The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-12-25

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ANNUAL AGITATION.
4 fFrom our Regular Correspondent.
srss wAsHueros. p. C., Dec. Is, 1850.
The week has been dull, and legis
iation dilatory, 1t the Capital. In boil
houses Of Congress the more impor
.tant subjects have been compelled Il
yield to the questions that arouse par
fty antagonis,n and provoke cndles
| debate.
On Monday Senator Randolph
brought up the Fitz John Porter bill
in the Senate, and Senator Morgan
concurrent resolutions for counting tn.
electoral vote has been the fruitfu
theme of talk in the House. Later il
the week the education and the pen.
sion bills were discussed, and an ad-
journment from the 22d, inst, to the
4th proximo was agreed upon.
But, if it has been dull at the Cap
ital in the Legislative branches, the
Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the lobby,
and society, have furnished an abun-
dance of the raw material from which
news is made. Nor must | omit to
mention score of women whose
names are more or less familiar to
those who read the papers, and who
are here on their annual agitation of
the sex III suffrage question. / heard
them speak their pieces last night at
Lincoln Hall, and, for change of
entertainment, they furnish an excel
lent foilsto Congress. For some rea-
son Mrs. Atty, Belva A. Lockwood,
Sarah j. Spencer, DR.. Mary Walker,
and other local celebrities have taken
no part in the present convention.
Strife has for some years been brew
ing, and the enthusiasm of great
cause is not ardent enough to avoid
flows and -ehasms. Guess they are
mad about something.
The resignation of Justice Strong Of
the Supreme Court of the United
States had been long expected, but the
as his successor, of Judge
Woods was very unexpected, The
appointee is native of Ohio, who, a
few years ago emigrated, with his
brother-in- Jaw Ex-senator Willard A.
Warner, to Alabama His appoint
mcnt is resented in the Senate by
many who are jealous of the some
what wholesale preferment of Ohioans
to places of highest national honor and
emolumcnt. Nothing, however, of
personal character has been urged
against Judge Woods, and then is lit
tie doubt that he will be confirmed by
the Senate. .ys..f
Secretary Thompson's resignation,
in connection with General Grants
visit to Washington, has been the sub
ject of much gossip in political and
diplomatic circles. General Grant has,
without much effort on his part, b.
come identified with rival water route
between the oceans hundred or two
miles northwest of the one that M. dc
Lesseps proposes to cut; but while NJ,
de Lesseps poises his international pick
in mid air; ready to break ground,
backed with almost liuitless capital,
and by the prestige Of a United States
Cabinet officer, with a salary of $685.
900 per aaunnm, as chairman of the
American branch of the Company, Gen
eral Grant and Admiral AmmeD have
not yet organized companyior done
but hold conferences. Pan
anna has certainly got the start Of Nj
caragpa in this ditcIning business, and
the musty Monroe Doctrine is no longer
urged against a grand enterprise in the
commerce, of civilization, and
Of peace.