The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-03-28
lNl CONGRESS-.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March %.

debts and dues, both public and private.
That any national banking association
hereafter organized or any national bank
ing association now in existence which NAV
desire to increase its circulation, shall de-
liver to the Secretary for cancellation
any of the bonds OF the United States paya-
BILE within ten years and bearing six per
cent. interest, and shall receive, in exchange
therefor, legal tender notes of the United
States to the amount of the nominal value
of such bonds, and which said bonds shall
be treated as part OF their sinking fund
and recorded and destroyed under existing
laws, but the whole amount OF legal-tender
notes issued for this purpose and otherwise
outstanding, shall never exceed three
hundred, and eighty two million dollars. No
tax upon circulation shall be imposed upon
the legal-tender notes issued under the pro-
visions hereof and no reserves shall be re-
quired to be kept for their redemption
by any such national banking association,
and all laws or parts OF laws inconsistent
with the provisions hereof, be, and are here
by, repealed. Referred.
At the expiration OF the morning hour
Mr.. Howe called up his resolution asking
the President for information in regard To
the alleged defalcatiOn Of Judge Whitaker,
Of Louisiana, and made his promised
speech
In regard to that portion of Mr. HOWE'S
speech where he referred to the indictment
against Whitaker having been nolie
pressed, Mr.. HOar said he desired to in
quire of Senator Howe whether he had
any information that Whitaker was indict-
ed for the defalcaiion charged eight years
ago, tried and acquitted on the merits OF
the case and the indictment nolle pressed a
year ago, was tor the same ofiense.
Mr.. HOWE said it was due to the truth
to say that he had such information, but he
had also been told that the defalcation ex-
listed and he Howe) hoped that the answer
to his resolution would show how Whitaker
was acquitted on that trial.
Mr.. hOAR saidthat when the present ad
ministration came into power the Attorney.
General received from the District Attorney
in New Orleans, list of the old CORES.
pondence, ard the one against Whitaker
was wiped off the docket with a number OF
others OF no Importance. The action was
taken by the Attorney General in the ordi
| nary course OF business, without any under.
staining with the present remarks OF Sena.
tor Howe which would imply that the
nolle PROSE- OF Whittakers case had some
thing to do with political events in Louisi
ana
Mr.. HOWE said he would not be sur
prised if that should turn out to be fact
that would not overwhelm him with
astonIshment
Mr. HOWE, in the course Of his remarks
referring to the formation Of the Cabinet
after briefly alluding to Postmaster-G General
Key, said the President had selected one
other who, although not Democrat, wa:
not Republican, but who was equally a
home with all parties and in all places. BY
turns he had been everywhere and had es
poused and deserted every party. III,
spoke like an oracle and his facie speecl
could be fitted to the vicissitudes of par
| ties as readily as a double-facet
satin can be turned to hid,
the accidents Of society. His cringes upor
his political associates always gave hin
popularity with his political opponents, and
he resembled the prophets in never being
without honors-except where he happened
to reside. In custom, and in everything
else, he has been constant to his trade
that of policies. He entered upon that
before he was of age, and he has pursued il
since, without variableness or shadow OF
turning. His first enterprise was to revolu-
tionize the Government under which he
was born, but that failed and he fled. He
was, for a short time, a lawyer in
Wisconsin. but without clients. He
was Minister to Madrid, but did not
reconstruct the diplomacy OF the world. He
was Major-General, but perverse history
refused to record his victories. lie was a
newspaper correspondent and was unscuc-
cessful. He was transplanted into Missouri
and generous Republicans of that State bore
him into this Senate. That elevation did
not prove fatal to him, but his party died
died not in spite OF him, but because of him
and under the blows which he inflicted.
Having outraged one party and
not vet having received absolu-
,tion from the other, he denounced
both as machines. Having failed as
dealer in legitimate politics, he turned his
attention to the contraband article, and in
1872 helped to lead Horace Greeley and B.
Gratz Brown to the Baltimore market, and
taught the Democracy Of that year that
they should call nothing common or un-
cleaD if it promised to beat Grant. For
six years he traduced the Republican party
probably throughout more States. with
more rhetoric and in more languages than
any man living. Upon thai ilIns-
trious CAPTAIN who. from the 4th Of
July. 1868. to the 4th of March.
1877. led the Republican party-who
ALWAYS led his party to victory. and ALWAYS
lifted his country to renown. and at whose
approach but rece1tly the Eastern conti-
nent stood nm and uncovered their be,ds he
threw more mud than any dredue mot worl-
ed by steam ever threw in the s,me time
He then took nm the Packard c,se and
the Louisiana election and mentioned ,han,
AT Length s,v;ng that n P,cL.rd w.s No,
sIac,ed Governor of In,;s;.r. nn,h;na a." ~
he more Certain than that Us... %.
elected President Of The Tn;,sd S,.,"s
W;tbout the electoral vote of 7 on;s;.n. ~.
whole world knows that Haves h.J No,
const,tnta an election If Ton;s;.n.
did not vote for Packard
tba wo,ld Lnows th.t Jor;san. al ~,
for Haves Packard received ne,riv ,U ,wo
thousand votes more than some Of the
iiayes % eiec'oIs. Snoer "e cons,i'ution
i!e y! ,resioeht nao ou' one Piain outy 10
llscharge anu 'ia' was 70 ascertain .netr-
= me I eons1i1nlea pel tIiounais Oh LOUISIANA
nad declared raeka!u 10 De governor. Ii
%, hen 70 dsieno ms aulnriiy 10 the ex-
en, Oh nis aoliiIy Snen ieeany required so
. 90. n lhe! mao not 30 declared, then 1t
vas equaily ms duts' not merely TO have
al support Oh rackatd Prefence,
"a. 70 nave gwen an the required support
o the ciaim Oh rackard rivai. IL was ms
lnty 'ny 70 nave done tnat, not merely on the
Otn OF APril, Dut 10 nave done II on the 4th