Connecticut western news., 1880-05-12

April 30 says: ssThe Chilian fleet is bom-
 barding Callao. The Chilian army is
 advancing rapidly upon Tacna."
 | At Harrisburg, Pa, Messrs. Kem- ble, Crawford, Salter, Petrof and Rum
 berger were granted pardons releasing
 them from imprisonment, and having
 paid their fines were set at liberty.
 The Supreme Court at San Francisco
 has granted writ of habeas corpus in
 the case of Denis Kearney.
 M. H. De Young has been arrested by Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, on a charge of libel for publishing in his | paper an editorial from New York newspaper.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 | The resolution presented in the Sen- ate by MT. Morgan providing for count ing the votes for President requires that | the concurring vote of both Houses shall
 be necessary to reject the vote of any State if only one list is received from it
 but if more than one list is received the concurring vote of both Houses will be required to allow any list to be counted. | President Hayes returned the I'm mediate Deficiency bill to the House with his objections to it. The bill, his veto message says, appropriates about $8, ,00O, 900, of which over $500, ,0O0 is for
 the payment of the fees of United States marshals and of the general and special deputy marshals earned during the cur rent fiscal year and their incidental ex- penses. The objection to the bill,
 therefore, to which I respectfully call your attention, is that it gives marked and deliberate sanction, at tended by no circumstances of press ing necessity, to the questionable, and, as I am clearly of opinion, the dangerous practice of tack;ng upon appropriation bills general and perma- nent legislation. This practice opens wide door to nasty, inconsiderate and upon the independence and constitutional powers of the Executive by providing an easy and effective way of constraining Executive discretion. Although of late this practice has been resorted to by all political parties when clothed with power, 1t did not prevail until forty wears after the adoption of the Constitut ton; and it is confidently believed that 1t is condemned by the enlightened judgment l of the country. The States which have | adopted new constitutions during the last quarter of a century have generally provided remedies for the evil. Many of | them have enacted that no law shall con- tain more than one subject, which shall be plainly expressed in it's title. The constitutions of more than half the States contain substantially th1s provision or | some other of like intent and meaning. | The public welfare will be promoted in many ways by return to the early prac- tice of the Government and to the true rule of legislation, which is that every measure should stand upon its own merits. What course the majority Democrats will adopt in regard to the vetoed Imme- l diate Deficiency bill, Washington dis | patch says, does not yet appear. One proposition is to send the alleged rider to the President as separate measure, and another is to make provision for all the subjects covered by hevetoed bill, except the marshals, andte affix to the bill pro- v1ding for them alone condition similar to that which caused the veto, leaving them to wait another year for their pay | if the President chooses to exercise his veto power again.
 The House Post Office Committee decided to offer the following amend | ments to the Post Office Appropriation 1 bill Increasing the appropriation for railroad routes $500, ,OOO, to make the aggregate amount $1 ,000, ,000; inserting an additional item of $4OO, ,O0O for special transportation and fast mails; adding $50, ,000 for the pay of railway clerks,
 who shall be divided into classes, the present designations of route agents, mail route messengers, local agents and rail
 way postal clerks to be abolished, and
 adding $6, 900 to purchase the right to
 use return postal cards. Mir. Money
 was also instructed to offer his bill to regulate the manner of increasing service and expediting routes as further amend ment.
 For the contingent and miscellane- I ous expenses of the Senate, $170, ,352 has been appropriated and $145, 437 expended up to May l. The Investigating commit
 tees have thus far expended the following
 amounts Senate Exodus Committee, 1 $16, ,525; Freedmen Bank Investigation,
 9,O79; Kellogg Investigation, $7,297 ];
 Ingalls, Investigation, $6, ,4O8; Removal
 of the Northern Cheyennes and Poncas,
 $5, ,827; the Accounts of the Treasury,
 g., ,547; in Rhode Island, $3, ,475.
 Our Consul at Sierra Leone reports
 that while an inviting field for trade with
 the United States IS nore opened, aDOub 13 per cent of it is secured. No Ameri-
 can agricultural machines or implements are known there. Twelve American yes sels only entered the port in 1879. The population is about 40, 900, a good degree , of civilization exists, and schools and churches are numerous and efficient. } Our Consul at Lyons reports the
 silk trade very active. The exports of the last quarter show an increase of 3, 3,OOO,OOO francs over 1879, and of about 6,OOO,0 900 oyer 1879, Prices have not advanced much except for fancy goods. It is understood that the Attorney l General sustains the position of the
 Comptroller of the Currency that na- tional banks may withdraw their bonds to the maximum amount of $50, 900 and substitute legal tender therefor. The opinion has not been officially submitted to Secretary Sherman, but will probably reach him early next week.
 The committee of the Washington Monument Association has asked for an , appropriation of $677, ,0O0 more, and say
 1t will take four working seasons to com
 plete the monument. UNITED STATES CONGRESS-. ! SENATE.