Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-23
No. l3.

entertained, the comparative number
and character OF attendants upon the
sessions Of the convention, or from the
respectful attention accorded bv Con.
gress. The joint resolutions intro
duced In their respective chambers by
Senator Sargent and Judge Kelly
granting them the right to be beard of
Congress, was defeated ia the Senate
by vote of 81 to l3-all Republicans
and is still pending in the House;
but hearing was given them by the
Senate Com mittee on Privileges and
Elections Friday and Saturday, and the
subject of their request will be consid-
cred by it in few days. A resolution
was adopted by the Committee to the
effect that the arguments of the lady
| advocates had been characterized bv
eminent fairness, dignity and marked
ability; aud no one who has watched
the tendency of this agitation during
the past decide, in and out of Con-
gress, can be blind to the fact that it
has made steady progress towards GER
tam consummation. The opposition
has beon gradually forced from the ar
guments formerly most effective, to
that Of iDexpediency which is about
the only one now urged with any spirit.
montgomery Blair fods his party
disposed to shrink from any response
blllty for the bantling he introduced to
the notice of the Maryland Legislature
recently crying and clamoriug for the
undolng of "the great fraud" perpetrat.
ed by the Electoral Commission. Gen.
Butler promptly disavowed any sympa-
thy with the movement, aud the effort
made to Identify Senator Conkling with
1t has proved miserable failure: and
BLAIR has any reputation left suscept-
'ble of being damaged by any wicked
revolutionary pro- ject that be saems SO
capable Of originating, this, his latest
tuun pas, is thought likely to give it
the finishing stroke.
The reconvening Of Congress attract
ed but little attention, though it has
had an enlivening and animatins effect
upon all classes. Wood succeeded In
forcing through his drag-net investiga-
ton resolution, and We may expect ali
necessary legislation to be dropped as
1t was two years ago. in the shameless.
made hunt for some Republican official
who can be made to appear as officially
remlss IN some way that may be made
to. contribute to the exigencies of the
bull-dozing Tammany thieving Demo
cracy. The assurance and brazen ef-
trontery animating the leading spirits
of that notorious combination could not
be better shown than by thrusting
Fernando Wood to the front in the
character of a "Reformer."
Senator Congling has formally mott
fed Runkle and Draper that the valid
ity of the Presidential and Depart
mental action had, restoring them to
the positions in the Army and the
Navy from which they were dismissed
or were permitted, as great favor, to
resi- gn, will be tested in the Senate, for
the double purpose, probably, Of bar
ring the way of scores now waiting to
take advantage of the precedent estab-
lished in the cases of those named. to
secure their restoration to positions
forfeited by their own misconduct, apd
to protect the Treasury from raids based
on claims for back pay for which not
one hours service has ever been rem
dered.
The Mexican lobby has fattened ont
like pancake under the testimony Of
Slade, Shafter and Bulls; and the
heads OF the Indian Bureau employees
are continually falling in the basket in
consequence of the revelations of the
commission appointed to investigate
that model concern.
The work of the Hayden surveys are
making us familiar with heretofore un-
known regions, rich in minerals and of
great agricultural and grazing capacity.
1t extends from Arizona to Montana.
embracing the Territories of Utah,
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Dako-