Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-27

the House; it was finally struck cut i,
conference committee, much to the salts
faction of the goats and frogs of the new
territory and all the rest of the Reavi
family.
The House appropriation of $4,000 TO
rebuilding the Catholic Orphan Asylum
which was injured by Union shells dur
ing the war, at Charleston, s. O., was ais
reduced to $4,000. This appropriation
has significance to which we may allud
again.
THE RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH
The last moments of Congress were EN-
ployed In the enactment of one of thos
scenes for which the past six mouths hav'
been famous When the session had no
an hour longer to live-while the thought
of separating for long time, perhaps for
ever, seemed to give pathos to the scene
invoking upon each a tolerance of thu
present, if not absolute pardon for the
past-Mr. Butler rose to the privilege o.
a personal explanation. He proceeded tc
narrate how he had been Ku -Rlueed by
Garrett Davis in the Senate Chamber q
few weeks since for simply listening to
his speech. We saw that looking-mstch
Butler, six feet from Davis, shooting with
that cooked eye of his at an angle of, say
thirty-five degrees. Davis, soreeching
louder and louder, until it sounded more
and more like a war-whoop than SEN
atorial speech. Finally, Davis sat down
the most thoroughly mad man imaginable
every inspiration shook him to his boots
thus positioned, they eyed each other like
two midnight champions of the feline
race, until we began to feel lump in our
throat, and nothing was wanting to COM
plete the scene but to sec Butler spit and
Davis cuff handful of fur from the top
of his head, ("where the fur ought to
grow Neither did, however.
Butler proceeded in his explanation to
give the said antique Kentuckian speci-
mems of his choicest English, knowing
that he had no chance of reply, and not
caring if he had. In the course of his re-
marks he also took occ lsion to defend
himself from certain charges made by
Mr.. Farr worth of Illinois, relative to
Butlers management of the fund ($4 000-
000) for National Hospital for Soldiers.
This aroused another dirt-slinger and
mud flew some. Mr.. Beck also defended
his colleague Mr.. Davis in severe but
parliamentary manner, telling Mr.. But
Ter that any satisfaction that he desired
outside of the Senate Chamber was wait
ing for him.
II Butler and Framework are to be be-
lieved with regard to each other their
veracity il at n low ebb, and Beck's re-
marks strongly suggested pistols and cof-
fee for two. II Congress had been of
spotless purity before this one scene must
have blAckoned it. 1t is a lamentable
fact that the few such men in Congress
have more to do with the establishment of
its character abroad, than do the seventy
and seven just men who never act with
out reason or beyond the bounds of rea son
The session has been to full of such
scenes, and it was doubtless this, more
than anything else that Mr.. Dawes meant
in saying that in the light of the future,
when passion SHALL have subsidized, calm
reason asserts her sway, we shall look
II =.
pri9r. md have much to repent of. One
thing wa shall remember and cert inly
not with pride, and that is, that the last
noticeatl- act of this session was 4 quarrel.
OF the other acts of this Congress two
are Railroad bills and five are bills of re-
lief. or private bills Many of the former
are yet upon the calendar awaiting a
more propitious time to be pushed; mean
while few railroad schemes are being
carefully worked up.
THE NEW TERRITORY
has held II frat election and the result is
a Republican victory in the Territory of
1000 majority, and fifteen districts ont of
twenty-five carried Republican. This is
more of victory than was anticipated by
the most sansuine Republican, or feared
by the most Respondent Democrat. Col.
Forney made a speech in the evening,
during which he gave President Grant
the entire praise of having carried the
district, and nominated him for President
in 1872 This the New York Tribune
eharacterizes as forward act for a new
convert, and says something about his at
titude previous to his recent appointment
in the Custom House at Philadelphia,
strongly intimating that it is a change OF
purpose only, and not real change OF
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