NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



vest season arrives, the Indians abandon all other 

 ponuiU, and, assembling at some oeutrnl point, scatter 

 in all (Unction* to gather the nuts. Old and young 

 are busy, and in u tow weeks they obtain enough to 

 last them all winter. Those nuts are their main de- 

 pendence, the ir staff of Hfo, their broad. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. The official terra of 

 Bainbrul^o Wadloigh, one of the United States 

 Senators from New Hampshire, having expired 

 on March 3, 1879, and the election of his suc- 

 cessor by the State Legislature being neces- 

 sarily delayed till its meeting for the regular 

 session in June, Governor Prescott appointed 

 Charles II. Bell of Exeter to fill the vacancy in 

 the mean time. The Governor's letters having 

 been duly presented in the United States Sen- 

 ate, that body referred the matter to its Com- 

 mittee on Privileges and Elections, which re- 

 ported against Mr. Bell's admission, by a vote 

 of 6 to 3. The Senate, however, admitted Mr. 

 Bell yeas 35, nays 28. 



The regular June session of the Legislature, 

 the first of the biennial sessions, commenced 

 on June 4th. Jacob H. Gallinger was elected 

 President of the Senate, and Henry H. Huse 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

 Both were Republicans. The votes stood 15 

 to 3 in the Senate, and 163 to 101 in the Lower 

 House. 



A ballot was taken by the two Houses for 

 the election of United States Senator on June 

 17th ; the candidates were Henry W. Blair of 

 Plymouth, Republican, and Harry Bingham of 

 Littleton, Democrat. The votes were 20 for 

 Blair and 4 for Binghara in the Senate, and 161 

 and 98 respectively in the House of Represen- 

 tatives. 



On June 18th, in joint convention, the Legis- 

 lature elected the following State officers for 

 the term of two years by ballot : Secretary of 

 State, Ai B. Thompson ; State Treasurer, Solon 

 A. Carter ; Commissary-General, Benjamin F. 

 Rackley ; State Printer, John B. Clarke. 



On June 20th the following joint resolution 

 was introduced in the Senate, and made a spe- 

 cial order: 



Jteiolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 in General Court convened : 



1. That in all cases and at all times the military 

 ought to be under strict subordination to and gov- 

 erned by the civil power. 



2. That we approve the several vetoes by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States wherein he has firmly upheld 

 his constitutional power against the threat and. attempt 

 to withhold necessary supplies to the Government, un- 

 less he should approve legislation that he does not ap- 

 prove ; and we pledge him our continued support in 

 maintaining the rights of the Executive and the na- 

 tional supremacy. 



8. That wo approve the action of the Republican 

 Senators and Representatives in Congress in exposing 

 and resisting the scheme of the majority to deprive 

 the national authority of all power to keep the peace 

 and secure free and honest voting at national elec- 

 tions 5 and wo pledge them our continued support in 

 resisting all such disorganizing and revolutionary de- 

 signs. 



4. That we condemn as unpatriotic, destructive, and 

 revolutionary all attempts ot the majority in Congress 

 to revive the dogma or State supremacy, to rekindle 

 the flames of sectional animosity, ana to stop and 



starve the Government by withholding neccMary iup- 

 pliea, because the President will not approve of legw- 

 lution that he is constitutionally bound to veto if he 

 does not approve of it. " A refusal to vote the ap- 

 propriations is revolutionary ; it ia worse, it u revo- 

 lution." 



6. That a copy of these resolutions be promptly 

 forwarded to the President and to each of our own 

 delegation in Congress. 



The June session was closed on July 17th. 



Two acts were passed in the interest of 

 children, entitled " An act prohibiting the 

 employment of children under ten years of 

 age by manufacturing corporations," and " An 

 act to provide for the better protection of 

 destitute and abused children." 



" An act to protect the rights of citizens of 

 this State, holding claims agaiust other States," 

 has been commented upon by the press of the 

 country generally, being regarded as leveled 

 against the so-called repudiating States, to 

 make them pay any bond once issued by them, 

 though afterward repudiated; the State of New 

 Hampshire assuming, under certain conditions, 

 to personate any private holder of such bonds 

 among her citizens, and in his interest to sue 

 any other State in the Union before the Su- 

 preme Court of the United States for that pur- 

 pose. The main provisions of the act are as 

 follows : 



SECTION 1. Whenever any citizen of this State shall 

 be the owner of any claim against any of the United 

 States of America, arising upon a written obligation 

 to pay money issued by such State, which obligation 

 shall be past due and unpaid, such citizen so holding 

 such claim may assign the same to the State of New 

 Hampshire, and deposit the assignment thereof, duly 

 executed and acknowledged, together with all the evi- 

 dence necessary to substantiate such claim, with the 

 Attorney-General of the State. 



SEC. 2. Upon such deposit being made, it shall be 

 the duty or the Attorney-General to examine such 

 claim and the evidence thereof, and if } in his opinion, 

 there is a valid claim which shall be just and equita- 

 ble to enforce, vested by such assignment in the State 

 of New Hampshire, he, the Attorney-General, shall, 

 upon the assignor of such claim depositing with him 

 such sum as he, the said Attorney-General, shall deem 

 necessary to cover the expenses and disbursements 

 incident to, or which may become incident to, the 

 collection of said claim, bring such suits, actions, or 

 proceedings in the name of the State of New Hamp- 

 shire, in the Supreme Court of the United States, as 

 he, the said Attorney-General, shall deem necessary 

 for the recovery of the money due upon such claim : 

 and it shall be the duty of the said Attorney-General 

 to prosecute mch action or actions to final judgment, 

 ana to take such other steps as may be necessary after 

 judgment for the collection of said claim, and to carry 

 such judgment into effect, or, with the consent of the 

 assignor, to compromise, adjust, and settle said claim 

 before or after judgment. 



A bill to abolish capital punishment was long 

 and warmly debated, and at last indefinitely 

 postponed by the House of Representatives at 

 the sitting of July 17th, by a vote of 166 yeas 

 to 86 nays. 



The measure asking relief of the people from 

 the exorbitant rates and unjust discrimina- 

 tions in the conveyance of passengers and mer- 

 chandise, practiced by the railway companiee 

 operating in New Hampshire, was considered 



