Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-12-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Congress and Hts WOrk.--The
Tennessee SenatOrship.--
Ideas in the Capt.
tai. &c.
From our own correspondent.

Mr.. EDITOR: The great natl D al
Legislature is again IN session and
Washington is once more the paradise
of boarding house AMI hotel Keepers,
not to mention the proprietors of those
often-met establishments whose stock
ia trade is contained IN Handsomely
adorned glass bottles. A seat in one
OF tue galleries Of the house Is the
greatest disillusionizer or there is such
a word) there Gao be met with in many
days. From that coigue OF advantage
one searches long but vaiDly for those
Websterian brows. Jove~like and ge>
nius-stampsd features which the pop
ular fancy is inclined to attribute to
the representatives of the "dear peo-
pie" There is not score of states~
men-looking men in the whole body
and the real statesmen will not ex
ceed that number. 1t is somewhat
better in appearance than the Tennes~
see legislature however. 1 was seated
next journalist the other day, in the
reporters gallery, man who does
as much to make OF mar men as anys
one in the United States and heard his
reply to the question, what do you
think Of the personnel of the house ~
WELL" he replied, q think-I
think the house meets in very nice
chamber This was & little bit too
contemptuous, bnt not as much as is
generally imagined.
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
The Indications Cow are that, ex-
cepting the adoption of method OF
counting the electoral vote, nothing
will transpire of any party moment.
The debate on this will be long and
bitter. The republicans will contend
that the vice president should count
the vote, and the democrats hold that
congress has that right. II they can
not prevent the passing of the demo
cratic measure in any other manner
the republicans will inaugurate long
siege OF fiiibustering. Two OF the ap>
preparation bills-the pension and for.
tificaton-hsve already been reported
and the remaining ones will folio "
soon.
THE TENNESSEE SENATORSHP.
The first question asked a Tennes
seean here is, Who will you send tt
the senate?n Thanks to the Tennes
see republicans (unaided, of course
the politics Of the Volunteer State ars
no longer provincial, but of patioDa
Importance. Some little comment wa
created recently by the publication In
the Star of paragraph purporting t.
have proceeded from Judge Harrison
of Nash Vile, in which he claimed that
he had obtained three or four demo
cratic votes and would be elected
You need not be surprised il, wher
this fight has progressed.a little, tn,
castor of Judge Hughes, of Maury, i
seen rolling in the ring. Little Bobb,
Taylor, strange to relate, claims tina
he will be the lucky man. I take it
howe YER, that he pins his faith to 6
very thin bric-regular tissue paper
in fact. He. in the greatness of hi
intellect, thinks that the republican,
1 will have no chance ID elect one o
their own faith, and as choice of tw'
evils, will take him. You know b
still claims that he ia only bastart
democrat. Ali the republicans her!
hope that the senatorial mantle will
fall on the shoulders. OF the creates
man in the south-Horace Maynard.
THE INAUGURATION
OF the next president will be thu
grandest affair in American history
The most careful arrangements ar
being made, and if this beastly eli
mate can De made to guccumb TO Gen
HaZen for the time being, the cere
monies will mark.a red letter day il
Washington life. All the military
companies in the south have been in
vited and many of them will be pres
ent, In this connection might state
that the straws. prophesy strong ad
ministration party In the south. Thi
will not be made up so much of TIT
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