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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

/ hlIli It's Inc surface signs WOllU llltllCdUe,
nut they have firm grip on this one fact
he has the bait.
Is the Senate Exceeding It's Prcroga-
tive?
J Senator John Sherman has been o, or
30 years ut Washington as congressman,
senator and cabinet officer, and he told
the Senate on Monday that in all his pre-
vious experience he had never known
department or president to refuse to
give information contained in the depart
ment upon any act whatever, whether ex-
ecutiye or legislative That course has
been reserved for the present administra-
ton. Mr. Sherman added that there was
no ground for the modern distinction be-
tween papers relating to appointments
and those relating to removals, as regards
the obligation to furnish them when asked
for Any information, said he, that may
affect the judgment or conduct Of a sena-
tor ON any subject of public duty is in
formation that the president is bound to
communicate. There ought to be no Sc
crets whatever in this government of ours
it is government Of the people. There
is no rule or provision for keeping secrets.
In reply to Senator Salisbury who asked
if the Senate had anything to do with the
discretion of the president in reference to
removals or suspensions, Mr.. Sherman
replied:
We have no right to say to another de-
partment of the government: "For what
reason did you do this thing? :" The presi-
dent has no right to come - us and say:
why did you pass this law ~ The de-
partments are separate and distinct. But
all the information contained on the files
of any department is Just as much the
property of the senator from Delaware as
of anybody else. There is no secret in
this government that can be protected by
legislative supervision. We would not
put any inquiries to the president of the
United States, because the independence
of that great Office demands that he
should not be inquired of for his reasons
demands that he should be treated
with respect. But every paper on which
he acts on any duty whatever. executive
or legislative, l. ours a. well - his. The
papers filed with him to induce the removal
of an uilicerare the very paper, We ought to
consider i'm the very question of ayUy.ut-
mrui, From the beginning of this GOV
eminent until now TN public archives
have been as open To- the Houses OF Con-
.Ic-- u9 - any other department OF the
governments The law has been kept on
the books, Uubrokcu aud uuiupaircd. .y
NNiCh the head OF the department may
not only be compelled 30 briu- all papers
in his department, private or public, but
may be compelled personally to come lee
tore either House to be examined or cross
examined. have myself brought down
to this Senate chamber great piles Of
papers ami handed them TO different COM
mIttees And as member uI these CONF
mlttce, have called Il hundred times tor
papers from the public files Of different
departments Of the government, ana they
We're sent and handed over to me, and re
ctINtt bN = "A DIliylr pt A. lttt;cD
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

The New York lVOrld says that Mr..
Cleveland has determined to accept Mr.
Garland's resignation. Nearly all the other
papers state that he has decided to en-
dorse him fully" Taken together, these
statements probably embody the truth :;
but it is pretty Tar down at the bottom of
the we'll
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

Palpltution of the heart, nervousness, trcm
bings, nervous headache, cold hands and feet
pain in the back, and other forms OF weakness
are relieved by Carriers Iron Pills made
specially Tor the blood, nerves and complex
ion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

The Ohio Senate has made an effort in
the direction of resolving the deadlock
which has prevailed in that body for the
past few weeks Ivy appointing committee
of three Republicans and three Demo
Gratis to go to Cincinnati and take evidence
in the case. This will, of course, take
some time, and when the committee re
turns there will be an intcrminable quar-
rel over its report If session of the
legislature were an Indispensable convent
ence, the people of Ohio would deserve pity.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

