The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
From Washington.
THE POLITICAL wRANGLE ovH"-fiiA
JOHN PoWTERs BILL PASSED -'thfAr
spERcH by SENATOR DNowS - FohIifi
CATIONS APPRoPRiA7loN = hANDAlL
,Io, us HIS PARTY TO ECONOMY.

THE POLITICAL WRAEGhr wv"
JOHN P0RTERs BiJL rAoon" snEni
SPEECH BY SENATOR BNowH roN'ri
.,r,,.xo .puuoput AqlON - RANDALL
HOLDS HIS PARTY TO EcoNo"f'
Tha event of TN. week has been Il pow
.rf,I snsech "Wednesday by Brown, the
now senator tr,tn Georgia, on devoting
the mr. 'ceels of the Sales OF certain pup,
uc lands 10 public education. lereviewed
the history of the negro r','V - W" - tha;r
trv aud enforcrd the necessity 81 their
aj,c,,;on for tbe maintenance Of repuo'
Renrhl;r,n could heartily indorse. He
holdiy took the nuu by The horns aud
recommended pub 10 ednc'tloii ~ w
preventive aud cure OF eiet'loh n"uu9i
putting the whole argument III n''tshen
when he said that Ignorance cth Always
DO cheated He rcaihrmed tine accepV
ance of the situation aud al t'ie coiiS.itu-
ton AS modified by recent amendments
and went even further Than some repuo'
licans would pro )ably follow nm III ar
guing that the federal government mltht
foster education among the 'lates. ne
| declared that in his opinion, republican
form of government could hot 10 NAM
iained in some of the southern states
| without the promotion of education by
grants from the national ire! sliry. Inc
speech was liberal and national IN It's
tone.
The Democrats Of the house did them :
selves credit Tuesday by letting 90 OF
the eector squabble. though they ha' to
leave victory with Republican DENT :
gogues of the Robeson, Conger stripe.
They brought up the Wood 5 per
cent rel, ndng bill on which ChLienden
and Warner made speeches,
The Ftz John Porter bill was disposed
of by the sen te Tuesday. Mr.. Randolph
accepted bstitnte which simply au-
| thorlzed the President, at any lime with
in eighteen months, to nominate Porter
to an army position, but of no higher
grade than that of colonel on the retired
list, Although GEN Logan @gain ex
| pressed his conriotioT that Porter hal
merited traitors dearh, and Gen. Burn
side read an elaborate treatise on the
case, no opposition was nude to the tax
ing of II woe, when the bill was passed,
no Republican voting for it, The debate
which arose over the mere announce,
ment by Mr.. Salisbury that he would
next Thursday cali upthe resolutions uH-
seating kellogg, shows, however, that the
Senate will no remain long without Its
Partisan excitemepts Mr.. Z 'mund'
brought in bill to revive the Alabama
Claims Commission. Mr.. Morril intro
dnced u resolution Directing an ioquiry
whether would not BE- II good thing for
tue post-office department 10 annex tie
telegraph service of the country. In the
House Mr.. Morey secuted authority for
his committee t. investigate abu' eS by
congressman Of their lranking privilege,
Banker Morton introduced a bill Charter
Jog Nicaraguan canal company witt
U. S, Grants name at the head OF the
list of corporItor5.
rhe House passed the ratification
appropriation bill Wednesday precisely
as the committee reported it. There
was an interes ing and rather important
tight between the friends OF economy
and the advocates of liberal approprn
tons The bill appropriated 500 00o
for the protection. preservation and rc-
pair of f1rtitications. The military com-
mittee wanted 10 increase this TO tive
times the amount and inaugufaie an
elaborate system of coast dcfenses. Joe
Johnston champoned this view with
eight or ten democrats and the great
maj ,rity Of republicans. Speak + R!n-
dali, however, made IL vigorous and
telling speech against the project,
and held the bulk of his party to its eco
nomlcal attitude, in which they were
ioinei by dozen or fifteen republ cans.
so that the increase was defeated by a
vote of 90 to So. The Speaker APP
peared very much pleased at the result,
and he had II right to be, for there
is considerable budy of members ready
to vote away the public money pretty
recklessly this session.
Before the Senate addressed itself to the
Fig John Porter case Monday, there Wa,
some debate upon the Weather Bureau,
ending with the reference to the Com.
mitlee ON Military All airs of a resolution
providing that appointments TO the post
uf Chief Signal officer may be made
from the navy ae well as The army. In
the House there was some trouble over
tiH seating of ar, TAMoR, elected frem
Gartield's district. to ill the vacancy
occasioned by GArdeld's Resignation
Mr. Hurd of Olio pointed out That the
election had been held in the Nineteenth
District as IL was In 1000 ous sinGo ', ~
IT'S bound 'r'es nave oeeh cnaoseo. M
Meyers calie" ior in'ol nhI'ou "' INV
sums OF money "n'cii 'ie ua''ol n''s
pa. s1 " w. nsn p .,nt NJ C,,no brouoh HI.
!c'eu "1s, o'n ,;,,;n., ,rosS n1,i.a If 1b.
~ "ro 'e no. ~ d,o,rine which
vnai"y :" tno ..n,, oo ~ frao;,', hi.
Sase IVA .n 10 opp ,u',,n, ~ n. Unuse in
ui'nu upoh VIC .onuu w W suhi -, hafo,a
ho' 'aAins "'''oA va ','0 ''
MI, Deueui 10 ~ -, ,ro,,,
"aro ,ue aooi'i'ou vi tno 49,,
with Germany IN oruer 10 see = new
one that Will give more Prote'c'o w. ~
American natuiailzed cltizens' lhe
House adopted resolutions OF sympalnl
with the laboring classes Of Ireland
and of coincidence with France over the
death of Nine. Theirs. There were in
all eiohtv-seyen bills and resolutions 10
reduced among them constitui ional
under the control OF the Federal Gov,
eminent. and bill 10 reioim the c,V'