New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-18
POLITICIL NOTES.

Washington is duh when Douglas and Cox both
behave themselves.
The dollar of the is obstinate about rolling
as was that of the fathers.
Mr. Hewitt seems to have dampened for the pres
ent the fire of the fraud" shIickers.
Nobody manifests consuming desire to pay 102
cents for more than one 90cent dollar.
If the buzzard dollar ever gets into circulation 1t
will not be boarded. Nobody wili wish to keep one
long.
If the Civil Service Reform machine is to be
headed for the New-York Custom House again it
should first be converted into an ironcad.
General Butler takes gloomy view of the future
of the Republic. The country would agree with
YOU Gcneralhf there were more danger of your hav-
ing your own way.
The ndefatigable person whose business it is to
see third term spook every few weeks, is working
his way to the front again with the news that the
pins are being erected Tor a renomlnatIon OF Gcn-
eral Grant.
Douglas has been exceedingly quiet for the past
few DAYS, and il is suggested that he is IN close
quarters trying to avoid encounter with the Mrs.
H. b. Hayes Temperance Society, which is sklrmish-
ing about with bottle of extract oi Cancellation as
a cure for his trouble
Buckncr has worried his committee into the adop-
ton of bill for unlimited silver imitation When
speaker pOllltdl CONES. not tiit
least of his incXcusable SINS will he the placing of
this financial mountebank az the head OF the Bank
ing and Currency Committee.
Congressman Blackburn, who at one time was
of the most untamed of the fraud elpers, now
says that the House will not contemplate any such
"bosh" as resolution to unseat President Hayes.
lie thinks they will try TO uncover fraud in Louisi-
ana, but will rest thcre. Ii Blackburn has had
spasm of sense, there Is hope for Cox.
If Congress can be persuaded to abolish the Office
of Doorkeeper, which is not very probable, there
will be loud wall of anguish from the small army
of rcformers who have gone to Washington in the
hope of being assigned to Mr.. Folks vacated shoes.
They have gathered from all parts of the Union are
all full Of zeal tor the cause and full Also of pro-
found hatred of d" fraud There viii surely be a
bad break i'll the party if the office Is abolished.
The iniationists are beginning to growl about
Senator Allison, and to charge that he is delaying
action on the bill TO repeal the Resumption Act.
They charge him with doube-dcang, and threaten
to show him mp to the people if he doesn't stand up
straighter for the cause. This complaint looks
promised in his loudest way that the act should be
repealed long before this, and he is bound 10 make
some excuse for his failure.
Mr.. Gambler put the question in the right way
when he told his party i'll Congress that if they were
TO act rs voters to decide whom they preferred for
Representatives., they would vote for the Demo-
cratic contestant from Massachusetts, if they were
to act IS Judges to declare whom the people of Mas
sachuSettS chose for Representative they must vote
for the Republican. As the party has followed the
former three times already ut this session, II
will probably be consistent, and do SO again.
Tho leather dollar scheme of Nasty and Butler has
been superseded by another which an eminent
Washington iinancier, of the same school, has bor-
rowed from the ancients. lie avors revival of the
money coined from mulberry bark, and suggests
that iron be used also, thus securing double stand
ard. This would make an opening for the use of
buttons, and would render unnecessary such big
oted statements MS "A clergyman of provincial city
was once forced to make to a congregation which
persisted III dcpcsitng buttons in the contribution
box. Brethren who wish to contribute buttOns1
said this crude inancer will please not hammer
down the eyes for, while that process does not in
crease their value as coin, it does impair their
tuluess as buttons.D