The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-02-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsHiNGToN. d. G., Feb ~, 1878.
The vtoe of IS to q in the Senate on Sat
urday on the silver bill indicates q new f.
nancial policy for the Government. IL
means far more than the reconciliation of
silver. Coming soon after reconciliation
will be the repeal OF the resumption act and
a cessation Of high taxes for II rapid reduce
to prevent undue increase Of the sinking
fund will pass. Whether or not all these
measures are for the public benefit, there is
no doubt that the necessities of the people
are what haye induced Congress to do what
it has already done and to propose the fur
ther legislation indicated above. We shall
soon know the effect of these various meas
ures. Meantime there is Que thing which
unquestionably would produce relief, and
which should not be lost sight of. That is
a reduction of Federal expenses There is
no doubt that would enhance the value of
our bonds, stimulate business, and lessen
the price of living. No question as to the
public faith" is involved, and the benefits
aud Government contractors. If the Demo-
cratic ma ority of the House would bring
about such reduction the party would Sc
cure an indefinite lease of power in the
country.
The despatch from New Orleans published
this morning, that Governor Nichols will
pardon Anderson of the Returning Board,
and Wells, also, if convicted, is, to say the
least an astonishing document. 1t means
that Wells will not be tried. 1t certainly
indicates desire to prevent full exposure
of the means by which Hayes was made
President, or a submission on the Governors s
part to the bnlldozing announced by Hayes
and Sherman. If the Governor wishes to
do his whole duty to his State and to The
country, he will not interpose between Wells
and the penitentiary.
Bayard Taylor, appointed Minister to Ger
mrny is Pennsylvania, a moderate Repub-
lican and man qualified by wide Europe
an acquaintance for the place. He is the only
translator of the greatest of German poems
Faust-and is the valued friend of all the lit
erary men of the Nation to which he is sent.
This appointment is one eminently fit to be
made, and is especially creditable to an Ad-
ministration which has so signally failed in
most of its foreign appointments.
Many-some say at least twenty-venera-
BILE members of the Senate were subjects for
missionary labor on the part of temperance
men on the night the silver bill passed. l
have seen no classification of those reported
to have been under the influence" but sup.
pose tnat party lines were not observed. Muir
ply spoke next day-Sunday the steps
of the Capitol but did not allude to the Sen.
atorial jamboree.
Genl. Butler says he got plain promise
from Mr. Hayes to appoint some one to a
Post Office in Massachusetts,, and before the
echo of the promise had died out in the
White Honse another man was appointed
The General has gone into print about it, and
threatens vengeance against everybody who
had hand in preventing his friends APP
pointment. When the General commences
to throw bricks, of which he said sometime
ago his hat was full, the administration will
know what fghtingis. The General is very
able man, and as he hasn't an atom of con-
science or delicacy he will not be choice in
the selection of missiles.
SEMINOLE.