Boston Daily Globe (Newspaper) - March 3, 1878, Boston, Massachusetts SUNDAY MARCH PRICE FIVE THE SILVER The Financial as Seen bv Boston THE NEW LEGISLATION NOT SO Provided It Does Not Open the Way for More Now the silver dollar 412 so far as act of Congress can make been declared a for its fall nominal tlic greatest interest is felt in the com circles of all the large cities in the what will he the effect of tion which opposed the Bland hill most and from which wore sent many a petition that the measure might be re and hardly a single appeal for its adop since the passage of the revised silence and awaited the sure to sooner or The sense of relief at the abolition of the free coinage clause by the Senate find some and thin significant net has given many men of Boston the feeling that there is some conservatism in the house of National and that the tide for in will there be should it attempt to restore onco more the reign of paper cur Inevitable the passing of the over the Presidents veto had seemed for some time and the hankers and brokers and other wise men of finance in Boston as elsewhere largely discounted the measure in In the money metropolis of tlie so plainly was the passage of the measure that States the day after the final adoption of the do only onefourth to per Shipments of the securities which were sold so readily in Europe had boon sent back to America in large though the purchases for the American market helped to maintain the of the American bonds in Lombard the price steadily gravitated In York and in Boston bonds fell to par while gold maintained its slight premium with steadiness which puzzled a good many people looked for a sudden rise in the price of the more valuable metal the moment tion of silver was a fact and caused great exultation to the silver THE MONETARY But the financiers of Boston declare that the condition of things is only naturally there will bo for a time such a demand for silver as shall give to it nearly its normal value for it is now made a for the pay ment of customs and hence will he in great so long as they can get even at so small a discount of one half of one per it is strive get it to pay charges at the Custom it is sonic time must before silver will be taken in this coun try as it is now at its bullion value men claim that the truth of their theory is shown in a lino of business with which speculation has nothing to for sterling There was the day when tiie passage of the measure for was known au advance in the Tales for bills on London from to for and from to for demand this advance having been made in anticipation of an increase in the re turn of bonds from While many oil the Boston as will be have hopes that the silver will not seriously af fect the provided legislation for cheaper money stops it has been maintained by not a few that but for the silvet agitation America would before this have got gold enough from Europe to have brought legal tender notes to par with There would then have been immediately added to the cur rency all the gold in the and there would have been an enormous instead of being accompanied by would have been attended with perfect con on the part of those who have money to They would have been eager to have lent New enterprises would have been un and labor would have been fully In the country would have begun new era of substantial the men declare that inevitable law must sooner or later the need of honesty in public Millions upon millions of United States coining hack to this will take away and so help to paralyze still more those active industries which are the Kfo of the business of this A few still hope for hut most of the Boston bankers and brokers say that this must now be If the silver does not prove the entering wedge which shall break down the system in and give once more scope for au era of then they are still hopeful and dis posed to trust that the country will not wholly bo The Senate is looked upon as the rock shall repel tho waves of finally though some think that it is not a rock that will Side by side with the views of Boston bankers are presented opinions in favor of by that bril liant Phillips and tho con trast between these widely divergent ideas on tho theme of nuance is most in WHAT Regarding tlie Silver 1S111 and the Prospect of the Nations Finances or the Views from Franklin Asu Joseph Colonel Henry John Cuml Wendell Phillips anil In view of tlie general interest Holt in the silver and in its actual results thus far iu the money markets of the reporters were yes deputed to views from several of the leading bankers and other Among those called in a friendly was Franklin President of the Merchants who said that he was not prepared to maku any detailed statement of his being pressed Toy other matters at the hour the reporter He could only in a general that tho hankers and practical financiers ot this section of tlie country Imd opposed the silver as it In because they regarded it as an infringement of tlie terms of the contract entered into by Government iu the Issue of bonds and a violation of the national faith once pledged that the effect of the passage of the would be to postpone to some distant and uncer tain period tlie general