Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-13


whose assistance the bill could not pass.
Honest and efficient members are in
equity entitled to the increase, but the
policy of retraction is always question
able, and in this instance will create
more censure than would dozen grabs
which in the end would make hundred
men immensely rich.
That was a grevious sin of omission
perpetrated by the Senate when it re-
fused the Presidents request for legisa-
tive remedy for the Louisiana muddle.
The most honest Republican statesmen
here are of this opinion, while partizan
dlscipllnarians incline to the other view.
The report of the Louisiana committee
of the Senate tells us that the Kellogg
government is monstrous usurpation,
and Carpenter, in his speech, declared
that but for Federal bayonets it would
be overthrown by the people in ten days.
If present indications mean anything,
complete business paralyzation will be
apt to follow the complete violation of
our principles of government by the
people in Louisiana. The Republican
party cannot afford to incur this grave
responsibility, nor will it add to the
glory of the great American republic,
now towering aloft for the emulation of
the infant republics of the old world.
Congress must solve this problem some
time, and what better time to do
right than now? There is still talk, and
little prospect, of a called session for
this purpose.
One of the last things done by this
Congress was to kill in conference COM
mittee the bill setting apart certain
public lands for the endowment of
State Agricultural Colleges. The bill
introduced by Hon. j. S. Morrill, had
lost nothing of its identity in amend
ments and perhaps owes this and its final
defeat to the friends of the national edu-
cational bill, which bill proposes to APP
propriate public lands to its use. Both
measures have strong friends in and out
of Congress, and will probably pass next
session, perhaps together. There was
lively tussle between the ''Globe Com
pany' (Rives and Bailey and Murtaugh
of the Daily Republican,, local, over the
publishing of the debates of Congress.
This is one of the biggest loaves in the
national pantry, and, as fish in the ma.
tional aquarium, is of the genus whale
Both parties got nary bite, for the final
result was to order the debates published
at the government printing office, under
the public printer, Hon. A. NJ. Clapp.
AFTER INAUGURATION.
Your specials have already given the
| details of the imposing ceremonial. We
are glad, for we always like to draw our
conclusions from two sides of a thing
The golden mean in all things has great
attraction for us, if we are not always
able to hit it.. Inauguration approach
ed with growl from the weather office,
which growl was fiercest about the time
of the Swearing in of the President upon
the east porticO of the Capitol. There
was no use for the upper end of Their
mometers that day.
1.-THE wind blew as 'twad bIawn its last;
| The rafting showers tof sandl rose ON the
blast"
and the result was the natural con-
sequence of a terribly cold day, and a
crowd of people, stamped, shivered,
rubbed their noses and ears, sputtered
and swore about everything in general
because nobody in particular could be
blame. We witnessed the ceremony
! from a window in the Senate. that is,
| part of the time we saw it, and the rest
! of the time we found ourself looking
| into misty realms of real estate borne
| u,Ebtl VIC SCuliS LCDll -. i ~ 10 IL was
| the best ocular demonstration imaginable
| of the saying, ''nOw you see, and now
YOU don't see" But some of our best
friends were "on the spot, and we can
assure the readers of THE HERALD that
it was all done right. The pageant was
grand in the extreme, and the military
display imposing; but ask a man any
! question you please on that day, and his
| reply would be apt to have an appendix
/ upon the weather. Public sentiment here
wore rather an injured air upon this
/ point, but when in thirty-siX hours after
| the mild south wind woke nature to
smiles, and soft sunshine lured summer
insects out to sport public sentiment
passed from its feeling of injury to one
of outrage. No decidedly essential
thing was omitted, so that in consequence
no national interest will suffer the COM
| ing four years. But it was especially
hard on that kind of boys play, known
as the carnival, which Washington saw
a year or two ago on the Inauguration
or celebration of the wooden pavement,
and which it was proposed to repeat on
the 5th, but which, on the 9th, was
found to be froZe up. 1t rather chilled
the enthusiasm, too, of the vOtaries of
the Eight fantastic toe, tjp-t0e We
mean. The stupendOus preparations for
this ball outd0ne anything we ever saw
in the line. A hall was erected for the
purpose, covering nearly an entire
square. 1t looked at a distance like a
small capital, not so small either. There
was nothing about it done on the half
shell" Tickets were twenty dollars,
and no dead-heads This to insure the
indispensable felicity of 'eXclusiveness.
The most extensive preparations were
made for refreshments, counting upon
at least eight or ten thousand guests,
and all would have gone merry as mar
riage bell, but that old gray interlOper.
known as Jack Frost, appeared upon
the scene and insisted upon attending.
We are told that he insisted upon dane
ing with every fair belle, who in cOnse-
quence felt obliged to keep her wrap
pings on. He held sway on the floor
while the heat generated for the 0cca-
sion, escaped to the top of the mammoth
building or ont through the cracks The
attendance We are advised was slim. and
of the fragments of the feast two bar
rels- turkeys, cold meats, etc were
given to the poor. Owing to our 0rlho
doX persuasion we are not much Oh balls
anyhow, but we endorse so much of this
recherche affair as ultimately reached the
numerous freezing, starving poor of this
city.
Following the grand CD ball five
dollar masquerade" was given in the
building to which impecunious ambition
if unable to do something absolutely nice
could go five dollars worth; then follow
ed fifty cent promenade to the vul-
gar crowd who gathered in large num-
bers.
Somehow, this performance reminds
us of the old miser whose neighbor re-
marked to him that he (the miser, was
reported to have very excellent way
of preserving his cider. Calling his son
the miser sent for mug of the cider;
and after drinking the cider handed the
empty mug with the remark, ''iust
smell that and see if it amt good"
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