Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1871 — The Grant and sumnar Quarrel. [ARTICLE]

The Grant and sumnar Quarrel.

t>n tho MsetnUing of tbo 4ld Con great the Senate prrooedlcJ to overhaul the standing comuiltoes and remodel thorn' In dbing an they removed Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, from the eh airmanshipof the oomraittee on ft>rei£n relations, which Ire had filled with great ability for a doc ado of yexrr This action is considered r>n assault of tho friends of the President, on account of Mr. Sqmnrr’s opposition to the San Domingo policy of tbs administration. All tho leading newspspers lh roaghout the country have comme:ite<l on the infraction in very decided language. The Democratic ones are jubilant, as they eeo in it the beginning cf a quarrel, which, if it does Juot jdis» mpt the Republican party, will very muoh sap its vigor. Tho Ivopablioan papers seem trith ona accord to ro£rot tho i and !-.ck upon ijt as & 3cricus blmtdcr, cumulated to do much mischief The Indianapolis Journal which has been a strong advoc to of '*-r. Grant's administrative, course, brands this action as an “outrage''’ and a “wrong,” concerning which “nothing hws bocn said or can be said in justification;” a.id believiM “it is more and worse than an indication of the vindictive fcilftiga of the Executive toward a RChator who has diffcritd with him on questions of foreign policy”. It abo 6ays that “it is to be regretted that Grant seems determined to alienate his friends.” The New York Sm*, a Republican paper of wide circulation, but a severe entic of Mr. Grant ami Ins administration, says that while this act has destroyed tho 1 aßt vestige of the possibility of the President’s renomination, it docs not make the Democratic prospects for success in 1872 any brighter, but rather makes their defeat more certain, by clearing the way for a more powerful Republican candidate. Whatever may be the effect of this Grant-Sumner quarrel on the future of the Republican party, it is vory certain that its immediate influence is disasterous and to be deplored, as shown in the recont New Hampshire election. For ten years past this State has been certain to give a Republican majority, andjjtwo weeks ago it was considered beyond per aj venture for the Republican candidates by 1,500 majority, but the resalt has shown the loss of at least one member of Congress and possibly the Governor and other State officers—and this disaster is attributed te the quarrels at Washington. The following items of “reform” are to be found among others in the new lee bill, passad at the last session of the legislature: County commissioucra receive $4 per day; they formerly received $3. Jurors of tho Circuit and Common Pleas courts receive $2.50 per - day and 5 cents a inila for each, mile traveled in going to end returning from court; they formerly received $1.25 and 4 cents a mile. Witnesses are now paid $1.50 and 5 cents a mile. These are but vory small items of a bill- that will probably increase the taxes of the people cf Jasper county some S3OOO a year.

Mr. John C. Cushman, Clerk of Marshall county, has resigned because of the act of the late Legislature, known as the “Fee and Salary Bill.” Ho says the system ia eDuplicated, increases the labors of county officers, interferes with the prompt discharge of bu&uess, assumes that all county officers are, villains, that the salary allowed :3 not a fair compensation for the services, and that the expense of litigation from thirty to seventy per cent; all of which constitutes n gross wrong perpetrated upon the people as well as on the officers.

Col. David M. Dunn, of Log anaport, has been appointed consul to Prince Edward’s Island. The CoL. was in Rpnsaelaer a short time since, and thought that be would like to live here it was, so nice mid quiet, ffe bet he has found a place now that will be <piet enough. The Plymouth Republican tells about a “Board of Appropriation” which met in that place on the 2d instant “to-examine applicant| Jot a cadetship at West Point.” *• What was the appropriation for, and what did they appropriate?