resumption of specie pay It was yet too early to tell what tho full offset of the will but he did not anticipate any other and farther ill results than those already It is to be lie that this is not supposed to be a It in liable to be and other legisla tion to the merging of tho National into greenback is talked and nmy bo an addi tional issue oC If there shall bo such legislation il will unsettle all property and tin prospect or possibility of it elves rise to a feeling of uncertainty not favorable to a healthful of It is true tho cheaper currency when will have the effect to drive out of circulation that of more The application of this principle to the present Inquiry is if greenbacks shall be substituted for bank notes ami the volume as is pro this will constitute a currency still cheaper supplant all specie iu which aspect of affairs the silver problem will bo of no THIS VIEWS OK NATHAN Nathan President of tho Hall National said that he did not favor the silver He thought that it was a pity there wore not more financiers in of the Congressmen are lawyers and onehalf of the other third are politicians who know of business even than the To this cause is the passage of the silver to be Ho did not think that there was any danger of the money market being glutted with He had been told that it would take all the money that could bo coined iu a year to pay the interest on tho national and it has been as a matter of that the salaries of Congressmen must be paid in this As to tho relative value of the gold and silver ho said that it would of course be necessary that tho silver dollar should contain a dollars worth of silver in order to have it equal a gold dol He thought that it was possible that a certificate or coupon might bo issued as tender for the silver lie did not apprehend any trouble from tho banks refusing to tako The bank which ho represented has taken silver amounts for a A good propor tion of those having dealings with the bank are merchants about that many of whom accumulated or ia silver coin in a single and the money is taken merely as an accommodation to Rabbins said that lie when on a visit to suggested a plan to the Comptroller of the who said that ho had already thought of the measure and was heartily iu favor This briefly was tbat compound Interest payable iu five at four per per be The Comptroller was of tho opinion that the notes could bo issued iu amounts as low as 820 if but Robbing thought that could be put as low us He thought that these bonds would bo preferable to either sil ver or They would cost the Government would be readily by the and some would be destroyed and others would be In reiterated his opinion tbat be did not four the influx of silver ouin on ac count of the of the WHAT HOlKS The whose opinions on the financial question have never had an uncertain snid the worst effect of tho just passed is it will create throughout tlie world a feeling of distrust of American securities and of financial management in this It will seem to indicate a disposition to repudiate obligations which are held by people ki other and so the republic will be disgraced in tho eyes of European There stall an opportunity to maintain iu part tho honor ot the country so that tho effect of Mils most ill advised measure of silver may pass Let all honest men unite and stand firmly upon the platform of specie Let them insist oven though silver be legalized as payments must be and if the country will but follow their distrust will pass the would be merely a change from tlie single gold to the bi metallic But on the other this silver is made only a steppingstone to further issues of paper and repudiation the result must bo most and none of us will probably see the cud of As its effect on the labor it will inevitably check and hamper that recovery from tlie stagnation which is so much to be Ropes thought under existing a mere of standard is a having agreed to pay in presumably it creates distrust to tender If we stick to silver and everything payable iu that it will be only a loss of ten per But the great fear will lead to the adoption of Butlers principle of having no standard of which must bring ul timate ruin la HENRY LEES In conversation with Henry Manager of the Boston Safe Deposit and a lifelong resident of tbat gentleman expressed bis views upon tho passage of the silver with great snid tbat ho had all along an the passage of and was only sur prised at the modifications made iu it before its He considered it to not the act of who have the subject care ful thought and reached a conclusion different from and others believing in gold as the only honest currency for the country but rather the act of a set of bent upon He looked upon the passage of in the in decent haste which the as but an other link in the chain began with the riots and which will have link after link added to it until the nations honor is dragged down to tlie dust and is spurned by all He believed that the bunkers and moneyed men of Boston and New York did not realize that such dishonest legislation was possible to be obtained at Washing and utterly surprised at the re The act proved to him that the West and South were bent upon pursuing the suicidal policy en