Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-23

alarms Of the House of Representatives
has fairly commenced. This considered a
very 'soft thing" on account Of the fees
allowed for sending for witnesses, Mem
bers absent without excuse, or when want
ed to make quotum, &c. In the ina
ginations of pace-hunters the income is
greater than the Presidents salary. N.
G. Ordway is the gresent fortunate reci-
pient of these fees, whatever they are.
One of the undermining plots laid to dis
lodge him, is an coming from
an unexposed ource-charging him with
being little too ''steep" on this fee busi-
ness. Mr.. Ordway watches the advance
made upon his position by this insidious
of attack, and when. he thinks it time to
strike decisive blow in his defence, he
sends out two long columns of-types in
the National Republican" Of this city,
showing that he has beenallowed but $40,
000-in round numbers in fees the veal
and half ending Jan |, 1869, out Of
which he had paid certain other parties
doing the work, considerable portion
and that he is really pioneer in retrench.
ment, now becoming so much the order Of
the day!
That smile on tn, fHe of Speaker Col
fax may broaden nsly, to think how he
has escaped the contest for his old post,
so agreeabl ad honoroblyto himself. The
| fight to succeed him seems to lie between
Mr.. Blaine Of Maine and Mr.. Dawes Of
Massachusetts,. This will be very gen.
tlemanly contest, SO far as the gen.
tlemen themselves are concerned. They
are both newspaper men, as Mr.. Colfax
is. Mr.. Dawes is in his SD year. Mr..
Blaine in his 4Oth. The gravity ofgreat-
er age and longer Legislative experience,
would point to Mr.. Dawes; but Maine
claims prior right to the position, as
Massachusetts, has already enjoyed her
share of it in N. P. Banks; and Mr..
Blaine has been continuous member
since l863-long enough to have learned
the rules of tho body--@is honestly ..down''
on all corruption and extravaganza; and
a sfor age, is in the very prime of efficient
manhood Neither of them has been a
frequent speaker, but both are solid, we'll
informed On person ground it would be
difficult to choose between them. Per-
haps Mr.. Blaine has one advantage for
the position in being little the "read-
lest" man.
Now, just imagine, reader, ten thous-
and men-and as many more as you can
''take in''-with ten times as many friends
enlisted, bending all their energies and
torturng all their ingenuity to compass
the object of getting Or keeking as many
places of big and little Importance through
out the land, but ncsrly all decided upon
here at Washington ;and then you haven't
the faintest conception Of the campaign
that has just opened. The strategic skill
employed, the energy, the perseverance,
the hopefulness against hope, the fertility
Of resource, surpass those of any military
campaign the world ever saw.
DIsBARRID AGAIN.
1t seems that Joseph II. Bradley, SEN
ior,-a leading lawyer in old slavery times
at the District Bar--who had been dis
barred all the District Courts, for charg
ing Judge Fisher, ore Of the Judges O.
the District Supreme Court, with false
hood, while he was holdipg Criminal Court
and afterwards sending him note under
stood to be a challenge, was only read
mitted to practice in the District Supreme
Court-the order of the U. S. Supreme
Court direction that he be restored, +,
the contrary notwithstanding-to give Mr.
Bradley reasonable tune, and to induce
disposition, to make the apology necessar,
to his restoration to the Criminal Court
Saturday, on his emphatic declaration
that he could not, and would not, if h,
could, make the apology; would rot il
Jail first, &C.; an order was passed by tn
full bench disallowing him to practice il
the District Supreme Court, while tn
: order of the Criminal Court disbarrin
him there, remained in force.
: OPPOSITION TO RAILROAD SUBSIDIES.
A minority report by the dissentin
members OF the Senate Pacific Railroa
Committee, alludes to the cost whic
would be involved by the bill "A guar
) antee by the Government on about $3.50
} 100000 of bonds of nearly $9,00O,00
| interest annually, amounting in the as
: gregate in thirty years to the enormor
/ sum of 1910, 100000, after the pcopl
: have declared in tones not to be misundcI
t stood, their opposition to the granting
: further subsidies. The minority Of IL
q Committee do not believe that the amour
/, of business to be performed by these raj
: ways for the Government will contribu
9 very much toward the payment Of the i
L teresf otnarantead The gross earninra