The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
Notes and Notions.

Boston RECORD: " Mr.. Pillsbury's
incapacity to understand what he calls
the ethereal ideas of the civil service
reformers may perhaps be remedied in
the leisure for study and reflection that
will in all probability be given him in De-
cember next, when the senate meets"
Boston RECORD: Senator Edmunds
will make most creditable representa-
tive of the American senate before the
British house of lords to testify as an
expert on points of the federal law.
But it is not pleasant to consider how
few members of the senate would be
called upon for such knowledge"
Boston HERALD: 1t may not be
out of place to inform a practical poll
tician, such as Mr.. Pillsbury, that the
political triumph won by his party last
November was largely, if not wholly,
due to the fact that its chief candidate
had distinctly pledged himself to ideas
which Mr.. Pillsbury assumes to con-
slider as ethereal"
IT is cheering to know that intemper-
ance is losing ground in Boston. There
were eighteen hundred fewer cases of
commitment for drunkenness in the
last year than in the year preceding.
1t is thought that some of the reform is
due to the establishment of attractive
coffee houses, where excellent coffee
and tea and good meals can be had at
fabulously low prices.
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "Our own
criticism upon the parents would be
that in thrusting their children so en-
tirely into school-permitting them to
be crammed with indigestible and un-
digested words and phrases, kept up to
concert pitch all the time in study
and treated as though body and sou
were of no consequence as compared
with the mind-they are not so much
neglecting their children as allowing
them to be abused at time of life
when abuse is fatal"
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "The house
of lords, in its judicial capacity, is the
court of last resort. In its legislative
capacity it is the more conservative
branch of parliament. In summoning
Senator Edmunds before it, it says that
it considers him to be the equal of any
man in the United States as a lawyer
because he is to be Intercepted as to
the law. 1t will be interesting to see
precisely what is the object of this in
vitation, which, of course, Senator Ed
munds is fully acquainted with. 1t is
certainly high compliment that has
been paid to him, and we cannot con-
ceive that it should relate to merely
technical testimony as to statute law"
NEW YORK MAIL AND EMPRESS:
1t would be almost worth a trip to
England to see Senator Edmunds before
the house of lords, undergoing the or
deal of a thorough examination as to
the validity of marriage celebrated in
this city in the latter part of the last
century. One thing may be predicted
in advance, as to the testimony of the
learned and sagacious Vermont senator.
Whatever he states will be put in the
tersest and clearest manner possible
and will be absolutely trustworthy. If
he has doubts he will not undertake to
make his statement single shade
stronger than his own Utmost impress
sion, and when he is certain to GER
tain intent in particular about anything
the house of lords might as well re-
gard that portion of his testimony as
complete and understandable. That dis.
tinguished body has seldom had before
it witness as capable of appreciating
its historical grandeur and present prac-
teal impotence, ormaintaining dignity
and reserve equal to its best, as oul
st. Jerome Vermont statesman and
jurist."
THE governor of New York has vetoed the
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