Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-12-22
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.
The new apportonment bill as Il passed
the House, fixing the number of its mem
bers at 23S from and after March 8, 1873,
will undoubtedly pass the Senate and be-
come law. 1t will increase the members
from many of the States, and diminish the
number only in Vermont and New Hamp-
shire. BY adding two Senators to the
number OF each Of the States represented,
according TO the new apportionment, we
will have the number comprising the next
Presidential electoral college, and in doing
this have also taken the liberty of pre-
pairing table showing from the past full
elections what will be the probable result
at the ne 1t Presidential election, viz: Re-
publican States-Maine A, New Hamp-
shire 4, Vermont 4, Massachusetts IL,
Rhode Island 4, New York "a, Pennsyl-
vania 2S, South Carolina 7, Mississippi s,
Ohio %, Indiana IA, Illinois q, Michigan
IL, Iowa IL, Wisconsin 10, California 0,
Minnesota s, Kansas s, Nebraska 8. Total,
2l7. Democratic States-Delaware 3, Ma
ryland 8, Virginia IL, Georgia IL, Kentucky
II, Tennessee IL, Arkansas @, TexasS, West
Virginia 8. Total 70. Doubtful States
New Jersey, 0, Connecticut @, North Caro-
lima 10, Alabama 0, Louisiana 7, Missouri
10, Florida 8, Nevada 8, Oregon 8. Total O..
Necessary TO choice, l79.
Thus it will be seen without carrying
single Stale marked doubtful, we can place
New York on tho Democratic side and still
have a majority In favor OF the Republican
candidate. Yet New York was carried by
near 5000, and is now under Republican
rule.
There is a strong effort made to inaugur-
ate the New Year by passing on amnesty
bill before the recess. Southern Repubi-
cans, and most of the northern ones, are
anx ious to accomplish this, if sufficient
time can be found for the purpose.
The Treasury investigating committee
have discovered no further deficiencies in
the cash accounts of the bureau officers, and
nearly sll,000 has already been paid over
to the Treasury as part of the speculation
fund taken therefrom by Seth johnson, the
defaulting clerk.
Numerous memorials are received ask
ing a repeal of the u. $. tax on Savings
Banks. The numerous frauds perpetrattd
on the poor and industrious by Savings
Banks render it quite doubtful whether in
stead of exempting these private institu
tons from taxation, they ought not to b,
taxed out Of existence, and the example o
Europe followed in the creation of Pos
Office Savings Banks for the people, which
cannot break, and while paying a reasona
BILE interest, will transfer deposits withou
cost by means of Post Onice orders to any
point in the United States.
Last evening a number of leading Re
publicans called on the newly appointed
Attorney General Williams, and made con
gratulatory addresses, some of which re
ferred to omissions in prosecution of L.
deliDquents by the department of justice
In reply he oisclaimed all knowledge G
the truth of such clamors, but promises
pointedly that when he assumed the hea
Of that Department. no partisan considers
lions will have weight in cases of federa
delinquency, and no pains will be spared i
bringing the guilty to speedy and condig
punishment.
Senator Boreman of West Virginia, ha
been proposed as the Republican canddat
for Vice President. The Wheeling Intelli
gencer having opposed both Grant an
Foreman, in reply TO query from Dem
ocratic contemporary, states that if both o
either of them are nominated it will cor
daily support them. That is the true spin
ii of genuine Republicanism, for when h
promises this he we'll knows that the Re
publican party would not only be safe i
their hands, but that no more worth
standard bearers can be found within III
limits of the country. en-.