The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-05-01
No. lS.
FOR THE HERALD.
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,

w ASH1NGION, ~. u,
April II, 1878.
The regular appropriation bills are
now in the positions given below :
Pension bill has passed the House and
is in Senate Committee; it will be re-
ported without important amendment.
Three bills, Post Ofico, River and
Harbor, and Executive, Legislative
and Judicial, have been reported by
House ommittees, but not finally
acted on by the House. Two bills,
the Consular and Diplomatic, and the
West Point, are in conference between
the two HOUSES, as is the ''little def
cheney" 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 Sen
| ate, and the House Com mittee is now
| considering the subject. There will
I be Conference Committee on that
subject, too. The Army, the Indian,
and the Suudry Civil Bill, and two or
more deficiency bills have not been re-
ported in the House yet. There will
be delays whenever the Senate has in
creased the amounts appropriated, as
the House is lately showing disposi-
ton to stand by its Committees.
7 Hon. Montgomery Blair's Maryland
resolutions are now before the Judicial
ry Committees of the two Houses, and
the bill regulating the manner Of pro-
ceeding 10 the Supreme Court on the
trial Of the title of Mr.. Hayes, as con-
semplated in the resolutions, is before
the same Committee Of the House.
While it is impossible to see any pros
pect of the passage of the bill in the
present House and Senate, it is a sig
nifcsnt fact that Mr.. Garfield had few
supporters yesterday in his efforts to
prevent the reception and reading Of
the resolutions. It was plain that all
the members thought the policy of
suppressing evidence and avoiding
discussion on the subject had been
pursued long enough.
The Administration National
Union disappeared on Saturday last
It had no right to exist. Its owners
thought, when they commenced its
publication, that decayed politicians,
like Fenten, of New York, and honest
and iupracticable politicians like
Chamberlain, of Maine, to use as ex.
amples the two names which first oc-
cur to me, would hereafter control the
Republican party. They believed
that, because the Fentons and Schurzs
happened to be in bad standing with
the parties who supported Grant in
his iniquities, therefore Fenton and
Schurz would be able to rally the hon
est majority Of the people around
them, and that, because scholars here
and there showed an interest in poll
tics, the scholars and thinking men Of
the country would come to the front
en- maasse. They forgot two things
First, that the Democratic party, prac-
tically a unit, held a majority of the
people. Second, that the machine
politician, like Blaine, Conkilng'
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 driven into
the Democratic ranks. The National
Union, anticipating the fate of those
for whom it labored, is now portion
of The Post, paper which denies the
the title of Mr.. Hayes to the Presi.
deucy. In business point of view
the Union goes out with clean hands,
| Mr.. 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 of it, especially as the Sen
ate will certainly be Democratic after
March 4th. In certain sense the
title of Mr.. Hayes will be on trial be-
fore the next Congress, if not passed
upon by the present one, and the in-
terest expressed by him is not unnatu-
raj. But will the people of the coun-
try assist him in selecting members Of
the tribunal by which his case is to
be tried? Will the Republican lead
ers heartily second this, his first inter-
ference in behalf of the party in gene
raj, knowing that his fears rather than
his care for them or the party dictates
his course? SOLON.