Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-05
Our washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Jan. so. 1873.

The Credi, Mobilier Investigation uoN
going on will, after al. 50 every one says
result in a great good to the country
While the charges just pado against GER
tain Congressmsn, that they were stock
h,lders in this supposed fraudulent con-
oorn, had they not tried to screen them
cslvcs, by-bcaring false witnesses against
each other. the cou.try might have
excused them. II is now 200 late. The
developments through the Investigation has
caused, beyond doubt, it the minds oil
honorable men. at least, at the Nation :.
CAPITAL, that the country has good reason
10 distrust them. With Oaks Ames II
was n mere business transaction. and If We
believe him he never dreamed of bribine
any member of Cougrcss-enly TO secure
influential men TO help him carry out o
great enterprise, and had vice President
C,lfax. Senator Patterson and certain NJ
Cs so considered it, two days would have
closed the Credit MobiIier investigation
and the morals of the country would ro'
have been contaminated.
Judge Hale, Ex.M. Z. elect from the
l6 n. Y. district, now counsel for Vie,
President Coflax, appears sanguine that
there will be sufficient evidence elected
iu day or two to exhoncrate his client
from all ccnsure- -Others think different
Tuesday, by vote of p TO %, thC
Senate refused to increase the little ap
preparation to the Bureau Of Education
some seven thousand dellars. No ono
raised an objeo ion to the administration
of the Office, but the objcctlrs bubble
over supposed objections, not one OF then
probably having over visited tho Office, OIL
having any knoledge of the immense and
valuable work Conc in it or Of the grcat
md most diverse demands of the public
upon it. Here the educational experience
of the country is gathered and told fol
the benefit of the training Of the young
The Commissioner says it requires more
clerks to DO this work, and the Secretary
of the interior says the appropriation
should be increased /; but grave Senators
vote no, and yet will vote millions for the
Notifications without question while
there is no defense like intelligence and
virtue.
Even the opponents of the telegraph
bill, reported by the Senate Post Office
Committee, are getting alarmed, and are
using every neans to deftat the bill Mr..
Orion, of the Western Union, has his
hirclings on the ground at work among
Congressmen. So far, as lobbyists, they
are not a success. The numerous letters
received from their constituents, endors.
Ing The present movement to insure the
people cheap tclegraphy, is having o
wholesome influence uron the Senate and
The House of representatives.
The Monthly Agricultural report fol
January is now out. 1t shows The prices
of farm animals and farm products in the
different States during 1872. These
monthly reports, though net published fol
general circulation, are much sought at
ter by publicists Of all kinds. The sys
tenn Of statistics is gradually improving
and extending to new portions eff the coun
try. BY the way, The new chief clerk
+, Watts, Esq, is attracting the kindes
regards OF his associates in the Depart
ment, and has almost oblitclated the rec
election of the qucrulcus Squank.
There was only one Republican Senator
(unless Upton anb Trumbull are Repubs,
who voted against the Appropriation Bill
increasing the appropriation for the Edu
cational Bureau S7.3CC0. Strange tt
say, this one was Senator Lot Morrill,, o
Maine. who has all along been counted
among the warmest supporters OF educa
,ional interests. Stranger to note thai
there were not enough Republican Sena
eors in the Chamber at the time the vote
vas taken to pass it over twenty-five
Democratic votes. Where were they 2
asks friend of education.
The subject CT a return TO specie pay
ments has exercised the public mind con
s:dcraby. Of late, and has found express
i'm in several proposed schemes of legsla
tion. Among these. Mr. Hooper proposed
to is ;uc hundred million of 65 pei
cent. certificates Of Indebtedness, whiUl
shall withdraw one half the legal tenders
which the national banks arc required t,
retain as illegal reserve" 1t proposes
also. to allow legal tenders to be receive,
instead Of gold and silver for the paymen
ofimport duties. These $50 millions 0
Gper cent. bonds are TO be held for sal
in order to secure coin to secure the pay
ment Of the remaining greenbacks. Thu
our whole legal tender circulation will b