Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-03-23

WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. II, 1869.
THE JOINT coMMIrrEE ON ORDNANCE.

lHc rtSOlutiOn TccOSulAiuS tnlS couiliit-
tee, is passed. The report on ordnance,
made by Senator Howard, chairman, at
the end Of last session, has attracted con-
siderable public attention on account of
its remarkable disclosures relating to the
manner great guns have been procured
during the war, and the bad quality Of
those obtained, which appear to have kill
ed more of our own men by their burst
ing, than we're injured of the enemy
by their projectiles. The well-laid plan
which was prepared for foisting 1915
large ones of new kind now known to be
utterly useless upon the Government, has
been cffectually headed off by the Com
mttee on Ordnance, and this fact furnish
es the best of reasons for continuing the
same members of the committee for the
present Congress, lest the scheme be re-
vived.
EQUAL RIGHTS IN THIS DISTRICT.
The Senate has passed the bill introdu-
ced by Senator Sumner, on Saturday, for
the further security of equal rights in the
District of Columbia. 1t enacts "that
the word white wherever it occurs in the
laws relating to the District of Columbia,
or in the charter or ordinances of the cities
Of Washington or Georgetown, and oper-
ates as a limitation on the right of any
elector of such District, or either Of the
cities, to hold any office, or to be selected
and to serve as juror, be repealed"
WINNIE REAM's APPROPRIATION.
Winnie Ream cannot feel very proud of
her appropriation from Congress. If she
has the delicacy usually accompanying
genius, she will spurn the $4,000 so grudg-
ingly accorded to her on the part Of the
Senate. Senator Sumner expressed what
seemed to be the prevailing opinion of
that body when he said it was "like
throwing money out Of the window" and
that it should be given only because Con-
gress had engaged to give it, and only in
case there was no way Of getting rid Of
that engagement; as they certainly would
never be willing to have the statue placed
in the Capitol. 3,t
REvoCATIoNs, ETC.
President Grant has something to do to
undo what his predecessor made haste to
do while his time lasted President Grant
has revoked the order retiring Paymaster
Gen. Brice, and restored him to full dnty
and pay, as if no order had been issued
by President johnson. lie has revoked
the commissions of Frank Z. Blrir, Jr.,
and 9. Fl. Snow of the ''Intelligencer" of
this city, as one of the Commissioners of
the Pacific railroad, and Director of the
Union Pacific railroad, respectively Sher-
idan has been ordered to resume his old
post at New Orleans Buckley is sum-
marily dismissed.
GOOD BYEs.
The clerks Of the Internal Revenue Of
fee took leave of Hon. Il. A. Rollins,
Commissioner, and Hon. j. A. Risley, of
Indiana, Third Deputy Commissioner
both resigned, on Wednesday. Of the
Commissioner | have before had occasion
to speak in the highest terms more than
once or twice, and therefore will forbear
to say anything at present. Deputy Com
missioner Risley was appointed by Presi-
dent johnson, only few months ago; and
he found himself a Democrat in the midst
of an office-full of $50 men and women
almost all Radicals, and looking askance
at everybody not Radical, and bristling
with the irritation excited by the sore
protracted quarrel between the President
and Congress. Nevertheless, in these
short months he had won both the very
high respect and most cordial regard Of
the whole office. Clerks, men Of expert
encc in the world, and Of disciplined, crit
ical minds forget political difference, and
among themselves expressed their regret
to part with him as an officer and gen
tleman. rp
MR.. A. I. STEWARDS RESIGNATION.
Mr.. Stewards magnificent generosity in
offering to put his vast business out Of his
hands in trust, the net profits to 60 tc
the benefit of some charity, in order to
overcome his disability as merchant,
under the statute Of Sept, 2, 1889, if that
would accomplish the object, has served
to very much intensity the wish to have
him the Secretary of the Treasury, and
now that his noble expedient has failed
and his resignation has been accepted by
the President, the regret at the disappoint
ment is deepened into feeling akin tc
that inspired by a positive serious loss
His ewn unparalleled business success, thu
immensity and diversity of the business
he conducted, and his admirable system
{ and its working, testified to his ability foi