Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-08

THE BURLINGTON FIR
IMPORTANT MEASURES HANDLED BY MR. EDMUNDs
The editor of the Free Press fortunate having
covered old papers manuscript which evidently
ed through the hands Of the late George Granville Benedict
decades ago, after being labeled by the latter
filed for in connection with future sketch of the
late United States Senator George F. Emunds These notes
are written in hand which helps to show that they
from Washington and furnished by intimately
quanted with the chief acts of the long public of Mr.
Edmun The data of great historical interest and value
that reproduce the entire with only slight modica-
ton Our readers will note the bearing of the acts relative
to telephone and postal SERVICE railway control and nterna
tona Developments and other measures on issues before the
people of this country to-day.
The list is preaced by the words Some of the important
with which he has been specially connected and
it reads follows:
The bill to admit Colorado State in 1866 with con-
suOn restricting 1 suffrage s 1.e to whites He opposed in
the Senate thanked him for it.
He made chairman Of the joint committee on re-
issues of bonds and paper Which report
finally settled the question Of the alleged frauds and ove
committee he reported and passed the office law
1857 he was t1 made member Of the COMMITTEES the
ments, which came from that committee
When the public credit began be questioned and the
right to all debts paper asserted he in
Noyember 1861 introduced joint resolution pedging the
public faith to the payment of the debt in coin and
resolutions made law immediately after General Grant
became president and think the first bill signed by
The work of his committee retrenchent led to getting
paid into the treasury about millions Of dollars the
ceeds OF captured and abandoned property which being
rapidly returned to rebel claimants under Johnsons pardo
He member of the select committee of the Sen
ate to provide for conducting the proceedings the mpeach
ment Of President johnson.
At Grants first election he took active and successful
part excluding the electoral votes of the late rebel States
not yet readmitted.
He introduced and got passed the bill stop paying the
who had enlisted drafted in
during the rebellion, which payments going
He the first propose and urge that money
be paid from the the subsidized railroads for trans
interest the bonds and he persisted the effort
bring them to protect the United States until the sinking
to obey.
He reported and had charge of and carried through the
forms the principal body of the law that subject He did
the respect the act to enforce the 18th amendment
introduced the Senate adopted the resolution which
stopped the further issue Of bonds or Land certificates the
He introduced reported and managed the bill to dis
tribute British award of $155OOO0O among the
proper claimants and excluding the insurance corporations
He was active causing declare before the
election of 1876 that the Joint rules which gave each House
the democratic House of Representatives full negative
troll, were no longer in force
He reported from the select committee of which he was
chairman the electoral count bill under which Mr. Hayes was
practically installed as president
He introduced the resolution adopted by the Senate
vdng for putting in the appropriation bill means of fastening
the disposition of pension in the department. and
again for providing for expedtng the disposition Of pension
appealed the decision of the committee to the
rotary of the interior.
In the time when the democrats had both Houses OF Con-
he vigorously resisted the tackled by them on
appropriation bills repeating much of the republican legislation
for the protection of equal rights and fair voting in the South
and the president vetoed the BILL The at the time
reported the saying of the veto was the voice
Jacob Edmun that the hand the hand of Esau Hayes
He offered and the Senate adopted in executive session the
resolution calling the president to terminate the last fish
cries and reciprocity treaty with Great Britain The Senate
took off the of from the and ala
Mr. unique of voting request that he write out
the speech had delivered the OCCASION
be printed and made public in the Record ~
He has introduced and supported the postal telegraph Dill
(Which spite corporate opposition will yet become law
which designed give the people cheap telegraph facilities
in connection with the post offices. 900 "
He passed and introduced the bill which has twice or
three times passed the and again pending providing
counting the votes and asceranng the result OF
presidential elections , go, -, 4,,
He formed and introduced the bill which has, though
strongly opposed claimants of grants twice the
Senate and is again pending providing for settling all ques
lions concerning Mexican and Spanish land grants in safe
judicial way to make the small settlers under the
public land laws safe in their possessions.
brought forward and procured the passage of the
laws viii at