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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-31
SENATOR LANDON's SPEECH.

We shall publish in our next issue
Senator LANNON'S speech in the SEN
ate, on the Constitutional Amendment.
1t appears in the Harrisburg IeIe-
graph with the following editorial an.
nOuncement
"There are perhaps no more forci-
BILE, eloquent and cogcnt orators and
reasoners in the State Of Pennsylva-
MIA, than the Senator from the Brad
ford district, George Landon. He is
host within himseIf-moves and is
irresistible like solid mass-be-
comes enthusiastic only in favor OF
the truth and Justice and is Of that
unseIfish nature which renders him
entirely disregardful Of consequences
when engaged in the cause of right.
Senator Landon's speech on t h
amendments, which we print today,
is the best Illustration of his charac-
teristics we could offer. His utter
ances prove the b. lldness of the man.
He does not advance a single decla
ration that is not supported by well
attested fact. His arguments are all
logical, 1t is at once apparent in his
reasoning, that he is conscientiously
convinced he is right LandOn nerer
SpeakS for bunc0mbe. What he says
to day, he is ready to stand by to-
morrow-and what he proclaims from
his seat in the Senate, he is ready to
reiteratc and uphold at home and else
where. These are the men who rep
resent the true integrity of our great
party, and who are best fitted to rep
resent the people in all places and on
all occasions where their dearest in
terests are involved.
We hope our readers will peruse
Senator Landon's speech with the
strictest care. He speaks for the
Republican party, and we want all
Republicans to understand how able
an organ they have il the Senator
from the Bradford district.
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PASSAGE OF THE TENURE OF OFFICE
BILL BY THE UNITED STATES SENATE. -
The United States Senate, on Friday,
by vote of twenty-nine to nine,
passed the Tenure of Office bill a
measure which deprives the Presi
dent Of. the power TO appoint or re-
move any officers except the mem
bers of his Cabinet, without the ad-
vice and consent Of the Senate, and
eflectually prevents removals and ap
pointments during the recess of Con
gress, except in certain specified
cases; and in such subjects them to
the action of the Senate within
twenty days after its reassembling.
Prior to the passage of the bill SEN
ator Sumner closely reviewed the
proscriptive course of Mr.. johnson,
in which he accused him of having
usurped the powers of Congress on
colossal scale, and of employing
these usurped powers in fomenting a
rebel spirit and rc-kindliug the fires
of rebellion. This measure of re-
stricting the power of the President
to remove and appoint men to office,
merely to crafty his private spite,
gives general satisfaction. 1t is &C.
cepted as a movement towards a
still more important measure, where
by Andrew Johnson is to be taught
that there is authority delegated by
the Constitution to Congress, which
the President dare not disregard.
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der itibeyond all previous experience,
and it does seem 4 marvel to us, that
in the face of such undeniable proof
of the healthy influences of Protec-
ton to Home Industry, that any one
living amongst us, and not paid for
opposing individual and national pros
perity (as is the case with the Brit
ish free-trade emissaries) can fail to
see where his duty to his country and
to himself lie Why the Southern
rebels now say, that, we owe our
success over them, that is we We're
enabled to defeat them in the war,
because they nal regulated their so
cial and civil policy by free-trade
theories. and we had regulated ours
by protection g. the manufacturing
interests. In lis admirable Inaugu-
raj address, Governor GEARY says on
this point" Scarcely one OF the
ambitious men who led tn -ir unfor-
turate people into rebellion, but
"now freely admits that if the South
had manufactured their own fabrics,
on their own plantations, and culti-
waited skilled labor, in their great
cities, they would have been able
to prolong their conflict with the
government ; and now to enjoy sub
stantial, instead of artificial pros
"perity, they must invoke the very
agencies they had so long and SO
fatally disregarded Words need
mot be multiplied upon this import.
ant theme, either to make my own
position stronger, or to impress up
on the people the value Of adhering
to system which has proved It
" self worthy of our continued sup
port, and of the imitation Of its
"former opponents
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from harrisburg.
Special Correspondence of The BRADroRD
REPORTER.

Special Correspondence Of The BRADFORD
REPORTER.
HARRIsBURe, Pa. Jan. 2S, 1867
The Legislature was in session but three
days last week, as there was but little bust
ness ready to be acted on-the committees
having not prepared sufficient to occupy
the whole week-eonsequently there has
not been any legislation worthy of mention
in our correspondence.
