The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-02-23

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Geo Grant d.sa8 With Speaker col
fss SATURDAY. evening - IS resijenoe.
West lafayette Squire. sesator cank
ling. and Representatives Boutwell,. Wi.
son. Blame, aud Dawes we're also with
the ladies q tho family seated al the
table snda veIy ocAble tine uas had
Governor BouteeiIlsit al al early hour.
bat tic President elect remained far
some after tie meai vas discnss,l.
chatting pie sanity upon TIE central
topics q The day, politics excluded.
Deputy Commissioner HaIland Oh
Saturday uade decision ID relation 70
the revenue tax on the lease Of furnish
Ell houses which may be Of interest 70
some u your readers. Hereaiger The
tax Of 80 cents upon the Grst $500, and
30 cents upon each additional $500, or
fractions thereof. has been construed to
apply TO The dwelling and furniture
alike, BY this decision The tax upon
the lease oithe houss only is p be paid;
the lease Of the furniture being covered
with an agreement 5 ceut stamp.
TINE STORM II rnE JoIsr CONTENTION,
Dame Propliety is little qGended a
the stormy scenes in the joint Cqpyen-
ton Of beth Houses Of Couggsss, fpr,lhe
counting of the Presidential electoral
vote. | see nothing at whiea The Old
lady need be painfully exercised. TheEs
was a great crowd on the fooE Of both
Houses, as well as in the galleries. the
occasion was extraordinary coming bat
once IN four years; the vast concoursa.
was naturally IN an excited condihar.,
and j tie actors in the grand, thonglp
simple, drama being enacted-the Sen;
ators and Representatives had all been
the coolest philosophers in the worlCA
every person familiar With crowds knows,
they could not mantslped their coca.
ness against the excited magnetism q.
the thousands around L en-, Bat 1 eh+
nv the right Of any body to .rsqnga
these men TO be incapable u szeiten't
because they are Senators and Repaa-
sentauves, any more than any other Ae-
ings merely human. Excitement in D.
self, IS 10 discredit to any cpndit On pf
humanity. The motive is the cha rsc.
teriziug clement And herein a progpl,
discrimination IS wanting on the CART
OF those who animadyert on the ezai.se-
ment Of the occasion under notice. 10
the great credit Of our Senators aud
Representatives, be il said, not ssa
was uttered, nor gesture made, sitgs'
ont all the excitement On persopla 80
count Passing BY al Tie minor aEl-
tadpg circumstances We eor4e tp she
eliminating point Of the excitean' / p4sre
the Soua.e came in and anrtun ND its
decision TO admit the Georgia tcte,
and its Pr esident, as President es she
JOINT Convention, prodeeded to tR31Seo
It's decision upon the House, in 8iare-
gard Of the vote of the House to- sx-
clude Georgia Some of thu RCTgeeen-
tatiyes were not present whe la jSin
resolution respecting the the Gsctoral
vo Of Georgia passed their scdy.-
Gen, Butler was one OF them. Aua it
tay be supposed that the exislsncs Of
such resolution was not very Proni-
nent in their minds 1t was one vt she
most natural things in the world, Shase-
fore, when Mr. Wade returned 10 che
Representative Chamber, with iIla- SEN
ate at his heels, and announced ihah the
Senate bad decided to admit Gtargin--
when he should have said and Is7bt-
less meant TO be so understood, that
the Senate had decided to adEars to
the decision Of the joint resoi1Ab1cs
that these Representatives shoaad ssad
in that language an attempt by lea SEN
ate to assume power over then Ecdy in
its own chamber No mates tkzat, ia
this case, it was not directly eonfegnn-
tial. II might, az a precedent, on sone
future occasion, enable the Senate. or
the President Of the Senate. 10 throw
out votes enough to defeat Presidsn-
tia election Bus beyond this, an an
portant Constitutional question was he
leved to be involved OF course their
objections 70 all this, as it flashed tbEo'
their minds, must be made on the in
slant to be Of any avail
This, Of necessity, hurried, and nai-
urally excited resistance TO believed
encrcachment upon tho rights and Dig
nifty, not d any individual but Of a
body moro directly representative 81
the sovereign people d tho Republic
than any other, was all that occurred 10
elicit the unfavorbIe comments upon
the proceedings Aad At the highest
pitch Of the excitement even blua Ben
Bstler, tie leader Of the resistants, ina
mediately took bis seat tie moment bis
own presiding officer took thegayel aud
called bin 70 order No. 81 far from
my bead ana heart is il % fnd these
Representative blAmesorihy, hold
them . have manifested the spirit that
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