The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-02-07
TIE CaHIR:i FhELNIH.
EaSNsSuRC, Pa,
Friday Morning, February 7, 1873
Principally P!Tfercd.

ing privilege UaS signed by INC ie"'uS"1
on Saturday, and goeS int" effect Oh The
frst day of July next.
BY the decisive vote or ninety-two to
three, the House Of RepI Ierentatives, at
Harrisburg, last W eGnesday. passed reso-
luton that no spurious, vinous or malt
liquors shall be kept OF draat in the House
OF any Of the roopls connected herewith.
TIE Legislature last winter passed a law
psking the minimum term for keeping
open the common schools FIVE months, in
stead Of four IS heretofore. Consequently
any district not Keeping the schools open
five months i'll the year will lose the State
appropriation.
TIE Chicago Tribune. in speaking OF
tho present Vice President OF the United
States, uses language the like Of which has
ReVor bsea employed towards Vice Pres
ident since tho days Of Aaron Burr. 1t
says: mo man during this generation
has Leen more conciusively proven cor
ruptiouist. bribc taker, a7liar and a per
jurer, than Schuyler Colfan There is lot
y looy yAole OF possible escape"
TEX ST. Louis Democrat thinks no man
shou.G ut IL tie United States Senate who
pays 90, 600 for a vote. Aud it's very true,
too. Patterson of South Carolina got forty
or fifty for that amount. Under such cir
cumstances, as the New York sur face
tiously remarks, the man who pays $S,-
OCE fox vote should be tucked under Jim
Nye's arm and taken over to the Patent
Cfice rs - model Of damned fool"
THKkE is at last movement in Con-
gress to complete the Washington Monu-
ment. The House adopted a resolution on
l@"t Monday directing tho Speaker to ap-
Ioint committee OF thirteen to report
Plan to secure it's completion before 1876.
The idea is that Congress shall furnish the
money to avoid tho national disgrace of
permitting the centennial OF American In
dependence To 10 celebrated while mon
u.nent to the Father OF his Country
stands unfinished in. the capital Of the ma
tiOu.
Mn. CoLFAx has failed to appear before
the Investigating Committee to explain the
circumstances that implicate him not only
in corruption, but perjury. He has, how
ever, found time tolectare in Philadelphia,
and also in Baltimore, 2upon religion and
morals Both causes sufior by such ad-
v"csoy, .andait ia the height Of etfrontery
for a man lsboring under the mort serious
and unexplained charges to be assuming
tho part of public instructor. lie ought
to remember that example is Letler than
prsoept.
NopoDY preterds to defend Oakes Amcs,
but no is less criminal than those who cor
ruptly bargained with him and sought to
conceal their venality. They occupied
moro commanding positions, enjoyed high
er favor with the public, aud were expected
10 stamp out such villsiny should it be at
tempted. These supposed guardians of
the treasury conaPircd with Ames to plum
der it, took the enormous profits, and never
rernQuished their hold until exposure be-
came certain. Then they all stanpedod
together, and have since that time cndea-
vored to save thenEslves by the most out
rRgeous rosorts.
THE question OF female suffrage, says
Tuesdays Age, came bcfore.the Constitu-
tionAl Convention yesterday, on motion to
anend the report of the Committee, which
docs not extend the right of suffrage to
women. We have mover seen the proof
that any considerable number of the wo-
men of Pennsylvania desire the elective
franchise, and to extend it to them, or
rnther to impose it upon them, upon tho
demand Of few, would be doing an in
Justice, instead of granting right or a
favor. We suppose there is no doubt i'm
anybody's mind that if women generally
want anything they will get it, if it is in
tho power Of man TO give it. The sex
probably has its representatives in the
home of every member OF the Convention.
We presume they arc al directly or indi-
rectly instructed" on this subject if they
are without instructions, 1t is = proof of
the indifference OF their wives and d~agh-
tors to the subject. That indifference OF
disinclination exists generally, and is the
best possible proof that there is now no Oc-
casion to alter the laws on tho subject
We object to imposing political duties on
women, when they exhibitno general desire
70 assume them.
TEN Chicago Tribune says: ''The roll or
purchased seats in tho Senate, beginning
with Caldwell, OF Kansas, includes CLAYTON.
Of Arkansas Harlan, OF Iowa; ilnulse>
and " indUnl, of Minnesota Hitchcock, OF
Nebraska; Cameron, OF Pennsylvania, and
Carpenter, of Wisconsin. lhose gentle
mon are TO be reinforced March 4. by Sar-
CONT, of California; Mitchell, OF Oregon
Patterson, of South Carolina, and jones, of
Nevada. These elections are popularly
supposed to have required the disburse-
next, III each casc, Of from $50, COG to
S25U, OCO cash, and the elections contrulle O
Uy O.Ler valuable considerations are twice
as many more" This is roll OF national
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