
topics, and that the managing puiiti-
clans finding no material to work
upon will soon abandon THEW anti
Southern programme. A. Cor other
matters Of public policy, Mr. Hayes
remarks that he has St no cause to
reconsider any action of the past.
generally speaking, and no reason to
modify any purposes which he may
have formed or announced at any
previous period of his Administers
lion. Without r. ferring specifically
to the New York appointments, but
evidently having them in mind, he
observed that he bad not been moved
by the action of the Senate either 10
abate his desire Of carrying Out TIL
policy generally known AS civil
service reform or to despair of final
success in the selection of instrumen
talitieS to that end. He would neither
deny nor affirm the statements that.
had been made in the press relative
to his design of greeting Congress
next week with special message on
that subject, but it was true that he
intedded to exhaust his constitut-
tional powers to the promotion Of
such reforms. The most remarkable
thing he said was that no plea or
rem0nstrance based upon purely
partisan considerations would have
any weight with him, no matter by
whom it might be made, and that he
attached importance to representa-
tions only which were put upon the
ground of the general public welfare.
He intimated that there had been of
late cessation of party appe j to
him, which was a relief. because his
love for the name of Republican and
his reverence for the early traditions
of his party were so strong that it
was not easy or pleasant to him to
resist appeals made for their sake,
particularly when such appeals came
from men whom he had Away de-