tered upon to the bitter and that they had not only to be educated to know what was right anil but be brought to decide that they would do what is He regretted tho passage of the occurred at n time when the balance of trade with is in our because its effects abroad cannot be realized until the turn in and then lio fully believed that United States bonds will ilow back to this country in large In speak ing of the results of this action so far as regards tho West and Lee referred to the fact that Mew England and especially Boston capital has built about all the railroads in these More railroads will bu needed and when the need arises they will realize the disadvantage of losing their reputation for honesty in this Already Boston capi are withdrawing from further operations In real estate in the West on account of tlie lack of business integrity displayed by the representative meu in Congress during the silver and this action by Eastern capitalists will soou bring about its legitimate result in Western securities of all Lee said tbat some discussion has been had among Boston bankers as to the advisability of calling upon the Legislature to pass au act declar ing in favor of a gold currency for the it has been that such au act could not be gained without adverse and that unless it can be gained by action it would lose the power it would otherwise would a meeting of bankers and the adoption of resolutions denounc ing the action bo of any the financial party now in power not being susceptible to such Ho hardly thought that any attempt would be rondo to pay tho interest ou tho bonds in with the present coinage capacity of the mints hardly a quarter part of this interest could be turned out the interest aggregating an about while but be He thought striking out of tho free coinage clause would ba overcome by f if and that the policy of repu diation would be pushed to the farthest point pos Though I have lived bore for sixty said and know no other I wish thai I might awake some morning aud find Huston an to Canada or to some other so ashamed do I feel of this stain the nations The conversation turned upon the possibility of averting the action by and imon this question Leo expressed the fullest belief that President was largely if uot wholly to fur the of the snid Hayes had in June last put one heel on Arthur and the on and tilled both their offices with men who have to ho sought for rather than to such as seek public hn would have created a party rallied about him and made such nn net as tlie passage of this an No mnn since tho days of the outbreak ot rebellion ever bad such nn opportunity to command a following us did President Hayes after taking the of chief thank him for his for the record that ho made for the nation in that but 1 cannot but feel ho 1ms disgraced liis great by uot loading tho nation to The reference to Simmons naturally led to further conversation in that di during which expressed his utter surprise such men as Rice should endorsement of their names do such a man as said Hice mid Long appeared to have a mortal terror of Simmons they seemed to look upon him as a sort of political liable to go off at any and were uncertain whore he would failing to realize tbat tho moment he was out of the of Collector the would become merely a Lee was at first meeting called of tlie Free Soil at Andrew was and lias been a Republican throughout the life of but ho speaks with utter condemnation of the poli who have brought about the passage of tills making no distinction in favor of his own PHILLIPS HOPES FOR PAPER The who in times past maintained the antislavery cause with such loyalty and courageous has iu these latter days championed with all bis oldtime earnestness tho opinions of the greenback In the study at his house on Essex the famous one of tho most genial ami courteous of that he really did uot want to give any long opinion in regard to tho new silver Its a said in the right This silver is a measure important not so much in its own especial but as a sign of tho growing feeling in the community hi favor of paper In this lies its significance and it is because of this that the capitalists of Boston and of New York so bitterly opposed I do not think as a this silver is likely to have any serious effect upon trade and I am quite confident that tho return of United States bomis from tho holders In Europe to this country will not long Viewed in the light of this act by which tiie silver dollar is restored to currency of the country seems to me to bo perfectly and to meet all the obligations of the Iu payment for Ha whether sold at homo or tho silver dollar of grains must be regarded as a The must pay in coin but it may pay in gold or it may choose to pay in silver During tho when gold stood at interest was puid virtually upon twice the sum of money originally invested iu Then the nation chose to pay iu Supposing gold to have been but it would have au equal right under circumstances to pay in simply agreed to pay the holder of its bonds in coin it Old not guarantee to cither gold or silver coin any given and it never gave up its right of choice between these two kinds of coin in making Knowing tbat Phillips had travelled extensively