Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
General l1eps.
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON,

Speaker Carlisle has announced the
committees of the House. That on ways
and means is composed of Mr.. Mills of
Texas, chairman Messrs. Mcmillan of
Tennessee, Breckenridge of Arkansas,
Breckenridge of kentucky, Turner of
Georgia, Wilson of West Virginia, Scott of
Pennsylvania, Byuam of Indiana, Kelley
of Pennsylvania, Brown of Indiana, Reed
of Maine, Mckinley of Ohio, Burrows OF
Michigan. The one on appropriations is
made up of Mr.. Randall of Pennsylvania,
chairman; Messrs. Forney of Alabama,
Burns of Missouri, Foran of Ohio, Syres
of Texas. Clements of Georgia, Felix
Campbell of New York, Gay of Louisiana,
Rice of Minnesota, Cannon of Illinois,
Ryan of Kansas, Butterworth of Ohio,
Long of Massachusetts, McComas of
Maryland, ID. b. Henderson of Iowa.
The chairmanships are: Culberson of
Texas, to the Judiciary wilkins of Ohio,
to the Banking aud Currency; Bland of
Missouri, to Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures; Clardy of Missouri, to Commerce;
Blanchard of Louisiana, to Rivers and
Harbors Hatch of Missouri, to Agricul
ture Belmont of New York, to Foreign
Affairs: Townshend of Illinois, to Mill
tary Affairs; Herbert of Alabama, to Ma
val Affairs; Blount of Georgia, to Post
offices and Post Roads; Holman of Indi-
ana, to Public Lands; Peele of Arkansas,
to Indian Affairs; Springer of Illinois, to
Territories Davidson of North Carolina,
to Railroads and Canals; Bacon of New
York, to Manufactures O'Ferrall of
Virginia, to Mines and Mining; Dibble
of South Carolina, to Public Buildings
and Grounds; Cultivate of Ohio, to Pa
cific Railroads; Gambler of Georgia, to
Education; O'Neil of Missouri, to Labor;
McAdoo of New Jersey, to Militia Mat
son of Indiana. to Invalid Pensions; Bliss
of New York, to Pensions; Lanham of
Texas, to Claims; Stone of Kentucky, to
War Claims; McCreary of Kentucky, to
Private Land Claims; Hemphill of South
Carolina, to the District of Columbia;
Oates of Alabama, to Revision of Laws
Shaw of Maryland, to Accounts; Rich
ardson of Tennessee, to Printing; and
Campbell of Ohia, to the Select Commit
tee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic.
DOMESTIC.
Fourteen street cars and 20 horses were
burned at Meriden, Conn.,, early Wednes-
day morning.
No more timber RATS are to be built,
but timber ship, provisioned for GO
days, will be constructed in New Bruins
wick.
A collision between freight trains on
the Canadian Pacific road in the Lake
Superior district, last Wednesday, killed
six men.
The kentucky Legislature has re-elect-
ed Senator Beck, and Senator Wilson of
Iowa has been renominated by the Re-
publican caucus.
A burgular entered house at Cumber-
land Mills, Me-, Thursday night, and
murdered woman who made an cutlery
on discovering his presence.
A commission appointed by the New
York Legislature to devise some more
humane method for capital punishment
than hanging recommend the use of
electricity.
1t is reported that the leading sugar re-
finers in the country will cooperate in
securing IA reduction of one-half the duty
on sugar, though they have hitherto sue
cessfully opposed any reduction.
The dressed beef and canning estab-
lishments of Chicago have united in a
demand for a reduction of the rates
charged by the railways for the trans
portation of dressed beef, sheep and hogs.
An appeal has been made to the Inter-
state commerce commission, and a law
will be carried to the supreme court.
A young man rejoicing in the name of
Walter Phelps Dodge, and intimately
connected with New York families of
social distinction. has recently made
himself prominent by publishing in the
papers the lie that young lady of high
connections was engaged to marry him,
and then publicly announcing his mar
riage to her. The fellow is freshman
at Yale. He has left that institution,
the rest of the boys declining to associate
longer with him.
Governor Foraker's annual message to
the Ohio Legislature concludes with a
reference to the Presidents message, in
which it is argued that if the Presidents
propositions prevail, the consequences
will be disastrous to every industry and
every section of our country, and to nc
class more surely than our farmers and
laboring people. Other and better ways
can be provided for disposing of the sur
plus revenue than by breaking down OuI
home industry and exposing our labor tt
foreign competition. We should stanC
firmly together in support of a protective
tariff policy which has been pursued fol
25 years.
Nine persons were killed and abOu
thirty were injured on the Boston anC
Maine railroad at Bradford, Mass, Tues
day afternoon by one of the most pecu
liar accidents in the history of railroad
ing. A broken car-wheel derailed fOu
cars of the Portland express leaving Bos
ton at o'clock. One of the cars, filled
with passengers, dashed beneath grea
water-tank beside the track, knocked on
the supports, and the whole affair, in
GLIDING 100000 gallons of water, collap
sed, crushing the Car like an egg-shell
Seven passengers and two men in tn
shed beneath the tank were almost in
stantly killed and ten other passenger
were very seriously hurt. Those in tn
other derailed cars were not so badly in
jured. The accident happened a few
yards from the bridge over the Merri
mack river, and had it occurred few
seconds later the calamity would hav
been far more appalling.
That slight cold, OF which Won think so little