The consideration of the Consti' utional
both branches. Quite number Of lengthy
speeches were made by long -winded Senators
and Representatives, but in neither House
has vote been reached.
Perhaps the most important matter to the
public and before the Legislature Is the bill
offered in the Senate, the other day, to au-
thorize the State Treasurer to borrow S23-
000,0 in six per cent. bonds, payable III
five, ten and fifteen years, with six per cent.
interest
An act to authorize the sale of agricultural
and land scrip donated to Pennsylvania by
the United States, has been reported upon
favorably by the Committee Of Ways and
Means in the House
\ bill providing for the final adjournment
of the Legislature on the 18th of March, has
been presented in the Senate by Mr.. WHITE,
of Indiana
The "gift enterprise swindles have been
carried to such an extent in many places,
that an effort is being made to have bill
passed 10 prevent the newspapers of the
Commonwealth from publishing advertise
ments of such enterprises. In some instan-
ces these gift distributions have been con-
Quoted fairly, but the country has been food
ed with advertisements in the newspapers
and otherwise from the eastern cities-enter-
prises entirely bogus in their character, and
intended to swindle the unwary by inducing
them to make remittances for which AN
equivalent is never received. Anything that
may be done to abate the evil TO any extent
will be of benefit to the public. No doubt
law of the kind referred to will be passed
before the close of the present session.
CowAN of the L. S. Senate has brought
down upon himself the censure of our Leg
islature, and the adoption of a resolution by
the House, III regard to his course, has caus-
ed quite commotion in the Copperhead
ranks. They consider it humiliating to have
one of their "great men" censured by the
Legislature, composed of representatives of
| the same party (and in some instances of the
same men) who elected him to his seat in
the Senate 1t is gratifying to all good peo-
pie to know that the place now occupied by
this political renegade will shortly be filed
by p man who never proved false TO bis
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Personal and Political.

Eleven members ofCongress from
this State Gncluding Judge MEEcUR) join in
a remonstrance to the Senate against the
confirmation of Senator CowAN as Minister
to Austria. They make the request on the
ground that they believe him unfit for the
position by opinion and associations, and
that his appointment is totally repugnant
to the wishes Of the people of Pennsy Iva
nia.
On Tuesday night of last week,
Maj. William A. Stokes tripped on the car
pet in his own house, at Ludwick, West
moreland county, causing him to fall, break
ing both bones in one of his legs.
The Republican State Convention
of Connecticut, in session at New-Haven,
renominated by acclamation Gen. Joseph
r. Hawley for Governor. Oliver Fl. Perry,
Of Fairfield, Conn, was nominated for Lieu
tenant-Governor. Other State officers were
also nominated.
Gov. Curtin and family have en-
gagged rooms at the Continental Hotel, Phil
adelphia, where they will reside during the
winter. We learn that the Ex-Governor
contemplates visiting Europe in the spring
-Bayord Taylor leaves for Europe
shortly, with his family, to spend two years
ami half During his absence, he is to
write skotchy articles for the -1AMtic, and
serial letters to the Tribune, Of domestic
home life in Germany, and other European
countries,
Hon. James w. Nye has been
reelected L. S. Senator from Nevada for
the full term of six years from the 4th of
March next.
Hon. Lyman Trumhull has been
reelected Us. Senator from Illinois for
the third term OF six years. commencing on
the 4th of March next.
A special Washington despatch
to the New York Times says that General
Grant and family intend to sail for Europe
in April next, and will visit the French Ex-
position.
The Republican Senators have
come to an agreement to reject, without
consideration, the names ofall men sent in
after they have once been rejected.
Gov Morton, of Indiana, sent a
letter to the Senate Of that State, thanking
the members for having chosen him to rep
resent the State in the United States Sen
ate.
Hon J. Dixon Roman, formerly a
member of Congress from Maryland, died
at Hayerstown on Saturday last. He had
been in bad health for a long time
1t appears that Gen. Palmer, who
was candidate in the Illinois Legislature
| caucus for Senator, injured, very much, his
prospects by writing letter another name
to the catalogue of distinguished men who
have just one letter too many
George w. Woodward, present
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn.
! sylyanla, declines reelection. Sensible,
as he has not yet recovered from the drub
bing he received as a candidate for Cover
nor.
