Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-03
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 81, 1881.
There was an illustration in yester
days house proceedings of the littleness
to which the oountry's politics have de-
scended. Yesterdays work was type
of that which has been done for fifteen
years. A day was spent in angry de
bate as to whether or not Virginia
lady-the widow of an officer who re-
signed from the Federal navy in lS6l-
should be paid hundred dollars due
him at that time from the government.
There was hair splitting, there was
learned Constitutional argument, there
were ugly denunciatiUns OF the living
and the dead. The smallness OF the
amount involved is not the element
which Causes wonder at the prolonged
and earnest discussion, 80 much as the
fact that any one-Democrat or Repub-
lcan-should bring up questions of the
kind, or any one think them proper
subjects upon which to base any party
action. Is there never to be any end
to the sectional quarrel in which the
last gun was fired halt a generation ago2
Will not some one suggest questions for
Congressional, administrative and gen.
-, h - ha o.
no parti Representative Cox said yes
terday that President Garfield would do
so. lie can make himself more envi.
able reputation than any President since
Washington if he succeeds.
Another silly thing it seems to me, is
the 6stentatious attempt to push through
the, House the Morgan electoral resolu
tion.,1 There will be no need OF the
resolution for four years, at least. Why
waste days over it, when dozen bills
of Importance to all the people of the
United States are in danger of failing
for the want of time.
Wall not the Democrats of the House,
ateleast, act the President. elect good
example by ceasing to force considera-
ton Of, yekatious and strictly partisan
measures, and taking up for action mat.
tefsoin which the material interests OF
Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Maine,
Massachusetts, California and every
other State are materially interested ?
D0aHey expect a man, reared upon
secIiopaIism and advanced TO the high.
eel office as Radical, to be more
thdaghtf0l of the common good than
they themseifes are who boast that they
abhora asectiopalism and love conservat.
ism9aGI buH 5.7f
There has really been no progress in
legislation during this week. Senate
sentiment upon the Funding bill seems
to havea tendency towards per cent.
i1tefesf and $500 100000 Treasury
notes, and The same interest with dis.
cfetiOn an the Secretary of the Treasury
TO pay 81 per cent. on $40O,OOO,OOO in
bonds, THERE'S nc agreement as TO the
length of ltimeg the bonds shall run,
b0tEhe notes will probably be redeema.
bic in one Year and payable in ten.
Mr. Hayes meets public expectation,
but not its approval, in appointing Hon.
St6hlef Matthews to the Supreme
Bench The chief distinction achieved
by, MF, sMslthewsvin the, Senate was by
his nopposition to- Thurman's Pacific
Railroad biil,a and ia that great contest
Matthews was the champion of the
railpoud's claim and Thurman was oi
the o66hntFy's. aThs most important
ssFEsIsss'ts Matthew, vim be called to act
ueon lathe future as Judge will proba.
bly, be those where substantially the
ss#eraaeslipns viii be involved.
q0l - n .nBoieEf0afl ia isei RENO.
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