Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-26

signed a defnate time for vote. 1t
was conceded as one of the most able
efforts of the Generals Congressional
career. taking the wind quite out of the
sails of Judge Kelley's craft, in the
opinion of Ewing's opponents. 1t ap-
pears to be the prevailing opinion that
should Woods joint resolution for ad-
journment on the 22d be adopted, the
Senate Financial Committee will not re-
port the Bland silver bill this session;
otherwise that it will be reported divest-
ed of some of its crudities and with
many important amendments. The
Paris Exposition business has made very
slow progress Notwithstanding its great
Importance to many of our industrial
interests and the pressing necessity for
immediate action if our exhibitors or
those desiring to be such, are TO be
effectively represented, and if the ar
rangements requisite to creditable ex-
hibition are to be made in the short
time remaining-so short that the loss
of day even, at this juncture, is very
serious matter. Saying nothing of the
very prevalent suspicion that Hewitt's
bill which provides for a Commissioner
General at salary of several thousand
dollars and twenty subordinates at the
starvation rates of 81, 900 each and pay
their own expenses, is intended to rec
ompense Gen. Hawley for his services at
New Orleans on the Commission. the
feeling is certainly against providing a
fat place for one favorite and voting
those having all the work to perform a
rate of compensation that will not ena-
BILE them to live respectfully. And it
appears to be the almost universal
verdict that it were better to ignore the
whole matter and attempt no represen-
tation at all, if the amount to be devoted
to that purpose is to be limited to the
appropriation-S50, 000-proposed in
the substitute offered by the economical
representative of Tammany, Mr.. Samuel,
Sunset, Cox. There is no end of the
bills that have been introduced this ses-
sion on almost every conceivable subject
relevant and otherwise but the vast
majority of them are destined to give up
the ghost in the rooms of the Committees
to which they have been, respectfully,
referred. Modest Georgia puts in a
claim for reimbursement for an unknown
sum of money spent for the Governments
good and behoof away back almost IL
prehistoric times, or at least in the last
century. Mr. Ransome always wants
something, the latest evidence of this
peculiar and. unusual trait in public
men, being found in his resolution APP
propriating $l,000,O00, to pay certain
persons for alleged services performed
in the South prior to 1861, among then
mail carriers and contractors. There
appears no reasonable doubt that thu
'Solid" and "Conciliated'' South, Ii
bearing its right arm for a big grab IL
the Treasury vaults for that section
much of it to be distributed. as more o
less direct gratuities for the disloya
cause taken by individuals and commun
tiles from 1861 to 1865. The Pacif
Railroad lobby is said to regard the va
rious movements already begun to fore
that purse-proud monopoly to pay it
debts, with great CONSERVATION. Senate
, Davis is again fourishing the rod he ha
| SO long had in pickle for the Treasur
book-keepers, over their heads. In tn
opinion of most of his associates hi
charges of gross errors, made purposel
/ to deceive, have been satisfactoril
J proved to have no foundation; but h
returns to them with a persistency of
: monomainac each session, until the
have become as dreary and monotonou
as the buzzing of blu-bottle on mid
2 summers afternoon. On the whol
E participants in the recent Republica
f Senatorial caucuses, do not appear
: have gained much that was satisfactor
{ through the delegation sent to the Whit
4 House conference; and think | am sal
: in assuring your readers that "we shall
f soon see what we shall see." UNDINE.