The resolution instructing Sena
tor Doolittle to resign finally passed the
Wisconsin Legislature, by strict party
! vote.
Gov. Wells, of Louisiana, has
completed his message to the Legislature O.
that State. He favors the adoption of thu
Constitutional Amendment and denounce.
the action Of the July rioters in their mur
derous attack upon the Conventionists. HI
suggests that an appropriation be made fol
! the establishment of schools for freedmen.
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PROTECTION To HOME INDUSTRY.

Gen. CAMERON, in his recent short
but fitting speech, said "The pau
per labor of Europe is again com.
" peting with our labor, and our
manufactures languish for want of
" protection against it. Pennsylva-
" MIA needs no assurance of my de-
votion to her interests in this re-
gard, which is the interest of the
whole country. | will continue to
" labor in season and out of season
" to protect our manufacturers from
"ruin, and their workmen from being
thrown out Of employment, or their
wages reduced to starvation point.
" For | hold that the true welfare of
any nation depends on the welfare
" of its laboring classes" When
Gen. CAMERON was in the Senate be-
fore, he labored eflicietly in the cause
of protection to our home industry :;
and this was one reason why we fa-
vored his return to that body, in the
present condition OF public affairs -
There is danger, that in the all alb
sorbiDg question Of Reconstruction,
our Tariff on Imports may be regula-
ted by the wants of the public Trea-
sury, and not by the laboring inter-
ests Of the country and with Gen.
CAMERON in the Senate, we feel salts
fled that this unwise, nay ruinous
policy of impost regulations, will be
stoutly resisted. The democratic
party, which of late years became
subservient to the Free Trade ennis
saries of England, contended, and
does still, that in taxing foreign i'm
portations, revenue should be the
object, and protection the incident,
and this was the death-knell to en-
terprise and industry in our country,
whenever carried out. In James
Buchanau's administration, during
which this pernicious principle of i'm
port adjustments prevailed, the cred
it of the country ran so low that the
public Treasury ran out of money
and the financial head of the govern
ment could not borrow at eight per
cent. to carry on the ordinary expen-
ses of the government. Yet SO soon
as the Morrill, Tariff Bill of the I'd Of
March 1861, became the law of the
land, in which protection was recog-
nized as the object, and revenue as the
incident OF imposts on foreign impor-
tations, the finances of the nation re-
vived, and it was through this, and
the increase of our circulating medi-
um, which had run down to less than
half the business requirements of the
country, because enterprise, labor,
and products had shrivelled down to
European standards, that we were
enabled TO borrow money by the
thousand millions during the war,
and still grow in material wealth un.
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DEADING RAIL ROAD-WIN.


LII TER ARRANGEMENT. Lee /. 1856.
GREAT IEUSE Line FROM THE NORTH AN
Norm wE> for Philadelphia ,NewY o X, Readil.
Pott,gille. Iimagua, Ashland Lebanon, Allen
town, Eastgu. GC. a.
Trains leave Harrisburg for New. York, a fol
.pWs: \ 800, $40 and 3j5 "a. m, land 10 auG
9 90 p. n, connecting with similar Trans Oh
Inc Pennsylvania Rail Road, and arriving g,
New.I oIk at } 90 dad lG.l0 a. m, and 40 and
~ and 1875 p. N. Sleeping Cars aocomps
uyiHg fhs 800 a. m, and 900 p. m, Trains
without change.
Leave Harrisburg for Reading, Pottsyille
Tamaqua. HruersviI!e, Ashland. Pine Grove
Allentown auu Philadelphia, Al 10 a. m, and
10 aud 10 z. m.-tUppiug at Lebanon and
all Way stations the 40 p. n. Train making
close cuuUecJiOu Tor Ph!ddeip phia and CO!nub.E
For Pou~vile, schuykilI Haven and AguuEl
via Schuy kill aud ousquehanna Rail Road leave
Harrisburg al 80 nj.
Returning Leave New-York at 9 90 a. M.
IL uUon UU and 500 p. m; Philadelphia at
SIS a, III. and 80 D. m : Way Passenger
Train leOves Phtadelphitat 7.30 =. n return
Iug from eaGiuE IL $50 p. M, stopping a
all stations PUtl>vil al ; As a. n. and , IL
p. m; Ashland ~ 600 aud ll.50 q. m, 90 p n
iamaqla Al J.ij j. IN, and Loo and $50 p. g..
