The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-25
WASHINGTON LETTER,
From our regular correspondent,

1t IS to be regretted that Senator Thur
mans health will not allow him to take
part in the very important campaign in
Name this summer. The Senator has a
vast number Of friends in that State, and
would have much influence there. trust
he will be able to make himself here at the
two or three places where Secretary Sher-
man speaks. He is now on the coast of the
State for the benefit of his health.
The government Of this district is a
wonderful thing to contemplate in repu-
blican country. 1t is made up of three
men, called commissioners, all of whom are
by law appointed by the president. There
is no legislature, and even the slightest
semblance Of representative government is
wanting, That this should be the case al
the capital of the principal republic of the
wof'' .-ure OF other affairs may have. pre-.
vented the presentation and support by
leading Democrats in House ana Senate of
a bill giving us representation, but that ex-
cuse will not answer hereafter. The evil
was created by a Republican congress. 1t
should be removed by Democratic con-
gross. 1t has been we'll said that the Dem
ocratic party is party of the people, while
the opposition is the party Of classes.
Much of the history of the last few years
goes to prove this. The Democrats in con-
gress have made gallant fight for free
elections. Let them remember that the
people of this district have no elections
whatever.
No matter Of what financial belief man
is possessed, he cannot be harmed by at
tending the meeting early next month, at
Saratoga, N. Y, of the American bankers
association. The commerce and industry
of the country, the state and savings banks,
as well as the national banks will be rep
resented. There will also be in attendance
people from abroad who are distinguished
in finance
The Legislature Of New Hampshire has
during its present session, taken the neces-
sary steps providing for marble statutes of
General John Stark and Daniel Webster to
be placed in Memorial hall in the national
capitol. The legislature has done wisely
in designating Stark and Webster as two of
its most eminent and distinguished sons
the former representing the revolution
airy period and the later the period when
constitutional government was undergoing
its severest trial. Each state is invited to
contribute statutes Of two Of its most emil
nent citizens, and the following are the
names of those that have been placed in
the hall by the states named, as fol-
lows:
Maine, William King, Saml Adams;
Massachusetts, John Winthrop, Roger Sher.
man; Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull,
Ethan Allen; Rhode Island, Nathaniel
Greene, Roger Williams; New York, George
Clinton, Robert r. Livingston.
Statues Of the following persons purchas.
ed by congress have also been placed in
Memorial Hall, making the entire collcc.
ton Of this time an exceedingly rare and
valuable one and the pride Of all American
citizens, as follows; George Washington,
Thomas jefferson, Alexander Hamilton,
Abraham Lincoln, Edward D. Baker,
Thomas Crawford, and T. Kosciuszko
Itishopsd that these States that have
not yet compiled with AZ invition n con-
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