Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

mas DGGu oCAtCuOCd W lllC pCLIICnLldIJ 1Ol GCn
years for having, as President of the Waikiki
National Bank, appropriated the funds Of
that institution to his own private use and
having proved defaulter for large amount
POLITICAL.
The New Hampshire Republican State Con-
vention, recently held at Concord, nominated
General Luther McCutchins, of New London,
for Governor, and DR.. G. r. Conn, of Con-
cord, for Railroad Commissioner. The reso-
buttons condemn the want of fidelity which
has characterized a few of those whom The
party has trusted with place and power; con-
denim and ''call upon our Senators and Rep
resentatives to vote for the unconditional re-
second Congress-" and also that those who
have proited by the back pay voted by the
Forty-secOnd Congress, shall return the
amount to the Government; protest
ing against any revival of the abuses of
the franking privilege, and that ''we will hail
the day when free passes, favoritism, and all
unjust determinations shall be eliminated
from railway management, and a correspond
ing reduction made in fares and in freights to
tendency to special legislation as a prolific
source of abuse, consuming time which should
be devoted to general business and tending to
prodigality, corruption, and the aggrandize-
ment of individual and corporate monopolies
at the expense of the people, etc.
The following dispatch was sent on the 18th
by President Grant to Governor Davis, of
Texas:
Your dispatches and letters, reciting the action
of the Supreme Court in Texas, in declaring the
late election unconstitutional, and asking for the
use OF troops to prevent an apprehended violence,
are received. The call is not made in accordance
with the Constitution of the United States and the
acts of Congress under IL, and cannot, therefore,
be granted. The acts of the Legislature of Texas
providing for the recent elections have received
your approval, and both political parties having
made nominations and having conducted the pclit-
ical campaign under its provisions, would it not be
prudent well as right to yield TO the verdict of
the people as expressed by their ballots?
U. S. GRANT.
The New Orleans Evening Times of the 18th
says dispatch had been received in that city
from Attorney General Williams, in which he
gives it as his decided opinion that Congress
will not order new election for Louisiana.
The Chaplain of the United States Senate, in
his opening prayer on the 18th returned thanks
to Divine Providence for the deed of the day
before, the repeal of the Salary bill, and that
the will of the people had been accomplished
in regard thereto.
The following is the vote in the Senate on
the repeal of the Salary bill:
Yeas-Allison, Anthony, Bayard, Bogy, Bore
man, Boutwell,, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter,
Chandler, Clayton, Conkling, CroZier, Davis, Dor
sey, Edmunds Fenton, Ferry mich J. Frelinghuy-
sen, Goldthwaite, Hamilton md }, Hamlin, Hitch
cock Howe. INGALLS, LOGAN. MClreerV. MerrmOn-
Mitchell, Morrill, (Me.) Morrill, (Vt.), Morton,
o0glesby, Patterson, Pratt, Ramsey, Robertson,
Wadleigh, West, Window, Wright-46.
NdyS-Brownlow, Conover, Flanagan, Gordon,
Lewis, Norwood, Sprague, Tipton-8
Mr.. Cooper announced that he paired with Mr.
Cragin who would have voted for the bill, and he
Cooper against 1t.
Not T6iing-Aicorn, Ames Dennis, Ferr
Conn, Gilbert Hamilton (Texas), Johnston,
Jones, Kelly, Ransom, Stewart, Thurman-12.
In the House the votes in the negative were
as follows:
Albert. Averill, Barry, Clymer, Cox, Grassland
Hays, Hines, Kelly, Kendall, Lamison, Moore,
Negley, Platt, Randall, Shanks, Sloss, Stamford,
Storm, Stowel, Todd, Waddell, White, Whitley,
Williams Cnd).
The following is the text of the bill as il
passed both Houses of Congress:
Be it enacted, ETC., That so much of the act OF
March 8, 1878, entitled AN act making appropria-
ton for legislative, executive and judicial ex-
penses of the Government for the year ending
June So 1874, as provides for the compensation OF
public officers and employees whether members OF
Congress, Delegates, Others, except President OF
the United States and Justices of the Supreme
Court, be and the same hereby is repealed and the
salaries, compensation and allowances of all said
persons, except aforesaid, shall be fixed by the
law in force the time of the passage of said act
provided that mileage shall be allowed for the first
eys appropriated as compensation to members OF
the Forty-second Congress, in excess of mileage
and allowances fixed by law at the commencement
of said Congress, and which shall not have been
drawn by members of said Congress respectively,
or which, having been drawn, have been returned
in any form to the United States are hereby COW
ed into the Treasury by the United States and de-
clared to be moneys of the United States absolute
~ the same as If they had never been appropriated
| as aforesaid.
The New Jersey Legislature organized or
the 18th byre-electing the old officers
The Legislature of Kansas met on the 18th
b. ID. McEkron was chosen Speaker. In tax
ing the chair he announced that he was a Re
publican, but he was in full sympathy witt
the peoples movement for reform and re
trenchment in every department of the Gov
eminent, national as well as State. Mr.. Nc
Ekron is farmer, and is said to be acceptabl,
to all the elements in the Legislature.
The Iowa Senate organized on the 18th b,
the election of the following officers: Secre
tary, j. A. F. Hull; Enrolling Clerk, ]. W
Logan; Engrossing Clerk, Master William
MAXWELL; Sergeant-at-Arms, T. w. Fawcett
Doorkeeper, A. F. Hofer; Postmaster, Mr.. F
L. Elliott; Assistant Postmaster, Anna P
Smith. In the House no organization wa
effected, the vote for Speaker being a tie be
tween the opposing candidates. After six un
successful ballots the House adjourned.
The Ohio Legislature on the 18th elected
the Hon. A. G. Thurman to the United State.
Senate, he receiving all the Democratic votes
the Republican members voting for the Hon
Edward F. Noyes.
The new Texas Legislature convened a
Austin on the 18th, without opposition from
Governor Davis or the Federal authorities
After completing an organization, Governor
Davis was notified that they were ready to re
ceive any communications he might wish tc