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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Mr.. Edmunds' characteristics.

In the debate on the right of the senate
to inspect all papers on file in the depart
ments which begins tomorrow last Mon
day Mr.. Edmunds will lead the republic
can forces. 1t will be one of the opportuni-
ties of his life and it is expected that he will
improve it by showing how good a republic
can he can be when he wants to. He has
devoted the last few weeks to a thorough
study of the subject, and, no doubt, has
mastered it. He has consulted every book,
looked up every authority and exam
ined every case or precedent which in any
way could throw additional light upon the
subject of dispute between the President
and the senate. This is characteristic of
Mr.. Edmunds. He does not take an active
part in general debate; but when he does
he shows at once his familiarity with the
subject under discussion by the short, in
cisive manner in which he elucidates point
after point, separates the relevant from the
irrelevant, and quickly reaches the merits
of the issue. 1t is this which makes Mr..
Edmunds such an effective speaker. While
Others employ all the known arts of oratory
he is content with stating his case in BUSH
ness-lke, matter-of-fact way. His voice is
rarely raised above the ordinary converse
tional tone. He never gesticulates. With
one hand in his pocket, the other resting on
the desk before him, he is quite as effective
and, indeed great deal more so-than some
senators who saw the air, pound their desks
and strut up and down the aisles of the
chamber. ct, with all the outward signs
of composure and indifference to his sur
roundings, there is at times in the Vermont
senator an incredible amount of Feasibility
and passion. In executive sessions espe-
cially, it is said, he places himself under oh
legations to his brother senators for their
forbearance. He has way of dropping
bitter and caustic remarks in manner that
goads his enemies to despair and seems to
afford him much the same amusement that
a boy derives from torturing a whelp. For
a man of his experience in legislative body
he displays a strange impotence of contra
diction. Every one who knows him is per-
suaded that he is the incarnation of great
qualities; in fact, so firmly is he himself
persuaded of this that he is incapable of be-
lieving that any qualities reside in him
which are not great Ii is difficult, how
ever, for his brother senators to keep their
temper when he brushes them aside in the
course of an argument in which they hap
pen to differ from him without the least
ceremony or without any attempt on his
part to conceal the poor opinion that he en-
PERTAINS for them. These are the moments
when they wish him almost anywhere else
except in the senate chamber. There are
only too many of these moments Washing
ton Correspondence Of Ne,o York Tribune.
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The Effect Of Rejection.

1t is stated that the best constitu-
tional lawyers differ in regard to the
effect of the senate's refusal to confirm
nominee of the President, if he has
been appointed during the recess of
the senate and has been discharging
the duties of the Office. The Boston
Journal and several other newspapers
hold that the effect is to put an end to the
official existence of the rejected officer.
The Journal says the attempt of any
person to continue to occupy an office
after he has been rejected by the sem
ate would be misdemeanor of very
grave character, and the president or
head of department who should per-
NIT such procedure would be guilty
of an Improbable offence. If the
senate should adjourn before a nominee
for any office should be confirmed, the
President could at once nominate the
rejected man, and he could hold the Of
flee until the senate again assembled.
In the case of suspended officers, they
could return to the places from which
they were suspended as soon as the
senate should adjourn, but the Presi-
dent could at once resuspend them and
renominate the men rejected by the
senate. But a nominee once rejected
by the senate cannot be appointed
and, consequently, cannot perform the
duties of an office" But the Boston
Herald, which represents the other side
of the question, says that by the lam
guage of the statute the President is
required to send to the senate, within
thirty days after its meeting, all nom
nations of persons designated to act in
place of suspended officials during the
recess. If the senate shall refuse its
consent to any such nomination, the
President is required to nominate
another person, as soon as practicable
to the same session of the senate
The Herald then says: "The President
is constituted the judge of the time il
which it is practicable to make a new
nomination. Ordinarily, it would bt
proper and wise for him TO send in
another name at once, or within few
days. But there is nothing to compe
him to do so; and were the senate t.
adopt the policy of wholesale reflections
from factious or partisan reasons, ;
president of the Cleveland stamp woul,
be very apt to leave his appointees il
Office until the end of the session, ant
then redesignate them for the recess
BY the weakening of the tenure-of
Office act and its careless redrafting
congress left the discretion and the init
alive wholly in the Presidents hands
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

