Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-03-14
Notes and Notions.

was literally fulfilled, and the public was
only disappointed because IL expected an
impossible storm.
POLITICALLY the vote on the tariff bill
in the house was as follows; For the bill,
1870 republicans, 20 democrats, 2 greenback-
ers against the bill, 20 democrats, Is re-
publicans, greenbackers.
MANCHESTER UNION (democrat) I" Hon.
George +. Edmunds, now president pro tenn.
Of the senate has ever been held in high es-
TEEN by the people of this country as an
able and fearless statesman. His elevation
to the chair with all the possibilities the
position embraces is credit to the good
sense of the senate, which in this has re-
spected the sentiment of the country"
A BILL which was introduced late into
congress, but not too late for passage by
both houses and the timely signature of the
president, was the one prohibiting the i'm
portation Of adultered or spurious teas.
Some of these teas are now on their way to
this country, and can come in, under the
law but after their arrival the dootoring of
teas will have 10 be done 10 this country, il
done at all.
A PENNSYLVANIA editor complains that
"with Senator Morrill, at the head, New
England dominated the conference commit
tee, and her superior tactics and influence
prevailed as they prevailed at an early
stage" This is praise, indeed. When Penn
sylvania so far frees herself from the ring
rule that her best men are chosen senators
and representatives, she will have Morrills
for senators and "superior influence
The Boston alderman believes in good
dinners-at the city's expense. Mayor
Palmer has vetoed bills amounting to
s2,2i7 for refreshments claimed to have
been furnished to committees and individu-
ais Of the present city government prior TO
Feb. Is. The aldermen ate on thirty week
days two hundred and three dinners at cost
of about $3.50 dinner and some of the
common councilmen INDUCED in luncheon"
exceeding 80 plate, the price of weeks
board to man of ordinary habits.
The Springfield Republican says ain
case of the death of Mr.. Arthur and of Mr..
Edmunds, the speaker of the house wonld
act as president until new election were
had. The law tells what shall be. done in
that case with admirable clearness, and goes
as far as human probability requires. More
over, Mr.. Elmunds is not advanced in
years. being less than three years older
than Mr.. Arthur. The president will be
fifty-three on the 9Th of October, and Mr..
Edmunds was fifty-fve on the lat of Febru-
airy. With two Vermonters under sixty in
the breach, the country is tolerably SAFE"
OVER ten thousand bills and resolutions
the exact number being 10,670-were in
troduced into the forty-seventh congress.
OF course, some of these were duplicated
in the two houses, and some were bills on
the same subject, almost equivalent in terms.
With all allowances, however, the number
was monstrous, and only few hundred
bills actually passed. The act to afford re-
lief to congress and to the executive depart
ments in the investigation of claims and de-
mands against the government, which has
just become law, should help to reduce
the multiplicity of measures offered for the
consideration Of future congresses.
LIEUTENANT HARBER's report Of his
search for the relics of the Jeanette expe-
dition shows that everything has been done
to find traces Of Chips boat and his crew,
and that further efforts in this direction
would doubtless be wasted. Not only was
the tomb of De Long and his companions
visited, and careful but fruitless explora-
ton made Of the whole locality for further
relics, but inquiries were put to all the ma
tives of the Lena delta and the adjoining
coast. Accident may some day disclose in
formation which Lieutenant Harber's party
has sought for in vain; or the details of
| Chips fate may remain forever unknown.
MORRISON of Illinois thinks the tariff
question will be taken up and the work OF
revision done over again by the next con
gress. In three democratic congresses under
the leadership of this same Morrison and
Fernando Wood tariff revision was under
taken, but, Notwithstanding heavy majorities
in each branch, their Efforts ingoriously
| failed, for the reason that neither Wood mol
| Morrison, as chairmen of the ways and
means committee, was able to bring forward
a measure which majority of their own
| pa rfu oounc;ataa vunnld oupnnrt Attampts
at president making, rather than tariff re
vision, are much more likely to engage the
attention of the majority of the next house
PHILADELPHIA TIMES Independent dem
crat) I" The chief objections to the new tar
if ON the protection side came from the
iron interests of Pennsylvania and the WOO
interests of Ohio, but they were wisely over
ruled for their own good. Had the report
of the conference committee failed, the tar
iff issue would have been plunged into al
inharmonious congress and compelled tC
run the gauntlet Of presidential contest
There would have been at least two year.
of the most depressing uncertainty in al
business circles, and it is not at all ceal
that more favorable result TO protection
could be obtained by finging the question
into the whirlpool of presidential struggle
and trusting to the congress Of 1885 to SETTLE
our tariff policy"
BosToN ADVERTISER: "At the end Of
congress a word of frank and hearty praise
is due to President Arthur. His infuenc,
upon legislation has been of the best kind
especially in the civil-seryice reform, OF
which he used TO entertain rather critica
opinions. Not only has he not obstructet
good legislation, but all his communication
to congress have asked for good acts, ano
his appointments have been excellent, with
but few exceptions. lie deserves prais
also for having avoided craftsmanship. ant
for reasonable cooperation with th oss il
authority. His recent department has beel
particularly creditable and the country will
be glad to express its sense of appreciation
should an opportunity arise, as very likel.
it will during the summer vacation"
The Dominion analysis last year exam
ined rather more than eleven hundred sam
pies of articles varying from water to sweets
and found above twenty-five per cent adul