Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-06-25


mated at New York,
s.. NJ. Clarke has resigned his position
as Chief OF the Printing Division OF the
Currency Bureau,
Treasurer Spinner and other officials
have been Frustrated by the recent severe
heat, but aro not seriously i'll,
Tho Senate Judiciary Committee has
given the Bankrupt Bill nap till next
winter, Many other important bills take
the same course,
"A telegram received, from Tallahas-
see says that the Florida Legislature has
elected A. s, Weluh one Of the L, S Sem
ators from that State,
The House Reconstruction Commit.
tee have agreed to postpone action on the
proposition to divide Texas, for fort
night. Ii won't pass Congress this session
Chief Justice Chase has been endcav'
oring to reconcile existing differences b.
tween the President and Secretary McCul.
loeh, that the Secretary may retain his
position,
The applicants for the commissioner
ship Of the revenue and the commission.
ership Of patents are numerous and very
hungry, Mr., Groesbeck asks no office at
the hands Of the President.
Messrs Dawes and Starkweather con.
cludcd their arguments against the exten.
sion of the Atwood ear wheel patent,
Wednesday morning. j, is expected that
the patent committee will reject the ap-
plieation,
Tho Chinese embassy had a fms re-
ccption in the Senate. Mr. Sumner, who
introduced Mr.. Burlingame, and Mr.
Wade, who received them. each had the
good sense not to make a speech, nor
to invite one from Mr. Burlingame, The
speech making was overdone when they
were received by the House.
Tho weather was extremely hot
Wednesday, and members were com.
PEELED To ply fans to be comfortable, The
House Sergeant-at.Arms furnishes, gratis
iced lemonade in the cloak room. TO all
and employees This was done
last summer in the same way, but in the
Senate the lemons and sugar were put
into one of the deficiency appropriation
bills
The Senate has finally got rid of the
currency question. The bill as passed is
not very bad, though it robs Eastern
banks of twenty millions Of their circu-
Iation. The House committee on bank |
ing is likely to smother it, though Sena-
tor Sherman says that if Congress add |
lourns without giving more circulation to
the West and South, it will make a politi- |
,al blundcr. Next winter, when the |
Southern members are in Congress, an in
rease is certain.
Some of the House members who
oted to bring in whisky and tobacco
ak bill, Wednesday, insist that they are
in some quarters. Halt
I the Schenck bill is precisely as it stands
n the statute books, and his object is cod
hoation as much as revision. The ma
GRITTY of the House hold that TO take up
very one of the ten thousand items OF
axation, and debate them, will defeat
ny reform. Under the Schcnck pro-
'ramme there is no escape from this, as
ebate under the fve-minute rule is prac-
ically unlimited.
The tax bill makes slow ptogress in
he ways and means committee. 1t is
that the tax on whisky will be
Eft blank for the House to hll
p. The chances greatly favor fifty cents,
hough Butler urges twenty-five cents,
md has strong backing from the West
Most of the committee favor seventy-iive
.ents, but prefer to leave it to the, House.
t is possible that the tax on chewing to-
,acco will be reduced twenty-five cents, on
moking tobacco to twelve, and that on
igars will remain unchanged.
FoREiGN.-King William of Prussia.
las gone to visit Hanover for the first
line since the late war with Austria.