Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-19

taking evidence o. support lhe hHu''
articles
i, is rumorcd that Wnlia@M Evarts
Of New York declines Ia act rs counsel
far the Presiden, in the impeachment
trial
The Senate finance committee are M
olined To add few articles IT luxury 20
the taxable list in the new House tax
bill. such as gold watch eases, diamonds,
Sc.
A scotchman sent dispatch Ia the
President, day NJ two since, from Edin'
burgh. advising him "a resign, lie had
the politeness TO pay for his message, and
il cost him over slO0,
The appropriation for the Indian De-
pariment will be cut down from 5000
600 to si.5o0O00 A delegation Of In,
dams from the Kansas reservation is now
in Washington, trying 10 bring about -
new treaty.
A telegraph banquet was held At the
Palace Hotel. in london, Tuesday. AT
which Cyrus w Field, in the name OF
the guests assembled, exchanged congrat-
ulatory dispatches by the cable with the
President and Secretary Seward.
John p, Bruce of Montana is in
Washington to obtain an enabling act for
that territory, He represents that he has
received much encouragement from mem
bers, and that the territory now has o..
900 inhabitants
Tickets for the Senate. ON Friday,
when impeachment comes up again, are in
great demand. One Senator has already
had forty applications. No Senator will
have more than six tickets 10 dispose Of,
and each Representative has but two,
The House committee on banking and
currency, on Thursday, considered the bill
subtituting legal tenders for national
bank notes, but no conclusion was reached
Those who favor the measure begin "a
despair Of getting il through the House |
The Senate committee ON foreign re
lations had a lengthy discussion, WSdnes-
day, over the new NATURALIZATION treaty
with Prussia, and with the exception OF
one triHing amendment, it will be re-
ported TO the Senate as it came from the
State Department, and ratified as speedily
~ possible.
-Thad Stevens took charge of the
Alabama bill in the House, watching the
debate from the clerks desk A large
number Of Republicans dislike the bill,
but It will pass, with the general under
standing that the Senate will let it be till
after the impeachment trial is over and
then they may table it.
The House committee on military
affairs has agreed to report the Senate
bill authorizing the sale of government
at Harper's Ferry, with an
that the amount realized :.
'hall be paid to the United States and i,
not into the Maryland treasury for school
purposes, as previously provided.
The Senate finance committee, on !
Wednesday, discussed the bill passed by b
he House on Tuesday, repeating most of il
he taxes on manufactures, and will satisfy n
themselves whether the repeal of the tax a
viii effect the revenue to such an extent Il
= to necessitate onerous taxation on r;
Their things, before presenting it to the "
enate. n
Jerry Black expresses the opinion D
hat the supreme court will release Near S,
lie, but will not go into the unconstitu- |,
ionality Of the reconstruction acts, ex- v
ept in the clause authorizing trial by t,
Military courts. He believes that it will al
e decided that these trials are unconsti- il
utional. This would not overthrow con- y
ressional reconstruction, but would strihe .,
severe blow. il
The box deposited in the Treasury o.
Department in 1857 for safe keeping, and "
which the Secretary was recently author
sed by Congress to open, was emptied on
tuesday. Its contents were stolen from L
he patent Office in 1857 ,@nl on their re- a
overy were placed in the treasury vault C
They consist of perfumes, diamonds, G.
'earls and humps of gold, given to Amer h
can ministers while abroad. isl
--Rumors were circulating all day o
Wednesday that the President is about to ii
10 some dreadful act, leading to revolu- q
ion. So far he has gone no further than OF
o give to General Thomas Stanton's va. II
ant chair ut the council board; and there IL
3 no ground for believing one of these
umors. A Democratic congressman re-
narked that johnson is such a fool there
= no telling what he will do
Judge Fisher Of the District Su-
,reme Court, on Tuesday, released Sam ?
lei 8. Strong, fugitive from justice who i
lad been arrested on the requisition from v
he Governor of Virginia, and was got be-
ore Judge Fisher on writ Of ha5eas co,- ri
,us. The Judge ruled that Virginia was ,
lot State in the Union, and consc- u
luently that Gov. Pierpoint's requsition "
70 nothing. Besides there was h
10 affidavit going to show that Strong n
vas fugitive from justice. II