The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-12
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
WASHINGTON, December 1, Isl

VI A5UINGI0S, December /, ISIS.
There is a temporary lull in the conflict
between the cou;eading parties ct Wash
iDgton. The hard money wing OF the Re
publican party are clanorins for measures
tina. will draw The line sud either dragon
into s.bmiEsion the soft money wing or
drive them cut. The former claim the
success. OF the November election "a an en-
dorseneu, Of their views, their purposes are
the practical or real demonstration OF sill
yer, single gold standard, subjecting the
legal tender notes to the fuctusting de-
mands caused by the notes Of exchange,
and thus causing either tie boarding OF an
equal amount OF coin, which virtually
makes them coin certificates or forcing their
Withdrawal so IS, 10 leave the banking field
open TO the National Banks. Against
them are the Republicans who wish TO
maintain the double gold and silver stand
ard, and the legal tender notes as perman-
ent currency OF The country, and insist that
in the late elections no party dared to take
ground agains! their ideas, and that il men
had been elected wfo opposed them II was
by concealing their opinions.
The Democratic party Is even in worse
condition. The result OF the November
election has paralized them, or left them
undecided as TO the position they will take
a. the future Mr.. Tilden, who knows that
his chances for denomination depend On
the ascendaUcy OF the hard money wing, Ia
making prodigious effort through all his
partiZ.us, for an utter remuneration by the
party OF all soft money theories. Ihey ar
que that without this New YORK cannot be
carried, and that without, New York the
Democracy are not safe. They argue that
the Democracy lost most largely by the
Greenbsck party which caused the result IN
November. and that In The money question
there NUT lie 4 Democratic change OF
front.
In addition TO til. there are many iri-
tating CAUSES some OF them OF a personal
character. In many districts Greenback
candidates ran against Greenback Demo-
Gratis as they did against Greenback Repub-
licans, and the contest embittered parties.
A notable case wac that of Mr.. Buckner
OF Missouri. He was President OF the
Greenback silver league last session, but
az he was opposed by Greenbacker OF the
extreme school, he comes back with con-
siderably modified views. As chairman
OF the committee on banking and currency
he holds an influential position. lie pub
lished card two columns long IN last
Sundays GG-site, IN which he takes ground
that the legal tender notes are temporary
war eXpedient, and in the bill in his
charge 10 convert the national bank notes
into legal tender, he proposes TO issue
treasury note not legal tender.
Gen. Ewing, Judge Kelly, and others
with whom he acted, consider his letter as
bac- Ing down, and they take much ofiense
al it, To add 10 the confusion Of ideas the
extreme views taken by some Greenback
candidates has weakened the cause and
exposed it TO the ridicule of Republicans
and Democrats who could not fairly argue
the case and would not honestly avow their
real opiniors The Democratic party IL
therefore in that condition where they are
afraid TO d. anything, and are waiting to
make up their minds what to do.
the first indication Of the situation was
exhibited to-day, on a motion to adjourn
| at one o'clock. when the routine business
after reading the journal was over. ies:er-
day. two oil the least important appropria
ton bills for the year were passed-the
West Point bill and the fortihcation bill
To day no other appropriation bill was
ready. Several hundred important bills
are now on the calendar, and as the session
is the short one, every moment Is valuable.
The hard money Republicans voted to adj
journ to prevent "mischievou5 legislation"
a. they called il, or legislation against the
mOnied interests Of the East. The Demo
Gratis, almost en- mass voted with them.
Some eighteen persons, among them your
members, stood up 10 demand the yeas and
hayes so rs 70 fix the responsibility on the
parties. but there was not sufficient mem
bers, onlv two or three OF the Democrats
were sturdy enough to stand up.
In few days the more independent OF
| The Democracy may have recovered from
their nightmare, and offer some hope by
acting with Republicans who have the in
terests OF the people a. heart, OF securing
come useful legislation. The vote, WAS a
| striking index Of the present condition vi
the parliamentary mind.
One OF the cc!ared Congressman, Smalls,
has lately been sentenced to the penitentia-
~ for bribery" 10 elections in South Caro-
lima, and will ne dragged from his seat IN
the House, ere this Is in print, 10 penal ser
vitude in that State. Ii every man in that
State guilty Of corruption in elections was
in the penitentiary, nine-lenths Of the posi-
tons would be vacant. The same State has
sent Butler 10 the United States Senate
fresh from the Hamburg massacre.
The Rast, the leading Democratic organ
here, has an article this morning showing
that the colored men OF the South are ask
ing that the suffrage he taken from them.
and saying that when it was conferred
great mistake was made. \.