Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-06-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


from Our Regular Correspondent
The past week in Congress will
not go down to history marked by
any great legislative results but.
nevertheless, it was an interesting
one, and an eventful one, as weeks
in Congress go.
First, Senator ingalls, of Kansas,
and Brown of Georgia, furnished q
sensation by indulging in bitter
quarrel, which, Internationally, las
ted for two days. Then the Mexi-
can Pension bill got all mixed up
with politics in the Senate and still
hangs there. A pusilanimus at
tempt was made by the Republicans
to investigate, as a lobbyist ex-
member English, father of the
member who recently took possess
ion of Mr.. Peeles fraudulent seat.
The Anti-Polygamy bill came
triumphantly through the upper
House, but too late perhaps to be
acted on this session at the other
end OF the'Capitol. There was some
sharply seasoned debate on the
measure. Senator Brown opposed
it on the ground that some other
States, Massachusetts for instance
were as wicked as Utah. Then the
majority in the House took pleasure
in rendering tardy justice to the
Democratic opponent, in the Ohio
contested election case of Campbell
vs. Morey. In advocating the claim
of thegIatter Representative, Miller
of PENN, disclaimed all partisan,
and sectional proclivities, and made
Il speech suggestive OF valedictOry.
lie said at the outset he did not ex-
pect a hearing, or to change the
mind of Il single individual. Every
man had already decided how he
would vote, and it was an unpleas-
ant duty to address jury which he
knew would give q verdict against
his views. Still he would make no
complaint against the elections COM
mittee of the Forty Eighth Con-
gress. II had in the main been just
and fair. He. as a member of it
had made some mistakes. He had
done some things, which he did not
believe he would do again. He had
voted to turn out Southern men,
Der, who, he afterwards learned,
was one of the best, and purest, and
most upright men living. Some of
his most pleasant memories of this
session were connected with the
Elections committee room, and
continued the speaker 81 shall love
the State of North Carolina and her
people better, for having known
her kind, genial, even-tempered
Representative, Bennett" But Mr..
Miller found fault with the system
of deciding election cases, and COM
planned that they were not treated
deliberately and judiciously.
Speaking of Pensions and Politics,
the Republican Senators permitted
party tactics to get away with their
interest in the Mexican veterans.
They agreed, in caucus to tack the
bill, an amendment reviving the
arreages act for Union soldiers, hop
ing to make of It political capital.
They expected the Democrats to
oppose and defeat it, and thus give
ground for the charge that the De-
mocracy is unfriendly to the Union
soldiers. 1t was the purpose of the
Republican Senators to kill the bill
in the meanest possible manner, but
this motion, offered only for trap,
will be voted for by some of the
Democrats, and the Republicans
will be responsible for this raid on
the Treasury of nearly $500, 600, 900.
The recent exposure of, Depart
ment frauds caused quite commo-
ton in Washington, where the par
ties are well known, especially those
In the Navy Department. Five ar
rests were made last week for en-
bezzlement by Republican Govern
ment officials, and more arrests are
expected this week. 3...-.+.. =.
AS | sit by my window writing at
Ii o'clock p. N. Isee the glare of
calcium lights around the residence
of Gen. Logan, which is bat two
squares distant, and hear the music,
cheers, and shouts. Of the crowd
mostly colored. The Republican
Vice Presidential candidate is. the
recipient of a serenade.
I 1t is gossiped in society here by
those who remember the exclusive
ness that prevailed at the White
House during the early weeks OF
the Garfield administration, and
suggested as all believed by Mrs.
Blaine, that she would thoroughly
carry out those plans if her husband
were elected President. She once
said. "The people should be made
to esteem it privilege to be per
mitted to go to the White House,
When her remark was repeated to
the Governor of a Western State,
he inquired if the people whom she
wished to keep away were those in
the same positions that the Blalnes,
and Garfields were ten years ago ?"
June oath 1884. .iafi& s4a fs.
d THE people of Dickson county
should remember that il is the