Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-01-19

creed or party as We wish our readers what the peo
pie think and say Of passing events.
II is estimated that his son, VIM. II. Van
derblt, is in possession of his ideas in regard
to certain pbilantbrOpic schemes, with in
structions to put them in force. There is no
Disgusting the fact, however, that there is
much regret expressed that his will contains
no requests to any Of the benevolent institu-
tions Of the city wherein he spent his life and
amassed his fortune.-N Y. Mail.
We doubt if the world ever saw anything
TO compare with what has taken place in
Washington 10 relation TO this stupendous
job. Mr.. Tom Scott walks up the capitol
steps and blandly asks congress to bond the
people of the United States nearly 5000
100000 for the benefit of himself aud q few
Of his friends aud he finds influential con-
gressmeu ready to accede to this demand
~ Y. Sun.
II belongs to the tive houses of congress
alone to count the votes for president, and
the president Of the senate has nothing TO do
with it save to open the certificates by which
the votes are authenticated. There is, there
fore, no alternative left for the two houses
but to proceed as they have hitherto done in
exercising the constitutional aud traditional
power OF counting the votes. The party
which seeks to depart from it and to substl-
tute the decision Of the presiding officer OF
the seuate for those of congress ventures on
a dangerous, not to say fatal, experiment.
~ Y. EUening Post.
Well, Brother Deems gets twenty thou.
sand dollars. That is large sum or a small
one, according as you look at it-as you
compare it with the possessions Of st. Paul
or St. Peter, for instance, or with the score
or two of millions William ii. Vanderbilt
has got from his father. At six per cent. il
will give Brother Deems twelve hundred dol.
lars year.-N Y. Sun.
The late election in Louisiana was char.
acterized by frauds Of such magnitude, il
regard to which neither party can show clear
hands, that it is utterly impossible for any
one at this distance to form an opinion as t
which of claimants, it either, is entitled tC
the offce.-N Y. Mail
II is no fault of our present sena tors tha
their predecessors were greater men, but it il
certainly their very great misfortune and
it is very Calling to hear, as one does con
stautly in this city, disquisitions on the de
cadence of the polti cal power of Massachu
sets and filings at the weakness, or worse, o
our representative men.-BoSton Post.
Should this tribunal decide that Presiden
Hayes was rightfully and legally entitled t.
the position, there would be an end to al
controversy. If on the other hand. unde
these circumstances, the decision should b,
in favor of Mr.. TIlden, we imagine that few
doubt Mr.. Hayes's prompt recognition o
the highest legal authority known in thi
government.-B Boston Journal.
We do not claim that these indefensibl
acts of the democrats justly tho republican
in counting in" Hayes and Wheeler, but vi
do claim that they destroy all confidence il
the assertions aud representations Of thu
democratic leaders.-Adams Transcript.
The northern braggarts insisted for IouI
time that their candidate must be made pres
ident in spite Of all obstacles, but as they
proposed that the southerners should remov,
the obstacles, and as the southerners resoutcl,
declined tho job, the braggarts have beer
forced to abandon their position.--Portldn'
Press.
Senator Dawes, we suppose, counts him
self neutral, but his influence follows his es
pecial gang Of workers to the Butler auC
Boutwell, side, as usual in the late division o
the republican party. We predict this will
be practically the last stand which the re
forming republicans will make against thsi
opponents in these divisions. II they ar
beaten now by the reelection of Boutwell,
the contest within the party will be aban
doncd, and reform will he achieved from tn
outside.-SprinGfeld Republican.
For there never was lunatic shut up ye
who did not fancy that he was unjustifabl
treated, or who failed to fnd somebody out
side to agree with him, unless, indeed, h
CHANGED to be uuintermitteDtly and furiousl,
mad.-N Y. Tribune.