Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-07
Delegate Downey's Ditty-PTORTess OF
LegtsiatiOn-PFOsPeot OF Adjourn
ment BY the LET Of uIy.

From our Regular Correspondent.
The District Of Columbia appropriation
bill without any national amendments
was passed by the House on Tuesday in
the shape reported by the appropriation
committee. The passage Of this bill puts
the House ahead Of its appropriation com
mittee in the dispatch Of business. The
latter committee has not now ready any
appropriation bill 10 report, nor will it
have any this week. Next week il is ex-
pected that the legislative, executive and
judicial bill will be completed and report
ed, to be followed with the postal bill.
There are but four appropriation bills yet
to be reported, viz; The legislative, exec
utiYe and judicial, the postal, the river and
harbor, and the general deficiency. None
Of these bills will contain any riders.
Should the President sign the army bill
and the immediate deficiency hill, there is
we'll grounded belief that Congress will
adjourn sine die by July 1st. II, however,
he vetoes these bills, and the Democrats
again lock horns with the President, Of
course the final adjournment will be de-
layed. There are conflicting rumors as to
what the President will do. A good many
Republicans say that he will veto both
bills, but no one who makes the statements
has other than mere belief to base il upon.
The friends Of General Grant hope that We
toes will be forthcoming, for they indulge
| in the belief that such a course on the part
Of the President will stir up the Democrats,
provoke a sectional debate, and the net re-
| suit will be to strengthen the "strong
/ mans" canvass. The Democrats generally
believe that the President will sign both
bills because he signed last years army
bill with the identical amendment which
is in this years, and that he will sign the
deficiency bull because the marshals
amendment was originally offered by Cen
eral Garfield, and is really q Republican
compromise.
The present House Of Representatives
has been made the victim Of deliberate i'm
position on the part of its own members so
that the existence Of a mania may fairly be
suspected. Mr.. Acklen, of Louisiana, first
showed symptoms Of it in February, when
he presented and got printed a report pur.
|
Foreign Affairs, but in reality an unau.
thorized concOction of his own, and chat he
has not recovered is proved by his intro.
duction last week OF bill having no rela.
tion TO the report which was supposed tC
accompany and justify it, and which on in
vestgation turned out to be plagiarism
from Chief-Justice Marshall in a famous
case to be found in the law-books, The
oontagion reached the delegate from. Wy.
oming Territory, Mr. Stephen w. Dow
ney, who introduced bill providing for
certain paintings on the walls Of the Ma
tional Capitop-namely, to commemorate
"the birth, life, death, and resurrection Of
Christ, rs told in the four Gospels, and, on
the following day, was accorded permission
to print his argument" in favor of the
bill. A week ago this argument appeared
covering the first fifteen pages Of the Con
grossional Record, and copy rightsd by
the author. 1t consists OF poem entitled
"The Immortals," in Wyoming blank.
verse, interspersed with metrical quota
uons from Dante, Tennyson, 1.-THE Rock
OF Ages" etc., and adorned with pieto-
| rial emblem