The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-05-28
WashIngto.a Letter.

THE MAJORITY DISPOSED TO LET THE
ARMY BILL FAIL-FALsE RUMoR OF
CABINET REsIeNAFIoN-GEN. THOMAS
EQUESTRIAN STATUE = SOMETHING
ABOUT TEIE COLOSSAL. RR0NzE -AR @ OF
WASHINGTON.
2 WAsH1NeToN, D. c., May 22nd, 1879.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:
1t is confdentially expected that the
President will veto the legislative, exc
cutiye and judicial bill. the passage of
which 1bg the Senate was off1eialy an
nounced to the House yesterday at X
O'Clock. The House at the time was
dividing on a vote to order the previous
question on. the bill TO prevents the re-
moYaI Of eases from state to federal
courts, and no action4was taken immedi-
ately on the bill. 1t will probably be
referred to the appropriation committee,
and the Senate amendment, increasing
the pay of Senate employees be non-con-
Cured in and the bill be sent to con
ference. committee. 1t is expected that
the difference between the two houses
will be reconciled without delay, and
that the bill will be ready to be sent to
the President on Friday. The veto is
expected on Monday After it is receiv-
ed joint caucus of the Democrats Of
the two houses will be held, and the
future line of policy be mapped out. 1t
is evident that the disposition is growing
among the Democratic leaders to let the
army bill fail. The legislative bill,
though, will certainly be passed in some
shape. If it is decided to let the army
bill fail, it will be sent to the President
precisely as it was originally, and the
two houses viii adjourn on the day the
bill is sent to the President. Then the
President will call Congress together
again and the struggle will be renewed.
a rumor that the Secretary of War
would soon resign his Office in order to
be appointed to the Judge ship of the
9Th. District U. s. Circuit Court, and
that Senator Logan would be given the
portfolio of war, caused considerable
surprise in official and political circles
yesterday evening, but it is this morn.
ing authoritatively denied that Mr.. Nc
Crary has any intention of resigning.
The rumor was absurd at best. Mr.. Nc
Crary is young, able, ambitious; his goal,
at present, is the o. s, Senate with
ulterior expectations and possibilities
and as for Senator Logan, he has too
much sense to exchange a six years Of
fee for one of two years. ~
Another bronze cavalryman is to be
stuck up in Washington, and it is to be
called an equestrian statue of General
Thomas. In order that posterity may
know what it was intended for, it would
be well to have its title very distinctly
engraved on the bronze 1t is almost
impossible to conceive how any
statue so stiff, awkward, and unnatural,
could be allowedeoutside of China, or
German toy-shop. The horse looks like
an unbroken three year old CRASHED
colt, with heavy head and scant hind
quarters, with mouth wide open gasping
at immensely, while his rider holds him
with. slack rein but with stiff uplifted
arm on the brink of a precipice. 1t
looks for all the world as if the artist had
got his inspiration from a noYice's first
attempt in riding school, or from Wit
Messing butcher'sparade on back.
l believe there is no city in the world
that can show as many awkward bronze
equestrian monstrosities as the Capital
of the United States, and the worst of it
is that they are durable. The colossal
horse which General Winfield Scott be-
strides is supposed to be walking, but his
feet are in a position never assumed by
any horse in any gait. His left hind
and left fore feet are under him about
eighteen inches apart while his feet on
the opposite side are. extended fore and
aft. Any one acquainted with horses
knows that they never assume this posi-
tiOn. except when steadying themselves
to scratch the right ear with the right
hind foot. 1t is time to protest against
this sacriIege of art. Our art has the
deserved contempt of the civilized world,
and we go on blindly erecting expensive
dissertations, huge bronze toys, to the
wonder and admiration of the surround
ing villagers, without rejecting that the
false and meretricious in art, as well as
in morals, extends its baleful influence
to posterity. C. A s.
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