, 1878-02-09
Car Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. "A, 1S7

"ANit>"ioN, II, 1910
EDIToR STATESMAN From day to day we
are told tha. tie silver resolutions Of Senator
Mathews viii come t. a vote in the senate
This morning it Is announced that only two
more senators desire to speak on the subject,
and that before t.sts%s sssion closes the reso-
lutions will he disposed of. No two men agree
IL to the probable numI er Of friends and OPP
ponents cf the resolutions Its friends are
estimated at anywhere from 53 down To II.
The introduction Of the resolutions has been the
great mistake of the session on the part of the
silver men. 1t has given the enemies Of silver
what they coveted-a delay in voting on the
remoneti2ation bill. The resolutions disposed
of, we have still to go through lon., days and
weeks of discussion the question of passing
the bill, and to listen to arguments for and
against the resolutions.
If Mr. Hayes Will keep his backbone stiff
fened for 4 season he is IN the way OF render
ing the country very great service. Hon j.
NJ. Glover, mover of the investigation resolii-
tions in the house, addressed Mr. Hayes a let
ter III the subject, and the following is the con
cuSion Of the lattes reply.
Touching the suggestion, contained in your
letter that witnesses who may testify before the
committees may be apprehcnsive of losing their
places if they testify truly and fully, You are
AT liberty to insure all subordinate officers that
the fact Of their tsstitying before the commit
tees shall not be used to their prejudice"
This, Of course, will be diStaSteful to those
radicals who expect have their friends caught
in the Investigations, bnt it is a very honorable
and patriotic thing for Mr. Hayes to do, and
if he SIuarcly keeps the plain promise made,
he will receive the thanks of all good citizens.
Mr. Glovers statement OF the necessity FOR
these Investigations, in his letter to Mr. HAYES,
Is a strong document. In the following brief
extract is a vivid picture Of what every one
familiar with official life here knows to be
true.
1t is painful, Yet true, that for years the exc
cutive departments of the federal government
have been increasingly corrupt and oppressive,
and that the rights and liberties Of the citizens
have been trampied on without redress in these
departments of the administration, while or
gained combinations in every department ex-
listed in proGusion, based on plunder, and sport
ed with and preyed on, the fortunes and the
happiness of 10000, 900 of people, who, while
this profuse expenditure of their hard earnings
and this habitual violation Of their rights have
occurred, nave grown R6prer and poorer till
the misrule his wrought wide misfortune and
distress"
Thorough investigation of II this, especially
If earnestly supported by Mr.. Hayes, must lead
TO the suggestion OF means of relief
Senator Blaine, belGgerent, clustering and
brutal, took occasion yesterday, while eulogiz-
ing the dead of his adopted state, to speak evil
Of those who. had died across the line in another
state He was presenting to the United States
a statue of the man who was Names first gov
ernor after her separation from Massachusetts,.
Probably Massachusetts, deserved all that he
said, and more but Daniel Pratt tie great
American traveller" would have known better
have said it at that time
\ hundred representatives favorable to re-
monetizinS silver met the other day, and com
mitted great mistake, number two of the ses-
sion by putting themselves under the leader
ship of Ben Bntler. There has been a sad want
of competent leadership among silver men SO
far. REX.