Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-14
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE xos1roR.l

WASHINGTON, July 8, 1879.
Congress having gone home and left
the lost cause without an official expo
nent the Democrats are busy explaining
the grand fzzle called the extra session.
1t is a difficult job. The Confederates
came together big with threats of starv-
ing the Government to terms, and they
went away content with starving" the
U. s. marshals only, and they will not
be starved, since the President must keep
those officials employed and Congress
must in future provide for them. All
they did was simply to embarass those
marshals who cannot afford to work and
wait for their pay at future period. If
the Democratic party is satisfied with
this slender outcome, the Republican
party ought to be. But it will turn out
that the country is far from being salts
fed, as the coming elections will show.
should not forbear to mention again
the significant fact that the Democrats
entirely dropped the chief subject of
their solicitude, the U. S. election super
vlsors, finding that the country was in
favor Of retaining them. In fact, the
whole Democratic ground was substan-
| TALLY abandoned, thus showing that the
extra session was mischievous invention
to create political disturbance.
In connection with Presidential gossip,
| a story is told in this city which is in
teresting. and confirms what | have said
of the friendship felt for one candidate
The story goes that few days before
Congress adjourned Senator Conkling en-
tertained at dinner a dozen or more
prominent Republican leaders. chiefly
warm friends of Gen. Grant, but who
believe the ex-President will not again
be candidate. The New York Senator
asked each of his guests who would be
the strongest candidate in that case ::
that is. who would poll the full Repub-
lican vote and at the same time not in.
cite the antagonism of the other aspiring
candidates. Nobody volunteered to name
any person who could fill the bill. Sen
ator Conkling said: 81 have candidate
it is William Window of Minnesota. He
could poll the full vote of the party,
would not make enemies among the lead
ers if nominated, and would come to the
nominating convention with the solid
strength of the Northwest in his support. .
This story is plausible from the fact thai
Senator Conkling himself is not candi
date. and would probably like to lead q
popular movement towards some Other
man, since he believes his friend Gen
Grant is off the course.
Some of the sore-head newspapers are
complaining because the President nom
mated Capt. j. B. Eads and Gen. Ben
Harrison on the Mississippi River Com
mission. The complaint touching Capt
Eads comes solely from class of news
paper strikers who have not been able t,
"bleed" him for supposed services il
behalf of his Mississippi jetty project
The Captain is eminently fitted for tn
place assigned him, and his great worl
at the mouth of the Mississippi is suffi
cient evidence that whatever he will
endorse relative to the other improve
ments proposed will be proper. Gen
Harrison is man of character and
sturdy Republican, which perhaps DON
suit the croakers.
An effort is being made to reconcil
the proposed scheme of the Europea
engineers to construct the Panama 18th
mus Ship Canal with our American idea
of the Monroe doctrine The friends Q
the scheme disclaim any intention c
making it European affair, or of takin
: away American control. Senator Burr
side. however, does not put confidence i
this talk. and he defends his resolutio
: relative to the Canal on the ground tina
: the whole North American Continer
5 below the Canadian border will eventl
ally be under the control of the Unite
: States, and that the movement to estal
lish this ighway with European capt.;
S must be regarded as, in certain sens
II an intrusion upon American territor,
0 The Senator's views show him to be flu
q of confidence in the theory of Nation;
e expansion.
IS The movement for National Fair
IS permanancy in Washington is goir
we'll. The sum Of $4,000 has bee
subscribed as beginning, and the pro
pect is good. LOGAN.