Year: 1878

ileges and Elections, says there is no truth
in the report that the subcommittee has
decided to report that Senator Butler is not
entitled to a seat in the Senate. The petit
ton of d. G. Corbin to have his case re-
opened is before the subcommittee, and no
decision has yet been reached.


Correspondence of the Star.


WASHINGTON, Feb. "a.


Will Hayes sign the Silver Bill? is now
the prominent question in Washington con-
versation. The opinions as to the Presi-
dents intentions are, as rule, founded
upon the predictions Of the persons utter
ing them, and are, in consequence, of no
more value than that of wooden Indian.
No one knows his intentions, but we can all
guess; and i'll the exercise of that proud
privilege predict that he will veto the bill.
1t will then go back to Congress and be
whooped through the House by more than
the two thirds required; but when it
reaches the Senate halt will be called, and
it would not be at all surprising to the un-
dersigned if that halt was made perpetual.
Two Senators, Window and Paddock,
who voted for it before, have since said that
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the President If they stick to this,
which is exceedingly doubtful, for they
are weak brethren in every sense of the
word, it will knock the two-thirds majori-
ty, and strand the bill high and dry be-
tween the White House and the Capt.
tai. In the meantime the silver lunatics
OF the most rabid kind, led by Butler and
Ewing, not satisfied by the modified Bland
Bill as passed, are organizing for fight
for free coinage, and any and all other leg
islation necessary to place silver on an ex-
act equality with gold. Probably two or
! three bills of this nature will be intro
duced in the House tomorrow. 1t is more
than probable that some of them will be
gotten through the House by much
smaller vote than that by which the Bland
Bill passed, but it will simply be loves Ia
Dor lost, for there is not the ghost of prob
ability of their passage by the Senate.


The investigation of the


DooRKEEPER


has been rather an unhealthy stirring up Of
old rottenness in that Department. Not
only has it been shown that Col. Polk, the
erately violated the law, but it has been
clearly demonstrated that in doing SO be
has oniy t"iinwAd il, Tie footsteps of his
predecessors. Another humiliating feature
of the case is the fact clearly proven, that
distinguished Senators and members of
the House have not only winked at these
violations Of law, but have urged the Door
keeper to commit them for the benefit OF
their strikers


The most notable of this kind of work is
that OF Senator Lamar, who when placed
upon the stand, had to acknowl-
edge that he had been a party
to an arrangement by which
the salary of one employe had been docked
| for the benefit of another, in order that
both might retain their positions and pro-
duce peace and harmony among the re-
spectiye hackers and among the members.


The story is too long to be told in detail,
and only allude to it in order to give your
readers a sort of political yard-stick with
which to measure the motives that actuate
great and pure patriots like Lamar. 1t Will
be remembered in this connection that this
gentleman made very dramatic display of
conscience, conviction, duty and things, in
the Senate a short time since, when casting
his vote against the Silver Bill He must
have been outstanding all his virtue for that
supreme occasion; for certainly he did not
waste any of it in an effort to check the lit
tie blackmailing arrangements in the Door
keepers Department Of which he had to
say the least of it, guilty knowledge.


A few days since, as l was passing by
Lafayette Park in the West End, l observed
a gentle oscillation of the earth that seemed
to indicate an approaching earthquake, the
fall of meteor, or some other phenome-
non. Marveling muchly passed on to the
Arlington Hotel, where glance at the reg
lister explained all.


C. W. wooLLEY,


of Cincinnati, had just registered and by a
careful comparison of watches and a close
calculation of time found that at the very
moment that the earth trembled G. W. W.
had struck the town. He had hurried down
from New York, was told, for the purpose
of inspecting the Government machinery,
which, during his prolonged absence from
the National Capital, had got little out of
order. He remained but few days, but
the good he accomplished during that brief
stay may never all be written. Isometimes
sit and sadly sigh when contemplating the
terrible consequences to our beloved coun-
try by sudden removal to the kingdom,
above of this great, good and useful citizen.
Let us pray that he may long be spared to
us.


i JOSIAH KIRBY


staid with us few days last week. He
u was very mysterious as to lis business, but