two of the Presidents assumptions are
severely criticised, even by some men,
bers of his own party: one is that the
senate has not demanded his reasons
for making removals, as he charges,
but only the facts in particular cases;
and the other is that papers on file
in the public departments are his own
private property, to be dealt with by
him as he pleases. AS matter of fact,
papers affecting removals for cause
ought to be as public as any papers in
possession of the government, or great
injustice is liable to be done to public
officers whose character or fidelity have
been attacked in the documents. After
arguing that the tenure-of-oflice acts
are unconstitutional, the President
concludes with a defence of his mo-
tives in making removals, and a claim
that his action has been consistent with
his high civil service reform profess
sions. In view of what he has actually
done in the matter of removals and ap-
pointments, this claim is highly absurd.
The message has had the effect of
postponing the debate on the issues be-
tween the President and senate for
week. The matter of interest now is
how far the republican senators will be
disposed to go in their demonstrations
against the President, and they are re-
ported as not fully agreed upon the
proper course to pursue. While some,
like Mr.. Edmunds and Mr.. ingalls,, are
disposed to take advantage of every
technicality, there are others whose
idea is to make sharp and brief reply
to the President, but not to wage an
aggressive and persistent warfare upon
him. A Washington special says:
"There is an apprehension among re-
publicans that the republican senators
may 60 too far, and adopt policy of
wholesale reflections, which would be
certain to put the people on the side of
the President" This is the fear of
some republican leaders outside of con-
gress, and they have advised that it will
be chad politics" for the republican
senators to have any strife with the
President merely about the offices. 1t
would seem that the republicans have
already gained their material point.
They have practically demonstrated
that the great majority of the Presi-
dents removals and appointments have
been made for no other than political
reasons, and that his reform pledges
and professions have been a delusion
and a sham. They can safely leave
their contest with the President at this
point; and then, in the absence of the
papers which they have demanded,
they can act upon the nominations with
such light as they have, confirming all
the good ones without controversy and
rejecting those that are conspicuously
unfit. But the senate would hardly be
justified in rejecting all nominations
good, bad and indifferent-and so
plunge the public service into con-
fusion by frequent changes incident to
restoration and-suspension of officers.
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detriment. The free-traders in the
United States, ignoring the failure of
their theory in Great Britain, are con-
tinually urging this country to abandon
the policy of protection in order +" to
compete for the markets of the world"
But many other countries now have
protective tariffs-Canada, Belgium,
Austria, Germany, Holland, Spain,
Portugal, Brazil, Chill, Argentine Con-
federation, Russia, France, New Zea-
land and Tasmania-the duties rang
ing from ten to forty per cent. Free
trade in the United States would not
take a dollar from the tariffs of other
countries, but would only contribute to
their benefit. The better policy is to
retain our home market for our own
producers. A strong argument in ia
vor of retaining the protective system
in this country has been furnished, re-
Gently, by consul in one of the Euro
pean countries, who is represented as
"a thorough paced democrat and a first
class business man." He writes to
Senator Frye:
"Since coming here have examined and
studied the tariff question carefully and
have come to the conclusion all honest men
must come to who will come here with their
eyes open, willing to see and learn, and that
is we should have higher instead of a
lower tariff Labor here is fearfully de-
graded and people work for almost nothing
and board themselves. You can hire men
here for twenty-four cents per day to do what
costs at least 81 per day in the States. We
keep house, and hire good cook for $4.S0
per month; a nurse, who takes care of the
children night and day, makes beds,
sweeps, etc, for twenty-four cents per day,
and she boards herself; very smart man,
who speaks German and English well, works
hard from early in the morning until late
at night for forty-eight cents per day and
boards himself. In Italy and Austria labor
is still cheaper. In manufacturing BUSH
ness with which 1 am familiar, and into
which labor largely enters, as you know,
the cost here is from sixty to seventy-fve
per cent less than in the United States
There is concern near me employing two
thousand people in the manufacture of cor
sets, all of which are exported to the United
States, who pay their help almost nothing
not nearly half as much as we pay in the
States. The policy in our country with
many seems to be to reduce the tariff, while
here and in Austria it is sought to increase
it. England is suffering terribly from the
low price of German goods, and will have
to make tariff laws soon to protect her labor.
I know many of my party friends favor free
trade or an approach to it. 1 can never
agree with them and when l go home
shall sound the alarm as best 1 can. Free
trade, or close to it, will ruin the industries
the reduction strikes
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

100000. Vermont would get $17 $3.50
the first year, and S196,236 for the
whole eight years. The money is to be
distributed in proportion to the percent
age of illiteracy; and in states having
separate schools for white and colored
children the amounts given to each will
be in fair proportion. No state or ter
ritory shall receive in any year from
this fund more money than it has paid
out the previous year from its own
revenues for common schools. If any
state or territory declines to take its
share of the national fund, such share
is to be distributed among the states
accepting the benefits of the fund. If
any state or territory misapplies the
fund, or fails to comply with the condi-
tons, it loses all subsequent apportion-
ments. The friends of the measure
doubt its passage in the house. Some
republicans oppose the bill on constitu-
tional grounds, and others fear to en-
trust the expenditure of the fund to the
Southern States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
The President and Senate.

