The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Greenbaek cireus-BrInK Forth the
Army Retired List
W,orrrn.r,n.n.r. Ian Il 1881

The Greenbaek Cfrcus-Br1ng Forth the
Army Retired List.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, 1880.
This week in Washington has been an
uneventful one, from political point of
view, and the other side of Washington
life, the social side, is such as few beyond
the precincts of the capital have very
great interest in. But it is not unim-
portant as an indication and symptom,
suggestive Of health or disease, and
reaching much farther in its Interior in
fiuence than this narrow field. Manners
are so sublly related to morals; custom
has such a cumulative force and course,
that no one interested in the signs Of the
times, and the future Of his country, can
afford to ignore them.
There was a Greenback conference
here last week. Some 125 delegates, in
Guiding the thirteen Greenback congress
men. were present, and the proceedings
illustrated pandimonium with telerable
accuracy and completeness. Congress
man March, of Maine, presided; the
Rev. De La Matyr, OBLIGATED as chaplain,
greatly 10 the disgust, vigorously express
ed, of strong minority; and among the
chief participants in the so-called discus
sions was, of course, Kearney. What he
had to say was simple and familiar, and
consisted merely OF expressing a desire
10 see Republicans, Democrats, and the
National banks in hell together, and
determination to send them thither sans
ceremony He also wanted John Sher-
man hanged. Resolutions which were
introduced approving Hendrick
Wrights' land bill, and Weavers'
$500, 100000 soldiers relief fund
project, seemed to have been
the only ones carried, though everything
else in the domain OF human thought
was debated. and these resolutions were
juggled through by the chairman, if, in
deed, one of them did not finally fail. A
call for q national convention at Chica-
60. June 0, next was adopted with little
opposition; it is in the usual vein of
such documents, and contains nothing
worth remark. 1t seems hardly posi-
BILE that such body of men should have
any considerable constituency among
sober people. however ignorant.
The house committee on military af-
fairs held full meeting Thursday
morning. Favorable reports were made
by subcommittee, and adopted on the
resolution of representative Anterior,
calling on the secretary of war TO report
to the house the number, rank, and
names of all officers on the retired list,
the total amount paid to each officer, and
the aggregate paid to all officers on the
retired list since said retired list was
created" This report will create more
profound establishment among the plain,
practical tax-paying people than any
volume ever sent out Of the government
printing Office. 1t will show rapid and
alarming tendency to copy the
worst features of the old
world monarchles Men who never saw
public enemy, never set squadron in
the field or trod the deck of a ship IN ac
ton, are dubbed with sonOrous titles, in
dicatiye of high rank and heavy pay, and
quartered for life. life of luxurious
ease, on the retired list. 1t is important
that the people shall see that rapid pro
motion and hurried pushing on to the
retired lists is now the regular order o.
husiness," in order to make room for the
superhuous prsdncts of the West Pom
and Annapolis factories, @. 4, S.