Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-07
washington Items.

The April debt statement will show
reduction of about $5,000,O0O.
The ratification of the fifteenth
amendment was celebrated by the fire de-
partment at Washington.
Lieut. Commander William B. Gushing
has been ordered to ordnance duty at the
Boston navy yard, April. Is.
The President, Gen. Sherman and sew
eral members of the cabinet and Congress
will attend the funeral of Gen. Thomas
at Troy, N. Y.
The House committee on appropria-
tions decided not to recommend any APP
propriations for the commencement of
new public buildings.
Custom receipts for the week ending
March &c: At Boston, $304,170; New
York, $3.50, O59; Philadelphia, $219,565 ;
Baltimore, $204,7S6; San Francisco,
3,3S8; total, $3,452, 96S.
The President states that the pub.
lished report that he is about to issue a
proclamation of general amnesty is false
he has no such purpose. ....
The legal tender decision is likely to
come up again in the Supreme Court. At
torney General Hoar has argued for re-
hearing, and the question is under ad-
visement.
Walter Hunts paper collar patent,
the first ever issued on that invention, and
which now controls the business, has been
extended seven years.
The National bank delegation before
the committee of ways and means, pre-
sented mass of statistical information to
show the bad effect of the funding bill on
the national banks, should it become a
law. Secretary Boutwell, was present.
Cyrus W. Field argued before the
House committee on foreign affairs to-
day, in favor of complete reciprocity in
the laying and operating of ocean tele-
graph cables. He said that "a submarine
cables, 22,007 miles in length, are now in
operation, and 502S miles additional
would be completed during this and next
year. He pressed on the committee the i'm
portance of establishing cable line from
San FRANCISCO to the Sandwich Islands,
Japan and China, which would require
$500 miles of cable, and complete the
circuit of the globe.
Washington dispatches say that two
hundred and thirty-seven drafts, varying
in amounts from 1898 to $12S1 are being
prepared at the Treasury Department for
the oaptors of jeff. Davis, being the dis
tribution of 100000 reward offered for
his capture in 1865. The only New Eng
land man to receive a warrant is W. T
Dressman, whose draft will be mailed to
S. S. Drew at Boston.
The tariff bill has got another lease.
Mr.. Dawes endeavored to bring the House
to the real work upon it, but SGhenck and
Schofield desired to make speeches, and
were gratifed. schenck supports the bill
in the main, but wants reduction on iron
and coal. There is a disposition in the
House not to push the motion to recon-
NIT, but to keep the bill before the House
and amend it. The drift now tends rather
decidedly toward moderate reduction on
coal and iron ores. Mr.. Schenok took this
ground in his speech.
The House wasted two hours on
Thursday, over the credentials of Capt.
Conner, one of the Texas representatives
Charges of cruelty and bribery were pre-
sented on ex-parte affidavits, and an at
tempt was made to keep Capt. Conner out
while they were investigated, but the
House has gone as far as it ever will go in
this matter of keeping democrats out Of
seats by allegations made against them
when they present their certificate. In
spite of several eloquent speeches against
Conner, he was admitted, with the under
standing that his seat can be contested
and that any charges against him can be
referred to the committee on elections
The four Texas members were then sworn
in, and the general criticism in the gal
leries was that they all looked as if they
had been kept on poor rations lately. Con
nor looks like a boy of twenty. AS soor
as he was sworn in, he rose to persona
explanation and replied to the charges
made against him. The entire Texas
delegation in the House and Senate ii
now seated