Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-08
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nav 81, 1873.

dltlonal Circuit Judge for his State and In
diana, but Senator Morgan gave him to nm
derstand that the time to create new Judge
ships is fixed after the fourth of March 1879,
when pure and indebted Democracy shall
be able to exercise the rite of baptism and the
rite OF confirmation. Thereupon Judge
Davis four or FIVE hundred pounds of adipose
matter melted down in a somewhat fervent
heat with sort of indignant sputter The
Judge thus got a foretaste of how grateful
Democracy will reward him for the favors he
has bestowed upon them.
The bill to give government to the Dis
trict of Columbia was passed after being so
amended that its progenitors did not know it.
| The House will now wrestle with it, and pro-
badly amend it back to where it started from
after consideration of six months. Such is
! legislation. During the debate colloquy oc-
CURED between Messrs Window and Whyte,
which involved the reputation of the latters
native city for cleanliness and salubrity
Whytc stood up for his town with a positive
ness that was amusing to those who are
''There is no place on the face of the earth
that Is as healthy as Baltimore Nobody ever
wants to live anywhere else that ever did live
there, and everybody goes there to die as the
most peaceful and happy place from which to
be translated to another and q better world?'
Every true Baltimorean on the Pacific slope
will take his 'davy that every word of it is as
true as preaching
The Senate in passing the House bill to
prevent the further retirement of legal tenders
by vote Of Al to IS, did perhaps the most
important piece of work that has been done
for many years. It settles the controversy
about imitation that destroys tho value of
money and contraction that iInpairs the value
Of property 1t leaves gold and silver as the
standards of value. keeps absolute money OF |
tho government in circulation and prevents il I
from being retired Or destroyed
The House bill giving to women the right !
to practice in the Supreme Court was de- ,
feated by tie vote, Butler. Mcdonald anu .
Voorhees,, Democrats, voting for 1t, and .
Conkling, Davis, Of Illinois, and Ua.uln vot-
ing against it. The Legislative appropriation
bin occupied the remainder Of Wednesday.
and the Senate adjourned to observe Decora-
ton Day The consideration Of the h.lI was
;csuuled to-day, and it ,.t#..y g.a-sed loaded
down with about twelve LHuvrrd amend
ments, which wIli la"ho rrnI.je work for
Committee of Conference, to which it now
goes. The Army bill will be reported next
week, with amendments. restoring the army
TO $4,000 men, and eliminating the House
proposition to transfer the Indian Bureau
from the Interior TO the War Department
The clause reducing the pay of army officers q
will probably be retained.
The House escaped the usual avalanche of
bills Oh Monday and proceeded with the
Army Appropriation bill, into which an
amendment was incorporated by majority
# 6 to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War
Department. The amendment which had
'een agreed to in Committee of the Whole,
king the number of men in the army at
. 900 was disagreed to in the House and the
lumber fixed at 10000, by a vote Of 115 to
20. The bill passed on the next day as {
dopted i'll Committee, with an additional
mendmcnt prohibiting the use of the army
S posse cOn1jtotus unless expressly author o
ed by law. This will enable the ku-klux
the South and the railroad raiders of the
orth to pursue their respective pleasing i
'Ocations of intimidation and Iawlessness
it'll sense Of security that must render the
respect qHite agreeable to them and their
ctims. The blessed asylum for the op-
'essed of all nations" may thus be rendered
the course of another year, as Douglas re-
i'd of Vermont, "a very good place to emf
ate from The Republicans were enabled
defeat proposition to put off until June
h the consideration of the Senate ad iourn- for
ent resolution. Finally the resolution was
anged from the 10th, as proposed by the Pu
nate, to June 18th, and passed
A bill was reported making an appropri-
on of $40, 900 as a first installment of the $40
lount to be expended in stamping the word
raud" on the placid brow of your friend rae
fellow soldier, Rutherford l. FRAUD
derstood- c. F. Adams.) Our fellows
Ight it with dilatory motions until their fel-
rs gave up the fight, so the bill remains use
ere it should stay-at the foot of the cal =
lar All hands then adjourned until to-day mn
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