Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
From Our Regular Correspndent.l
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. %, 1881.
This has been comparatively busy
week in both houses OF the natlonai
congress. and. while it IS believed an
extra session cannot be avoided, It's WORK
will he considerably lightened if congress
shall continue at this rate during the lie"
remaining days of the session. Inc
House passed the three per cent reiunu-
inc bill, and the navy appropriation blu.
The Senate passed a brace ofappropriat'on |
hills: awarded 800, 900 to Ben Holiday |
who claimed half a million; settled the
Kellogg case; made hasty adverse DIS
posal of Senator McDonald's resolution 10
t appoint regular committee to consider
the rights of women; debated the lhdi'h
severalty bill; aud, in executive SESSION.
appointed a committee to investigate the
manner in which the Chinese treaty was
r made public. Since the invention OF
vires and cables, the enterprise oil the
Y nress has left the old fashioned diplomatlst
= in the lurcb, and now, when our grave
: IL.
/. House of Lords takes up for discussion IN
y secrecy, this long longed for treaty, they
a are shocked to know that it has been
a published in the papers. Alas! what
an affront to all the venerable traditions oil
!, diplomacy. Senator Edmunds, OF Yer
h mont. was decidedly angry, and he moved
a that committee be appointed to invest
OF cate the means by which the treaty became
" nnblic There were only four correspon
dents who obtained copies OF the docu
e. ments, and it is fair TO presume that tne1
nf did not steal what could be obtained 10
tv the asking thereof. AS, also, each oil INT
A correspondents aforesaid are gentlemen
wv it is hardly probable that they will reVe'
oh the sources from which they derived thel
nm information, even though, as Senator Ed
EN- munds suggested to-day, they should b
* locked up "between four cold walls &c
three. six, or nine months, or nine years
until they told what they have no bushes
to tell. The last occasion on which II
Senate un lertook to find out who "ga'
# awav' its secret proceedings was whe
life he New York Tribune published tt
DRY Washington treaty. The investigate
ing was, MS might have been expected, fru'
we less. If the committee on privileges an
me elections has any disposition to nqul
hey into ancient history, it might summ'
mes Senator Edmunds and ask him if his CO.
OF of the Washington treaty bore any mar
ave of having passed through the telegra
office between the time that he first plac
title it ON his desk at home. and looked at
lone npaiu several weeks later.
hes. The unterrifed agitators in favor
turn woman's acknowledgements, Mrs. Stanto
Misses Anthony, Cousins and Others IA
' of been holding another convention IN l.
coin Hall. and on yesterday, they sat
the Senate gallery, and saw dlsas
cted overwhelm the little resolution, offered
ool the freshly married Senator Mcdonald
Han ,ha;r favor. No one can listen to
r. Anthony or Mrs. Stanton without bel
latt h; impressed with the ability and capabi
3eni. of these ladies; but the efforts oil
Min Younger and fresher champions are
.ska, edfying. They talk too much with u
the mouths.