Montgomery County sentinel., 1882-03-17
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CORRESPONDENTS OF THE SENTINEL

leavy majority it received was somewhat
II a surprise AS passed, the bill provides
hat for period of twenty years, after nine-
y days after the passage Of the act, the COM
ng Of Chinese laborers into the United
States shall be prohibited. Every Demo-
,ratic Senator voted for the bill, together
With the Republican Senators from the Pa
,iic slope. Mr.. Miller, of New York, was
he only Senator from the East who gave
lis assent to the measure.
There is evidently no sincere desire on
he part Of a majority Of the members of the
House to pass the bill TO provide for COM
mission TO revise the tariff. BY quibbling on
.he question as TO the bills having relation
10 revenue, its consideration is still pending.
There can be no doubt that fair adjust
ment of duties may be arrived at by prop
erly constructed commission of intelligent
business men. But it looks as If the
House was determined not to give its con
sent to such a revision. The tariff ought
not to be a party measure, and Republicans
rs well as Democrats should be held to ac-
count for refusing TO authorize its proper re-
vision.
Several bills have been introduced into
Congress by Western Representatives max
ing appropriations for the digging Of arte-
sian wells on the arid wastes which abound
in Nevada and Arizona. The avowed OBJ
ject is to reclaim the deserts and make them
blossom as the rose.
The floods in the West are rapidly at
tanning the Dimensions of great national
calamity. Aside from the present loss,
which is very great, and the suffering
which public aid and private charity can
only alleviate without preventing, there is
tr, taar hot nd thap
tunity for putting in next seasons crop will
be wanting, and such misfortune in one of
the most productive sections Of the country
would more than counterbaIance any posi-
bic prosperity in other sections.
Chairman Barnum, of the National Demo-
cratic Committee, is now in Washington,
ID. c., in regard TO the coming management
of the coming political canvass. There is
some division among the Democrats as to
who should be selected Chairman OF the
Executive Committee, as the Chairman will
have the control and direction of the can
vass.
NOTES AND PERSONALS.
We have had some clustering weather
since my last, ladies have been compelled
to remain in doors, whilst it is not an unfre-
qIent sight to see bald-headed men running
in every direction after their hats The
truth is the month of March does not and
never did possess much innate modesty.
Referring briefly in my last two commu-
nications To the upheavel Of public senti-
ment now going on throughout the Sixth
District in favor of the nomination OF
Judge Blair for Congress, you correspondent
would remark further, that few days
since he met Mr. b. f. Swartz, of Bright
wood, just on the line OF your county, an
old Jacksonian Democrat, gentleman of
wealth and influence, and who has borne his
breast TO the storms of many an angry po-
litical canvass, who ever glories in victory
and never lets up by reason of defeat, said
ameng other things-"why do not your peo
pie let by-gones be by-gones and send Judge
Blair to Congress, the legislation of the coun-
try needs his services and the party wants
him in the lead. He will, if elected to Con
gress, not have TO wait and learn political
sagacity, he caught its spirit in his youth
around the hearthstone of Jackson and it
has strengthened and matured with his man
hood; he will not have to learn statesman
ship, it is native talent which has ripened
under great emergencies until he enjoys
a national reputation. When he enters
Congress he will at once step to the front
rank commanding the attention of Congress
and holding the ear of the nation. Do you
remember that in the great anti-registration
convention held in Baltimore, in January,
1866, Judge Blair was elected President OF
that convention and delivered an address
before that body and another before the Leg
islature as its representative which gave the
keynote to the success of that yearH Have
you forgotten how Judge Blair sacrificed
personal ambition and considerations in
order to secure fair registration through
out your State and thus secured the triumph
of our partyY and in that contest, and from
the hour Of that triumph, he has labored in
every county and district for the good of
the party-speaking anywhere and every
where, talking with the best speakers of the
country and disseminating thousands of i'm
portant political documents. He had more
to do with the nomination of Tilden than
any man in the convention, as much to do
with his election as any man in the party,
and if he had been in Congress Hayes would
never have been inaugurated. Notwith-
standing all this, he has been ignored by
every convention, State and Congressional,
of Maryland. And Notwithstanding this re-
pudiation Of the man, whose services have
been a labor of love and princple-he has
tie and the last man to leave" Having re-
ceived instructions to have the SENTINEL
mailed TO Mr.. Swartz in the future, your
correspondent bid the gentleman in question
good-morning, and determined to give some
of his views for the consideration of your
readers.
Congress has been in session about three
months, and in the House of Representa-
tives 8, ,15l bills and joint resolutions have
been introduced. This is greater number
than was ever presented to the entire Con-
gress before the year 1876. Besides the bills
introduced in the House, about 1000 have
been introduced in the Senate The highest
number offered by any one member is Mr..
Houck, OF Tenn, 112 Mr.. Urner, ,of Mary
land, comes next, 100.
The storm that the Stalwarts are propos-
ing to raise about President Arthur, relates
of course to patronage. There are to-day
1t is said, nearly over 1000 vacancies in all
branches of the public service. Many OF
them are petty officles, but they constitute
patronage. The politicians are becoming
restive. II is said that Grants visit to the
President is to urge him on, make him more
stalwart.
The election of tho postmasters by the
people will soon be brought before Con-
gress by number of Republicans, who are
confident it will be a right step in the direc-
ton of civil service reform A large share
OF the time of the Postmaster General, Sena.
tors and Representatives is now taken up in
attending TO these appointments.
II is stated that the docket of the Wash.
ington Criminal Court is SO encumbered
that it will be six months before the Star
Reuters can be tried upon the indictments
found against them, unless their cases shall
be advanced upon the calendar, and diff
Guilty in the way of advancing them arises
from the fact that many Of its cases already
filed for trial are Of parties who are lying in
prison in consequence of their inability to
give bail.
Senator Edmunds is just now conspicu.
GUS figure before the nation, not only on ac.
count Of his declination of a seat upon the
Bench Of the United States Supreme Court,
but because Of his famous speech upon the
Chinese question.
Everybody familiar with American poll
tics knew that President Arthur, sometime
during his administration, would confer
some mark of favor and distinction upon
Roscoe Conkling The political relations
of the two men were such that this was
inevitable. The President was under obi.