The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., !
Feb. Is, 1884. (


1t is understood that Senator Logan
will make a speech against the Fitz
John Porter bill in the Senate, but
that he will not pursue the matter as
savagely as heretofore. A count of
noses from the best information at
tainable concerning the position of
Senators renders it certain that Por-
ter will be restored to the regular
army with the rank of colonel, which
he held when cashiered, and be placed
on the retired list with t%wo-thirds
pay, but without arrears of pay. This
will meet the hearty approval Ola
majority of the people of'the United
States, and the tacit acquiescence of
nearly all the remainder. The truth
is, it is not the action of FitZ John
Porter that has been at stake, but
that of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary
of War. Stanton, enraged because
his favorite Pope could not defeat the
Confedcrates, made Porter a scape-
goat, and organized a court-martial
for his conviction, and, if possible,
his execution. Garfield, who was a
member of the court, Grant, and other
Union officers, became convinced,
when no longer under Stanton's in
%fiucnce, hat a great wrong had been
inflicted on Porter, and they determ-
ined to vindicate his public record and
private reputation. This is the be-
ginning of a series of reversals of the
acts of Stanton.
Most of the opposition to Mr.. Nor
%rison's tariff bill thus far is evidently
of the kind that would find any posi-
BILE bill for the reduction of the tariff
"grotesque, ""clap-trap," "inharmoni-
GUS" "a bungle," 'foolometer,' etc.,
as the divorsed Mr.. Porter calls it in
an Incorporate letter to the Philadel-
phia PRESS. But it must not be for
gotten that back of the few highly
protected manufacturers whom Mr.
Porter represents is the great mass of
the American people, demanding a
REDUCTION OF TAXATION, and that in
the Treasury a great surplus is bank
ing itself up at the rate of almost a
hundred million a year. Congress
should calmly proceed with the re-
duction of taxes according TO its
best wisdom, without much regard to
the violent outcry of n small class of
interested rich men, which is like that
Of a few crickets in q field.
Ex-senator Dorsey has been in
Washington and while here resume
his old haunts and habits. I saw him
with Tom Keogh, Senator Bowen, of
Colorado, and Il few other congenial
spirits around a table in Chamberlin's
restaurant, and it is said they play
poker pretty regularly and for high
stakes. Dorsey has been talking again
about not only the Star-route trial,
but other family secrets of the party,
Nobody doubts that he tells a good
deal of truth as far as The corrupt
methods employed for the success OF
s. the e. O. p. is concerned, but the
worst of it is Dorsey takes n good
deal too much credit to himself. That
the election of Garfield was actually
bought in Indiana and New York
!, City, is now generally admitted, bui
Dorsey assumes o much when he
claims to have made Garfield Presi.
dent. He was meerly the tool of hi;
party associates to do certain dirt,
; work ; and @ very fit tool he prove;
1 to have been.
5 Somebody who signs himself'T. F.
is sending bundles ofprintcd circulars
Ito Senators, i'll which objections ar,