Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our REGULAR Correspondent.

write TO Une accompaniment OF
booming artillery, for this is ma
tional holiday. The Executive De-
partments are all closed and the
streets are alive with several
thousand government clerks, indie
pendent colored delegations from
Maryland and Virginia, and pre-
partitions are making for an i'm
mense Knight Templer and Muir
ply procession this afternoon.
Yesterday was a very interesting
day at the capitol while the senate
was discussing, with closed doors
the recent appointments of the Presi-
dent particularly the CollectOrship
of the Port of New Orleans, the
House had under consideration the
Silver Bill as ameuded by the Sen
ate. At the expiration of the morn
ing hour, Alex Stephens wheeled
his chair to the front, took off the
stove pipe hat that ne always wears,
except when speaking, and, lifting
his skeleton hand, moved that the
House proceed with the Silver Bill.
He had no sooner ceased speaking,
than Mr.. Springer was on his feet
with point of order, that, under
the rule, the bill providing for an APP
preparation of money, should go to
the committee of the whole. This
motion was the subject of much dis
cussion in which Messrs. Cox of n.
V, Garfield and others sustained
the point Of order, while Messrs.
COnger, Saylor and others opposed
it. Mr.. Randall finally overruled
the point, and then Mr.. Buckner of
Mo-, tried, Intellectually, to carry a
motion to have the bill referred to
the Committee on Banking and
Currency. Mr.. Stevens declined
resolutely to yield the floor for that
purpose, nor would he permit Mr..
Hewitt to make a motion to lay the
bill with the amendments on the
table. 1t was evident that Mr..
Stevens knew his strength, and in
teded to force the issue, and, giving
notice that he would call the pre-
/ viOus question at the end of an hour,
| he proceeded to divide the sixty
minutes to the many orators who
were hungry to speak. To Mr..
Ewing he gave eight minutes, to
Gen. Butler five, to others only
three. Some of those who had only
three minutes would speak a SEN
tence or two, ask permission to
print their remarks at length on
the Record, and then yield the re-
mainder of their time, minute, or
who by this maneuvre, will get on
the Record with long speech. The
| speaking was lively i'll the extreme,
one by one the speakers rose and
fell to the sharp rap of the Speakers
gavel, each concluding with the
plaintive appeal to print the re-
mainder of their remarks, until Mr..
/ Springer of Illinois moved that all
be granted that privilege, without
the formality of a request. This
motion was passed without objec-
ton, aud the speeches that Will APP
pear in the Record, that were never
heard in the House, will make a
] small volume. The most notable
speeches We're those of Ewing, But
Ter, Bland, Garfield, Hewitt, and
/ Crittenden of New York. The last
who is a big capitalist, but of small
/ physique, spoke against the bill
with a raging energy that was ter
rib!e to behold, and sat down amid
shouts of laughter, in which he
finally joined, when, to clap the
climax Of absurdity, he was sur
rounded and congratulated by the
! friends of the bill. Butler and
Ewing were particularly bitter in
| their denunciatiOn of the bill, as
mutilated by the amendments of
the Senate. Butler saw no reason
for this untimely haste in accepting
the measure just as it came from the
| Senate, for he believed that the
friends of reconciliation, at both
ends Of the capitol, had strength to
pass such a bill as the people de-
manded. Bland said that he would
vote for the bill as a step in the
right direction, but added that he
regarded it as only a step, to be fol-
lowed soon by others, and if the
/ bOndholders did not like it, he was
in favor of examining paper money
/ down their Threats. Mr.. Hewitt
thought that deceived, indignant
and outraged people would sweep
the bill from the statute book in one
year, and he wanted that to go on
the record as his prophecy.
The Executive session of the Sem
ate, yesterday, was one of the most
animated that has occurred for
I years. disappointment of William
son as Collector at New Orleans was
finally rejected, and Mr.. Packard
has strong hopes of securing the
appointment, if the President can be
induced to send in his name, there
is but little doubt that the Senate
will confirm the nomination. The
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