The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-04-11
From Our Regular Correspondent

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The Hon. Alex. Stevens intro
duced in the House yesterday a bill
for the financial relief of the coun
try and to facilitate the return to
specie payments without injurious
ly affecting the commercial business
of the people. Mr.. Stevens has
been carefully studying the Nation
al finances for a long while with the
view of efIecting such legislation as
would bring some relief. He has
consulted the financial officers of
the Government and many of the
most influential members of Con
gress on the subject. Mr.. Stevens
measure will undoubtedly command
sufficient support in the House to
secure its passage, most likely in
its present shape or substantially
so. The title is, ga bill for the re-
lief of the financial endorsements
of the country and to facilitate a
return to specie payment without
injuriously effecting the commercial
business and industries of the PEG
pie, and for other purposes" The
benefits to be expected from the
bill are set forth in its title. He
confidently expects that after the
passage of this measure and his sill
yer certificate bill the finances of
the country will be in such condi-
ton that resumpti on will follow
easily and naturally. The financial
troubles of the country are not so
much attributable to the small vol
ume of the currency as to it's con
gested condition. Measures that
will restore confidence and by so
doing put again in circulation the
enormous amount of money at pres
ent locked up, are greatly needed,
and he thinks that this bill, taken
in connection with his silver certifi
cate bill, will go great ways to-
ward that end in very short time
after their enactment we shall see
gold permanently at par.
A second caucus of Republican
Senators was held in the reception
room of the Senate yesterday after
noon to consider the general polit-
ical situation of the countrys grow
ing out of the arrangement at pres
ent existing between the President
and the prominent leaders of the
party in Congress. 1t is very APP
parent to such Republicans as
Conkling, Blaine, Edmunds, Howe,
Cameron OF Pennsylvania, and 9th
ers equally anxious to maintain the
party intact, that something must
be done to harmonic in some way
the discordant. elements now exist
ing between the President and the
active leaders of the party, and for
this reason it was deemed best to
exchange views on this subject.
While there was no definite program
agreed upon, it was nevertheless
decided that such Republican Sena-
tors as Hoar, DAVIS, Burnside, Mat
thews, Christiancy, and Cameron of
Wisconsin must be made to define
their position more clearly than
heretofore; that unless they are pre-
pared to take the responsibility of
antagonizing the future still further
by q continuation of active coalition
with Democratic Senators on mat
tiers OF conformation, and thereby
lead the President still further
astray from the party fold, the lines
must be squarely drawn.
The House Committee on Electo
raj Count has agreed to report in
favor of a constitutional amend
ment fixing the tenure of the Presi-
dental office at six years, and de-
clanng President ineligible for re
election. The committee has voted
upon the proposition to abolish the
electoral college, and to substitute
for it a prorating of the popular
vote, based upon the number of
Senator'S and Representatives, with
a view to secure minority represen-
tation. The proposition failed by
a tie vote, but it is thought that the
the absent member of the commit
tee would favor the proposition.
Senator Don Cameron has sue
ceeded in prevailing upon Miss
Sherman and her parents to allow
his wedding to take place earlier
than at first anticipated. 1t is now
fixed for some date not yet named,
between April 18th and 30th. Next
week Miss Sherman and her rela
tives will 90 to New York to select
the trousseau. There is a posi- !
bility that the wedding may take
place in Washington instead of
Cleveland. The lady's relatives
here, who are warmly attached to
her, desire to have her married in
Washington. There appears to be
but one alloy to Senator Cameron's |
and he hopes to have that
changed to shining gold with his
wedding ring. The Pennsylvania |
State Republican Association ap-
rs growing reckless, for 1t |
actually appointed day for meet
ing without consulting the clan !
Cameron, and pitched upon the very |
day on which the Senator of the |
family had planned to be married. |
Now TO Senator Don it appears
impossible for his marriage |
to be postponed or fora Republican
State Convention of Pennsylvania
to meet without a Senatorial Cam
eron. The telegraph has been kept |
busy with his messages, hoping to
bring about a change of the date of /
meeting.
BY all odds the strongest play
and finest cast of the season is the
Celebrated Case" now holding the
boards at the National. From the
first speech to the last, from the
opening scene, the text the situa-
tons and the setting of the play,
are excellent to the extent of com
1t is intensely emo
-ional; its plot is thrilling, and
while its development is affecting,
there is only one narrowing scene,
md even that is fortunately so
weakly played, after Lucille West
srn's Nancy Sykes, that it keeps up
he continuity of the story without
on the sensibiIities. Then,
100, the plot is not intricate. its
charms partakng more OF intensity
Of dramatic situation than of the
lovelty of intricate surprises. It's