The Washington correspondent of the
New York LrCHjHg Post says that Senator
Edmunds has nearly compete! the report
which will be made from the judiciary
committee in answer to the refusal of the
attorney general to furnish information to
the Senate in the matter of suspended
officer. Mr. Eunuuds, he says, has search
ed the records from the foundation of the
government, and has found a number of
precedents which sustain the Republican
position. Three Senate committees have
considered the subject of the relations Of
the executive to the Senate and Congress
and have taken substantially the same
position, viz that the Senate has Il right
to participate in removals with the pre,i-
dent, as II has "A right to participate with
him in appointments The first of these
committees reported in lN?6 and had
Thomas II. Benton al its head. In l~35
John &. Calhoun had committee created
to consider the growth of aud the proper
means of Curluiling executive patronage.
and made very able report. In lNi} a
third Senate committee was raised ON this
subject headed by senator Morchcad, who
made report that the power OF removal
without cause and without the coz
sent Of the Senate was not only not con
/ ferred ON the president by the coustitu-
| ton, but WAS expressly withheld from
him. He pointed out that for the first 80
| years removals were scarcely ever made
| except for cau~c, and with that Practice
he contrastcd the practice of removals fox
| political reasons, which had been general
| for II years. Webster and Clay strongly
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

There is an association, both in this
country and in England, devoted to OPP
posing the present destructive fashion
among ladies of wearing bird and feather
ornaments on their head-gear. This is IA
fashion that dies hard, in spite of the
delicate sentiment that has been aroused
against it, and it is not ut all an uncom-
mon sight to see ladies of refinement and
devoted sentiment wearing the trophies of
the slayer of song birds upon their hats.
Should these persons stop to think what
they are encouraging, and what will be
the result of the continued slaughter of
our little feathered friends, they surely
would refuse to decorate themselves with
such ornaments.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

The newest scheme of the silver men is
found IN bill ordering the secretary OF
the treasury to use all money in the treas
ury in excess of 500, 900, 600 To redeem the
three per cents. This would neceestate Il
partial payment of these bonds in silver.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

An administration organ thinks that
'the newspapers are running this tele-
phone business rather than the parties in
terested." Pray, who are the parties
interested,' il not the public and the
press is the public's representative.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

Secretary Manning replies to the Senate
resolution asking for the papers connected
with the appointment of ID. +. Bradley as
internal revenue collector in South Caro-.
lima that, by direction of the president, he
declines to furnish the papers, as they
contain nothing which by being made pub
lie would subserve the public good. This
is Mr.. Cleveland's opinion, The senators
think differently. Their opinion is that it
would do the public some good to know the
facts, though it probably would not do the
administration any good. What has be
come, anyway, of Mr.. Cleveland's DECLARE
ton that he wanted no secrets from the
people, and that his department was to be
carried on behind glass doors
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

Mr. Gladstone new cabinet is said to
said to show marks OF Il compromise. 1t
is as follows Sir Farrer IIerschell, lord
high chancellor; Earl Spencer, lord pre,i.
dent of the council; the Earl of Rose
berry, secretary for foreign affairs; Earl
Granville, secretary for the colonies; the
Earl of Kimberley. secretary for India
Mr.. II. Campbell-Bannerman, secretary
for war; Sir William Ncrnon-IIarcort,
chancelOr of the eXchequer; the Marquis
of Ripon, first lord OF the admiralty: Mr..
j. G. Chamberlain, president of the local
government board Mr. q. O. Treveiyan,
secretary for Scotiand Mr. John Morley,
chief secretary for Ireland.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

four who did. The next lot will probably
not be sent to Pasteur quite so suddenly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

AT Secretary Manning's select dinner
party last week, we are told, hl news
paper reporter, "the cards at each plate
bore the Manning crest in silver" As
Mr.. Manniug's ancestors were honest,
humble folk, we are rather at loss to
know where this "Crest' came from
Perhaps, as Mr.. Manning himself was "a
newspaper man before he adorned the
cabinet, it is mucilage pot couchant
and apair of scissors rampant, If so, let
it go,
The Newark, n. j., hydrophobia scare
went up like rocket and now comes down
like the stick. Not one of the persons report
ed as "bitten by II mad dog" has hydropho-
bia, and the dogs that We're bitten at the
same time, and have been kept in conline-
ment by way of experiment, are not show
ing any signs of the disease. The two New
ark children who did not go to Paris are
Just as healthy and well-otf to-day as the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