in the West and the the reporter if the feeling in favor of silver was so strong as would seem from the action of the Representatives from these 1 said the that of the Western people arti heartily iu favor of silver tlie preponderance iu favor of paper money is uot quite so yet 1 it is uot far from taking the West Now tlie feeling in the South is well known to be quite as if stronger in this as 111 the All this tends to show that tho silver is but tlie first of a series of measures which will end In tho establishment of paper currency and supported by the people of these two great must pre vail over all I believe in paper cur said Phillips in and so I am glad that the silver has been WHAT SOME OTHER PEOPLE Among others views were sought was Jehu President of the Board of While he did uot deuy tbat be had on opinion he did uot wish to be quoted In He thought that no feeling of alarm existed on account of the silver per but that its effect had In mercantile phrase been Asa President of the Maverick National said to the reporter verj pleasantly tbat he had an engagement aud could not stop to aud aside from tbat did not care to have his mime He that a majority of the business men of the city did not upon the silver with and he ex pressed the opinion that if there was no legislation in the matter the bunks would not be materially A a member of one nf the prominent State street banking house declined to allow his name to be He said What the country needs now a rest from all agitation ou I opposed tills Bland as earnestly as any man in Boston and even wi th the free coinage clause stricken out it seems to mo to be a most unwise But it has passed ills a and we must make the of Tho Western Congress men say that the silver dollar will bring prosperity to the people whom they Very that remains lobe If it produces if it causes industry to then the country can bear the shaving of ten per on the claims of the nations Many gentlemen fear this silver is only tho beginning of trouble that inflation is in the and so they are disposed to take a pessimistic view of 1 think wo need uot yet think that the country lias gone to the The Western Congressmen have a game an nations credi many poor people who trusted their all to the honor of tho republic but debtors have always been to seize upon anything which could be construed to their Some of tlie sliver men profess a wish to re sume specie Let these men be mot half way by who have fought for a so If there In a united effort to keep the pledge of I think wo can still rally at least of the and onehalf of the Senate on the side of As for wo know where lie But to unite the men we must first of all let be drop the silver question and let finance alone for the wailing for the which may not be far but lias cer tainly not yet when the fight must comn squarely between the friends of coin money and tho men who would have only au Irredeemable paper worth intrinsically AT A of the Prohibitionists Last Special Despatch to The March Saturday a weekly Republican newspaper started by and finally edited now of a has ceased Politically Is no at Each party Is working quietly by Municipally nothing has as yet been and no nominations will be made until a few days before the election a week from The prohibitory move ment opened The Manchester to the editorially says that this meet ing is a natural outgrowth of the policy pursued by the Republican parly of thin and Clarke and and oilier members of Republican party who never slop arc us busy us a hive of bees iu a to undo the their past Well they may for should tilt citizens move be once lairly the political bread and butter of some of these whether it comes in the way ot Senatorial honors or of tho State pi must be sought In other Tho of such a ticket iu Manchester would prob ably result in the election of a Senator from this district whether or not we can afford 10 lose a is a question for Uc Club to for It Is by their action that Slayton will be if at Had the Republican managers shown the least desire to listen to the demands of the people there would have been no call for a citizens The temperance City HaJl was presided over by the Waterman Tho subject of temperance was elaborately The running of a third party was and the audience was recommended to vote for tho temperance men on tho tickets of tho two Irrespective of Addresses were made by ihe Lev and Congress Not Likely to Home Before lug agreed to the tobacco They pas relating to tariff us follows 1fl in tho tariff cd to the clause and fixed tho Hardwood THE TEXAS PACIFIC MEN The Cheney Leonards to The of the appropriation bills tlie Military Acad rmy have passed tho nud only two others have us yet been tho fortifica tion and and diplomatic There tire yet nine or ten regular appropriation bills In hi perfected in the Iu view of the backwardness of those it is quito probable Congress will find itself in sion on Fourth of soft 50 Thov the for wood on one side 25 cents on both fiO and tongued and LTi cents Manufactured woods go The committee is now discussing tlie woi I The Doorkeepers investigation was resumed John I hum nnd Iconic Clerk of the testified regarding affairs in their J he hitler declared incorrect Colonel