Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-02-06
Washin gton City Gossip.

the other day. The proposition to reduce
the salary of our Minister to Portugal, be-
ing before the House, Mr. Raymond took
the matter most vigorously in hand in behalf
of Mr. Harvey, the Minister to that couu-
try. Mr.. Raymond stated that he, in fact,
was responsible for the publicity of a letter
TO which reference was made, and therefore
should remark that it was private letter to
Mr.. Seward, and never designed TO be
printed. Mr. Elridge exclaimed that in
that case, II some one must be punished by
loss of salary it should be either the gentle
man from New York or the Secretary of
State. Mr. Raymond tacetiously interroga-
ted-''It the House held me responsible,
why did 1t increase my salary at the last ses-
sion ?" Stevens Immediately responded a
mid a roar of laughter-extending on all
sides as well as in the galleries that
was TO pay your outfit and expenses to the
Philadelphia Convention As soon as a
voice could be heard, Mr. Raymond replied
well, sir, considering my services at that
Convention, my extra pay was none too
much.
President Johnson has returned to the
Senate, with his objections, the bill for the
admission of Colorado. He objects to the
bill on the ground that the population is
only twenty eight thousand, as appears in
the census; and that it is less than that of
any other State which has heretofore asked
to be admitted: also, on the ground of the
evident incongruity of the legislation of the
territory and that of Congress, on the sub
ject of the third section, namely: the con-
dltlons precedent, of permitting citizens to
vote without distinction of race or color
and on the further ground of the legislation
proposed for carrying out the provisions of
, haE ~ 1 7, III l.
bers OF the Territorial Legislature having
expired on the Sd instant, the President ur-
ges that the questions involved be submit
ted to the decision Of vote Of the people;
that within the sixty days specified it will
be impossible to reach certain portions of
the Territory, owing to the distractions of
travel. he says State applying for admis
sion should have population of at least
the ratio required for Federal representa-
tioEs. These are the principal reasons as
signed for vetoing the bill.
The President has also vetoed the bill ad-
mlttlng Nebraska as State. The sole
point of this veto is the peculiar definition
OF the word ''people, to which his veto to
the District of Columbia Suffrage bill, and
his recent speeches, have accustomed us.
The noun people in Mr.. Johnson's gram
mar always includes the adjective white"
and he bases his veto on the argument that
the people of Nebraska have not approved
the conditions Congress has offered. Con-
gress recognizes as "a portion OF the people
OF the territory its black citizens; Mr..
johnson does not. Hence this veto, which
will attract little notice, being merely an or
dinary instance of his opposition to the ma
jority of the people, or his ignorance of the
principles of Democracy.
The hill AMENDING tha actse or1anizin tba
several Territories, comforting suffrage
therein without regard to race or color, has
become law without the Presidents 5 ap-
proval. 1t was presented to him on the 18th
inst, and as he has not returned it within
the ten days allowed by the Constitution,
after 1t had been presented to him, it has
become law, in Ike manner as if he had
signed it. The bill repeating the amnesty
and pardon authority given to the President
became a law In a similar way.
L. S. Treasurer Spinner has all manner
OF volunteer correspondents Those who
send him bogus checks as conscience mon
ey for confessed frauds which are probably
as bogus as their checks or penitence, are
but one among several classes of queer fish
who love to founder in his capaciols net.
The other day, 2 badly reconstructed South
ernor sent him $500 Confederate note. de-
that Uncle Sam, having DESTROYED the gov
ernment which owed him the $500. had rem
dered himself liable for its debts Mr.. Spin
ner blandly responded that the creditors
government aforesaid had been transferred
70 an unmentionable hot place, and advised
the creditor to go thither aud present his
little BILL
An influential gentleman from Alabama
writes that, with goood Union newspaper,
well sustained to get fair start,
Alabama would throw majority of her |
white population for the Republican candi- |
date for President, in 1868. If this is SO.
the world certainly moves.
The President sent to the Senate the NOM
ination of General james s. Fullerton as
Postmaster at St. Louis. He is the same
officer who formed part of the Steedman- /
Fullerton Freedmen Bureau Investigatir
Committee.
Gen. Dix is now naval officer at the Port of .
New York, to which lucrative place he was
appointed by the President Immediately af- +
ter the adjournment of the Senate, on the .
strength of an elaborate opinion by Attor- /
ney-General Stansbury that the appoint /
ment could be lawfully made during the re- I
cess of Congress, though the contrary opinion /
had always been maintained by the Senate t
and acquiesced in by the Executive. Gen.
Dix stepped into the vacant Office, whose
emoluments are worth about S45, 900 year.
and has already drawn some 50, 600 from it.
On receiving his appointment as Minister to
France, he sent in his resignation as Naval
Officer, to take effect on the appointment
Of his successor. But his successor has not
get been appointed, and is not likely to be
very soon SO that Gen. Dix retains posses
sion OF two Offices one Of which yields more