I may have answered my own question. After unplugging each of the ports on the Cisco 6509 and plugging them back in the 6509 began passing information on both vlan 1 and vlan 70.
6509 setup:
interface Port-channel70
description Channel for Trunk
switchport
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,70
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
interface GigabitEthernet4/46
description Trunk
switchport
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,70
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
power inline never
channel-group 70 mode desirable
spanning-tree cost 100
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interface GigabitEthernet4/47
description Trunk
switchport
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,70
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
channel-group 70 mode desirable
spanning-tree cost 100
!
interface GigabitEthernet4/48
description Trunk
switchport
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,70
switchport mode trunk
no ip address
channel-group 70 mode desirable
spanning-tree cost 100