Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02

OF Vergennes; G. c. Martin, of North Fer
risburgh; jesse l.. Billings. of Rutland ;
Second. none; Third. j d. Sowles, of st.
Adams; j. G. JENNIE, OF Enosburgh j. E.
Wheelock, of Milton.
The committee further recommended that
the nomination of State tick be post
poned to meeting to be held at St. AL
bans, August 22nd and that the District
committees call their conventions az soon as
possible and appoint county committees.
The report was accepted and adopted
The committee on resolutions then re-
ported, through John R. Forest, as follows
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The financial system needed is, that all money
muse be issued by the Government; that whether
made oil metal or paper, it must be perfect and
complete in itself-be a full legal tender In every
case, and to any amount, in the payment and law
full discharge Of every species o: Indebtedness no
matter how little the commercial value Of the ms
terial of which it is made.
Congress shall create a suitable amount of money
in safe and convenient form to meet the necessary
requirements of the business and labor of the cOun
try:
There shall be no privileged class of creditors,
oficial salaries, pensions, bonds and all other
debts and obi cations public and private shall be
discharged in the legal tender money OF the
United States strictly according to the stipulations
of the laws under which they were incurred.
The public lands are the common property of the
whole people, and should not be sold to specula-
tors and granted to railroads or corporations but
should be donated to actual settlers in limited
quantities.
All useless off .es should be abolished the most
rigid economy enforced in every branch OF the pub
lie Service and severe punishment inflic ted upon
public officers who betray the trusts reposed in
them.
That graded income tax on all net incomes ex
ceedng two thousand dollars to be increased on
each add tonal one thousand dollars of income.
Tho resolutions were adopted.
c.. A. Skeels presented the following re
solution, which was adopted
Resoired, That the passage by Congress of joint
resolution declaring the principal OF the bonds pay
able In coin was an act Of iasrans in il stice, and
a grave breach OF pubic uust, which ought
by the Secretary Of the Treasury within the
present year of a largo amount Of four and one
half per cent bonds in advance of the govern
ments need of the money, and when four per
cent bond could have been hoated just as we'll, was
act of unaccountsble folly or impeachable fraud.
L. B. Averill. of Marshfeld. presented a
resolution demanding the abolition OF inter
est, in toto. Laid On the table.
Mr.. Skeels expressed himself dissatisfied
with the platform.
Gen. Stapnard moved that the State Com
mittee be authorized to fill vacancies in the
District Committees. Carried.
The Convention then adjourned to St.
Albans. August 22nd next. at 10 o'clock
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