Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-01

| " humor Of the House, thing which
cannot be predicted with half the certainty
that we feel in q old probabilities of the
weather department
/ During this debate Mr.. Banks and Mr
Dawes had sharp controversy concerning
the rights and privileges of their respective
committees, which grew so personal and
improper that for about i've minutes 1t was
accompanied by steady hammering on the
/ Speakers desk. Members who talk much
have good lungs, but no one has yet reached
that point in his training where he can talk
down that gayel in the hands of the Speaker.
Mr.. Blaine appears to consider himself in a
manner responsible for the good behavior
of the body over which he presides, for when
a colloquy starts up which he thinks would
not be proper for the American people to
read in the Globe he raises such din with
his gavel that the reporters who sit directly
beneath him can neither hear nor think.
The House gets nearest to the strict party
votes on election cases, which by the way, it
cnce decided, were judicial. not political
questions BY one Of these votes Re
publican member has been declared elected
from Indiana. and entitled to seat
The Senate has also decided it, election
case, though not by a party vote Mr. Alb
bott, who received a small minority Of the
votes of the North Carolina legislature, the
majority being cast for an Ineligible candi-
date, after lingering hopefully for year
around the capital, has had his claims re
iected by vote Of - to 10. Mr.. Abbott
was for several years in the Senate, without
making himself heard, however, except at
the call Of the yeas and nays And even
then it never escaped our notice that he
preferred to be lettering around the cloak
rooms till the clerk lad completed the list,
and his party friends were ON the record,
when he would strike an attitude, say, Mr..
President, and vote aye or no according as
the Aforesaid party friends had before him
IL was Mr. Abbott's misfortune that BIZ
name came first on those occasions. Il would
much have relieved him if the nsmcs had
been arranged not alphabetically, hut AZ
captains arrange their base ball mines, that
ir, by putting the best striker ahead
Another attempt has been made Id tile
House to pass a resolution to adjourn On ths
2tth Of May, and though the prominent
members Of the House nearly an spoke
against it, it was defeated only by = majority
OF % Mr.. Kelley and other protectionist-
who have been accused Of desiring an ADJOURN
ment so that the tariff may not be meddlel
with voted against the resolution Th.
majority being 80 small it is not impr9lsll,
that with one or two weeks affairs mas
assume such a position that the adjournment
resolution can be passed Probably tb.
passage q q free tea and coffee bin would
reconcile Mr.. Kelley 70 it.
Among the rumors that have followed east
other as to the intention Of our government
with regard to the Alabama case. IL snow
said hat Mr.. Fish has given Gladstone IS
surances that Ne never hoped or expected a.
award from the Board on account 81 d,
consequential damages, but thar that rar,
was only submitted as 4 question of inter.
national law which should he decided n.i
only for England and America but t,r ~.
nations W hen the resolution 10 print -eye-
RID thousand Of this document for the in-
structi9n IF the people was moved ID ,ae
House cen Butler asked in hi- In.ui-iaa
way. What j. the use Of printing gone
case IL this last rumor ~ to Nr Fish
and his case il correct. Mr.. Butler adjective
seems proper one