News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-28
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The bill introduced Dy Mr.. Joyce
of Vermont, to regulate the charges OF
telegraph companies, is designed to
prevent one telegraph company from
declining to accept business from
another company, or from charging
higher tolls to such company than are
usually charged to corporations oil
private individuals. The bill is the
outgrowth of the quarrel between the
Mutual Union and the Western Union
companies. 1t has been submitted tc
eminent legal counsel, who have ex-
pressed the opinion that it is entirely
within the power Of Congress to dc
what the bill proposes.
The number of pensioners on the
rolls at the first of this month, was
291 ,659, to whom is annually paid
s30,013, 900.
The House Committee on Pensions
has come to the conclusion that the
present is a proper time to report a
bill granting pensions to all surviving
soldiers of the Mexican war and the
widows of such soldiers, and the In
dian wars prior TO that time. In
other words, it will report bill which
the Commissioner of Pensions says
will cost the Treasury over $100, 000,-
900. 1t appears that only six of the
eleven members of the Pension Com
mittee were present when it was voted
to report the bill, and that those vot-
ing for it were Messrs. Rice and Bur-
rows (Greenbackers) of Missouri, Mr..
Fulkerson (Readjuster) Of Virginia,
and Mr.. Hewitt (Democrat) of Ala
bama. In other words, Representa-
tives from States which are not de-
irving large sums of money from the
pension fund, come forward now and
report a bill TO pay So per month to
every man who served go days in the
Mexican war, and to every man who
served 80 days in the Indian wars,
and the widows Of such soldiers who
have died. The bill of course repeats
the provision OF the Revised Statutes
of the United States, which prohibits
the payment Of pensions to men who
aided or abetted the late Rebellion
against the authority of the United
States. An exception is made which
excludes Jefferson Davis from the
benefits of the bill. Inasmuch as the
is now paying an average
of 100, 900, 900 for pensions, and will
have to appropriate $3.50, 900, 900 this
year, Congress will scarcely be able
to add the classes above referred to,
to the pension list, however deserving
they may be.
Fifteen Congressman have not re-
ported to the House, thus far during
the session, and about one hundred
and fifteen are absent, with or with
out leave.
President Arthur has abandoned
his projected visit to New York, and
will keep Christmas" at the Soldiers
Home, with his son, his daughter and
his sister.
1t is reported that ex-senator Eaton
Of Connecticut, has finally concluded
to be candidate for the Speakership.
Mr.. Eaton is the best preserved spec
linen of a Bourbon in New England.
He holds to the extreme doctrines of
State supremacy.
The Greenback, National Com
uittee, including Gen. Weaver,
Messrs. De la Matyr, Chambers of
Texas, Hopkins of New York, and
Springer of Maine, held a meeting
asst week, in St. Louis, and discussed
/ proposition to dissolve the Green
back party, and call a convention of
Ill those who are opposed to the Re-
publican and Democratic parties.
These gentlemen appear to have come
20 the conclusion that the rag infant
s dead. Better late than never.
Those who have read the doleful
of the White House, writ
.en by Mrs. President John Adams,
when she came here from Philadel-
phia, eighty-two years ago, would not
the state apartments now as
the same unfinished, barn-liks rooms,
in which the laundry maids used to
dry their clothes. A force of New
York artists, supsrintended by Mr..
Tiffany, have decorated the blue room
IN the most aesthetic style, taking
nature as q model. First" we are
told, "the earth, dense and heavy
and dark, then the waving foliage of
the trees, lighter in color and reflect
ing the sunshine, and above all, the
airy liRhtness OF the transparent sky
this il nature. First, q floor of
lark antique blue, then ascending
walls of lighter tint, and above all n
selling where the blue melts gradu-
lily into gray and silver-this is high
.rt." Whether it will not give the
,rand old room the air of New York
ancy drinking saloon, remains to be
cen. But the young ladies of the
oscar Wilde School, pronounce it
too utterly utter"
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