The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-04-11
FROM WASHINGTON.

Senator Miller introduced a bill last week Il
provide for the sanitary inspection in Egypt o
rags designed for shipment to the United States
If the provisions of such a measure could b
fully carried out, the danger of importing GERM
Of Asiatic cholera into this country would b.
greatly reduced. DR. Parkes and other writer!
| mention facts going to show that cholera is Oc
| casionally carried from one place to another by
soiled clothes. Dr. Pettenkofer of Munich, GER
! tainly a very high authority on the subject, tor
| chilly argues that cholera is transportable in
clothing, but not because the clothing comes
from a cholera patient, but because it comes
from a cholera locality.
The Blair education bill went through the
Senate Monday by a vote of 81 to IL. Sena-
tor Hoar's amendment making the first years
appropriation 81, 000,0 900, the second $40, 100000
the third S15, 000,0 200 and then decreasing the
appropriation at the rate of 100000 annual
" until the eighth year. This is in accordance
with the right principle of giving the cause Of
popular education in the destitute districts a
preceptiblc impetus and encouragement, and
then Withdrawing the assistance gradually as
the i~lliteracy is reduced and the states become
better able to support their own schools. This
money would do twice the good, where h"ip is
really nseded, il the provision restricting par
ticipation TO states having 0 per cent, or more
Of illitcracy had been adopted.
The house finished the Indian bill Friday and
is to consider three more IN succession-the
District of Columbia, Notifications and PEN
sion bills. Then will come the tug of war on
the tariff.
The postal telegraph bill as reported provides
for telegraph stamps, similar to postage stamps,
also telegraph cards, upon which the message
may be written and the card dropped into any
postal leiter-box, the message fee being prepaid
by the telegraph-stamps in like manner as let
ter postage is now paid.
Holman came to the front again Wedne sday
and covered himself with glory. He stood with
a few active lieutenants between the public
building syndicate with its So bills, involving
anywhere from seven to twenty-five million
dollars, and Success.
The real battle on the Immigrant forfeitures
began in the house Saturday. The forfeitures
already voted by the house relate to corpora
tons that fulfilled no part of their conditions,
but the bunch of eight now to be considered
touch roads that have to some degree lived up
to their contract.
The House Indian affairs committee have
agreed to ask the house for authority TO inyes-
tigatc charges of misrepresentation of the $500
600 paid to the Cherokees last wear, as well as
charges of fraud in connection with leases made
by the Indians of Indian territory of more than
5000, 900 acres of land to cattle men for grazing
purposes.
The senate has under consideration the pro-
priety and indeed necessity Of the conntry's
assuming a decided position In regard to the
control OF the Congo river, which Great Britain
has Just made over by treaty to Portugal. Inc
treaty is not ratified. and If the United States
and other powers enter their protest, it probably
will no. be ratified. Englands attempt to con-
troll the commerce OF Central Africa are against
the rest OF the world-for Portugal is merely the
convenient instrument of England-cannot be
idly witnessed by other nations.
George Bliss told the Springer committee
Friday that there are now pending 30 indict-
ments for the Star-route crimes and within a
few days preparations will lie made to bring
civil suits.
Mr. Cox's speech on the tariff ia the mouse
last week and Senator Beck's IN the senate
both carefully prepared and admirable produc-
tions-were the opening guns in the tarin de-
hate in the present congress. Monday there
was another preliminary skimish on the ques-
ton, in the fight over Converse's bill 10 raise
the tariff on wool. II decided at least ono point
in favor of the Morrison tariff bill-namely,
that il will be considered" by the house. III
the opponents Of the bill intended to stifie 1t
without debate it was a capital blunder in them
to allow Mr. Converse to bring up his wool re
solution. Frank Hurd made a mastery speech
and the bill was defeated ll9 to l26. About
IS Democrats stuck by Randall, bat they were
partly offset by the dozen Republicans who vot-
ed with the low tariff men.