Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-06-04
FRoM WAsHINaroN.
TnuRsDAY, May p.

nv hsDAh' May -
Public Rusiaess- adjournment.
Both Houses meet at II, a. NJ, and sit
late, clip debate, and work hard in view Of
an adjournment on the 7th June. The pub
lie business, such as the Administration will
permit, may be done by that time but ! sus-
.pect there will be poor chance for private
bills Better let tho public business CO. or
sit through till December, than fail to do JUS
tire To claimants against the government |
en- ain inclined to the opinion that Congress
will nit adjourn on the day named.
IHde Sam ont Of Money Direct Tares.
When Congress met, in December last, the
President and Secretary of the Treasury i'm
'timated that there was q temporary cessation
of impofts-that possibly government would
be out of funds. and therefore that Congress
ought to give authority to issue twenty mil
lions Of treasury notes, payable at short
date. 1t might be necessary to use the notes,
II might not, sometime during the year.
Well, five months have elapsed, and now
what says the Secretary; In a letter 20 Con
gross, he state. that there will be a deicieacy
in the rcycpuc on the LIST of July ncxt of
twenty millions Of dollars. SO. in the first
six months. the twenty millions of treasury
notes. that were possibly not to be wanted for
the whole year, are all gone Moreover, says
the Secretary, the expenditures for the poxt
two quarters 0om July /, 1853 to Jan. /.
1852 will be S37,o0O00O
Estimated amount Of revenue, 25,ooo,oOo
deficiency next months, Sl2, 100000
TO covor this deficiency and pay interest the
Secretary now asks for LOAN of fifteen mil
lions Of dollars, on long time, at a rate Of in
tcrest not exceeding six per cent. Yesterday
the Senate passed the bill, and the House
will doubtless concur. Thus we see that the
deficiency of rercnue for the year 1853 is
hirty-6re millions Of doHors yet the govern
ment will not take a single step for an in
crease of revenue, OF as a guaranty for the
money it is borrowing. Borrow, borrow
debt, debt that is the cry Of the govern
meut. In the meantime, select committee
Of the House on the subject of revenue has
reported in favor of still further reducing the
tariff, and ultimately substituting direct tax
alton. This, | apprehend, is only theorizing
tho experiment will hardly be tried. We
may assume the present expenses Of govern
ment at one hundred millions per ycar--aqual
to $4,000 for each Congressional District,
or 81 ,275,00O per annum for the State Of
Vermont. | guess the people of Vermont
will never pay such tax as that 1t is
twelve times the annual cost of our State
government: so it is quite clear, either that
Vermont is governed very economically, or
the Union governed very extravagantly.
Making Majority
Since the passage Of the Lecompton bill,
most of the Douglas Democrats have subsid-
cd into the old party ruts, and vote steadily
with the Administration. This, Of course,
gives the Administration working majority
in the House; still it is not satisfactory. 49,
They wanted more. and have not been over
scrupuous in the means OF getting them
Two Democrats presented themselves as
members for tho nav State of Minnesota.
Rumor whispered that they had been elected
by fraud, though nobody took the trouble to
make formal charge to the House 1t was
palpable, however, that urce members had
boon elected, each Of whom had right equal
TO either of the others. How could hco OF
the three be admitted, and the other left ont
The thing was done-thus each of the two
claimants present offered certidcsto of cleo
ton, under the seal of the State and signed
by the territorial Governor albeit every ono
knew that the State government could not be
in operation, as the ink of the act of adinis-
sion had hardly got dry But this MAS pria,o
faoie evidence. and the Democrats attempted
20 force the claimants in under IT, The Re
pubs. 'fllibustered, and forced an adjourn
mont, when one Of them (Mr. Stanton o
Ohio repaired to the Clerk room, and called
for the papers on file concerning Minnesota
and among them he found The original ccrtif
cate, ghich declared that rIlnEr persons hat
been elected Members of Congress. This. il
fact, was the original and only true certificate
the other two distinct certificates had beer
subsequently, manufactured, although the,
were dated back at the same time with TIN
original. What could be done; The Dem
ocrats settled the question just taking III,
bits in their teeth, they elected two meraber
Of Congress for Minnesota. The people elect
ed hrse--tbe House elected t,co out of th
three. In ancient times it was supposed tina
the people had the right to elect representa-
tiyes the Buchanan Democracy have discoy
cred more convenient way. Nor ives thi
enough, There has been contested cas-,
between Messrs, Campbell (American) an
NslAndingham DEM for the third Ohio di,
triet. Campbell had the certificate. and 5
fair q Preponderance Of testimony in the OK
animation that few of the Democrats. en-
brpeing .thes men Of most experience vote
for Mr.. Campbell; but the main body wcr
the other way, ogsting Campbell and admit
ting Yallandngham The Democrats no
have twenty-eight majesty in the House |
tho last case four Of the Committee on Ele,
tions were for Campbell, four (or Vallandna
ham, and one, ltbc chairman, Harris Of Ill
oc,a non,no.af To- Io,iar;ne, H. s,oi 80.