The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
UAcur~nro~ T.,,a IT 1QQS

/ WASHiS1ioN, January II, 1000.
/ A desperate effort was made this week
| by Senator Hawley and a few other
| Blaine sympathizers, to revive the South
ern quarrel on the basis of the unpleas-
antness that has existed between Jeffer-
son Davis and General Sherman. Dur
ing the first day of the debate there was
a prospect of richness and rows. Haw-
ley, Vest, Ingalls,, Lamar and Senator
Sherman engaged in wordy war that
/ for the first time this session filed the
Senate galleries. But on the second day
the Democratic Senators, with admirable
good sense, refused to enter into a sec
tional debate, and voted almost unani-
mously with the Republicans This was
great disappointment to Republican
Senator's who had been to see Mr.. Blaine.
and had been supplied from that maya
zine Of statistics and venom with the
IRE the Northern heart
There was quite a contrast pre-
sented in. the political animus Of the
Senate on two successive days of this
week. On the first day the Republican
Senators were rampant in their abuse of
a feeble, broken, DISTINGUISHED old man
who was once President of the Southern
Confederacy. On the second day the
Democratic Senators voted an annuity
to Gen. Grant, the bankrupt beneficiary
OF more public and private honors than
any American citizen ever before re-
ceiyed.
There is good deal of talk today in |
the House about the Edmunds- Grant |
bill which passed the Senate. Gen. |
Rosencrans, chairman of the House |
Military Committee, is against the bill. |
zen. Slocum Is also against it. He is in |
favor of the bill which passed the Senate |
last February, and which mentions Gen. |
Grants name. The Edmunds bill, |
which went through the Senate yester- |
day, does not mention Gen. Grant, but |
1T Is OF course meant for his benefit |
Gen. Slocum thinks that the Edmunds |
bill would be in direct opposition to the |
Presidents position in the Fitz-J |
Porter case. 1t is not likely, however,
that he will find much following. Gen. |
Slocum says that to pass the Edmunds |
bill would be to indorse Ferdinand |
Ward, and his actions. There has I'M
doubtedly been a change of sentiment
in regard to Gen. Grant 1t is very
probable that the Edmunds bill, through |
that sentiment, despite the opposition
of Gen. Slocum and others, will become
law.
The River and Han Dor bill will be re-
ported to the House to-day or to morrow.
1t will appropriate about so, 500, 900.
The Mississippi river will get for reser-
vOirs, $4,000; for removing snags
$50, 900; between St. Paul and Des
MONIES $200,000; between Des Moines
rapids and the mouth of the Illinois
river, 100000 from the mouth of the
Illinois river to Cairo, 800, 900; from
Cairo TO its mouth S2,S00,000. The
Hennepin canal matter was considered
yesterday afternoon. A commission is
to be provided to examine the work be-
ing done by private companies; also an
other to report upon the submerged
jetty system now in usein several of the
harbors of the South.
A portrait of Rutherford B. HAYES,
Esq, has been received at the White
House to put in line with the portraits
of legally elected Presidents, good, bad
and Indifferent, but none fraudulent, from
Washington down. The portrait of Mr..
Hayes VIII doubtless secure a temporary
hanging, but that of Mr.. Tilden
should be placed in its stead, or at least,
the portrait of Mr.. Hayes should be re-
moved forever, leaving a hiatus on the
wall. Let it be stamped on the fore
head with the word fraud" and present
ed Judge ''aliunde" Bradley, or John
Sherman. Mr.. Randall, Chairman of
the Committee on appropriations, has
made the important statement that unless
the Committee shall be given the floor
from now on continuously whenever an
bill shall be ready IAN extra
session will be inevitable, and he did
not regard an extra session as desirable
either for Congress or the Democratic
party. Mr.. Randall was not given the
floor for the appropriation bill that was
ready. He was voted down by a COM
bination of those who desired to bring
up the public building bills, and this
combination was in its turn prevented
from getting the floor. G. A. S.