The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-13
oUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 9th, 1874.

WAsu1SGToN, d. c., June 9Th, 1874.
EDITOR CHIEF:
We have to report continued dull
ness in congress, as regards questions
of Importance to the general welfare,
tbouqh some of the debates have
been of local interest, and others not
without a touch of tartness and hui
NOR, Thus there was the question OF
passports furnished to people going
abroad. Years ago the price OF
passport was 50, then during the war
it was raised to s., and afterwards
passports were made free. The
proposition was to renew the fee OF
S5, and one would not think there |
was much milk in a coeonut OF that
kind-but there was. Butler wanted
to raise the price to $40, because it
would fall on the rich, who are the
only people who go abroad, and be-
cause it would tend to keep people ut
home. People, he said, go abroad
and spend their money and impover-
ish the country, and buy all their
clothes there, thus cheating the tail
ors and the weavers at home of their
chance of work, and rubbing the
government of revenue, whilst they
get false and aristocratic notions into
their heads, and all sorts of extrava-
! cant and foolish ideas. At this Hol-
man of Indiana pumped down upon
Butler, with the accusation that he
was the enemy of the poor natural
lied man, who after having been in
this country a few years and voted,
wanted to return to the old country
and display the broad seal of the
State Department TO the astonished
| gaze of the potentates Of Europe, as
evidence of citizenship, and to pro-
tect them from the tyranny OF Euro
pean monarchies, and Butler, he said,
wanted all these poor men to pay $50
J for the privilege. Then Butler said
if man was poor he could go with
out passport, as four-tifths of them
did. and Holman said Buffers face
: was as good as a passport, but the
f Joke about Buffers face is so old that
no one laughed. The amount OF II
all was that 40, 600 persons go abroad
of whom 5000 get passports, and the
rest go without. A tax of So would
probably induce the whole to &c
f without, and tax of 81 would yielt
ten or twelve thousand dollars. Tbs
e price was fixed at So.
# There was some debate on TIN
E "bark" question in which Butler
Z Conger, Bradley and others, EN-
barked in the interests of their con
stituents. The New York and Mich
igan farmers are in favor of a tarii
upon bark, and the Eastern tanner
o and shoe manufacturers, are opposes
to it. Mr.. Conger was the champion
of the farmers, and carried his point
IL After so many months of rumo
1t concerning the intentions of Mr.. Rich
artlson, he has at last concluded t
leave the Treasury. He was nomi
e. mated Judge of the Court Of Claims
h and Mr.. Bristow of Kentucky for Sec
rotary, on Monday. Bristow, as Sol
citor General, made favorable in
preston here, as he is able: genia
and popular in manners. Consider
ing the panic, Mr.. Richardson leav'
lis the Treasury in good condition, Il
no debt the past year having been r
duced two and a half millions.
General Butler got bill to thil
III reading on Monday to allow wom'
of to practice law in the U. S. Court
Mr.. Dawes pushed through the Tar
on bill on the same day, and a large bu
ar mess was done with many measur
es of minor Importance.
We have to report a case of unha
piness-Dawes, of Mass. -Four yea
q" ago, he opened up on the Chorpen
ing clainl-Ch. as in k.--and stalk
X his reputation before the countI
that it was a fraud. He made OF
es that the man had not done half t
lin service he pretended; had been me
is than twice paid, and was claiming
the third time; that he had smuggl