The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-04-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent. !

WASHINGIONp ~. Vs. ApIii 40, Ao'0'
The regular appropriation bills are now
In the positions given below. Pension
bill has passed the house and is in senate
committee; 1t will be reported without
important amendment. Three bills, post
office, river and barber, and executive,
Legislative and judicial, have been report
ed by house committees, but not finally
acted on by the house. Two bills, the
consular and diplomatic, and the W
Point, are in conference between the NO
houses, as Is the "little deficiency" bill.
All these conferences are caused by large
amounts added 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 considering the subject. There will
be conference committee on the sub
ject, too. The army, the Indian and the
sundry civil bill and two or more defi>
cheney bills have not been reported In the
house yet. There will be delays when
ever the senate has increased the amounts
appropriated, as the house is lately show
ing disposition to stand by its commits
tees.
Hon. Montgomery Blair's Maryland
resolutions are now before the judiciary
committees of the two houses, and the
bill regulating the manner of proceed,
ing in the supreme court on the trial of
the title of MIR. Hayes as contemplated in
the resolutions, is before the same COM
mittee Of the house. While it impossi>
Bile to see any prospect OF the passage OF
the bill in the present house and senate,
Il is significant fact that MIR. Garfield had
lew supporters yesterday in his efforts to
prevent the reception and reading of the
resolutions. 1t was plain that all the
members thought the policy Of suppress,
ing evidence and avoiding discussion on
the subject had been pursued long
The administration National Union
on Saturday last. 1t had no
right to exist. Its owners thought, when
they commenced its publication, that de-
,ayed politicians, like Fenton, OF
New York, and honest and i'm
practicable politicians, like Chamberlain
of Maine, to use as examples the two
names which first occur to UNI. would
hereafter control the Republican party.
They believed that because the Fentons
md Schurzs happened to be in bad stand
ing with the parties who supported
Grant in his iniquities, therefore Fenton
and Schurz would be able to rally the
honest majority OF the people around
them, and that, because scholars here
and there showed an interest in politics,
the scholars and thinking men OF the
country would come to the front ems
massc. They forget two things. First,
that the Democratic party. practically a
unit, held majority of the people; sec
ond, that the machine politician, like
Blaine, COnklin, Chandler and Cameron,
would rule the party or ruin it. From
the first, with ordinary prudence on the
part OF the Democrats, the only question
has been as to the time in which the
Hayes faction should be deivcn into the
Democratic ranks. The 'Nationl Union
anticipating the tate of those tor whom
1t labored is now portion OF 'the POST
q paper which denies the title Of Mr..
Hayes to the presidency. In business
point of view the Union goes out with
clean hands, MIR. Lynch Insisting that all
its debts be paid.
Mr.. Hayes believes that the next house
will be Republican. He says he will do
all that he properly Can to secure that
result. He realizes the Importance oft,
especially as the senate will certainly be
Democratic after March 4th. In Ger.
tain sense the title of Mr.. Hayes will be
on trial before the next congress il not
passed upon by the present one, and the
interest expressed by him is not unn
ural. But will the people of the cour
assist him in selecting members Of the
tribunal by which his case Is to be tried:
VIII the Republican leaders heartily sec.
ond this, his first intcrie ference In behalf
Of the party in general, knowing that
his tear rather than his care for them OF
the party dictates his cOusre?