lie had ever consulted him the payroll for the Doorkeepers depart Otherwise the testimony was The House Committee on Naval Affairs today begun the investigation of the alleged frauds nt the Portsmouth nnd Navy and several citizens from testi fied that to their red oak knees hnd Veen used in of the On the other the timber the fore man of the shipwrights nnd Naval Con of the Navy Yard denied that such material hnd been THE of Lieutenant of Force Necessary in Order to Preserve Special Despatch to Tlie IX March Edward Turner of tho Cavalry this morning testified before tho Committee on Military Affairs concerning tho Mexican border He is the officer that charges Hint Colonel nnd Bullis fre crossed into Mexico without having renl cnuse for such and not being on any fresh but simply for the purpose of making capital for In his testimony today ho did touch ou this He held that neither the American nor the border population of Mexico could held responsible for raids into but that the marauders Apache He did not consider nn increase of the United States forms along tbo Grande necessary to Hm preser vation of peaceful but thought all necessary for the prevention of such lawlessness and disturbance as have been com of heretofore would n judicious vigi lance on the part of the American military civil fun United Senators mcn for Mall and Can n Mails AVile Go Bonds for Him Despatch to The Huston IX interest ing complication has arisen in connection with the letting of the longest star route in the United the one between Forth nnd for ser vice over which the Post De paid the lost contractor The lowest bidder is John who offers to carry the mails under tho proscribed regulations for but the next who offers to per form the service for claims that bid is void because two Senators of the U now serving their terms as the John Jones of Nevada and the of are on his It is that the laws of tlie United States prohibit members of Congress from going on a bond or being in any way in mail and without the names of Senators bond is Judge Key will hear arguments on both sides next Monday at 1 Tho case of a lower bidder of whoso wife goes se curity for which is legal according to the laws of tbat will also be THE AGAINST Testimony of More Postal Wli Evidently Biased Special to Tho Boston March Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads today continued the investigation of the charges against Thomas Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service for Now Henry Postmaster at James a lawyer of where Cheneys home and William Conn of formerly route agent between place nnd but dis charged lust August as lie upon Cheneys testified that Cheney was frequently absent from his in and that he hnd the reputation of being nn active politician nnd wis generally at home about election The testimony and it was evident the were biased cither by political or personal grievances against IS Discovers that tho New Sun is the in New and Proposes to Weed Out the Special Despatch to The JX March Even ing Star says Tlie President has it is a large number of appoint snid to he sixty in have been made in the various Federal offices in New York of urged directly or obliquely by Charles editor of tho Now York special agent of tho Post has twice investigated the and has finally re ported that Danas appointees are very numer ous that they are all Conkling and that Postmaster James and Collector Arthur have mndo the principal concessions to tho According to rumor there will bo some woud of Dana men GENERAL COMMITTEE the Texas Men Success So The Patent Luw Muttons of Special Despatch to The House Pa Commit too this agreed to report the Stephens Texas as report ed by House of without further Those voting in the affirmative were Caswell nnd Colo those voting Blair and Rice Morrison aud The Semite Committee on Patents have agreed to report a providing for the revision of laws with some which do change the general character of the The House Committee on Public Lands bad under consideration today Clauses swamp indemnity lo dif ferent Hill of Illinois State Agent and Curtis attorney in favor of tho action was postponed till tho next The committee to report favorably ou tho granting to the of West Virginia the Government prop erty at Harpers for school The Committee ou nud Means morn BEN WADE BE The and ernor Succumbs to SCENES 1ROUAD HIS A Sketch of His Career from a Humble Birth to the CONGRESSMAN A Prominent States lie is Hound for New Orleans to n Special Despatch to Boston March Telegrams Washington special says A prominent is for tho statement that tho Associated Press story about Leonard ot Louisiana having boon sent to Cuba to look lifter kidnapped negroes is a He says Tlie truth Leonard lias Now Orleans an the confidential agent of tho Hayes Adminis to plead with Governor Nicholls and the other State authorities tor the pardon of Ander son and tho release of tho other Returning Hoard I know positively that Leonard has pone ou that Leonard represented that lie stood pretty well with and for that rea son Hayes selected The matter was I alked on several saw that it wouldnt do to undertake any arbitrary and ao ho sent Leonard to impress Governor that the whole North is