The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-02-05
Washing Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 80, 1880.
At the Capitol matters are quiet.
The Senate devoted day to eulogies
of the late Senator Chandler, and an
other day to Senator Bayard, who de-
livered his long expected speech on the
financial question. No one questions
its ability, for no Senator is Mr..
Bayard's superior in intellectual and
legal ability. But many Democrats
are opposed to his conclusions, aud
others who agree with him, deprecate
springing the presentation of them
upon the country at the present, hence
his great effort has not had that weight
here which ordinarily would be given.
Mr.. Bayard's speeches, like those of
Mr.. Thurman, take high rank in our
political literature for soundness of
views and judgment. The House oc-
cupies itself daily with discussion of
the new rules, and until they are dis
to general legislation, save ky the
Committees which are working hard
perfecting bills.
The Commissioner of Pensions was
given hearing of several hours length
last week by the Senate Committee on
Pensions, upon his infamous Sixty
Surgeon Pension bill. Though the Op-
position to this swindling scheme,
which proposes to place the whole PEN
sion system in the hands of sixty sur
geons, to be appointed by Hayes,
whereby a political machine is to be
created, is assuming immense strength
yet it is unnecessary, for Mr.. Bentley's
weak, impotent, rambling argument
alone suffices to show the utter want
of merit in it. Last Congress, the pure
and immaculate ingalls,, of Kansas,
stoutly urged its passage, and but for
the able opposition of Senator Voor-
hees and Gen. Shields it would have
passed the Senate. ALI our papers,
Democratic and Republican, unite in
it's condemnation, and in asking the
removal of Bentley and appointment
of q competent Commissioners, one ca
pable of discharging the duties Of thai
responsible position. Were it not fol
Carl Schurz's pig-headedness, Bentley
! would not remain day in office, bu
would receive as summary a dismissa
as has Indian Commissioner Hayt.o
The proposed enlargement of the Su
t preme Court to % Judges, and organ
l ization of subordinate courts, meet
l with great favor among the practitfon
! ers before that Court, excepting siel
t lawyers as are retained by raifroa
t monopolies, whose greatest strength il
? legal contests lies in securing delays
The Radicals are howling for tn
restoration of suffrage to the army q
e colored shoulder-hitters and apue-ug
/. lies that swarm in our slums and ten
e ement houses, and 10 the starvin
crew of office-holders that have SUI
=. vived the change from the old to tn
present form of government. ii Thei
. organ, the daily Republican, devote
whole columns to showing the bless
ings which will follow the opening G
;. :. the ballot box again to these classes
! but the 46th Congress is unalterabl
: set against the fraud. General Buck
It ner we'll said that hewould never COZ
It sent to saddle upon the taxpayers c
: this District, without their consen
8 such an Infamous plague as that whic
afflicted them prior to 1873, in th
shape of their so-called government {
the people. --
The colored exodus from North Cal
olina, which has caused so much COZ
;, sternation and excitement among Gel
Il tain politicians and newspapers, an
s which has led to carbohydrates in
- vestigation committee, now exhibits
strange development. So for fror
having political bearing, the evidenc
taken by the Senator shows the matte
to be the result of an unprinciple
scheme to benefit railroad, the agen
of which testified that he went int
L North Carolina for no other purpos
= than to induce the colored people t
. travel over his road to Indiana an
9 further, that he intended hereafter
r go to that State and persuade them
70 return to their old homes, thus gettin
j. double fare. It seems incredible tha
: for a small pittance of percentage o
q tickets sold, a railroad official woul
t caiole ignorant, credulous negroes frOr
g their homes by means of a swindlin
y promise of work and gifts of land, etc
Il induce them to sell their small pi,
) tances of property and then send ther
q among strangers to starve, for all h
9 knew or cared. They were poured i
Q upon us, and hundreds of them wer
}, huddled together in a church belong
ing to one of our colored congregation
until funds could be solicited from ou
people to send them to their destins
! tions, aud all this was done under tn
Z plea of charity. Itis a pity that tn
, infamous scoundrel instigating' thi
fraud cannot be punished with an in
generation in the penitentiary for
term of years. a felon's garb is TIN
! proper adornment for such soulles
knaves. ra aB - a '..N.,a.
At last we have reached the true in
wardness of the Indian question
which has eliminated in the discovery
of Commissioner Hayt's Irregularities