The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-02-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

From our Regular Correspondent
NEW YORK, February I'd, 1883.
The Democrats finding the Repub-
lican party in Congress determined
on giving the country sensible and
healthy tariff reform, have entered
upon a system of filibustering which
will probably defeat no one but them
selves, and is already costing them
the 1.-THE of popular respect and con-
tidence which they yet commanded.
The Republican managers are not to
be beaten by such a gang as this.
They have determined to pass the
Ways and Means Committee bill, no
matter what the expense of time and
labor. They wisely hold that if by
Republican persistence and votes the
tariff shall pass both houses and fail
between the two through Democratic
opposition and filibustering, the par
ty cannot be responsible for the de-
feat of the plan of tax and tariff re-
duction, and it can 90 before the coun-
try claiming that the Democrats de-
feated the bills. The House is GER
tain to hold night sessions next week,
and the Senate will continue its late
sittings.
Everybody unites in saying that
never before has living in Washing
ton during the season been so expen-
sive as this year. DINERS, lunches
and receptions are so frequent and so
expensive, that even we'll to. do men,
bers find the place too hot. Should
the present session be a long one
great many people will be driven to
serious straits ere long.
Even the admirer of Democratic
principles must find in the position
of that party in the State Legislature
something so absurd as to arouse
feeling very much like pity. The air
which has been rent for months with
cries of fraud and reform are now
silent. Yet, what has been done?
Nothing, absolutely nothing, and
what is worse, the leaders calmly tell
us that there is nothing to be done,
no reform to be instituted, no abuse
to be abolished. New York always
has been badly governed State, but
now she is not governed at all. The
only real practical measure passed
thus far is the passage in the Assem-
bly, of the bill fixing fares on the Ele-
waited Railroad at five cents. and as
this has yet to 60 before the Senate
that worthy body may yet defeat it.
The lobby prepared and provided by
the railroad people was extremely
powerful, laborious and skilIful. That
in the teeth of it the bill was passed
with the overwhelming majority of
108 to votes is triumph of popular
opinion almost unexpected. The rail-
road companies will at first no doubt
avenge themselves on the public by
reducing the wages of their employ
ees and running fewer trains but as
this policy will lead to a further re-
duction of income, it will in very
short time have to be abandoned.
The re-interment of the great Arch
bishop Hughes in the crypt of the
new Cathedral this week. was one OF
the most solemn and impressive fu-
nerals pageants eyer witnessed in this
city. When at the conclusion of the
services, the chancel choir of nearly
three hundred voices Numbered out
Beethoven's grand MiSerere the effect
was absolutely thrilling. One poor
servant girl was so overcome by it
that her mind became unbalanced.
She laughed and cried Historically
and had to be conveyed out of the
church and sent home in cab. The
next day she lost her reason entirely
and was sent to an Insane Asylum.
Despite the denial of the report that
Mr.. John r. Mclean the editor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer proposed to
buy the New York World, it is again
asserted, and in pretty good quarters