Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-21
Washington Items.

President Grant has signed eighty
two bills and vetoed one since he came
into Office.
The Governor and Legislature of
Ohio, with prominent citizens of the
Buokeye State, will arrive here on
Wednesday morning next and remain
until Friday.
The Ohio delegation in Congress and
the State Association at Washington are
making arrangements which can but
make the sojoUrn of their fellow citizens
agreeable, including a visit to the Presi-
dent and a reception at the Masonic
Temple,
The services at the Catholic and
Episcopal Churches on Easter Sunday
were impressive the music having been
carefully selected and rehearsed, while the
affairs were decked with the rarest flowers.
Members of Congress desiring re-
election are already considering the
chances of such an event and preparing
their plans accordingly. There will be
an active campaign in the two Boston dis
triots.
Memorial services were held in honor
of the late Bishops Thompson and Kings
ley and Rev. DIR. McClintock at the Meth
odist Metropolitan Church, the communion
table of which was adorned with flowers
sent by Mrs Grant from her greenhouse.
1t is stated that thorough canvass
of the Senate shows that the Bingham
amendment stands no chance whatever of
being adopted, although its advocates are
working theoretically to secure its pass
age.
The President is quite anxious on
the adjournment question, and fully
agrees with Mr.. Dawes that Congress
should work Saturdays. Mr.. Dawes takes
the sensible ground that it is a great deal
more comfortable to sit evenings and Sat-
ardays now than in the hot weather of
June and July, but laziness is triumph
ant.
The advocates of the abolition OF the
ranking privilege now propose to have
substituted for it an unlimited issue of
free stamps to be used by all now entitled
to use the ranking privilege. This will
deprive the people of the right to address
the officials without paying postage on
their letters or petitions, but will permit
those in authority to use the mails as
freely as now.
The prospect of passing the tariff
bill, this session, grows bilious. There is
no chance of getting it through the House
before May, and the Senate finance COM
mittee will consider it month, and it
will then be too late for this session. 1t
is quite probable that some time in June
somebody will get into the House short
tax and tariff bill including only few
items and making a reduction of fifty mil
lions on those items. Short bills of that
character could be driven through Con-
gress in fortnight.
The judiciary subcommittee was at
work on Saturday, finishing up the inves-
So Nho premature DuDl1cAt1On OF
Garheld's gold panic report. All the
principal facts were known at the outset.
Testimony was also taken in regard to
the Cuban bonds. The subcommittee are
impeded in their voyage of discovery by
the whole judiciary committee, which
takes the ground that it is improper to
go outside of attempts to bride members
of Congress. 1t would make lively time
and rich report doubtless to travel
around and investigate characters gener-
ally. but Mr.. Bingham puts his foot down
on that. He thinks Congress may as we'll
look little closer at the character of it's
own members before it insists upon too
much virtue outside. Rumors are cur
rent that If all the witnesses that have
been summoned in this Cuban matter
would tell the truth, some distinguished
men would quake in their shoes, but
this may be false.