1t is reported from Washington that At
torney General Garlands resignation is in
the presidents hands, and that its accept
ance is only delayed by Mr.. Cleveland
unwillingness to have the attorney gen
eral retire "under fire. Mr. Garland :
friends, it is said, are anxious that he
should withdraw; and he himself an
nounced, I'M recent cabinet meeting, his
Willingness to resign, provided his con
tinuance in office embarrassed the adj
ministration,' Undoubtedly the cutlery
over Garland's relations to the Pan-elec-
trio Telephone company, which is by no
means confined to Republican papers
does embarrass theadmiuiotration: and it
will not he strange if there should be Il
vacancy i'm the cabinet before long.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

We see it suggested that Mr.. Elmunds's
motive i'll making an issue with the ad-
ministrauon ON the question of removals
for solely partisan causes, may be "to put
himself rcctuS in clrid with his party"
This Is quite an unnecessary suggestion
Mr.. Edmunds has never been out of line
with the Republican party. While his
course has not been one of slavish sub
servience to party, he has always been Il
strong and square Republican; always
sustained Republican principles always
voted the Republican ticket. No man has
done more than he to sustain the party
which he believes to represent the best
principles and impulses of the American
people. No man less needs to vindicate
his fealty to that great national organiza-
ton. He simply stands by its standard
now as ever.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

The London bread-riot was even more
serious than at first reported, Some two
hundred shops and dozen club-hOuses
were seriously damaged and about fifty
jewellers, bakers, butchers and wine
shops were pillaged. Hundreds of molten
siYe people were maltreated. All decent
ly attred persons who encountered the
rioters were assaulted, the Wearers of silk
hats meeting with particularly rough
usage. Carriages containing ladies were
stopped, the occupants forced to alight
and foOters entered the vehicles and drove
at the head OF the crowd. Every person
who looked like foreigner was stoned or
beaten from the street, and the mob had
full possession Of a considerable portion of
the city for hours, till after midnight, and
till they dispersed of their own accord
London has serious problem at hand in
its unemployed masses.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

This is always Il hard time of year for
the fire insurance men. The great losses
have to be adjusted between January and
May. The New York Commercial Bulic-
tn, estimates Jauuary's fire loss at SIP,
100000. or =, 100000 more than the aver
age of the month for the past ten years.
1t is to be said to the credit of the insur-
ance companies, however, that they are
generally prompt and cheerful in adjust
ing losses,
The Senate has passed a bill for the adj
mission of Dakota by vote of 30 to %
BY its provisions the territory is divided
into two portions on the line of the 4ith
parallel, and the southern portion only
is admitted, while the northern is organ
lied as a territory under the name OF
Lincoln" The tug of war; on this bill
will come in the Democratic House. If
partisan considerations are allowed to pre-
vail, it cannot pass.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12

