Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-24
From the Boston Commonwcalt
TIE WICKED CONGRESS-.


Where all are wickcl this is the most wick
e,l-has adjourned. From the New York
and Washington papers we proceed to gather
some particulars OF the bad things it had done
and the good things it has left undone. lin
examining the record, We fad any good things
lone, or bad things left undone, we shall
hasten to make prominent mention OF them.
The bill to extend slavery into Kansas
and Nebraska is the most important achieve
ment. Among the bills passed. are the one
to appropriated ten millions oi dollars for the
MesilIa Valley, to estab ish slavery IN; the
bill to provide six first class var steamers, III
case OF II war !or the extension OF slavery ;
the regular appropriation oilIs,(which never
| fail ;)the extending the waiehousng system;
homestead bill Tor Kansas and Nebraska !;
the bill to give effect to the Reciprocity Trea-
ty and thc bill to provide accommodations
for the courts OF the United States in Massa-
chusetts aud New York.
The bill to tax the Northern people for the
purpose Of supporting post offices i'll the slave
States, was lost the River and HarDor bill
was vetoel--the Missouri restriction against
slavery being the only obstacle which the
President bad not scruples against removing;
the Homestead bill was lost the entire slave
holding force Of the South and the iogie force
Of the North combining against it the bill to
grant aid to the States for the relief of the
insane. was vetoed the bill to pay IS, 100000
of Texas debt was lost SO was the French
Spoiation bill, and the Pacific Railroad bill,
Pacific Telegraph bill, and four or five Ocean
Steamship bills. These last failed by reason
OF disagreement between the two Houses-ri-
val spectators, probably, quarreling to cheat
each other, instead OF joining their forces to
cheat the public.
The President did not get the ten million
appropriation to allow him 10 make war up.
on Cl3a; and he will now, as one OF the
Washington organs suggests, be obliged to
leave the work to the filibusters. He is rep
resented as being "much hurt" by this "walt
oil confidence"
Thc Reciprocity Treaty, one of the most
important measures, provides the following
list oil tree goods, the product OF the British
colonies or OF the United States, which are to
be admitted into each country free OF duty :
Grain, -four, and breadstntfs oil all kinds !;
fresh, smoked and sailed meat cotton, wool,
seeds and vegetables 4; undried fruits, dried
fruits fish OF all kinds products Of fish, and
all other creatures living in the water; poultry
eggs; hides. turS, skins or tails undressed,
stone or marble in its crude or unwrought
state; salt butter cheese, talow. lard !;
horns; manures ores of metals OF all kinds !;
coal, pitch, tar, turpentine, ashes timber and
lumber OF all kinds, round, hcwed and sawed,
manufactured in whole Or in part tirewood;
plants, shruo.and trees ; pelts, WOODS fish Oil;
rice, broom corn, and bark gypsum, ground
or ungSound hcwn or wrought or unwrought
burr or grind stones dyestulfs flax, hemp,
and tow manufactured unmanuiacturrd
tobacco rags animals of all kinds.
The Japan Treaty is also measure Of
much importance. The bill to restore the
civil superintendent Of the Armories, was
carried through the House mainly by the great
exertion of Mr.. Banks of this State, and
Mr. Faulkner of Virginia. 1t passed the
Senate, also, by two majority. TIE President
and the Union opposedit. The measure will
be very pularamong the mechanics.
As specimen ofthe way in which Con-
gress did its business, the New York Express
says:-
The last public business on the four public
bills, Army Navy Civil and Diplomatic,
and Post Office bills covering appropriations
to the tune OF more than fifty millions OF
dollars, we're left entirely to the Committee OF
Conference and in the Senate these Confer.