Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-24
Washington Items.

The tariff bill will not be considered
in the Senate until Monday of next
week.
The national Union executive com.
mittee, of which Gov. Ward of New Jer.
! sey Is chairman, have business session
there on Thursday. William Clafin of
Massachusetts is there as member from
New England.
The Nebraska and Colorado bills
! hava gone to the President to be vetoed.
| They can't pass over the veto this
| winter. The next veto will come on
the bill establishing equal suffrage in the
! territories.
The currency committee of the
! House seems inclined to unsettle the
finances of the coRnty by wiping out
the National banks. The action of the
committee Tuesday shows that it
will agree to Mr.. RaHdalps bill, which
| substitutes government notes for nation
al bank notes, the banks TO give up their
bonds and notes, receiving therefore
| greenbaCks. An amendment was agleed
to. this morning, giving to any individ-
usl the right to gather bank notes and
present them at the treasury, with the
right to demand greenbacks. So the
bill in reality DESTROYS the National
bank system. Mir. hooper of Boston
joins the Democrats on the committee
in seaport of the bill The chairman,
Mr.. 2omeroy of New York, will oppose
it in the House. Good judges say that
it cannot pass. The bill was drawn by
prominent COpperhead, who has always
been an enemy to the banks.
President Lincoln, when he gave
diuner party to the Diplomatic Corps,
kept up the custom of inviting the
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations to meet them, as
well as The Secretary of State. MIR.
Johnson did not see fit to invite Mr..
Sumner TO the banquet Tuesday even
ing but he evidently has not forgotten
the Senator from Massachusetts, as
when a delegation of the colored cti-
Zens called at the White House Monday
morning, he said to them in converse
ton: Il sappOse Sumner is yoHr God 2"
To this the spokesman of the delegation
replied; I'VE respect and love MIR.
Sumner sir, hut no man is our God"
The President then went on to say
how much he would have done for the
negro race had it not been for the radi-
Gals but he failed to convince the North
CarOliniaRs that he was their Moses.
The Semi-Centenial Anniversary of
the Colonization Society was celebrated
Tuesday evening at Trinity Church. Ad-
dresses were delivered by Mr. Latrobe
of Baltimore, ard Bishop Clarke of
Rhode Island, and historical report of
the rise aad progress Of the Society was
read by Rev. Joseph Tracy of Boston.
Years ago these anniversaries were at.
tended by crowds, as Henry Clay and
other eminent statesmen used TO speak,
but now people prefer to satain the col
Ored people here and to aid them in
eradCating the barbarian OF slavery
from our own land
The annual report states that the to-
tai receipts for the yeaE were $58,153,
disbursements $50, 349, a large proper
tion Of which was fot the purchase and
fitting out Of their new ship Golconda
During the year ll65, oOlOred persons
enrolled themselves to embark for
Liberia 600 left Charleston in NOvem.
Der; 542 are now ready to leave. The
receipts during fifty years have been
$3.50, 685.
The Senate on Tuesday, listened to
a statement by Mr. Rug2les about the
Pars Exposition for which an addition
al appropriation is desired. There is, by
the way, much dissatisfaction among
the twenty unpaid commissioners at
f0ding that they are regarded as subor-
dnates to the ten paid commissioners,
80 distinction is made in the law au.
| thorizing their appointment, and their
/ commissions read alike, but Mr.. Seward
! in his Instructions to the unpaid COM
missioners says: "The appointments are
| intended as honorary distinction for
! gentlemen eminent for their attainments,
| &C., and whose means enable them to
| serve gratuitiOusly. They are to aid the
Commissioner General and the Report
| ing Commissioner in accommodating and
arranging valuable information, &C" In
short, it is proposed that they act as
! clerks to the paid commissioners.