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BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEB. II, 1sSG,
PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. G. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms-S2.OO year, always in advance.
There is one good thing about Mr.. Glad
stones policy-it has no surrender values,
Mr.. Gladstone seems to have held a win
ming hand, although he didn't have the
queen.
Mr.. Garland is reported as saying that
he does not read the newspapers. This is
not surprising, under all the circum-
stances.
Mr.. Edmunds was kept away from the
Senate chamber on Monday by IA severe
cold, and that body had a dull day of it..
No member of that body is more missed
when absent.
Joseph Cook keeps pitching into the or
thodoX latitudinarians Now let him give
the liberal longitudinarians a dig, and
equal justice or injustice will have been
administered all round.
An exchange thinks that Mr. Garland
has "sold himself for very poor mess of
pottagc." 1t should be remembered, how
ever that he had no idea of losing his
birthriGht, at the time.
The postoflice at Blaine, Eagle county,
Col, has been discontinued by the post
Z master general, and by Il strange coinci-
dence the residents Of that section will
hereafter get their mail at Cleveland in
the same county.
The newest scheme of the silver men is
found in Il bill ordering the secretary OF
the treasury to use all money in the treas
ury in excess of SlO0,OOOO0O To redeem the
three per cents. This would neceestatC Il
partial payment of these bonds in silver.
An administration organ thinks that
'the newspapers are running this tele-
phone business rather than the parties in
terested." Pray, who are the parties
Interested il not the public and the
press is the public's representative.
The New York lVOrld says that Mr.
Cleveland has determined to accept Mr..
Garland's resignation. Nearly all the other
papers state that he has decided to en-
dorse him fully" Taken together these
statements probably embody the truth;
but ii is pretty tar down at the bottom of
the well.
Even 50 reliable and non-sensational a
newspaper as the Boston TrdrCilCr pub
fishes the story of Georgia man who
was bitten bya rattlesnake, and has deVel-
oped symptoms Of rabies-"only instead of
barking he makes Il rafting sound - The
syndicate must feel cheercd by its success
with this yarn.
Senator Cameron has introduced his bill
to encourage American shipping. 1t pro-
vides that only vessels of American regis
try, owned and controlled by American
citizens or corporations, shall he entitled
to the benefits derived from carrying the
United States mails. Ii is very doubtful
whether this bill can pass the Democratic
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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
"Wet" or "Dry."

The old fight for the homes of
Wellsburg is to be fought over
again in the coming municipal
campaign.
We gather from the Wellsburg
papers. that the saloon men, aided
by the liquor men of Wheeling,
have been on the alert and laying
their plans. We have confidence,
however, that the friends of home
and country, law and order, and all
that is dear in life, will not be
caught mapping, as is often the
case.
With such an advanced senti-
ment as Wellsburg has, with a
live W. G. 7. U. to crystalize and
vivify it, there will be no excuse
for ever again allowing the town
to be cursed with an open saloon.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
THE WITNESS RECALLED.
Does the journal wish to Change
its Testimony!

Mr.. Cough never ran for office
on the Prohibition ticket, we be-
lieve, and 80 far as we can learn
never voted the Prohibition ticket
but for all that he was Temper
ance worker whose deeds will live
after him. State Journal.
II HAVE, FOR TWO YEARS, VOTED
WITH THE THIRD PARTY, FOR l DO
BELIEVE IN PROHIBITING AND ANN
HILATING THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC -
John B. Cough, IN letter to THE
VOICE, nineteen days before his death.
And now having been advised
of the facts in the premises, and
with the knowledge before it that
Mr.. Cough had been voting the
Prohibition ticket for two years
before his death, does the Journal
wish to retract and say that his
deeds as a Temperance worker will
not live after him2
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
Hope tor Ohio Yet.

BATAVIA, OHIO, Feb. 24.-Judge
Cowan sentenced P. B. McCarty, a
Loveland saloon-keeper, to fifteen
days in jail aud fac of 500 for
selling liquors to persons in the
habit of getting intoxicated.
The Vanosdals, of Williamsburg,
will stand trial, and Joe. Turner, of
Laurel, will get his sentence Fri
day.
So it would seem there is hope
for Ohio yet, All the hue and cry
Of the Com, Gazette about Stree
whisky" is a fraudulent cry. The
Ohio laws restraining the sale of
liquors are very similar to the
West Virginia laws. What they
need over there is more conscience
and backbone and less political
trickery and cowardice. A need
that IS very pressing on our side Of
the river also.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
The Whisky Rebellion
"Trying to Enforce the La,os
.Hcpe."

