Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-01-25
over; and bill to this effect was intro.

over; and a bill to this effect was intro.
dueed two or three days ago.
/ The House Committee on Appropria-
tions are after the Treasury Department
officer who ordered the purchase Of ten
enormously large, and three less enorm-
Gus, mirrors for the north wing of the
Treasury building, which have not been
at oil required or pat to use, but which
Gre stored away in the-uppcr hall of thst
wing They we're ordered before sccreta-
nothing to do with it. @' Of afnggSe; afnggSe hf he had sS!
pcryising architect, and McCartee, former
superintendent Of the Treasury building
both say they did not order them. Who
did, is the question. Govt is out 1921,
600 for them.
Representative Mungcn Of Ohio Dem.
ocrat-is after the Heads of Departments
and Bureaus for keeping horses and car
riages for their personal use at the Govt
expense. If they were Democratic Heads
Of course we shouldn't hear anything from
Sir. MunSen on the subject. 20 matter
it wont do any harm to the country to Let
Republican officials know that they are
watched.
Senator Sumner has introduced a bill
TO abolish all divisions of the public schools
in the District iuto white and co!ored.-
So this question will be settled.
Senator Sumner is opposed notably by
Senator'S Conkling and Nyc in his demand
for further guarantees of loyalty from Vir-
/ ginin before admitting her Yesterday
Senator Nye told a story at the distn--
guished Massachusetts, Senator Of an In
dian caught pounding p esry dead wood
chucl, who when interrogated concerning
the apparent waste of labor on him, re-
pied II want this woodchuck to under
stand that there is punishment after
death ?"
Mr.. Morrill, Of Maine did a very good
thing in Introducing, in the House, a bill
to protect subordnates in Govt employ
from virtual assessments upon them OF
money for presents for scme official supe,
fior or other, by forhiddiee Il --..vo Of
such a present by any such superior, on
pain Of dismissal.
am sorry to have to say that Con-
grcssional Printer A. NJ. Clapp Of Bufa-
10, is accused of, and is under very strong
suspicious of having been party to the
misappropration of public money to the
amount of from 500, 600 to $50, ,000.-
Gen. Negley, Republican, has been inves.
tigating the reports, and at least has
found facts enough to impel him to pre-
pare a bill to introduce in the House pro.
yiding that the Congressional Printer, in'
stead CT being elected by the Senate a.
lone, be elected by both branches, as was
formerly the case and thus to make way
for the election Of new Printer.
The nomination of Judge Strong Of
Philadelphia for the place on the Bench
of the Supreme Court made vacant by
Mr.. Stantou's death seems to excite nci
ther spirited opposition nor approval.
"It never rains but it pours." 1t wa:
not sufficient happiness for the Treasury
clerks that Asst Sec'y Richardson, the
reputed docker, resigned, but first Comp
troller Taylor must follow with a decision
that all docking whatsoever, even by thC
Sec'y himself is illegal. The consequence
must bc-if this decision is hushed tC
consequehce--that all money deducted
? from aGsent sick clerks must still be pait
5 to them.
Sec'y Boutwell, delivered a lecture herr
! Monday, in the course of the Grand Arm,
, of the Republic, on the National Finan
, ces. He advocated the payment of ou
debt by the present generation. | motto
5 that Senator Sumner, in his speech on tn
e last finance bill, would leave the principa
e part Of that little job to future generation
: when the population shall have increases
t to %, 600, 600 and 100000, 900, and ou
d, material means in still greater degree.
j A new course of lectures has been CON
J. menccd here under the auspices OF the I
+ NJ. 9. Association. They are scientific
c The Smithsonian Institution has appropr
IS ated $500 of its lecture fund towar
/ them, in lieu of employing lecturers for il
usual winter course itself.
A meeting was called lately for til
promotion of the Worlds Fair project
All the solid citizens and President Graz
were advertised to attend. But they didn
catch the little man.
The Intelligcncer is dead again DE
"a mars galvanism made it kick few times
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