Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-01-30
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
AcUJv,;TOv Ian nth 1891

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18th, 1884.
A desperate effort was made this
week L. Senator lIawley, and few
other Rlaiue sympathizers to revive
the southern quarrel on the basis OF
the "np!easaniness tnat has existed
: between Jefferson ID wis, ESD, and
( General Sherman. Both Of these
old gentleman have long been in
their do,age, and are interesting only
as relies. Since the war, Gen. Sher.
man has been distinguished chiefly
for garrulity, osculation, WALKING,
and as ballot girl fancier. Daring
the war, unlike NenopLen's ApabasiS
his was katabasis, a march from
the mountains over the fertile, we'll
watered, unobstlucted fields of
Georgia 10 the sea. Daring the first
day of the debate there was u pros.
pect of richness and rows. Hawley
Vest, Ingalls,, Lamar, AMI Senator
Sherman engaged in wordy wal
that for the first time this session
filled the Senate galleries. But on
the second day the Democratic Sen
ators with admirable good sense re-
fused to enter INTO a sectional de-
bate, und voted almost unanimously
with the Republicans. This was a
great disappointment to Republican
Senators who had been to see Mr..
Blaine, and had been supplied from
that magazine of statistics and
venom with the sinews of great
speeches with which to fire the North
ern heart.
There was quite contrast pre-
sented in the political animus of the
Senate on two successive days of
this week. On the first day the Re-
publican Senators were rampant in
their abuse of a feeble broken dis
franchiseed old man who was once
President of the Southern Confed-
eracy. On the second the Democrat
ic Senators voted an annuity to Gel.
Grant, the bankrupt beneficiary of
more public and private h0nors than
any American citizen ever Iefore re-
ceived.
There is q good deal OF talk to-
day in the House about the Ed
munds-Grant bill which passed the
Senate. Gen. Rosencrans, Chairman
of the House Military committee is
against the bill. Gen. Slccum is
also against it. He is in favor o.
the bill which passed the Senate
last February, and which mentions
Gen. Grants name. The EI-
munds bill, which went through the
Senate yesterday, does not do this,
but it is, of course, meant for his
benefit. Gen. Slocum thinks that
the E1muDds bill would be in direct
opposition to the Presidents posi-
ton in the Fitz-John Porter case.
1t is not likely, however, that lie 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
doubleday been change of senti =.
ment 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 Harbor bill will be
reported TO the House to-day, or to-
morrow. 1t will appropriate about
$40, 900. The Mississippi river
will get for reservoirs S35 ,OG0, Tor
removing snags $4,000; between
st. Paul and DesMoines 5000, 900;
between Des Moines rapids and the
mouth of the Illinois river, 5000, 600;
from the mouth of the Illinois to
Cairo, 100000; from Cairo TO its
mouth S2.S0O,OOO. The Hennepin
canal matter was considered yester-
day afternoon. A commission is to
be provided to examine the work be-
ing done by private companies; also
another to report upon the sub
merged jetty system now in use in
several of the harbors of the South.
A portrait OF Rutherford B. Hayes,
Esq, has been received at the White
House to be put up in line with the
portraits of legally elected Presi-
dents, good, bad, and Indifferent,
but mono fraudulent, from Washing
ton down. This portrait OF Hayes
will 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 removed forever, leaving
a HIATUS on the wall. Let it be
stamped on the forehead with the
word Fraud and presented by
Judge "aliunds" Bradley or John