The special message of President
Cleveland to the senate, last week, is
generally regarded as remarkable doc
ument. 1t would probably be going too
far to say that he had no right TO send
it, though the senate had not asked for
statement of his views; and it is
reasonable to suppose that it is not so
much an attempt to dictate the course
of the senate in regard to his nomina-
tons as to make a statement of his
case to the people. But in doing this
the President assumes to lecture the
senators somewhat on the subject of
their duties and thus transcends his
province. The President maintains
that in making removals or suspen-
sions from office his discretion is not
subject to "the advice and consent of
the senate;" that communications to
the executive department are confiden-
tial, and the senate has no right to
them; that he may preserve them if he
chooses, or he may destroy them; but
in the case of appointments, to which
the advice and consent of the senate is
requisite, he recognizes the right of the
senate to have the use of all the docu.
mentary information in possession OF
the executive department. At least
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

IN the senate, last week, bill was
introduced for joint celebration of
sixteen American republics in this
country, March A, 1889. The urgency
deficiency bill was passed in the house
by a vote of two hundred twenty to
twenty. The senate rejected amend
ments to the educational bill providing
for industrial and temperance educa-
ton. The house devoted much of the
week to debate on the pension appro-
priation bill, which was somewhat par
tisan in character, and passed fifty pri-
vate pension bills on Saturday. The
great debate in the senate did not begin
Monday afternoon, as was expected,
as Senator Edmunds had severe cold
and could not speak. The Washing
ton public did not take as much in
terest in the subject as was anticipated;
the weather was disagreeable, and the
galleries were only sparsely filled. The
matter was to have been brought up
yesterday afternoon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

THE Blair educational bill passed the
senate on Friday, after protracted de-
bate The bill has been much amended.
The following republican senators voted
against the bill; Frye and Hale of
Maine, ingalls, of Kansas and Jones of
Nevada. Mr.. Hawley of Connecticut
would have voted against the bill had
he been present. 1t provides that for
eight years after its passage there
shall be annually appropriated from
the treasury the following sums in aid
of common school education in the
states and territories and District of
Columbia and Alaska: The first year.
81 100000; the second year, 100000
900; the third year, $15,000,0OO; the
fourth year, $13 900 900; the fifth year,
$11 100000; the sixth year, $4,000, 900;
the seventh year, 81 900, 900; the eighth
year, $1,000, 600 making ST. 100000,
besides which there is special appro-
priation of ~, 100000 to aid in the cree
ton of school-houses in sparsely settled
districts, making the total fund &c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Labor Troubles.

The newspapers have been well filled
the past week with accounts of strikes,
boycotts, and other troubles incident to
labor agitation. A street railway strike
in New York and Brooklyn, partici-
pated in by five thousand employees, for
fair wages for fair days work, term
mated in favor of the strikers; but, ow-
ing to some Misunderstanding, the
troubles were renewed on Saturday.
There are nine thousand employees be-
longing to the Knights of Labor organ
ization on strike on the Gould sys-
tenn of railways. The strike at the
Amoskeag mills in Manchester, n. H.,
is practically over, all hands returning
to work on the terms proposed by the
corporation. At Springfield, Ohio,
there is great excitement over the ac-
ton of the proprietors of the Cham
pion Reaper Works in discharging some
six hundred workmen because they
were members of the Knights of Labor
organization. In Chicago the McCor-
mick Reaper Works have reopened,
but few of the strikers have resumed
work. Mr.. Mccormick says the strike
was organized because he persistedlin
employing some non-union hands. @aThe
deadlock between the strikers and
agent of the Bates mills at Lewiston,
Maine, continues. AT Middletown,
Conn, war has been declared against
the Knights of Labor by the Russell
Manufacturing Company, the president
declaring that he would have no men,
Der of that order in his employ The
textile manufacturers of Rhode Island
have organized a defensive league
against the aggressive action of the
Knights of Labor. Contests between
employees and employers are in prog
ress elsewhere, and there are many
threats of more to come. 1t is possible
that the advent of better times would
settle the labor troubles without the in
tervention of law. The only remedies
now suggested are those of mutual
compromise and arbitration. But both
capitalists and laborers are so fond of
having their own way, where their per-
sonal interests are involved, that it is
not always easy to secure settlement
of their differences upon fair basis.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Stand by Protection.

