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Day
18
Month
February
Year
1876
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Public Domain
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- Every Monday (Monday being ' lution day) sume would-be-considered irewd Bepublican member üf the louse introduces a series f resoluions deolaring in favor of an early reurn to specie paymunts, and moves a uspension of the rules to permit thoir inmediato adoption, which being reused, he imagines that he has got a democratie deolaration in favor of inlatiou. Then he proceeds to caokle and the Republican journalists join in ;he concert as tbough each one of them ial also laid an egg. Hadn't these smart Republican Congreesmen better wait until their time ootnes ? They don't seem to accoiaplish muoh by thoir weeky 8pells. - A. Washington correspondent sonda a " special " to a New York daily - the Evening Po$t - of supposed importance. [t is an " eamett " deolaration from Col. Frad. Grant that " If anybody thinks thoro's any third term here, he's taken. Father don't want to be President any more, and wou't accept a nomination if the Cincinnati Oonvention offer it to him." There, now let the politicians breathe freer for the spaoe of a whole week : that is, the few who are Dot candidatos for President thomaelves, for those who are will not relish Col. Frod's following the diaavnwal with a declaration in favor of Conkling. "He'i a statesman, a good Republioan, and just the man for President." Thafs direot f rom tb e White House, a official proolamation. - Ex-Speaker Blaice made a lengthy speech on the Diplomatio Appropriation bill, but said nnry a word about the bill. In vain did the friendi of Washburne or Schenck or Maynard or Road listen for a word of protest against cutting down their salaries. The pending bill was entirely ignored, and the ex Speaker thundered away on the fi nance question. It was a brave feat, - attacking a shadow ; a happy thought, - dodging responsibility. Uis speech was so effeotive that only two members of the House were found with sufficient courage to rote agaiust a bill which Republioan leaders had denounced as intended to degrade the oountry by cutting down and belittling the diplomatic service. - The New York Sun charges that the claim against Great Britain whioh Wiard oontraoted with Machado to colloot through " Poker Schenck," and in the proceeds of whicb the Amorioan Minister at the Court of St. James was to share, was for the seir.ure of voseóla engaged in the slave trade ; that Machado had been indioted for being engaged in the slave trade ; that his claim had been rejeoted by Secretary Fish becanse of suoh facts ; and that he is now under indictmcnt for perjury. And knowing these facts the President and his Secretary do uot cali Minister Soheuok home. - Mr. M orrisou, of the House Committee on Ways and Means, having beoome oonvinced that Dr. Hambleton, his clerk, had been neither frank nor exaotly trnthful in his denial of the oharge of having named a son John Wilkes Booth, has addressed him a note concluding : "With the alightest appearance of the truth of such a charge I have but one duty to perform - that is, to accept your resignation offered some time ago, which I do hereby." (Jorrect. - We are pleased to know that the Detroit Tribune read with " deep interest " the Arous item about the " capital rejoinder " made by Dr. Hambleton to the N. Y. Tribune, whioh " rejoinder " consisted in a protest that his sons Benjamin and OU ver we re not named for Butler and Morton. To name one for Booth was certainly execrable, bat that is no reason for punishing two more. - Orer the wires and under the sea carne contradictor reporte from London on Tuesday : One that Gen. Schenck had been diatinctly and definitely askod to reign ; another that "the President had telegraphed Gen. Schenck that he intendi to stand by him." Well, the reader paya his money and may take his choioe. - Senator Gordon has been down to Atlanta making a speech to the Georgia House of Representativos, and wise ly took ocoasion to repudíate the " wild utterances " of the unreconstructed Toomb. The Georgians will do well to follow the lead of Gordon, and also to put a sticking piaster over the mouth of Toombs. - The committco to lócate the next State Fair Tisited Detroit on Tuesday, but receiving a decidedly cold shoulder - for go mild a season - dispatched a sub-committee to investígate the inducsnients offered by Jaokson, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids. The Detroiters don't propose to niake the fair any of their affair. - In the Senate on Tuesday a bilí was reportad favorably providing for the admission of New Mexioo as a State. Haven't we about enough of " rotten boroughs ? " that is of States with meager popnlations? Besides, the mixed cbaraoter of the population of New Mexico - Spanish, half-breeds, and [ndians - is a sufficient objection. - Garfield and Dunne 11 and Uoar and Sale made speeches against the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill, )ut the committee had done ti work so well, and its work had been so ably dedefended, that but two inembcri of the louse were willing to put themselves on the record as voting against it. j - The Colorado Constitutional , vention, unwilling to grapple direotly ' with the woman suffrage qnestion, has ; adopted an article requiring the flrst ] State Legislature to submit the question ( o the people. - Worms, the man who wormed f '),- 00 out of a simple Chicago hotel keopr named Kewman, by forging Becraary Chandler'i name to an ludían conraot (the $5,000 bemg alleged to be for ba President), has been arrested in dontreal, xamined, and extradited. - The average Hudson Kiver ice rop ii over 2,000,000 tong, bnt not over 00,000 tons had been harvestod on the 2th inst., with the river open. Mint uleps and " ioe-cool lemonades " will ave to be taken warm next summer. -The Pope has granted his flrst dispensation for tbe marriage of a Catholic to a Protestant. The brido to be is a daughter of the American soulptor, Story, and her chosen hnaband Coramendare Peruz.i, brothor of tbe Syndic of Florence. - Winslow, tlie Boston forger, has been arrested in London, and has exprossed a desire to be returued to this country in advance of a formal requisition. - The House passed the Fortifícation bilí on Tuesday. It appropriates a total araount of $315,000, or $2,155,000 leas thau the estimatos for the year. Let the good work of cutting down progreas. - The nomination of Fred. Morley, to be Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, was confirmed by the Sonate on Monday. Good-by Fred. - The papers were wrong in reporting the age oi Senator Chriatiancy's bride. It is 21 1-2 years, - or within a fraotion of one-third that of the aior. - $470,000 : that ia the amount sa ved to the overburdened tax-payera of the country by the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill whioh passed the House on Friday last. - Church prcperty isn't to be taxed in Colorado yet awhile. The House passed a bill providiug for taxation, bu the Council indeñnitely poitponed it. - Conkling for President and Fenton for Qovernor : that is the card Republioan leaders in New York are playing - Senator Ferry has been ohosen President of the Congressional Temperanoe Society.

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