Leave FOttsyiIle log harrisburg, via oCuuy
kill au. Su-qGeLaaaa Rail Road. at 100 a. N.
Reading accommodation Train Z: Leaves Head
Ing . 50 u. m. returning from PhlladelpAa
at 4.5J p
Columbia Rail Road Trains leave Reading q
I 90 IL. III uud 6.l5 p. m. Tor EphTaia, la,.a
Lancaster. Columbia, DC.
on Suncays: Leave New York at 500 p. .4.,
Philadelphia 800 a. N and SIS p. N, lhe.s 90
A. H., train running only 10 Reading. Pottsyi.!a
20 a . D.. Harrisburg s. 4. N. and HtaI.- <
at l.2y d. III. tor Harrisburg, and I!.22 i. IL
log New York, and i-2j p. N, for Philadc..
pna.
Communication, Mileage. Season, School and
Excursion Tickets TO aud from all points, at re.
ducet rates.
Baggage checked through; 50 pounds al.
lowed each Passenger e.. \. NiCULLS.
General Superintendent
Reading, Pa. april %. lSb6
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n9s The Scranton Republican and
the Independent Republican, of Mont
rose, join in their censure of the
members of the Legislature from the
North, who voted for Gen. CAMERON
in the caucus for {. 5. Senator. The
first.named paper, not being in this
Senatorial or Represe NATIVE District,
our members are not responsible to
it, or its readers, and its comments
SAVIOR of impertinence, as they may
be presumed to know as we'll the
wishes of their constituents as the
Scranton editor.
The burden of the complaint made
by the Montrose Republican is that
d" If the thirteen men on whom Mr..
Grow relied had stood firmly by him,
he would have been United States
Senator today Who these thir-
teen men are, is not stated, nor is
the authority given, upon which Mr..
Grow had reason TO expect that they
would vote for him regardless Of con-
sequences to the other candidates.
We DO not believe that onr posi-
ton in regard to the election of l.
s Senator was capable Of miscon-
ception In common with the people
Of this County, we desired the cleo
tion Of Mr.. Grow, if such a result
was possible. But there is no diS-
putting the fact, that Gov. CURTIN and
Gen. CAMERON were allowed to take
possession of the field Each rallied
to his support all his adherents
throughout the State, ard each ex-
pressed the utmost confidence of ulti-
mate success. Nor is there any
question but that Gen. CAMERON was
the choice of a large majority of the
members of the Legislature, as be-
tween himself and Gov. CURTIN. The
election Of Speaker Of the House,
showed this fact, clearly and unmis-
takably, and virtually settled the
question as to who should be [. S.
Senator. Previous to this election
the friends Of Gov. Curtin had claim
ed sufficient strength to ensure his
nomination upon the first ballot. The
election of Speaker GLASS showed
thot their boasts were without the
semblance of truth, and only made
to inspirit the adherents of Gov.
| CURTIN. The truth was that about
sixty of :he eighty-thrce Republican
members of the Legislature were
friendly to the ELECTION Of Gen. CAM
ERoE, though some Of them were
ready to support other candidates
with any reasonable probability of
success.
The election OF Speaker demon.
strated Gen. CAMERoS's strength
I Previously the other candidates had
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not looked upon his election as with
in the bounds of possibility, suppos-
ing that Gov. CURTIN would lead him
many votes. Then commenced the
war to kill him of, led on by FoRSEY,
and participated in by the rival can
didates. OF that crusade, it is suffi-
cient to say that it was .unjustifiable,
malignant and factious. The men
concerned in it, had no regard 10 the
welfare of the Republican Party
Their only desire seemed to be t. so
blacken the character of the man
who had twice been a Senator from
Pennsylvania, and member of Lin
coins Cabinet, enjoying the full con-
fidence of that shrewd and good man,
hat members Of the Legislature
would not dare to vote for him. The
attempt was overdone, and recoiled
upon the heads of the men engaged
in it. Instead OF detaching a single
supporter of Gen. CANERoN's, it con-
solidated his friends into a solid pha
laux, who determined that by their
votes they would endeavor to shield
him from the malignant prosecutions
of his enemies.
