Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-07-18
POLITICAL NOTES.
j. ii. GoULDING,
Asst. Adjutant General.

Senator Buckingham OF Connecticut has
returned his back pay to the United States
Treasury.
There are l55 members of the British
House of Commons in favor of female suf-
frage, and three hundred thousand persons
have pctitioned for it.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
vention has, by vote of SIS TO 10, forbidden
the appropriation Of any sum raised for
common school education TO tho use of Sec
tartan schools.
Hon II. l.. Dawes Of Massachusetts has
declined the tempting offer made to him, to
become the manager Of the Boston Mort
gage company, incorporated by tho last
legislature, and will remain in congress.
The Illinois State Journal says: The
Farmers movement" does not contem-
plate the formation of a distinctive political
organization. Its object is TO redress and
remove the great wrongs which the rail-
road monopolies are practising upon the
PEOPLE and to that end they ask the co.
operation Of The people without respect to
PARTIES.
\ CORES pUndent OF the Philadelphia
Press, Tho is max ing n tour of observation
in the South. writes that Tie freedom of
speech and debate which now prevails there,
is in striking contrast to the state of things
either before the war or 10 the six or seven
years following it. The era of tarring and
feathering and beating for political opinions
has passed away, never, we trust and be-
lievc, TO return again. These tok ems of a
regeneration of Southern opinion should
call forth hearty appreciation and well
come from the people OF the North.
The New Hampshire legislature, just be-
fore adjournment, passed by "A unanimous
vote, resolutions upon the new congression-
al salary law, in which they declare the ac-
ton of Congress in increasing their pay
'an act wholly uDjustifable and inexcus-
able and deserving 1.-The indignant repro
baton of every honest citizen" They al
so ''cal on the Senators and Representa-
in Congress from New Hampshire at the
time of the passage Of the bill increasing
their salaries, TO return forthwith to the
United States Treasury their back pay, uu-
less they have already demo so.''
The Connecticut legislature has adjourn
cd, after Il session of eight and half weeks.
The fact that for the first time in twenty
years the democrats had control of the low
or House and had a working majority up
on joint ballot caused the session to be re-
garded with unusual interest when ii COM
menced, but the democrats have neither
done any very startling things or undone
much that had been done before. The bit
ter Hartford and New Haven fight over
the one capital constitutional amendment,
which has been the most expressing ques-
ton in the State campaigns and legislative
gatherings for the last half dozen years, has
been settled, so i;ii as the Legislature can
settle it, by the final submissi, to popular
vote of an amendment providing for one
capital, and that ut Hartford. The consti-
tutional convention project was put over TO
next year, the State lax reduced from two
mills TO one mill, soldiers and sailors OF
the late war were exempted from poll and
communication taxes, private banking in
stitutions have been placed under the
same State supervision as savings banks
one good result of the Scranton failure At
New Haven--a State board Of charities and
a bureau of labor statistics have been es.
tablished, and much needed bills have
been passed guarding against the erection
Of unsafe buildings and providing severe
| penalties for obstructing railroad trains
Resolutions were passed condemnatory OF
| the Congressional "saary grab