Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-18

transcript.
VERMONTERS AT THE MA
TIONAL CAPITAL.
The Green Mountain state, though
small in area and sterile as to soil,
has played no unimportant part in
the history of the country from the
days of the fearless and intrepid
Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonder-
roga, down to the present time, when
one of her sons occupies the presi-
dental chair and another was just
before the adjournment of congress
elected vice-president pro tempore.
Many men who have been subse-
quently claimed by other states owe
their birth to Vermont, and perhaps
the greater portion of Green Mountain
boys who have won distinction have
been those who have gone out from
their native state and sought their
fortunes elsewhere. Not to speak of
many names which have passed into
history, but to mention those who at
present identified with the district, it
may be said that Commissioner of
Pensions Dudley and Public Printer
Rounds we're both born and received
their early education in Vermont.
Hon. Asa O. Adds, of the Franco
American claims commissioner, is a
Vermonter and was formerly one of
the justices of the supreme court of that
state Gen. Stuart Van Vliet, quar-
termaster general, was born and edu-
the same is true of Deputy Second
Comptroller J. S. Delano, Major
Merritt Barber, assistant adjutant
general on duty in the war depart
ment, was appointed to the regular
army for faithful services in the Yer
mont volunteers during the war.
Mr.. John R. Thompson, who has
been president of the local state as
sociation since its organization, is
chief of an important division in the
third auditors Office, having entered
that office after serving in Vermont
regiment during the war; Mr.. NJ.
M. Parker, the vice-president of the
association, who was formerly assist
ant city postmaster, made gallant
record in the 1st Vermont cavalry.
Fred Mack, chairman of the execu-
tive committee, has been for years
chief of the eastern division of the
pension office, which comprises the
New England states, New York,
New Jersey and Delaware.
1t is a notable fact that the repre-
sentatives of the state of Vermont
have always taken a singular and
peculiar interest in the city of Wash
ington. Senator Foot, under whose
administration as chairman of the
senate committee on public buildings
and grounds, the extensions of the
capitol were made, requesting upon
his death-bed, that his bed might be
rolled to the window, so that his last
look upon earth might rest upon the
dome of the capitol.
The improvements of the grounds
surrounding the capitol are largely
due to Senator Morrill,, who, as chair
man of the senate committee on pub
lie buildings and grounds, succeeded
Senator Foot as the champion of the
adornment of the city. Hon. Luke
P. Poland, when chairman of the
committee on judiciary, by his mas
terly report of June 1, 1874, upon
the legal relation of the District of
Columbia and the United States, Sc
cured legislation for the United
States assumed its just proportion of
the burden of taxation imposed upon
the property of the district. Later
Hon. George w. Hendee, as chairman
of the committee on the District of
Columbia, assumed the champion
ship of the interests of the district.
Col. Charles Fl. Joyce, who has just
completed his fourth term in congress
as representative from the first dis
trict of Vermont, has just entered
into business relations which will
make him a permanent resident of
this city. Col. G.. w. Hooker, late
sergeant alarms of the house, who
will hereafter make Washington his
winter residence, is typical Yer
monter, having served with distinc-
ton as an officer in different Vermont
/ organizations during the late war.