The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-01-25
Our Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, ID. &. JAM 90, 1878.
Congress did absolutely nothing in the way OF
public business last week. To-day, it is said, a
vote will be reached in the Senate on the silver
resolutions of Senator Matthews. While the
vote may not show exactly the strength of those
who will vote for the reconciliation of silver,
there is general belief that it will do so, and
accordingly much interest is felt in it. If the
resolutions receive two-thirds vote your read
ers may be sure that silver will be remonetized,
whether or not Mr.. Hayes shall veto the bill to
be passed. decision one way or the other is a
public necessity.
There are tmid souls who defend the dshon.
est public debt statements of Secretary Sher-
man, on the ground that if full and correct
statement were given the people would not I'M
derstand 1t and would believe the country in
worse financial condition than it really is
Others hold that the debt not reported by the
Secretary, and which he refuses to pay when it
becomes due, will by and by become ''outlawed'
and not have TO be paid, thereby saving the
amount TO the Government. The first ground
of defense is not one fit to be used in connection
with Secretary, servant of the people. He
has no right to deal dishonesty with his master.
The other shows equal dishonesty, and il posi-
Bile, more contemplate trifiing with the Secre-
tary's duties. The Secretary has not made one
| full or fair report of the public debt.
In the absence of any exciting discussion in
Congress, people naturally enough turn to such
affairs as the proposed appearance of Mr.. Hen
bricks in the politics of his State and the
speech of ex-Secretary Bristow at Boston n few
days ago. Spite of Biaine's great popularity in
New England, Bristow has many most earnest
friends in that section He has strength among
the masses, too. There were in all the New
England States large numbers of people who
knew the insincerity of Blaine, and who would
have thought the chances about even, if he had
been elected that he would have gone farther
than Hayes to please the South or farther than
Zach Chandler to strengthen and consolidate
the Republicans of the North. Distrusting
Blaine, and seeing the hopelessness of fight If
Conklng or Morton was made candidate, these
men turned to Brlstow, who was not only of
good reputation as reformer but was new
man. His appearance in Boston is significant,
and not unnaturally people connect it with po-
litical combinations to extend into the future
1t may also be noted that the men who in New
England represent the anti-Blaine feeling are in
constant intercourse with Mr.. Blaine.
One of the innumerable institutions over
which the Secretary of the Interior has charge
is the Freedman's Hospital here. 1t is support
ed almost entirely by Government, and its
officers are responsible to the Secretary. In a
recent investigation, though the investigators
found nothing wrong, Secretary Schurz finds
nothing right. The persons who made the inves-
tigation reported that the officers against whom
charges were made, were innocent. Secretary
Schurz promptly removes them Will he never
get tired of this sort of nonsense? He sets one
set of suspected subordinates to investigating
another lot Of the same kind, and expects to get
at the truth. To make 1t all the more ridiculous,
the doors of the investigating room are closed
TO the public
In the way of sensations the Daily Post is the
equal of any tirst-class New York paper. Its
energies and abilities are now brought to bear
against Speaker Randall and Representative
Fernando Wood, and those lifelong Democrats
are merciessly read out of the party. The
Post is so lively and SO interesting, withal, that
4 10 HANG mfr IL to-
all its statements, or 10 consider it serious In all
Ii says. SEMINOLE