Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-30

fore there will be money on hand to
commence payments.
Was shington Letter.
[From. .ouAfegular correspondent
Washington, D. c., Jan. "a, 1879.
The event of the last week was the
| cipher discussion in the House. The
previous announcement that General
Butler would contribute speech to
the occasion, and pay his respects to
cipher literature, suficed to attract one
of the largest crowds Of the session,
many of whom went away without hav.
ing experienced the sensation of ex-
treme delight they had anticipated
1t was supposed that the General knew
thing or TWO about ciphers, and that
his contribution would be something
exceedingly lively. But Benjamin
did not shy his castor into the ring
with the air of a man who meant to
hurt somebody. He came up smiling,
with a rosebud in the button hole of
his coat, and in very deliberate and
dignifed manner delivered himself of
a few high~toned judicial reasons for
opposing the proposed investigation.
He thought the House lacked jorlsdic~
ton, and that it would simply be the
stirring up of private scandal. The
Major General is evidently cultivatiug
dignity and respectabi|ity preparatory
to. his Inauguration as Governor of
Massachusetts next year. This was
his last chance to shire few of the
bricks with which bis hat is said to be
filled, and he failed to improve it. In
the course of his remarks he stated,
however, that nobody had ever seen
the bundle of dispatches 50 mysterl-
ously found upon his desk last year,
and that when brought to light they
might hit somebody.
Hale and Conger could not let pass
the opportunity to inject a little of
their partisan malice into the debate,
both indulging in some of their sickly
species of wit. Hale said something
about conspiracy to defeat the will
ofthe people, probably referring to the
successful scheme Of his 1llustrious
father-in~law, zachariah, and John
Sherman, assisted by the other Chan
dler, and few chosen experts. Be-
fore Buffers speech every Republican
had quietly opposed investigation, be-
cause they were not certain that the
Generals bundle does not contain
some Of old Zach's and Morton's dis
patches, but emboldened by the Gcn~
erals omission to confirm their fears,
they changed front. Little Eugene
processes to doubt that Morton de-
stroyed the Republican dispatches.
bnt he manifesdy stood a good deal
frmer on his pins after Butler had
spoken.
Mr.. Hewitt's speech on the subject
was the most important deliverance,
as the statements Of his personal
knowledge of the innocence Of Mr.
TildeD, and that the Democratic COM
mittee had scomed to resort to the use
OF money, were accepted as the utter
anees of man entitled to belief.
When he said that the investigation
would prove that at least one of the
candidates for President in that mem>
orable year was not mere trickster,
ready to bargain for the highest Office
in the nation, sensation Of applause
passed over the packed galleries and
the floor below. 'Does anybody be-
lieve," said Mr.. Hewitt, "that if Mr..
Tilden had been in a scheme to buy
/ these corrupt returning boards the
thing would have failed for want of
money!" It will be shown that the
SC oundrels were for sale and voluo>
teered proposals to that end, but Mr..
Tllden refused to furnish the money,
though few of his friends regarded
it case Of property in the hands of
thieves. They know that the Electo~
raj vote of these states legally belonged
to Tilden, and as the law seemed pow
erless to wrest them from the rogues,
it Was thought prudent to pay the ram
som, as is often done to secure the
restoration of property to its rightful
owner, but Nlr. Tilden would not con-
sent to it, and the matter fell through
Take this in connection with the fact
that the other side did induce these
same thieves to deliver the property
over to party who had no claim upon
it, while r. B. Hayes has rewarded
every one Of them, and we have the
ca summed up.
Senator Conkliug Is wagins his old
var upon the administration With re-
neWed yigor and bitterness IT,