St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-07-08
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Senators received the announcement.
yesterday, ot thrdctra OF tie bill t,r
the repeal of the Franhimg priylr-r
with ruar- of laughter. ~ 2,,at d,.,
of fun was poked at Mr.. Rln>cy.whu had
the bill i'll chsrg.," adds the iaitLtui and
pros Nc roport. We commend IT,. tn
ump ant rejoicing to the people. Here
was proposition that those who use the
mail- should pay for them, to the end
thar the Postal Department may he srl!-
su>I;,lnni-, that all my have an equal
right 10 liz advantages. and thar postage
may be made cheap rs possible. l. OPP
poncEts insisted on maintaining Il priv
lcge class. They demanded that the M
ner in Colorado should pay a higher
rate on 4 letter 10 his wife IN ..lhr
States" and a larger sum quarterly fur
the village paper which hrin.S linn the
news from his old New England or New
York home, i'll order that they might re-
celvc their letters and papers tree. They
wanted to tax every newspaper in the
United states for the benefit of thai
mausoleum of undclivrrcd and unread
speeches, 1Ae Congressional GloLe.
They wanted 10 tax every writer of let
tiers IN the mited States, to pay for the
transportation TO their supporters in
Conventions and wire-pullcrs in caucus
>es, or car loads Of Patent Office REPORTS
and volumes OF testimony before Invcsti-
eating COmmittccs-of which whatsoever
Is valuable had appeared, six months be
fore, IN all the newspapers. !'ney de
manded for themselves Il p.ivil. 90 denied
to the Queen OF England. and - get il
refused Americans the Hdvauta"es OF
cheap and prompt communication access
Ible to the mgane>t British subject And
their success was received with roarS ul
laughter. We thank tie laughers at
least for their fraukncs-. Let the tens
and hundreds CT thousands who through
out the last winter, from every State in
the Union, sent up 10 C,n"ress their pc
utlons for the repeal of the Frmk,na
Privilege, understand that the denial of
their prayer was greeted with roarS Of
laughter by their Senators; and thc.c
are the men who did it:
Ys,-Amcs, Beyul, Brownlow,
Carpenter, Cole, Cort EFT, Drake, Fowler,
Gilbert, HaDHiton (Md), Harris, Ne.
Donald, Morrill, (Nt.). Nyc, Osborn.
Pomeroy, Pool, Rice, Robertson, Ross.
Sawyer, Spencer, Stewart. Summer,
Thayer, Itchers, Warner, Williams.
There was bare majority Of two
against the repeal. y dozen Senator,
doubtless among the loudcst of the
present, but refused to
vote. These were the towards who
gloated over their share in the continu.
ince of the swindlc, but lacked the cuur-
age to bear their part i'll upholding it. {
Their names may be found in the list of
hose absent or not voting. Whoever. I
IF those whose names here follow. was
absent from the Senate Chamber ON leoit
mate business, will be excused by the peo- ,
Die who sent him there the rest will be {
leld even more odious uphoders of the |
enormity than the men who t
lad at least The bad courage TO vote for I
t: :
Abbott, Anthony, Edmunts, Fenton.
Flanagan, Hamilton, of Texas Hamilton :
+ Nd, Howard, Johnso ;, Kellogg. |
Iewis, Patterson, Revels, .SauLsJaaY. !
stockton, Thurman, Triton. !
We hope soon TO tell precisely who, OF t
hese gentle men, lodged. Meantime W. {