The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Our Regular Correspondent
WAsHlNGroN, d. c., 1
July IA, IS84.(

WASHINGTON, ID. u,
July IA, 1884.}
Mrs. Logan had Johns letter Of
acceptance all but ready when that
terribly true picture in Puck made
its appearance, necessitating not
only a revision butt complete change
in the whole character of the docu-
ment. The picture represents Lo-
gan in 1859, assisting to drag a
fugitive slave back into bondage,
with Lincoln, Sumner and Seward
protesting and appealing to him to
desist from his merciless work. Lo-
gan retorts by haunting them with
their God and humanity notions, and
says: You say that we are doing
the dirty work of the slave catchers.
ne are willing to do that dirty work"
And these were the words that Lo-
gan did utter Is a Representative in
Congress from the free State Of Illi-
nois, which already had upon its
statue book a law framed by the
same Logan, that made it a criminal
offense for q black man to take up
his residence on that soil! To at
tempt to wipe out this part of his ec
ord, to say nothing of that of 1861,
when he proposed to raise a regi
ment in southern Illinois to help out
the Confederacy, will make the let
ter-writing business even more ex.
asperating than its grammatical
difficulties.
The closing hours of the First
Session of the 4Sth Congress, were
not materially unlike those that have
characterized all of It's predecessors.
AS usual, the most important legis
lation was left to the hurly burk
moments of approaching dissolution,
and rushed through only after a most
unreasonably brief consideration by
conference committees. Nevertheless
the session has given us some few
beneficient measures, and none that
are positively vicious. The unani-
nous vote of thanks to the presiding
officers of both houses, and particu
larly to Speaker Carlisle, were never
more deserved. Mr.. Carlisle leaves
his chair with q record for imparti-
ality and faithfulness to duty that
has not been excelled in the long line
of Speakerships.
The usual junketing outfits were
duly provided for amid all the indie
cent haste attending the adjourn
ment of Congress, for which the Re-
publican Senate land not the Demo-
cratic House) is responsible. The
IndiaE Affairs Committee of the Sen
ate failed last year to ascertain
enough about the Indian status to
make IN ineligible report, but this
year they will doubtless make their
visit interesting to themselves and
profitable to the contractor. And
then the Senate is interested in speck
l%ed-trout, carp and other rare speci-
mems of the finny tribe to q degree
that makes it necessary for a commit
tee TO go with the National Fish
| Commission on a national excursion
at the national expense, and see
whether the fish interest can not be
stimulated under the auspices of
national encouragement. Then there
are the statistics that need looking
after, which involves another COM
mittee visitation to all parts of the
country, Notwithstanding the fact
that a Bureau of Statistics has just
been established whose mission is
distinctively directed to the collec-
ton of statistical data. Yet another
committee will attend clam bakes at
the East and barbacues at the West,
for the special purpose of finding out
what have been the ruling prices of
putty from 1878 to the present time,
while yet another committee is to find
out why it is that America cannot
make as big a gun IS Krupp or any
other foreigner, for which purpose
the committee will make a protract-
ed journey into the chasms and
caaons of the great Yellowstone coun-
try.
The sixty millions of people in this
country who have for so many years
been worried out of sweet repose lest
some fourth rate frigate from some
fifth rate country should come in the
night and lay waste the cities on our
eastern and western coasts. can now
lull themselves into complete secur-
ity. Half a million of dollars has
been appropriated by Congress to be
expended in providing ordnance for
the steel cruisers that are now being
constructed by the Government, and
these guns are to be Insufficient size
calibre and power to knock into
smithereens anything that is reck-
less enough TO get within range. To
be sure our naval constructors and
our engineers and other experts,
native and foreign, have all pronounc
ed these cruisers as conspicuous
failures as they are prodigious frauds,
but what does ell that amount to be-
side the. opinions of Secretary Billy
Chandler and his superior officer
John Roach? 1t will not be until
some of these cruisers blow them
selves under water in an attempt to
blow something else cut of water,
that the Government will see fit to
initiate the example which even the
Gillian government has set.
PHoNo.
Gen. Grant, according to a well
known journalist who has just seen
him, has altered so much in two