Year: 1877

VI the matters urSeu IOr legislation
in the Presidents message, the Paris
Exposition and the deficiency bills, are
yet to be acted on in the Senate, both
having been reported by the Commit
tee before the adjournment Thursday,
the former with several amendments
that may necessitate conference COM
mittee. The Bland silver bill has also
been reported by the Finance Commit
tee, and that gentleman is understood
to have said the House will not accept
them; that no change is preferable to
those provided by it, as pruued and
doctored by the fnanciers of the upper
House committee. The House, after
wrangling several weeks over the little
business cut out for it in the message,
at last cleared its docket, and after
keeping Ewing impaled for weeks on
the tenter hooks of alternate hope and
despair over his anti-resumption bill,
passed it by small majority, or the
Fort amendment rather, which retains
the free-bank;ng clause of the resump-
ton act and which was adopted by the
Committee as a substitute. Not one
single utterance from tho Democratic
side during all the debate over the
Army indicated anything like regret
for the starvation policy adopted to-
ward it and the Navy last winter, and
which has inflicted on the officers, men
and those dependent on them, an meal
culable amount of troubles and annoy
ance and no little absolute suffering
and privation. Nor have their ardu-
Gus services during the past summer
in the tedious pursuit and capture of
Indians, guarding a long unhealthy
frontier line along the Rio Grande, and
in promptly responding to save imper-
lied Gin their estimation) Democratic
Governors from the fury Of mobs, and
our industrial interests and social insti-
tutions from universal disaster, awak-
ened one sentiment of gratitude, SEEM
ingly; and we only escaped reduction
of the former that would have amount,
ed practically, to abolition by the
promptings Of selfish regard for their
own section on the part of most of the
Democratic members who finally united
with their opponents in voting down
the proposition. Throughout the vide
range taken by debate in both Houses
during the session now drawing to
close, we look in vain for an indication
of the disintegration that was predicted
as certain to follow the policy adopted
relative to the late insurgent States;
and in view of the unfruitful character
of the harvest up to date, great unan-
unity of sentiment in opposition to any
further effort to placate by filing i'm,
portant Offices by Democrats, has been
and is being developed among the re-
preventative Republicans here. 1t has
been voted to report billiards nomina-
ton favorably, result only reached by
Stanley Mathews's vote with the Dem
ocrats to confirm. 1t is among the
current street and hotel gossip that Mr..
Sanford's name has been reported un-
favorably. Among all the men in
1861 who labored successfully to in
duce hesitating States to adopt the Sc
cessian ordinance, perhaps Hilliard was
one Of the most conspicuous, in proper
ton to his ability; and the reputation
of MIR. Sanford here is not such as will
lead patriotic men to regret his rejcc-
tion.


The blockade in the Senate still
continues the topic of most absorbing
interest in political circles. The anxi-
Gus bearing of veteran Republican
Senators who rarely lose their self-poise,
indicates the gravity of the situation in
their estimation. There is good deal
of suppressed excitement, and volca-
no of latent indignation against Como
YER and Patterson that constantly
threatens eruption. It is understood
they both claim to still be Republicans,
but that the conciliation policy de-
mands of them the treachery they con.
template. 1t is very thin pretext;
and no one who has witnessed their
humiliating submission to the crack oil
the Southern whip about their ears
can repress the feeling OF pitying con.