up in arms Louisiana because of the Board prose You Leonard knows all about the frauds that were nud Hayes was not called upon to admit any new person into his con This fraud IB a sore subject with Ho doesnt like to talk about and Leon ard BO thoroughly understood the whole that it was uot necessary to explain to him how important it is that all the secrets of the Return inn Board shall not be made It only takes three days longer to go round by tho way of and that scheme was adopted to pre vent Hit real object of the mission becoming and discussed in the Leonard got nn indefinite leave of absence from and you will hear of him in a days in Xew laboring for the Returning A COMING A Joint Resolution to he Introduced In tho Senate Providing for a to the City of Special to Tho Boston March is a Southern Senator will submit a propo sition to the Senate in u few from itn national importance and aggressive charac will create a profound sensation urged by any considerable number of It is noth ing less than a joint resolution providing for tho pledging of the credit of the Government to au amount not for tho con struction of a railroad from San to tho city of upon condition tho of Mexico will pledge au additional amount to be agreed upon by tho two Governments in a commercial treaty to bo ar ranged for that Tho object of the scheme is to divert attention from tho Southern to a rond that its advocates will he ot incalculably more advantage tc the South in every point of view than any ol tho proposed Southern Pacific Tho joint resolution will ho introduced probably during the coming In Washington Colonel Out All President Iil to Special Despatch to The Boston Mareh Ed wards Minister to ar rived horo last Today he visited the Executive tho Departments of tho Treasury and 1lerropont says tho health of General Grant was never hotter than it has boon since his arrival in the trouble about the bond of Colonel the newly appointed Pension Agent at Now is likely to be satisfactorily It has boon telegraphed to tho Depart ment that tho bond will ho ready in accordance with tho Departments Bids nt tho Department for furnishing for fastening railway cars transporting merchandise in bond and mer in transit through There wore about thirty tho lowest of New to whom tho contract will bo Congressman Loving has convoyed to tho President an invitation to attend the Centen nial celebration at the Phillips An ou the 5th and Oth of The President appeared to ho favorably in to an acceptance of tho Terrill is detached from tho Naval and ordered to Naval Now A supplemental silver providing un limited free coinage of silver on private account nnd for certificates of deposit on exchange for all silver bullion taken to will bo offered in tho House It is stated that a movement is on foot for inviting Southern of Congress with New England and Now York tore peal tho national banking and authorize tho establishment of State It is stated that the passage of the re quiring a special term of the United Status to sit in to try log produced a groat deal of feeling in the The will probably bo vetoed if it finally gets to the White It is said tho court would have to sit in a and the wit would bo tho employes of tho accused The Sonata was influenced very largely in passing the by a desire to if humiliate Secretary A SHUTDOWN AT FALL The Mills to bo Four Weeks Because ot the Depressed Condition ot tho Special Despatch to The Boston March longde pressed condition of tho market throughout tho country lias at length forced Fall River manufacturers to tako definite ac tion as to future Tho Manufacturers Hoard of in session this voted to close the mills the two latter weeks of tlie present mouth and tho first two weeks of with the proviso cooperation in tho same line can bo scoured from a largo number of outside mills to insure a reduction of the heavy stock of print cloths held in the It is understood that have already been offered and propositions made from leading manufacturers throuch Now England in advocacy of this In Full the question has been mooted a month or and manipulators of the market as far back as two months confidently predicted the coming neces sity of this move for the protection of thin In The stock on hand held by Fall has dropped but if below pieces since August whon combination to bull tho market by holding on to goods collapsed after somewhat over a million had been The shutdown will relieve tho minds of tho op who have been more or leas troubled by the rumors of another By run ning tho two first weeks of March and tlie two of April the help will be able to earn half pav each Special Despatch lo The Hoaton March lion died at his homo in nt this Two days ngo speech failed him owing to nf of ho tongue anil of the Which havo been the features of the case past three Ho remained perfectly conscious nnd up to the time of liis fact lie slept THE SICKNESS AND Special Despatch to The i March who died this had boon sick about five Ho was prostrated ill tlie latter part of January with Last Thursday evening tho Senators condition was nnd his physician thought that if the favorable symptoms con till morning recovery was still On Friday he again rc and gradually sank Phy visited