St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-03-20
JASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March s, 1856

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the question pending between it and
the President, and good entertainment
is expected by the galleries, A most
decided change has come over the spirit
of Senator Edmunds' dream since the
Forty first Congress. A speech DC
livered then has just been unealthed,
which shows that he did not always
think as he does now about the Presi-
dents prerogatives. In it he said
1T is cause enough for me, sir, Consti-
tutlonal cause, when the President of
the United States, acting upon a con-
scientous sense of his responsibility
mans name for a place that another
holds
And then | remember a sentence Of
his eulogy in the Senate over Senator
Morton, delivered some years ago. 1t
made even the studiously unimpression
able Conkling smile and look guilcless
1t was when he hit the Administration
foul by saying Senator Morton was not
one of those Republicans that believed
the best interests of cause would be
promoted by appointing its opponents
to office.
To the surprise Of many Senators,
the Educational bill was endorsed by
the votes of three fourths OF their
body. In the debate which had been
going Oh for three weeks the opponents
OF the measure had decidedly the best
of the argument, but many Senators
were committed upon it by their votes
in the last CoLgres There will he no
such obstacle to independent judgment
in the House, where the bill now goes,
and it is believed in Washington, that
it will pass that body and become a
law.
Senator Gibson, Of Louisiana, held
that the condition of the South war
ranted the legislation OF this bill as a
temporary e1pediency to meet great
public exigency. The aid offered
should not be regarded as daily bread,
but as medicine for a grave national
disorder. Said he The South Of to-
day is not the South of tw. nty-five
years ago. The exhaustion OF Prussia
under Frederick or of France under
Napoleon was not more thorough than
had been the ruin of the South. All
her local Observation-Disclosures tinan-
cial, educational and religious, had
been shattered and pulverized, their
very foundations turned up and de-
stroyed-and her political rehabilita-
ton had been committed to her former
negro slaves, not only elevated to be
freemen, but enfranchised and intrus-
ted with political control.
Mr.. Stanford, CALIFORNIA; millionaire
Senator, is among the earnest indorsers
OF the proposed Permanent Exhibition
in Washington in connection with the
celebration of the centennial anniyer-
sary, in 1889, Of the adoption OF the
constitution. A permanent exhibition
OF the products and attractions of the
three Americas at the National Capital
strikes manyiCongressmen as an admi-
rable idea because of its benefits to the
business interests of the country.
Delegate Josephs, of New Mexico,
who is the only Spanish-Anerican in
Congress, is enthusiastically in favor of
the enterprise. He says the immense
trade of the South American Republics
which we ought to have, England con-
trolls for the reason that there is lack of
business acquaintance between the
United States and the southern coun-
tries.
The recent adhesiveness of the dis
DR.. Newman to the rich I
Senator has caused the lat
ter some discomfort of late. Mr.. Stan !
ford has shown some interest III the !
church of this city, to t
which DR.. Newman has been called, by l
attending it occasionally. The Ba!ti- +
more Conference, which is sitting here
low, is ready to make appointments,
md Rev. Newman is anxious to secure s
his pastorate. Among reports about t
his matter is one to the effect that II
senator Stanford was exerting himself y
o secure the position for DR.. Newman g
nd it is certain that the people Of the
church have been led to
eiieve that it DR.. Newman gets the
ppointment the church will receive
abstanti al aid from Senator Stanford. 4
1T would seem that the Croesus of the a
aeific Coast does not relish this kind y,
{ popularity and gossip, for he has re- ia