The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-05-07
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS,
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April so.

From our Regular Correspondent.
The amount of talk that has been
INDUCED in over the army bill In
House and Senate is something really
enormous, as any one will be prepared
TO certify who has seen the Congress
sional Record every day for three weeks
past. Streams ofeloiuence and rheto-
ric of every degree and quality have
flown as freely as the waters ola great
flood, but the patient listener or reader,
who knew long ago how every vote
would be cast, the thing has grown
monotonous. 1t was a brother of that
eminent jurist in the Senate from Yer
mont, who, sitting as judge in a case
afflicted with long-winded counsel.
rose and said: when you gentle
men get through with your speeches,
you will find my decision in the draw
err. The Court is going to dinner. y
The closing aspect of this discussion in
the Senate reminds one OF this anecdote.
The speeches may be ever so good and
many are exceedingly able; but when
they go over the precise grounds so
exhaustivelv canvasSed in the House,
it is hard to avoid the conviction that
it would be just as well to cut it short.
Judge Davis came nearer reviving the
interest of daily listeners than any
other Senator this week. His short
speech was a surprise to the Repub-
licans, who had been led to believe
that he would occupy halfway ground
and advocate Il compromise. Instead
of that, he went us for as any Demo
ciat in insisting that the objectionable
clause should be repealed, and in ridi-
culing the the absurd cry of revolution.
Mr.. Blaine, apparently anticipating at
least cIumb of comfort from the Judge
took his seat Immediately i'll front of
the latter, and looked right up into his
face. When in the course of his
speech, after having condemned see
tional strife, Judge Davis said that
sound policy dictated peace and good
will between the sections, and that none
but those who put party above patri-
otism, and who were seeking to do
harm, opened up the past, he stopped
for an instant and looked squarely aud
very suggestively down into Mr..
Blaine's face.
Probably no man living has better
warrant to speak for Abraham Lincoln
than Judge Davis, and there isn'ta par
ticle of doubt that the declaration made
by him that if Mr.. Lincoln were alive,
he would heartily favor the repeal OF
such war measures rs authorized the In
reference of the army, or any other
Federal authority, with elections, is
absolutely true. The ranting of black
Jack Logan in taking exceptions to
what he said, annoyed Judge Davis
very much, and he made no effort to
conceal it. He tried TO avoid any dis
cussion with Logan, and even went 50
far as to ignore Kim for time, but
the latter made himself so obnoxious
that the Judge was obliged to shut
him up. He objected to Mr.. Davis
assertion that there was peace in all
the land, and that the laws were obey.
ed alike North and South. TO contIo-
vert this he read from the last report
of the Revenue Commissioner figure,
showing that a thousand or more ar
rests for revenue frauds were made last
year in the South than in the North.
Judge Davis replied that that was nc
Indication of a lawless spirit, as the
entire South was not responsible
for violations of law committed IN the
mountains of one or two States. Logan
persisted, and finally the Judge tartly
replied that he knew there were numer
Gus violations of the revenue laws il
Illinois, and all over the North where
ILLICIT distilling and smuggling wa:
going on all the time. He had ne
doubt the revenue officials were mucl
more energetic in hunting out fraud,
in the South. John |. Logan ough
to be the last man to talk about viola
tions of the internal revenue laws
He owes his present position in thu
Senate to the fact that, during Grant.
term, he could jerk 4 whisky THE
, Gu, from under charge, indictment
or sentence, quicker than all the law
yers in all tile States of the Union
He knows very well, too, that tn,
Government was defrauded out o
more money in Illinois during tn,
eight years of Grants presidency
and his Senatorship, than in all tn,
southern States put together.
All talk of a short session has van
ished and the food-gates of general legi
. lation were thrown wide open las
Monday. when nearly fourteen hundre,