PHILADELPHIA, February o.,
the conclusion Of the trial Of
number of cases brought bv n
Law and Order Society aga;.
liquor dealers to-day, GounsalIs
Vail and Mr.. Jones, of the socia,s
were set upon on the street hv
mob, which threatened them VIII
cries of Kill them" &c, and ~.
accidental presence of a SQUAD N
police alone saved them from bod;s
harm.
The Philadelphia Press, head,
the above dispatch "Too Much
Law and Order" And this is IN
keeping with the policy of all
license advocates and apologists 70,
the internal, law-defying traffic
They continually raise the cry Of
i" Why don't you enforce the la,os u.
haves' And then upon the first
effort of Temperance men to enforce
the laws, they beg in the coward,
whining of, Too Much Law and
Order" "Persecution," Espionage
on a mans business" and all such
as that.
The only remedy and relief is to
sweep out the infamous business
shut up the murderous dens, and
stop the whining mouths of all
their political gang Of cowardly
apologists.
THE SALOON MUST col
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
The Mote and the Bea m,

The "mote" and "beam" illus.
tration will hardly be criticised by
anybody; nor can the application
of the divine lesson be successfully
turned aside, even though the
beam in our own eye be no bigger
than the mote in our brothers eye.
The indignation of certain papers
at election frauds against their
party is very well SO far as it goes,
but we cannot conclude that it
possesses very much of a moral
quality, until these papers leave off
their vicious and demoralizing
habit of violating the law against
advertising lotteries.
If the spirit of poor old Sir
Samuel Butler could gaze into the
editorial sanctums of such papers
he would conclude that the men
who
COMPOUND for sins they are
inclined to,
By damning those they
have no mild to"
Are not all dead yet.
Whenever the press of the
country unite in condemning fraud
because it is fraud, no matter whose
OK is gored, then their words will
have some weight.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
A Big Fight for a Small Majority

The Tucker County Circuit con-
bitterly contested struggle.
The original contest was decided
in favor of Mayer, but the case was
carried to the Circuit Court and
thence to the Supreme Court. The
judgments of the courts below were
reversed and the cause remanded.
The case has just been concluded
after long and very expensive
trial, resulting in the Court
declaring Adams elected by a
majority of one cote.
Surely here was big and costly
fight for very small majority.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
Down with the Rebels!

The Pan Handle Mems has just
reached Senator Sutton's diversion
in favor Of modifying the Iowa
Prohibitory law so as to allow high
license for cities.
Since the Senator vent off in this
diversion in favor of the liquor
men, the Legislature of Iowa has
been in session, and the polite
Senator, seeing the overwhelming
drift of public sentiment as reflect.
ed in the Legislature, has dropped
his high license scheme, as if hot
potato, and goes for Prohibition
straight,ir clad and donble armed.
In short he has joined in the
popular cry, Doson with the Whisky
rebeLsI
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
The Plain English of 1t,

The House Of Delegates of Ohio
has passed another liquor tax act
similar to the notorious twice.
killed Scott Law.
The Wayne Co. CO., Herald says,
"The plain English of it is this
The saloon is an UNANIMOUSLY mean
institution, but we can't get rid of
it without injuring our political
prospects, SO we will assess tax OF
$500 on each trap-door to hell, and
put it into the treasury so as to ST.
lence the people, and let the MUIR
derous business run on"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03

the State was the sole judge of what
was e1pedient or necessary, and
that in all such cases the few must
gu fer for the good of the many.
The brewers would do we'll to Offset
their damages by setting over
against them the infinitely greater
losses suffered by the victims of
their brewed poison, for this is the
only way they'll ever get their &C
counts settled.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-03
An Open Confession.

Our excellent sister of the w. G..
T. q. Department of the FREEMAN
is informed that the Echo has been
duly mailed to the FREEMAN every
week for the last two months. Why
it hasn't reached her we can't say.
1t has started all right. Didn't it
get into the FREEMAN's big waste
basket 2-KeySer Echo.
We may as well make an open
confession all around and have this
trouble settled.
This is about the how of it: We
are Satisfied the Echo was coming
all along; but if the W. G. T. U.
Editor got hold of it first, it was
soon all clipped to pieces for the
good things in it, SO that we didn't
know it when it came to us; and if
we got hold of it frst--well, Sister
Thompson OF the Echo knows how
it is in that case. So here's q
rubbing ous of all tardy marks
against the Echo.