The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-02-12
Washington Letter.


THE RESULT or A PRoTRACTED sTuuo-
GLE. -sENAToR C0NKLNG sMmEs AT
DEFEAT AND ABIDEs Hs TnfE.-PnEsf-
DENT HAYES VICTORIOUS WITHOUT Wis
ulLE ELATION.--vAB vfcTrH -AN Ex-
IRA SESSION PROBABLE -TifE AMY
BILL AT LAST THE SECRETARY Or
THE NAVY VERSUS sENAT0n BIsAtsM.a
WAaHEGros, d. C., Feb. 9, 20.
To che Elhor OF ths Morirfouu 0araf,s
The great custom-house battle las
been fought. and victory "a on the side
Of tho administration. Yesterday there
was mnch rejoicing and a lively eK-
change OF congratulations umoug the
personal ana political fdtnds Of abe Sec
rotary 81 the Treasury but the presi-
dent received The news 81 confirmation
without apparent surprise, and ala not
permit himself openly Co CXult On the
morning after bis defeat. when Ne came
/ into The Senate chamber, al the eyes OF
the galleries wero fixed upOn The New
York Senator, but there was uOihinr in
bis appearance % Indicate n chnciuus-
ness Of suhlugation. He perhaps feels
that DC Is young and can hide bis time.
that every Senator has bis dav. aud that
even this defeat may be retrieved. But
although his seat In the Senate ig secure
for six years, this first great reverse may
have momentous influence on his politi-
cal future There Is an ebb as we'll as a
tide in the Affairs ~ men, and fhis de-
feat wrests from him immense patron
age and strips hundreds on he friends OF
the shows OF political warfare. It's in-
sisted by many that Mr Conkiinr's de-
feat came from hts un- Nnpoloonid Sac.
tics In dGferrinC The encounter. that AZ
might have been brought on earlier. be.
fore, as bis friends say, tie m0rdls OF his
following was corrupted hy The rich
promises 81 the enemy. There are many
ways Of suunisiug how n might have
been but none VI them viii effect the
fact that 10 Is. This Is victory a. See.
rotary sherman and tho other cabinet
officer whom Dir. ConlylIug once drsig-
mated as "littlc Evarts" The President
really cared very little who had control
OF the New York Custom House. As
Mr.. Shcrman's victory. Ii scores one
more % the remarkable successes oI "a
man no way remarkable iu him tlL The
old theory that men are successful In
the more conspicuous spheres 90 Tie,
through force 20 genius. will find many
contradictions in the study Of those who
arc eminent iu National politics Tho
man who makes by force bis meril
known" u not Che ono.
'Whn lives t0 clutch .Hf golden trTa,
To ll1uld mighty -.at.H drerrra
And shape the whisper uf o throne"
10 depends among other things upon
whether the man was elected from Yer
mont or from Ohio.
Only four more weeks Of Congress TO
main, and as the fourth OF March ap-
proachcs the probability OF an extra ees-
sion Increases The two parties are ma
merically so nearly equal that either
party has the power % thwnrt or pro-
tract pending legislation as 20 make an
extra session necessary. 10 is said that
the leaders Of both parties are opposed
20 such course, but from The time that
has been consumed aud will be eonsum-
ed in debate on Dir. Edmunds rcs0lg.
lions Il seems scarcely probable that tho
Senate will have time for the cousidera.
ton Of appropriation bills and other i'm
despensiblc legislation.