Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16


land so far as there is no discrimination in
her favor. The trade in breadstuffs, our
largest with the provinces, is wholly cut off
by the tariff. In furniture, leather and its
manufactures, tobacco and number of
minor manufactures, the duties are almost
prohibitory.
THREE international exhibitions are now
under way, though the third, which is to be
held in New York in 1888, has not advanced
beyond the pale of preliminary discussion.
The first of these worlds fairs will open in
the city of Mexico on January 10Th, 1880,
and continue open about six months. The
second will open in Melbourne, Australia,
October LIST, 1880, and close March 3lst,
| 1881. The Mexican and Australian fairs
will be mainly valuable to the United States
as means of advertising our manufactures
and inventions.
THERE is battle for precedence in pro-
gress between the wives of Senators and
to admit the wives of Members of the House
TO reserved galleries of the Senate upon a
Members card. The Senate ladies, finding
the crowd too close for their Spring toilets,
protested, and after lively wrangle an or.
der has been issued on the Senate side not
to recognize the cards of Members of the
House. The wives Of the latter are in a
most non-angelic mood, and they are trying
to arrange for retaliation on the House side
against the families of Senators.
THE Boston Sunday Herald of the 9th in
slant gave an account of the old Marlboro
Hotel OIL Washington street, in that city,
which is soon to be torn down, and charac-
terized it as the first temperance hotel in
America, and the first hall for free speech
anti-slavery convention was held there in
| 1886, which was attended by Gerrit Smith,
John Brown, John G. Whittier, William
| Lloyd Garrison, Joshua Leavitt, Deacon
is still living in that city, although help
less invalid for the past three or four years.
THE question of giving members of the
Cabinet seats in Congress is being agitated
once more. There are many arguments in
| favor of such step, one of not the least
significance being that they could furnish
information in their various departments
the lack of which might cause lengthy and
useless discussion. They could also explain
their aims and purposes and from their ia
milarity with the needs of their depart
ments secure better and wiser legislation
Secretary Schurz and General Key are said
to be in favor of it, while Sherman and
McCrary have their doubts in regard to its
advisability
CHICAGO Times Independently They
cannot answer the record they have made
nor is there among them, nor on the major
ity side of the chamber, any one who is ca
pable of answering the speech of Garfield
or of hindering the effect which the force OF
its argument, repeated, as it will be, in thou
sands of ways, must have in public opinion
They have rashly entered upon larger un
dertaking than they can carry out, and they
would back out if they could discover any
plausible hole promising safe line Of re
treat at the other end of it. They are still
hunting for a hole, and its discovery is moi
yet an impossibility.
New York World: awe have carefully
inspected great number of journals repre-
senting both sides in politics, and we gather
from this inspection that while all the Re
publicans in the country demand the nomi
nation of Mr.. Tilden, all the democrats il
the country insist upon the nomination o
General Grant. This being the case, w
hope to see Mr. Tilden nominated by th,
by the democrats. Perhaps in order t.
make things even all around, it might b,
well to put Mr.. Pelton on the ticket witt
General Grant as Vice-President, and Gen
cral BaLcock ON the ticket with Mr.. Tilden.
A PROMINENT Southern democratic Sena
tor admitted the other day that his part,
was greatly troubled at the attitude in whicl
it is placed by the present situation aud b.
Garfelds speech. He said: "The North
ern democrats have put us in this hole; W
did not seek it. We only cared really TO
the repeal of the test oath, but the Northern
democrats said in caucus that they coul'
not carry Ohio and New York unless tn
supervisor law was repealed and we wer
forced into this business" The same gen
tleman intimated that the Southern me-
would be glad to encourage any propositio
looking to a compromise that would no
humiliate them. The South he said, d
not want to have it appear that the South
always ptted against the North.