The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-04-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Ffom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.. |
March 81. 1884. {

WASHINGTON, -. u,
March 81, 1884
The Democratic cauchs on Tues
day night was fully attended, and tie
complete harmony that characteriz-
ed its proceedings, proved a holy
disappointment 20 those Republicans
who saw the Democratic party dying
to slow music over the expected SAN
culinary tilt between the Tariff and
anti Tariff men. Though no tangible
result was reached by the caucus so
far as action upon the Morrison bill
was concerned, the sequel shows that
no untoward acrimony is going to
rise up in the House just fol- the de
%lectation of the other fellows: The
mi sion of Mr.. Carlisle as peace
maker in the caucus, found its frul-
tion in the adoption of a resolution
to reduce the tax on fruit brandies,
and this with a little sop thrown out
to the Randall protection extremists
in the shape of some promised modi
fication in the Morrison bill will
doubtless keep the party together in
the House under the general watch
word Of Tariff REFORM" That the
Morrison bill will pass the House Is
it came from the committee, with the
few not very essential amendments
suggested in the caucus, there seems
to be no present doubt.
The developments that are being
made through Mr.. Springer's com
mittee affecting the Governments
side of the Star Route cases, comprise
a sweet morsel to roll under the Re-
publican tongue during this years
campaign. The ordinations and re-
examinations that have invested the
examination thus far, out of the
mouths of such witnesses as Cook
and Crowley and Corkhill and Ker
and Bliss and Spencer, go to show
that there was and there never
could have been any serious inten
tion on the part of any of these pros
ecutors to work the conviction of any
body who was known to he really
guilty. That these men could have
followed up. this sort of deception
during a trial that lasted seven long
months without a detection of their
motives, is another of the many illus
trations of Republican departmental
idocy. But after the Ottman case in
which the Government through. its
own officers compromised with the
thief who stole $48, 900 of the Gov
eminent money, by paying back to
him. $4,000 of the money it had re-
lowered from him, and divided up the
remainder between its counsel for
~eflecting the compromise, what may
we not expect?
The peculiar financial foresight
that ever accompanies the construc
ton of the Governments public
buildings, is again realized in the
completion and occupation of the St.
Louis post office, and the approach.
ing completion of that at Philadel
The estimated cost Of the st.
Louis affair, which is characterized
as an architectural abortion, was ST.
100000, while the actual cost has
] been q little more than $4,000, 600,
with several walls and partitions to
be taken down and rehabilitated.-
The original estimate ofthe Philadel-
phia post office, if my memory serves
me, was So $500, 900, but if the Gov.
eminent manages TO get into it with
cut liquidating contracts amounting
to $4,000, 900 or $1,000, 600, IL will dc
what it never did before-get ahead
of the contractor. The St. Louis
building was commenced in 1870, and
has therefore occupied fourteen years
in its construction, with the prospect
of two or three years more in sup,
Elementary work to replace the
shoddy.
Everybody was entirely taken by
surprise on Wednesday by the an,
~nouncemeLt of the transfer of Mr..
Sargent from the German to the Rus
sian mission. 1t was known however,
from the presence of Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sen upon the floor Of the Senate hob
nobbing with the Senators, that
something was in the wind, and this
fact accounts for the other fact that
THE nomination was Immediately
taken up in executive session and
unanimously confirmed. This sud-
den nov may have been made in
the interest of American Iork, which
under the ministerial influences OF
Mr.. Sargent had failed to get back
to the good graces of the Bismarck
ian stomach, which swore it would
revolt SO long as Mr.. Sargent stayed
in Berlin, or continued to whine over
the Lasker matter. The vacancy
caused by the transfer of Mr.. Sar.
gent is not likely to be filled at once,
for the President will not easily find
an envoy extraordinary and minis.
ter plenis potentiary who will con.
descend to duck his head under
water every time Bismark heaves in
sight. PHoNo.
FROM TEXAS.