Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-09-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.
Washinqtom. dag. 9th.


Washington. dug. 9th.
Americanism certainly has the call
Just now. In the discussion of the
fisheries treaty, the republicans had
the best of it with the public, but Mr..
Cleveland, who seems to have either
lots of luck or the peculiar faculty of
knowing just what will please the
public at certain times, has turned the
tables upon them by his message on
the rejected treaty, and our general
relations with Canada. Whether Mr..
Cleveland is in earnest or not in his
professed desire fot further authority
to retaliate upon Canada for her
treatment of Ameaican fishing and
other interests, it is not my province
to decide, but that the message was
a shrewd political move made just at
the right time, cannot be doubted.
The republicans were reaping too
much advantage from their anti Eng
lish opinions or alleged opinions, and
something was necessity from dem
ocratic standpoint to stop the Irish
desertion from their ranks. That
something Mr.. Cleveland has supplied.
That it involved a complete change
of base on the part of the admins
tration matters not. The republic
ans may truthfuily charge that the
most of the authority for which Mr..
Cleveland now asks was granted him
eighteen months ago, and that he has
never made the slightest use of it, but
that will not prevent this message
from being popular. The message
doubtless created more CONSERVATION
among the Canadians than it did
among the republicans here, for it
shows that both of the great political
parties in this country are governed
by the American idea, and that fur
ther imposition upon American inter
ests will not be tolerated.
The decision arrived at by the pen
sion committees in both house and
senate, to reduce the amount of the
pension which it is proposed to give
Mrs. Sheridan from So, 900 to So, 500
seems hardly fair when the eminent
services of General Sheridan, and
the fact that the widows of other men
whose services were certainly of no
more value, receive pensions of 3d.
900 a year are taken into considera-
ton.
The fact that the House is now in
deadlock over the deficiency appro-
priation bill, for want of a quorum,
and that the democratic leaders of the
House are anxious to pass the bill
giving Mr.. Cleveland the authority
asked for in his message, has caused
the House to pass a resolution annul-
ling all leaves except those granted
for sickness. 1t is expected that a
quorum will present by the middle of
this week.
A Joint resolution has been intro
duced in the House, that should be-
come law, but unfortunately it is
feared that it will not. 1t authorizes
the president to veto specific items in
bills. 1t has long been
a custom with a certain class of con-
gressmen to put items of a dubious
character in important appropriation
bills. The habit should be stopped,
and the passage of this resolution
would do it.
The report of the bill to prohibit
the transportation of adulterated food
from one state to another, contains
food for thought. 1t says: "Recent
in the department of
agriculture of cheese receptions,
frauds in milk, authorizations in beer
and spirits, in spices and condiments,
and other things in daily use as food
and beverages, emphasize the neces-
sity for prevention or repression of
these disre putable practices, stimulat-
ed by the greed of gain. Liquids,
perhaps even more generally than sol
ids, are subject to this sophistication.
Aged brandies are made from diluted,
only colored and favored alcohol
cheap wines are mixed and manipu-
ated to initiate expensive brands;
beers are doctored to avoid the use of !
expensive hops, and to cheaper the
product or stimulate some desired
quality. Teas are mixed, colored
with poisonous minerals, and spent
caves are dried and placed second
line upon the market. The animal
industry which asks for protection
In this bill, reaches all the
evels of life, from the millionaire to
The day laborer; it embraces more
han all other Industries in the coun-
ry combined-the property of the
DOOR,