Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Senator Vance-Guay on The Tariff.
Coxey-The Famous Trlal-The
Field Family-A Decision.

| W ASHINGTON, H. u, April ID, loJf-
The last week has witnessed some very
pleasant weather in Washington. Gen
tie spring has come, and singing birds
and bursting buds have been the order
of the day. 1t has been much more
pleasant out of doors, where all nature is
astir, than to be listening to the debates
on tariff in the Senate, and to the dis
cussion of how to get a quorum in the
House.
The death of Senator Vance was a
great surprise to his many friends in the
city. 1t was known that he was not i'll
good health, and he spent part of the
winter in Florida, but returned some
weeks since in order to be on hand for
the debate on the tariff. He has been a
prominent member from North Carolina
for many years, and was serving his third
term in the Senate. He was remarkable
for his wit and sarcasm, as speaker
He belonged to the old fashioned school
of politicians, and was more at home
with the Tom Benton style of politics
than those of the present day. 1t will be
a long day before North Carolina will
forget old Zeb Vance. Compared with
Ransom, his colleague in the present Sen
ate, he was long way ahead. His funer-
al exercises were held in the Senate
Chamber, and the President, the Cabinet
and several members of the Supreme
Court, were present.
The last few months have taken away
several distinguished Senators. Colquitt
and Vance have passed to the other land,
Walthall and White have resigned, and
several of the Senators are in very poor
health.
Senator Quay made rather remarka-
BILE speech for him, on the tariff question.
He is a man of actions rather than
words. The speech was a very practical
one The debate upon the bill by sec
tions will soon be on hand, and then we
shall probably see some lively talk
Speaking of Senator Quay. he is being
urged to take strong stand on the
Coxey bills. 1t will be remembered that
the convention that nominated Mr.GrOw
for Congressman at large, last January,
at Harrisburg, passed resolution which
went into the State platform demanding
an issue of eight times the amount of
currency that General Coxey asks for in
his bills, and his (Quay's) friends tell him
that now is the opportunity of his life,
as that platform was endorsed by $4,000
majority. Quay takes the joke all right,
but declines to assist Senator Kyle.
We begin to get some news now of the
tread of the great brigade approaching
US, and we see that they will surely reach
us in spite of fate. No breastworks have
been erected yet, but it may possibly not
be quite as funny as most of US have
thought. The War Department will be
ready if the police cannot keep them in
order, and Dan Lamont may yet have a
chance to make-what every member OF
of the present administration texcepting
Gresham) so much needs-a war record
The Breckenridge trial is at last over
and the verdict of SIS, ,O0Ois generally ap
proved. But the question remains wheth-
er the publication of the miserable case
has not done ten times more injury tC
the general public than the advantage
gained by the judgment, and the brand
ing of man with the outraged feelings
of the public. Publications of this ma
ture do no good, in our opinion, and Oul
hope is that no case of this kind will dis
grace our court rooms in the near future
Judge Bradley prefers to be excused fol
the future. The Judge had entirely toe
much of this case for his own desires
and wishes no more such arguments as
were presented by Phil Thompson. Ben
Butterworth has received many encomi
ums upon his able plea.
| Governor Waite,o of Colorado, has come
out victorious in his State, over his po
lice and fire boards, by decision of the
State Supreme Court.
The war in Brazil seems to be over
The report is now, that Mello has had tC
give up the fight, and is on the run to
save his life. Only week ago he was
winning victories, and everything in the
section where he has been for some
months, were going his way. This week
his victories are all defeats, but no doubt
next week we shall have reports of how
he has again put his enemies to flight
Mello beats De Gamma in every way by
the brilliancy of his rapid changes from
the top to the bottom. But we must
have news, the boys say, so poor Mello is
bobbed up and down like jumping
jack, and the truth of the matter is, nc
one knows when he is up and when he
is down.
The death of David Dudley Field has
removed another of the distinguished
brothers who have made this family
name immortal in the history of the last
fifty years. He stood at the front of the
New y York Bar, with such men as William
Evarts and Charles 0'Connell for many
years. The sad death of his brother
Cyrus W. Field, about two years ago
who was famous the world over, for his
leadership in in putting down the At
lantic cable, and for his many benevolent
acts, whose greatest regret on his dying
bed, was that his son Edwin had dis
graced the long honoIed family name, is
well remembered by all. Two brothers
of the famous family still survive-Ste-
phen J, Field, who was appointed an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
by President Lincoln, and who still sits
upon the Supreme bench, and Henry NJ
Field, editor of the New York Evangel-
ist. They are all old men now-Judge
Field being about so, and David Dudley
50. All in all they are as remarkable a
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