The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-06-20
Letter from Washington.

WASHINGTON, ID. T., June IL, 1879.
The radical managers seem to understand, better
than those of other ways of thinking, the import
ance of the September result in Maine. Senator
ConlSlng, who knows the political air of no State
but his own, is set down for three speeches in the
coming campaign, and Western and southern
speakers are named who will speak in the Pine
Tree State for tho doctrine of Capitalization and
permanent existence of dissension among the
States. The party exigency which calls Conkling
to the aid of Blaine is a serious one and from the
radical estimate of it. those who oppose radicaism
should appreciate the hopefulness as well us the
Importance of the position they occupy. OF course
it is for the people themselves to settle the means
by which they shall defeat the party "ring" or
faction over which Blaine and IIamlin rule, but it
may be permitted to an outsider to suggest that
every exerton should be made and every justiia-
Bile means adopted to bring about that defeat. A
victory in Maine means an easier victory else
where.
Adjournment is said by Representative Black
burn to be probable about the 18Th Others think
it may be brought about earlier, But so much
depends upon that mysterious unknown quantity
called Hayes that exact calculation is not yet
possible. tits freely said by Republicans that the
judicial expenses" bill will be vetoed, and the
| jury bill If it goes to Mr.. Hayes. The Army and
Legislative bills, Notwithstanding great opposition
in the Senate, will probably be approved.
yesterday, in debate, that he would at any proper
| time like TO unite with the lawyers of that body
in framing Federal jury law. At present there
| was no such thing as a trial by jury in Federal
Courts. The trial was by the marshal and clerk,
and they could pack jury to convict or acquit,
| as they pleased. He wished the lawyers of the
Senate would let this matter go over until Decem-
Der. a delay of six months would not make much
difference, and it was impossible to mature a good
system in the hurry of the close of this session.
| He had tried for many years when before in the
| Senate to get good jury law passed, but the
| Judiciary Committee, as then organized, took the
| view that the business of Congress was to keep
| laws just as they worc good or bad.
Some of the papers of both parties connect the
| cause of radical Senators on the Army bill being
in direct opposition to that of House radicals led
| by Mr.. Hayes friend Garfield, as intended to have
| an influence upon the coming radical candidate
for the Presidency. The Post of this city, for in
| stance, secs in the cause of Blaine and Conkling
effort to make Mr.. Hayes, if he keeps his word
and approves the bill, more than over odous to
| tluence he may have expected to exert in favor of
| sherman. Sherman, by the way, who is civil
service reformor, surrounded by civil service re-
formers, is engaged in the modest work of mailing
and otherwise distributing from the Treasury a
| semi -otficia financial paper, printed in New York,
which has an editorial article highly laudatory of
himself. The article is conspicuously marked.
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