Those who complain because the
Northern members did not vote for
Mr.. GROW, will bear this in mind -
That at no time after the election of
! Speaker. was there a doubt but that
Gen. CAMERON would be nominated on
the first ballot, and the factious and
disorganizing attempts of his COM
| petitors had determined all those not
unfriendly to him, to record their
votes for him upon the first ballot as
a measure of justice to him, and to
show that the party was nearly unan-
imous in bis support. They were
correct and wise in this action, in
our Judgment. To have voted for
other candidates would not have
changed the result, while it might
have given encouragement to those
who were disposed to "rule or ruin .
The Legislature, when it came to.
gether, contained a clear majority
friendly to Gen. CAMERoN's election
Should small minority-even mum.
bering thirteen-attempt to set aside
the will OF the majority and by per,
sistently voting for Mr.. Grow, or any
other candidate, prevent the election
Of the man who was so decidedly the
choice of the people? We think not
Such procedure would be fraught
with unquestionable danger, not to
speak Of the want Of political moral
ity.
Mr.. LANDoN and Mr.. KINNEY voteC
for Gen. CAMERoN-Mr. WEBB voteC
for Mr.. GROW. The votes Of all these
gentlemen, though given for riva
candidates,are cordially sustained by
the Republicans of Bradford. Th'
people of this County have full conf
dence in their Representatives, ant
will not question the integrity o
their motives. But while they ap
prove of Mr.. WEBB's vote for Mr
GROW they would not have sustaine,
him in the factious course which tn
Republican seems to think should hav
been pursued.
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Bradford geporter
Towanda, Thursday, Jan. 81, 1867.

~ - " N|A@N~N~} 80 N~~~~Jt ~~- - -~~'
MCCLURE, the editor of the Cham
bersb'Wg Repository, feels badly. In
fact, he is utterly inconsolable. All
bis grief comes through the election
of Gen CAMERON as United States
Senator He is haunted by the spec
tire OF oorruption-he is overwhelmed
by nightmare Of bribery. The re-
suit of that election seems to have
had such an effect upon his vision,
that he sees everything through the
medium of greenbacks. If we believ-
ed he was in earnest i'll one-half he
writes and publishes, we should have
grave doubts of his sanity, and begin
to entertain fears that the editorial
fraternity was to lose one of its most
able and brilliant members.
The readers of the Repository for
some weeks past, have had displayed
to them the "hideous cancer Of legis
lative corruption" in all its nasty
loathsomeuess. Political morality has
all departed from the land-unblush-
ing venality-shapeless debauchery
open profigacy are the feeble
terms employed to designate the pres.
ent state Of public morals. For vir-
tuous Indignation, for holy horror, for
scathing rebuke of all that is dishon-
est, commend US to the Repository!
The truth is that MCCLURE has run
! the machine at Harrisburg SO long
that he ca mot bear the idea OF re-
signing the sceptre If common ru-
NOR is true, he has been the power
behind the throne" the brains of the
CURTIN regime. He started in the Sem
atorial canvass, with the idea that it
was to be an easy matter to write
the Governor into the [. s. Senate.
His disappointment is natural--bu,
( his attempt to blacken the reputation
Of every one that did not agree with
him is inexcusabe. That he knows
as much as any man in the State of
legislative corruption, we will admit,
but we think it bad taste and worse
policy to attempt to make the people
of Pennsylvania believe that their
1 Legislators are utterly and awfulIy
corrupt. We don't believe that the
Legislature is any worse than when
the editor of the Repository honored it
with his presence.
/ Now We happen to know that there
are men throughout the State un-
charitable enough to believe that
( McCLURE's influence in the Executive
/. chamber, has not been without its
solid returns in the shape Of large
fortune easily accumulated-but we
have always considered such rumors
as the ISLANDERS of euvious and ieal.
Gus minds. We must confess that
his readiness to accuse every one
else of bribery and corruption looks
as if he had for some cause lost his
confidence il public men Never
mind, 0, virtuous and irrreproacha
BILE editor of the Repository! What
if all the rest of the world goes as
tray at least we shall have you al
a bright example of public morality
towards which all men can turn theil
admiring gaze.
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nIr In the United States Supreu

nS In the United States Supreme
Court it has been decided that neith-
er a license to sell liquor under the
act Of Congress of 1864 nor a special
tax under the act of 1866, confers up
on the party licensed, or who pays
the tax, authority to carry ON the
business contrary to the laws of the
State.