Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1871-03-01
Washington City Gossip.

In the Senate, the House bill to guard
the purity of elections was reported IA
vorably by Mr.. Conkling, from the Judi
ciary Committee, Mr.. G. remarking that
it was bill to defend the ballot box against
fraud and perjuries This Is the bill against
ceptions, as a usurpation of authority on
the part of Congress not granted by the
Constitution.
Some good points on the Democracy, and
particularly the leaders of that party in
New York, were made in the House, by
Mr.. Dickey, during the debate on the army
appropriation BILL Mr.. Brooks, of New
York, the day previously. had protested
against the use OF the sodiery at the polls
instead of in fighting the Indians. Mr..
Dickey replied that he thought there was
more danger to the liberties and institu-
tions of the country from the Indians of
New York than from those of the plains.
A council of the chiefs of Tammany-
Tweed, Sweeney. and Connely-was more
dangerous than any Indian council held by
Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, or Thunder Cloud.
If no other arraignment of the President
Of the United States or the officers OF the
army could ever be made against them than
the belief that the army was used to main
tain the purity of the ballot-boz and the
right of every man to vote, they would
survive all such attacks as that made by the
NCr.i- =
OF that Indian council of which he was one
of the representatives. Mr. Brooks made
no reply, and the ruthless scalper of the
Tamnany sachems was allowed to escape
unharmed
The ''unkindest cut of all'' against wo
man suffrage, is bill now under consider
alton in the Senate at Washington, annun
ing the act of the Legislature of the Terri
tory of Wyoming. giving the right of suf-
frage to women. This was the stronghold
of the suffrage movement, the one bright
spot in the desert of mans tyranny, and
now Congress goes deliberately to work,
right in the face Of the immortal Wood
hull candidate for President, etc, and her
female lobbyists, to squelch this one bright
spot.
Kentucky Congressman have disagree
able, not to say disloyal, penchant for peer
ing into the deeds under which the thou
sands of Union dead sleeping in the soil of
the South hold their six bytwo tenements.
Senator McCreery's proposition had hardly
ceased to disturb them when Mr.. Jones, of
the same State, comes forward with an
amendment to the army bill requiring the
title of all national cemeteries to be fxed
indisputaby in the United States. In offer
ing the amendment he said he had partic-
ular reference to Arlington, which he was
prepared to show was not vested in the
United States, but in Mrs. Mary Gusts
Lee In the House, Mr. Jones was replied
to by Mr.. Stoughton, OF Michigan, who
very properly rebuked the Kentucky mem
ber for his vandal like amendment and ig
norance of the law Arlington, he showed,
was vested ia the United States in the first
place by the right of conquest, and in the
second by law OF Congress regarding ma
tioDal cemeteries. When will the Democ-
and how long must the Union soldiers keep
watch on the Potomac?
In the House bill was introduced by
Mr.. Van Wyck to punish persons for the
printing and depositing in the mails OF
counterfeit treasury notes, bank bills or
fractional currency The design of the bill
is to prevent the post Office from being
used as a medium Tor the circulation Of
counterfeit bills of any description.
The Special Committee of Congress on
Southern Outrages are occupied daily for
two hours in taking testimony relative to
affairs in North Carolina. The operations
of the ku klux in that State, and the other
matters involving the safety Of freedmen,
elections, and personal liberty, will occupy
the Committee attention till the close of
the session, allowing only time sufficient to
make a report.