The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-04-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondents

OpIapHer mas DrOuRnC OUT Lne 1ac
that it has been a custom to ALLOW
an appointee to good position il
the service of Congress to remain a
home, draw his salary. and hire ;
substitute at cheap rate. For in
stance, Mr.. Walter E. Todd O
Decatur, Ala, was appointed to ;
1900 position by Doorkeepe1
Brownlow of the Forty-seventE
Congress, Mr.. Todd did not set
foot in Washington after his ap.
pointmen5, but drew his salary anG
hired Mr.. James Hall to do his
work during sessions for $40 {
month. Mr.. Todd therefore lived
quietly at his Alabama home, and
enjoyed an income of about S1,O5C
a year. 1t seems this practice was
quite extensive under the Keifel
regime, but it has been abolished
by the officers of the present
House.
Senator Sherman has been a
badgered individual ever since last
week. The Senator has not par
ticularly honcycd disposition any
time, and no sense of hunor what
ever. Therefore the incessant
chatting to which he has been sub
jected during the simultaneous
progress of the Danville invcstiga-
ton and the Cincinnati riots has
made him like the fretful porcu-
pine. He is twice as glum as
usual, which is saying a deal, and
has annihilated several committee
clerks, to say nothing of taking off
the heads of all the pages who
have addressed him since the riot
ing began. 1t is a relief after the
gush and general stopping over Of
gentlemen with Presidential bees in
their bonnets to meet a man who
dares be tart to another man who
may have q vote at Chicago. 1t
would be hard to find an ipyidual
whom Senator Logan would not
take to his bosom just now.
1t is reported that Senator Logan
has scored q recruit in the person
of the eminent star route counsel,
Pagan Bob, as he loves to be
called. Pagan Bob, SO the rumor
goes, has abandoned Blaine and is
for Logan.
Washington, during the session
of Congress, is naturally q center
towards which policical intelligence
flows from all parts OF the country.
Representatives and Senators are
kept well informed Of the public
opinion in their districts snd states,
and at this time, with presidential
conventions drawing near, they are
particularly interested in the wishes
of their constituents in regard to
candidates. 1t is a curious fact,
acknowledged in private CONVERSE
ton by many Democratic Congress-
men, that Mr.. Tilden's name appears
to have stronger hold on the peo-
pic over a considerable portion of
the country than thai CT any other
Democrat spoken of. No one at
tempts to account for this. nor is it
easy to see why, as hc was not
nominated in 1880, he should now
be tavorite. But there is good |
to believe that his nomina-
ton next July would be extremely
and extensively popular with Yves
tern, Northwestern and Southern |
Democrats. The stories Of his
decrepijude and fecbleness have no
affect, ap: arently upon his popu-
larity; and the conversation in
which Gov. Seymour lately seemed
to look favorably upon Mr.. Tilden's
nomination, in spite of his physical
weakness, seems to have been read
with great satisfactian in different
parts of the country. In 1876 Mr..
rilden was nominated on the
second ballot. On the first he re-
ceived AT votes, not two thirds;
On the second, 535. The other can
lidates before the convention that
year were Mr.. Hendricks, who re
,eived on the second ballot 60 votes;
zen. Hancock, SO; Mr.. Allen of
Ohio, now dead, "a votes; Senator
Bayard, II; Joel Parker of New
Jersey, Is, and Mr.. Thurman, 7.
In 1880 Mr.. Tilden received on the
irst ballot 38 votes and On the Sec
md only 6, the adroit reading of
lis famous letter having demoral-
zed his friends. The other candi-
lates before the convention were
len. Hancock, Mr.. Randall, Senator
5ayard, Mr.. Payne, Mr.. Thurman,
tIr. Justice Field, Mr.. Morrison,
IIr. Hendricks and Gov. Seymour.
Mr.. Nichols Of Georgia offered
II the House a resolution calling
or an investigation of the lawless.
less that has recently been mani
esting itself in the loyal state Of
ohio. This implied rebuke to
ohm Sherman is not undeserved. 1
Ir. Sherman has made violent
PARTISAN efforts to fix stigma on
he whole people Of the South be-
ause of two disturbances which
we're mere trivial street rows as
the bloody riot at Gin
innati. For political effect he
would excite sectional prejudices
nd assail the character of an en-
ire people. He cares nothing for
he business interests which bind
he sections of our country in close /,