The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, d. c..
NJ On rnnI

w - Va ~ 1
May 26, 1884,
When Mr.. MacVeagh writes such
\ letter to Mr.. Bristow as MFR. Bris-
tow has received from Mr.. Mac
Veagh, and when Mr.. George Bliss
TO be published such a letter
as he wrote to Mr. Arthur when Mr..
Arthur held the throttle valve of New
York politics, you may depend upon
it there is going to be some lively
shaking mp among the distinguished
parvenus in the Republican house
hold. Bliss is the same fellow whom
employed to prosecute the
Star Route thieves to a triumphant
acquittal, for which the Government
paid him $3.50 per day, travelling ex
penses, hotel fare, and coupe pleas
ure drives. He knows all about Ar
thur, but he don't want to tell as
much now, as he was disposed to tell
four years ago. The upshot of this
little quarrel is going to be a great
big one, because the half breed por-
zion of the family have had the cod
shoulder of Arthur during three long
years. What with Blaine and his
immense boom, Logan with his
boomlet, and EdmInds with a sort
of boom erangler, l hardly think that
Arthur is going to worry through
They and their friends are not firing
blank cartridges at Arthur just now,
but each means business for himself:
The National News Bureau here,
the largest concern Of its kind in the
country, holds correspondence with
several thousand ofthe leading'daily
and weekly newspapers ofthe United
States. I had an interview with its
manager to day, who told me that in
response to q circular that the Bur
eau issued a month ago, he had re-
plies from a majority of them. The
almost unanimous sentiment from
Democratic editors was for Tilden
and the old Ticket, and righting the
wrong of1S76. Upon the question
Of tariff they seem about equally
divided between free trade outright
and a tariff for e only, with
now and then a squirt of protection
from the Eastern press. On the Re
publican side of the honse the senti-
ment of the editorial fraternity was
Overwhelmingly for Blaine, with the
proclivities of the Eastern newspa
pers divided up between. Edmundsi
Arthur and Lincoln. Not asfew Of
the Democratic newspapers are men.
tioning the name of RosweArP. Flow
er, of New York, whose chaiices from
this standpoint are quite asqgood as
were those If James *. Polk, at this
time of the year forty yearsag
The death Of Sam Ward, the no.
ted Washington lobbyist, reyiyes
many recol!ections of the career o.
one whose connection with the lobby
and intimacy with public men, has
resulted in more vicious Legislation
in the past twenty-five years thar
had ever before been gotten through
since tie foundation of the Govern
ment. 1t may he said that he was
the foster parent of every one of the
land grant subsidies-measures tina
were prepared in the interest of rail
roads alone and, as now appears
were intended specially to throttle
the Government. Sam was a powel
here during MI. Johnson's admins
tration, and Welcker's tables night
", during a session of Congress
were surrounded by the Senators anc
Representatives whom Sam had invi
ted to partake of his lavish hospital
ity, knowing that the ~effectual way
of getting a Ccngression al job done
thoroughly was through a direct ap
peal to the Congressional stomach
l am sorry to say that Sans exam
pie in the way of big dinners is still
followed, and by them a great dea
of official rascality is hidden from
public gaze.
The knowing ones at the capito
say that Congress will be ready tt
adjourn and go home about the 15tl
of June. Ii it does there will be {
larger amount of necessary legisla
tion left uDdone than ever before
So far tie House has passed but 49,
bills out of more than 1000 intro
duccd AMI the business now on the
Speakers table would send the sess
ion clear into ADJUST. The Senate
has done little better thanStheH House
having passed 226 bills, andsleft ly
ing over 2,167 for the next session
Congress has gone into the bust
ness of erecting public buildings al
this session by wholesale. So far rt
less than 81 have been ordered, rang
ing in price from $4,000 to $4,000,
600, and the end is not yet. But
there are some things about this pub
lie building business that should be
ventilated, and this very week two
bills were adopted in the Senate that
never should have been. One is the
giving 100000 for the new custom
house at Portland, Oregon, a place
of 10000 Inhabitants, which already
has a building that cost the Govern
ment 5000, 900. The other is the
appropriation of $1,000 for a pub
lie bull ing at Saratoga, a little wa.
tering place of 10000 population
which has not half the need of apub,
lie building of this cost that it has
for missionaries duringthe gambling
season.. PHoNo. /,
RenpinS the Fruits of Republi.