Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-07

stamp cancelling machine, which was
laid on the table. A large amount O1
other unimportant business was trans
acted. The House took a recess unu'
nine o'clock on Monday.
The wool tariff which was passed by
the House last July, and which passed
the Senate on Saturday, is generally ~
garded as sharp triumph OF Western
interests at the expense OF the East
The West gets this protection without
any bargain TO vote for Eastern IN
terests, as has been the case heretofore
and the strength Of general tarlfl may
Be regarded as weakened To tie extent
that these interests have thus lar
worked together. There is excellent
reason for believing that the President
will subject the bill to pocket Veto
AN ENGLISH VIEW or THE AMERICAN
SENATE.-A late number of Every Sat
urday, weekly publication of English
literature, gives view of the American
Senate compared with that body before
the war, giving lively sktches of itses-
Innate OF Reverdy Johnson, Salisbury
and Garrett Davis, of which the follow
ing is a specimen
ITO one who has the Senate of the
past in his memory, the present one
seems like the representative body of
different country. With the Southern
secession particularly the faces which
had been associated longest with the
Senate disappeared. The South was
more than the North in the habit Of re-
turning the same men. The ever-vary-
ing constituencies of the North and its
rapid changes of opinion rendered long
tenures of office more rare among them.
1t hardly seems possible that this body,
in which one looks in vain for the pale,
impassive face of Jefferson Davis, the
bright eyes and bushy head Of Mr..
Mason, or the weather beaten visage OF
Andrew Johnson, should be the Senate
of the United States.
"The Hon. Reverdy Johnson has a
! subtlety, an adroitness OF delivery al
most amounting to genius. The great
| direction Of his life has been the law.
He at first strayed into politics as a kind
|
with all Southern gentlemen to engage
at some time in political life; but his
talents and his wonderful fiuency made
him invaluable to his party He be.
longs to an old, refined and wealthy
family of Maryland, and though any
thing but handsome man, there is ar
air of superiority about him that at once
attracts attention. One may almost say
of him, as De Retz OF De Bouillon, that
with the physlognomy of an OK he has
the perspiCacity Of an eagle His lega
services are sought in the most import
ant cases, and he has thus acquired
wealth. Few lawyers in the United
States have been so successful in all va
rieties of practice. He was member
of the old Wing party, but when it wa
dissolved and the larger portion of /
became the Republican party, Mr., John
son, being a Southerner, c0.operate(
with the Democracy, though he decline
to be called Democrat, and regard
himself as the still, surviving Viii!
party. During the late war and tn
events which led to it, Mr.. Johnson
sympathies were with the South, bu
his opinions with the Federal party. II
then disappeared from public life for
few years but on the cessation Of tn
rebellion he reappeared, and has sine
been the ablest supporter of the Pres
dents policy of reconstruction. Thong
an effective speaker, there is in his mar
ner something that excites distrust-a
over-ingenuity, perhaps, and he ha
become leader of the minority in th
, Senate only because there is no one els
, to be its leader. Senator Salisbury {
!, Delaware, besides being a poor speake
!, is too extreme in his pro-slavery view
to have influence at the present juncture
, and the aged and garrulous Mr.. Garre
. Davis Of Kentucky can only rail at hi
. opponents.