Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-02
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Operation.
WASHINGTON, July President Grant
has issued proclamation announcing that
he has received official notification that the
British and Dominion Parliaments have
adopted the necessary legislation prelimi-
nary to those portions Of the Treaty oi
Washington pertaining to the fisheries, ard
to the relations between the United States
and the Dominion going into effect, and
that consequently they are DOW in full op-
Grafton.
Adiutant-Gs Townsend will leave
tonight for Massachusetts, where he viii
spend month.
Levi P. Luckey, Private Secretary of the
President. has returned from Europe.
Gone into Effect.
The law abolishing the franking privi-
lege having gone into effect to-day; The sew
eral Departments detailed men especially
to attach stamps to official documents, all
of which previously had TO be entered, bal
ances for those purposes being supplied to
all Bureaus and divisions. Five clerks are
now required to sfiix stamps to dead letter
mails each day, one clerk formerly having
been sufficient for franking. Clerss of the
city postofice complain of the additional
labor imposed by weighing of public docu-
ments before mailing TO ascertain whether
stamped sufficiently to cover postage.
Public Works Board and Their Libel
sutts.
Special TO the Cincinnati Gazette
WASHINGTON, June 2e.-SeVeraI leading
lawyers who are familiar with the laws
regulating the courts of this District, and
with the practice of the court since It's es-
tablshment, express the opinion that there
is no legal process under which an editor
can be brought here and tried for a libel
published outside of this District. The facts
In the late attempt to bring New York
editor here appear TO be that arrangements
to this end have been In course of prepara-
ton for some time, and friends and well
known adherents of the Board of Public
Works declare that editors of other journals
engaged in exposing the operations of the
Board have been threatened with similar
arrest and trial here, if these journals did
not cease their attacks on the District ring.
These statements come from a reliable
quarter, and are made with q precision
which leaves little room for doubt that
there are officials of this District who really
believe they will be able to silence cores
pondents and editors by this course. While
there is no sympathy here for the editor
now under arrest, this plan of campaign is
equally condemned. I'D
Sorsae Heavy Bills to Pay.
The people Of the district are just begin
ing TO. find out the character and extent of
the bills taking money from them that were
passed by the Legislature which has just
adjourned. The least Objectionable is the
general sewe- bill, levying two cents per
square foot on all property in the city, with
ont regard to position or whether all sewer
age about lot rad been finished. The
amount thus levied is two Ii illion dollars.
The bill was forced through by violation of
parliamentary rules and by legislative trick
cry. Gov. Cook has not yet signed it, and
there are strong hopes that lie willnot. By
another bill, about 100000 was voted to
pay the Board of Public Works the ex-
penses it claims were incurred in negotiat-
ing the 6rst S4,000,000 losHs. The appro.
pristion of $4,000 TO pay debts incurred st
the Inauguration ball, was smuggled
through in the conference committee, when
neither house had considered it, and, by an
arrangement with the officers, was not read
at the desk at all.