Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-17

uen- Butter Is reported to have notified
another member of the Potter committee
that had he been present at the meeting Of
the committee the resolution calling for the
investigation Of the cipher, dispatches would
not have been adopted. He is understood
to hold that the seizure Of kilograms is a
violation of civil right and a gross outrage
upon individual liberty, and he has served
notice upon the Pc tier committee that he
desires an hour to debate the question.
Which is very cool, considering the reckless
and outrageous manner in which the General
has himself used private kilograms when he
had ends of his own to serve.
The House banking and currency commit
tee, of which Mr.. Buckner is chairman,
and which has heretofore proved fruitful
source of financial quaekerieS, decided,
Wednesday, ip favor of the following pro-
positions ITO forbid the sale of any more
bonds for purposes of resumption to forbid
any reduction in the volume of paper circu-
laton below the amount outstanding May
81. 1873, to forbid the issue of any green
back Of higher denomination than 81 900
as a substitute for gold certificates; and to
require the reissue Of all greenblcks." The
committee will propose this as an amend
ment to the Senate substitute for the bill to
repeal the resumption act.
George Q. Cannon, the Mormon delegate
id Congress, wants that body to pass relief
act that will give amnesty to MOrmons for
past offences under the recent decision of the
Supreme Court (Which subjects all who have
lived in p1lygamy since July, 1862, to fine
and Imprisonment. and renders all the child
rem illegitimate) with the provisions that in
future all shall be held strictly to account
by the government under the criminal sec
tions of the law. This, he thinks, will grad
ualy but effectively break up polygamy.
Representative Caldwell, of Alabama,
is in Washington, making a canvass for
clerk of the House in the next Congress.
lie came within few votes Of getting the
position in the present Congress, and vii,
probably be successful next time.
The Senate committee appointed to inves-
tigate Stanley Matthews alleged connection
with the electoral conspiracy Of 1876, and |
his voluminous correspondence with Mr..
James Ananias Anderson, will let the mat
ter drop quietly and probably not make any
report.
Ten. Humphreys, chief of engineers, op-
poses any such surveys of the territories,
west Of the Tooth meridian, as proposed by |
the National Academy of Science, the cost
of which survey, of an area Of $4,000 |
square miles, at an estimated price Of the
coast surveys, or 1854 per square mile,
would be S475,0O0,0 900. or at the rate of
in the late survey, of Sl25 per
square mile, would be SlO2, 900 900, or at
the cost proposed by Gen. Comstock Omit
ing the States) of So, 456,000. or 49,
49,, 900, depending on the cost of establish
ng the standing points of the survey. No
uch survey of our Western lands, he thinks,
IS IS contemplated in any of the foregoing
tatement Of costs of survey would be
st this time, nor for many years
0 come. Secretary McCrsry concurs with
len. Humphreys.
Missourians are very active in support of
Ex-senator John B. Henderson for the Ber-
in mission. Another candidate, ex-Goy.
Iartranft, of Pennsylvania, will take the
dictatorship of Philadelphia, if he can't be
ierman minister, so it is said.
Some of the female sufragists called on {
ne President, and, the report says, deeply l
impressed the executive, who said "You 6
" have ignored the women Of the coun- {
y In my annual message. will carefully S
'nsider what you have said and the papers
on have presented to me. In my next
e.sage will act according to the dictates .
INV conscience aud the best light have" c