Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-06-06
Political Votes.

Gov Jewell of Connecticut has informed
the President, of his acceptance of the Rus
sian mission. He will sail in about two
weeks.
The pos sible renewal of the ranking
privilege, and the probable repeal of the
new salary law, are prominent subjects of
discussion in official circles at Washington.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has
again affirmed the validity of the Kellogg
government, and fully sustained the title
of the officers appointed by it.
Gov. McEnery of Louisiana has issued
an address to the people of Louisiana, adj
vising acquiescence in the Kellogg gov
ernnent until Congress assemblies in De-
cember.
The London Times sarcastcally points
to the fact that France has just paid over to
Germany ten millions sterling, without
making the slightest fuss about it, while
England cannot pay third of that sum TO
the United States without resorting to every
possible delay, and then borrowing mon
ey in order to do it,
What is to be done will. the captive Mo-
docs, is a matter of grave consideration by
those who participated in the massacrcs
will be tried before civil tribunal, and
that the others will be placed on their re-
Sc rvations with the positive understanding
that they will be shot if they attempt TO
escape.
Berlin dispatches convey the idea that it
is the prevalent opinion in the German
capital that MacMahon will prove the
counterpart of Gen. Monk, the rcstorer of
the House of Stuart to the English throne,
and that his election heralds Legitimist
restoration in France. A despatch from
Paris says that the new French govern
ment has resolved TO adopt a free trade
policy and also 10 reduce the military ex-
penditures.
A convention of Irish born citizens is
| projected, to be held at Cleveland, o., about
| the 18th prox., with the purpose of forming
| league similar TO the German Union for
social and beneficial purposes. Some of
the leading Irishmen of New York, Phi!a-
delphia and other cities encourage the
movement on the ground that the Irish
element in this country have not the stand
ing, politically or commercially, which
their numbers and importance entitle them
to. Members will be pledged to support
Irishmen in preference TO all others, re-
| gardless of sect or party.
| A suit has been begun in the United
States Circuit Court of Rhode Island to test
the constitutionality Of the suffrage laws of
that Slate, which impose property quail
fication upon voters of foreign birth. The
Providence Journal says the ''question has
been fully argued, and the Judiciary Com
mittee of the United States Senate unani-
mously affirmed the full right of the State
to maintain the existing law, which, the
people-Democrats as well as Republicans
have repeatedly refused to repeal or
modify"
As regards the 'salary stea'' the New
York Times puts things in their right light
when it says:
1.-THE common sense of the country has
come to the conclusion that for men hold
ing as sacred trust power TO vote away
public money, to vote il into their own
pocket, is q scandalous breach of faith, and
an act displaying a debased standard OF
honor. This conclusion is sound one. II
it is peculiar to these later days, so much
the worse for the country. If some respect
ed men did not view the matter in this
light seven or ten years ago, so much the
worse for the memory of these men. The
question is one of present and actual moral
scure it now. 1t has gone too far for that