England has practically upheld free
trade policy for half century and, it
would now appear, much to her own
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

The Spanish Cortes reopened Monday.
The Ottoman bank will advance the
Porte s., ,750,9 800
The Baptist Convention will meet in
louisville, KY, May Sth next.
The Berke- Mitchell fight at Chicago
Monday Eight was declared draw.
]. NJ. Davis is said TO be ahead in the
struggle for the San Francisco Postmaster
ship.
Gladstone spoke in support of his Irish
home rule bill Monday, and moved its sec
ond reading.
Senator Mitchell is trying to secure in
creased appropriations for Oregon rive.s
aad harbors.
Representative Morrow has received An
anti-Chinese petition signed by 50, ,ole eiti.
zens of California.
The Cunard steamer Servia had her fore
castle swept away by high seas ON the "a,
and two seamen killed
The allied fleets. which pat back to
Candia, Crete, under stress of weather
have again started for Pireus.
The, Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed Michael Hannah assistant light
house keeper at Point Bonita, Cal
Baseball Monday; At Chicago--Chica-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-12
Beware of ScroMIo

Scrofula is probably more general than any
other disease. 1t is insidious in character,
and manifests itself in running sores, pustular
eruptions, boils, swellings, enlarged joints.
assesses, sore eyes, etc. Hoods Sarsaparilla
expels all trace of scrofula from the blood.
leaving it pure, enriched, and healthy.
II was severely afflicted with scrofula. and
over year had tworunning sores on my neck.
Took five bottles Hoods Sarsaparilla. ami am
cured" c. E. LovEJoY. Lowell, Mass.
G. A. Arnold, Arnold, Me-, had scrofnlous
sores for seven years, spring and fall Hoods
Sarsaparilla cured him.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-12
EDWIN K. ALSIP G. CO.,
FARM FOR SALE.

Five hundred and sixty acres, all
under fence; fine two-story House !;
Barns. Sheds and Outhouses; good
Windmill and Tank; 800 acres in
grain; 160 acres plowed for summer
fallow; 300 bearing Vines and small
Orchard; situate about 8 miles west
and north of Blacks Station, Yolo
county; l mile from r. r. station /;
will be sold at $45 per acre, includ-
ing crop.
Apply by mail to Blacks Station. or on prem
ises my5-lRl p. ROTH.
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JUST RECEIVED AT THE
MECHANICAL STORE. Ala K STREET.

large stock OFFSPRING AND SUMNER GOODS,
which l offer to sell at very low rate. Those
wishing to purchase would do well to call and
examine my stock of CLOTHING before pur-
chasing elsewhere. / am selling 10-oz. Blue
Denim 0veralls, Cor 65 cents: S-oz do, for Is
cents. The following are the prices of some of
my CLOTHING AND SHOES:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-12
PAY THE FACE OF THE TAXES.

Early in 1884 General Marshall acoui-
esced, and the payments were made except
In the cases of a few counties whose local
counsel refused to acquiesce in this arrange
ment. Notable among these counties were
Santa Clara COlusa, San Benito, Monterey
aud Los Angeles. The Attorney-G General
and Colonel Raymond thereupon made up
agreed statements and submitted the eases
to the United States Circuit Court. and
Judgments were rendered for the defend
ants, which. upon stipulation, were set
aside and judgments rendered for the plain
iltis for the full face value of the taxes
with further stipulation that the State
might proceed by writ of error or other
wise to have the question determined as to
whether the company was liable for the 5
per cent. delinquencies. the interest claimed
aud attorneys fees. 1t was also agreed
that the San Bernardino case should be a
test case
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-12
PAINTS AND OILS.

T L. CHADDERDON. IMPORTER AND DEAL
81 or in Paints Oils, varnishes, Window Glass,
Mixed Paints, Artists and Painters Materials,
Wall PAPER, etc. No. 20i K street, Sacramento.
fel7-1ptf
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FARM FOR SALE

JNHAT VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND. 70
l situated in Sacramento county, four $st
miles from Folsom, on the line of the s. Y. -
the line of the C. p Railroad, containing 40
ACRES; all cleared and fenced, and in gain
except 90 acres, which is in summer faIloyy /;
lbundantly supplied with water and wood ;
water for irrigating and raising alfalfa and
ruits: also, Farming Implements, Including
wo Header Wagons, with beds Seed Sower
Ploughs, ETC., will be given to the purchaser
For information, terms, etc, inquire of / {
MEREDITH, Drugstore lutheast corner Second
nd X streets. Sacramcn }. aps-tf
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REAL ESTATE. ETC.
FOR . ALE.

A FIRST CLASS HOTEL. LOCATED IN AN
IL interior town; contains 20 rooms all hand
somely furnished; doing a good business; al
ways hled with guests; price, So 900; part cash;
for balance viii take San Francisco real estate:
rent of building only 500 a month. For mar
ticulars inquire at this Office my5-lp-m
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FRENCH WALL PAPER! !!

N q. KREBS & CO., 6a6 J STREET. HAVE
". just received direct from the French
Factories Large Lot of GENUINE FRENCH
WALL PAPER. The designs and colors are the
most beautiful ever exhibited in Sacramento.
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