Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-12-26
U. S. GRANT. General.
Washington Items.

QUITE numOer OF members or Con-
gress remain at Washington with moth.
ing to do. All who are housekeeping,
and some Others, remain.
Seven delegations OF Indians from
the tribes of the far West are expected
at Washington soon after the first OF
January, for consultation and treaty.
making with the Indian bureau.
Secretary Seward is preparing pa.
per on the rights OF American citizens
abroad which he will send in st an esrly
day, and also one on the purchase OF
Alaska. Pending the receipt of the lat
ter the House foreign committee has
suspended action.
Our trade with the Sandwich Islands
last year, exports and imports, amounted
to nearly 81 900 600, of which s39, ,S87 was
free OF duty, and Of which the proposed
reciprocity treaty now pending would
have made $1,373, s64 free. A dispatch
of over 5000 words was received from
San Francisco Friday evening, urging
Congress to ratify the treaty.
The House co nmittee on public
lands have agreed to report bill forbid
ding all further sale OF public lands, ex.
cepting as provided for by the pre-emp.
tion aud homestead laws. The design
Is TO prevent future speculation in the
public domain and secure the settlement
and actual tillsge Of every tract OF land
hereafter disposed OF by the govern
ment.
Butler raised 8 laugh In the House,
Friday, when, in reply to Mr.. Chanler
the Tammany Democrat from New York
who taunted him as "the hero of New
Orleans" the "Duke OF Gloucester, said
that he simply desired to say to the gen.
tlsme from New York, and to all 9th.
ers, that he did not claim to be the hero
OF New Orleans; that honor belonged to
Fsrragut. He did claim, however, to be
the hero of New York, for in 1854 he did
have a fair election there, something
that the people OF New York have never
had either before or since.
The Star has a statement that the
Southern radicals are dissatisfied with
the action Of the Republican executive |
on fixing the days of the ma. |
tionsl convention so early and threaten |
10 bolt. 1t is also said that the South !
ern States favor the nomination of Mr. |
Chase and will demand representation
in the convention, whether they have |
been admitted to representation in Con.
gress at that time or not.
1t is rumored that u big lobby has
been organized to bully and coax an sp.
FOR the purchase of st.
Thomas through the House. If tn e
stories which were current last summer
OF lobby on the Alaska purchase were
true, it must have become weary with
waiting for its promised pay, for not a
dollar has yet left the treasury. The
men are also accused of a gi-
gsutic attempt to lobby through both
houses reduction Of the tax on whis.
Key. Their agents will be present in large
numbers when Congress is In session
again.
BY the failure of the deficiency bill
\ large number of Senate and House
employees are kept out of their pay for
months. The honorable members get
heir pay promptly and don't care. The
dill was defeated because of the station.
Try section; though it was agreed to, as
. large number OF the members disliked
% record their names against it.
Another section was uon-concurred in
sith the purpose of killing the bill.
rhe Senate will never give up the
'3S, coo for its contingent fund and
doubtless majority of Serate or House
will yrjoice In Its defeat as .be station.