The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-04-28
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w ASIIINGTON, April -.
The result of private conferences Of
lnflationist senator, is announced to be
an understanding that the vetoed bill
shall receive, when the question is put
to pass it, Notwithstanding the Presi
dents veto, every vote that it received
when it passed before,
Measures providing for free banking
with the retiring of percentage of
greenbacks seem now most likely to be
favorably considered, Morton announce
es his determination, should the ques-
ton not be settled by Congress this
session, to take the stump on it,
AT caucus of initiation senators, held
in Senator Morton's rooms, last even
ing, it was arranged for Morton, Logan,
Carpenter, Ferry of Michigan, and
West, to issue an address to the Repub-
lican party of the country, replying to
the Presidents veto, charging him with
Inconsistency, and arguing that the We
to message will dcprcss the interests of
the country, and represents only 1.-THE
PRESIDENT views as against Il majority
of the people. and that the Republican
party j. not responsible.
Several prominent Senatorial inila-
| tionists said to-day that nothing had
| been done as the result of their recent
confer ence, but they await further de
velopments before taking action in II
manner that will show their true po-
| sition to the country.
The Senate Finance Committee will
this week consider the House Finance
| Bill, and il is thought by many con
servative men that a bill may be franz
| ed, acceptable TO the Senate combining
/ the feature of redemption, provided in
/ that bill with The right to issue adj
ditional bank notes oh condition that
/ certain proportion of legal tender
notes shall be withdrawn al the same
time, and many are of the opinion that
if such a bill shall DO reported from the
Senate Committee with a provision
authorizing free banking it will pass
the Senate and House and receive the
approval of the President.
THE LOUISIANA SUFFERERS Wasting
ton, April 24.-Ex.Governor Herbert
to-day received telegra from the May.
or of New Orleans requesting President
Grant to order rations to be issued
promptly; The wants Of our people arc
pressing He who gives quickly gives
doubly to a starving people. The Presi
dent replied as follows Dear Governor
before receiving the resolution Of Con
gress authorizing the issue Of assistance
to the Louisiana sufferers, directed thu
Commissary General to sena all the ra
tions Of -four, meat, rice and beans h
could, to the people in distress. In ad
dition to the above, the Quartermaster
General has orders Of the President an,
has caused to be sent from the depot a
Jacksonville. Indiana, considerabl
supply of flannel blouses, jackets, shoes
hats, caps, etc, to the sufferers.
THE DISTRESS INCREASING.
NEw ORLEANS, April n.
| The distress occasioned by the over
flow increases. The creyase at Hickey
| is beyond control, being quarter of
| mile wide and ten feet deep Almost tn
/. entire parish of West Baton Rouge an
s the whole of the parish Of lderville, lyin
c ON the right bank Of the Mississippi RiN
I er, appears to be under water. The GOV
ernment will turn over to the relief con
t mittec 500 900 rations, meat, bread bear
; and rice,