The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-01-30
WASHINGTON.
cONaREssIoNAL NOTE.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.--In the House a
bill was introduced, and referred, by Mr.
McCcok of New York, for the relief Of the
tobacco trade.
On motion of Mr.. Ewing, of Ohio, the
Matthew'S Silver Concurrent Resolution
was taken from the Speakers table and
passed by oyer two-thirds vote.
Mr.. Baker of Indiana, moved to suspend
the rules and adopt a resolution declaring
that in the judgment Of the House no sub
sides in money. bonds, public lands, en-
dorsements, or by pledges of public credit
should be granted or renewed by Congress
to associations or corporations engaged in
public or private enterprises, but that all
appropriations ought to be limited to such
amounts and purposes only as shall be i'm
peratively demanded by the public service.
Adopted by a two-thirds vote.
A special from New Orleans SAYS: An
derson, though dispirited at times, grows
fierce and bitter. Search has been made
everywhere for Wells but without effect. 1t
is believed that he started on Saturday for
Washington, and that the Custom house re-
sistaBce was for the purpose of giving him
time to reach Washington, and that when
there lac will go TO the President and
urge their desperate condition, and show
that unless he does something, they will be
lost. IL he refuses, then disclosure will
be made of the whole fraud on condition
that the prosecution is stopped. It Is Aaid
that intimatons have been received from
certain leading Democrats that ii the Re-
turning Board would show HAYES election
to have been a fraud their prosecution will
cease. Mai. Burke was interviewed at New
Orleans about the so-called electoral bar
gain, yesterday. He defended President
Hayes and the Southern Democratic Con-
gressmen from the charges of party intidei-
itv and said the people OF Louisiana had ex-
pressed no favor for the electoral bill b; they
regarded Ii as "a means of letting Mr.. Tilden
down easy they had been led to expect
that MIR. Tilden and the Democratic
party North would claim their rights,
and ii needs be enforce them. Regarding the
counting of the vote, he said t'Mr. TIL
denis managers in Washington had schemes
for defeating the count in the Senate and
for holding new election under COnkling,
but the party had never authorized them.
| know positively that Senator COnklIng
had a speech all prepared in favor CT throw
ing out the vote al Louisiana, in which
event he was to have been elected President
of the senate and would have become
President OF the United States pending the
new election which would have taken place
year afterwards. Mr.. Tilden's friends
were satisfied with this arrangement
because they thought that with his wounds
fresh bleeding, he would have no trouble in
securing the Democratic nomination, and
Senator Conkling doubtless thought that
with the control of the patronage he
would easily shelve Mr.. Hayes and become
the Republican candidate. The canse which
prevented an attempt at carrying this pro-
gramme- out was the distrust felt by Mr..
Conkling's adherents of the Republican
side of the caryet-ba9 Senators from the
Southern States. They were all ready
enough to slaughter Hayes because they
had become alarmed at some OF has utter
ances and at Grants declarations but it was
feared that instead OF supporting Senator
Conkling they might vote for Morton as
they probably would have done.