him at about 0 oclock last nnd the Senators her son and lames remained with him at intervals till the Tho Senators breathing during the last of life was hut not and he died as peacefully as a No time lias yet been fixed for tho funeral of but it will not take place before Tues day or SKETCH OK HIS Franklin commonly known as Den has been a conspicuous figure in American politics for over thirtyfive Since the election of President Hayes and tho introduc tion of his southern policy Wade has shown himself a vigorous opponent of the now order of nud has allied with the Bombon elements of the Ho was born in October and is there fore nearly seventyeight years of lie is a selfmade Ho managed while a young man to pick up an education by working on a farm iu tho summer and teaching school In tbo many young moil of his time he moved to tho West and thoro began to make him self known in local He studied law from ISliG to 1828 In and iu tho latter year was admitted to the He has since lived continuously in that county and has made his influence felt in tho social and public fairs of section as well as tho entire In 1S3G ho was elected Prosecuting Attorney for his and two years later ho was sent to the State Senate whore ho waa kept for two From 1840 till 1847 ho practiced and took an active part in local and State aud in 1847 he was chosen Presiding Judge ot the Third Judicial District of tho a position which ho hold i ill whon ha secured nn elec tion to the United States In 1857 ho was and In record In the Senate was generally Ho was a per and antislavery He would vote for no measure which In any way favored the extension or of the slave In 1851i he voted with live other Senators in favor of repealing the fugitive slave law lie n vigorous speech against the to abrogate the Compromise and voted against also opposed the Constitution for Kansas in He voted against tho to appropriate for acquisition of The various compromise measures were Intro in Congress just after Lincolns in for the purpose of preventing rupture between the North and found in Wade u sturdy Ho would sanction no measure that in any way compromised the principle in the advocacy of ho had taken such doop interest and active One of the measures in which he was very actively interested was tlie and by his efforts ho finally having it passed la When the war broke out Wade was always in favor of tbo most vigorous Ho was Chairman of the joint committee of the two houses of Congress on the conduct of the nud while in that position ho advocated and pressed for passage a for the confiscation of the properly of leading and tho emancipation of In while Chairman of the Territorial he reported a abolish ing slavery in all tho Territories of the Govern and prohibiting Its introduction into any that might be acquired by tho United States at any future In the impeachment of Johnson Iu 1808 Wade took a very active part nnd by no meann delicate He was then President o the having boon elected to that place immediately after the assassination of President and the elevation of the to the vacant Of course if the House of Rep had succeeded iu proving a casa against Wade would have be come President of the United The loading lights of the prosecution were Thud Stevens of Pennsylvania aud Ban Butler of and it was an open secret that Wade worked hard to sustain these men In their attacks on the Tho movement turned out n com plete and among those who were dreadfully disappointed was Bon Whether his motive power iu the cru sade Johnson was personal ambition or the higher one of adherence to cer tain it Is that the then lost a good deal of prestige by his course In the impeachment Iu 1800 his term of the Legislature having been secured by the Alien was seat hi his place to Wash hi 1871 Grant sent Wade to San Domingo one of tho Commission to re port upon tho feasibility and advisability of an that island to the United He be thoroughly iu this was disappointed at its Since then Wade has not been iu public He spoken and written frequently ou political and always has taken the most radical view of all questions that up for He has rigorously op posed the pacificatory policy Inaugurated by Pres ident and lias taken occasion frequently to denounce it in unmistakable But his Influence of late years lias waned In younger and more progressive element in party coining to the front on tho reconstructed platform of reform aud nn elevated Idea of the civil service of the Notes from Till Is The chosen Hardy as class photog The lice Club recently formed on the Hill is now In smooth running order and It is hoped that this organization will nerve to revive tho interest bore iu It Is announced that we are soon to have the pleasure of a lecture from Subject A May Trip The dramatic club announces an entertainment to bo given on Wednesday the The at tractions presented will include the laughable furoe A Phenomenon In a and repetition of Harriss which lias been previously presented by ihe club with most nattering The programme also includes music and miscellaneous and It has been the object of the both in tlie assignment of and by most thorough to present au entertainment that shall In no manner fall below former high stand
