Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-20
Washington Notes.


will show, to Boston and New England.
Washington Notes.
The coast survey of the shores OF
Narragansett bay is nearly completed,
and the chart will be superior to any
work of the kind ever executed in this
country. ..
Secretary Belknap has reduced the
army to peace footing. All supernum-
erary officers have been either retired or
mustered out, and the number of enlisted
men brought down to the legal standard
of 10000. ....
General Eaton's report as Commits
sioner of Education will now be publish
ed for general distribution, with blank
page showing where the statistics con-
corning Delaware were omitted, by vote
of Congress, after an appeal from the
Democratic Senators from that State.
George Francis Train endeavored on
Tuesday to obtain permission to speak for
ten minutes in the rotunda of the Capitol
but was refused, probably because be
would have talked all the Congressman
out of the building.
Commodore Almy, Chief Signal Off.
Ger of the Navy, urges the enactment of
law to secure systematic communication
at sea by signals between United States
rnAn-ef war and United States merchant
vessels, He proposes that every vessel
should be required no carry either Rogers
or Marryette's code, as might be deter
mined, with the requisite flags.
Judge Richardson, Assistant secre-
tary of the Treasury, will leave for Ea-
rope about the middle of June, taking
with him the. United States bonds that
may have been sold to parties there. Gen,
Spinner, who as Treasurer of the United
States, has had over fifty thousand mil
lions of public money pass through his
hands within the past ten years, is much
broken in health, and lis going abroad to
recuperate. .
Chief Justice Chase and every JUS.
tice of the Supreme Court, were on the
! B4nch on Tuesday, to hear the arguments
of Representative Potter, of New York,
H son of Bishop Potter, and the Attorney
General for and against the constitution.
ality of the Legal Tender Act. 1t is said
that the Chief Justice is strongly opposed
to the propo,e ell reversal of the last decis.
lon of the Court on this subject.
The House cleared the Speakers ia.
be nn Tuesday afternoon, of all Sena tie
bills upon it, and then, to prevent the in.
reduction of a vast amount of miscella.
O'clock for twenty minutes. At the expi-
ration % this time, as there was 10 pros
pect os either of the Conference reports
coming over from the Senate, at least for
an ind, finite time, another recess was
taken until half-past ten o'clock on
Wednesday morning. t-.
Gen Butler bad the gag flaw applied
to him in the House on Tuesday, by the
Kentprky delegation, which had agreed
that he should not be permitted to enjoy
the privilege granted to Mr. Davis in the
Srnat", aud narrate their personal rela-
tions. Mr.. Beck, who made speech not
| very long ago, in which be abused Massa-
chusette, was spokesman, and he persis-
tently objected when Gen. Butler sought
to obtain the floor; The Kentuckians de-
clare that he shall not be allowed to
speak. ...
Gen. Caprou, Commissioner of Agri-
culture. will soon issue an elegant quarto
volume on cnttle disease. 1t will contain,
in addition to his report to Congress on
this subject, others upon pleuro-pneumo-
uia, on the effects of sm ut and other fung-
Gus growths upon forage, the splenic fever
of cattle, the pathological, the anatomy of
the respiratory organs, microscopic exam.
nations on cryptogiamic growths in
fluids, of diseased animals, and the statis-
teal history of the Texas cattle disease.
The reports will be illustrated by numer.
Gus !ithograph acknowledgements, copper
plate aud wood engrayings, the work of
the best artists, from originals prepared
in the Office of the Surgeon General of ths
United States, rst
Congress did not reach an adjourn.
ment on Tuesday, as was generally ex.
pected. on account of disagreement be-.
tween the two branches. The House part
of the Committee Of Conference yielded
to the Senate on most of the disputed
points, but the bill as it came from their
hands was not satisfactory to the Senate,
and still less to the House, and it is i'm,
possible to tell when an agreement will
be arrived at The deficiency bill is still
unsettled, and the prospect of an early
agreement is not very promising. A .