Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-02-22
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BRATrLEBORO.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1851.

BRATrlEBOROi
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1889.
1t is announced that Gen Harrison will
leave indianapolis for Washington next .
Monday afternoon, occupying the special .
car Of President Roberts of the Pennsy- /
vania railroad, arriving in Washington |
Tuesday afternoon.
The report Of the committee appointed |
to investigate the sham plaster-of Paris cell |
ing in the Albany state capitol is declared
to be the most scathing document ever Civ
en- to the Legislature There was a steal Of
over 500, 900 in the job, and lots Of polti-
cal careers are wrecked under it.
1t is nearly forty years since a new cab
met portfolio has been created Il was in
March, 1919, that the interior department
was established, and this was the last add
ton to the list of executive departments
until now, when the agricultural depart
ment is elevated to such position
Judge Edgerton, recently removed from
the civil service commissions has written
the President an open letter, in which he
charges him with bad faith and tells him
that he is an unsafe man TO trust, and that
was why he was not reelected The letter
ruthlessly stabs Mr. Cleveland in many
vulnerable place, but its tone and temper
are such as to show that Mr. Edgerton was
never fit for the important position to
which Mr.. Cleveland appointed him.
After rather long period of delay Gov
Dillingham; has appointed Hon. a. B. Val
entine of Bennington commissioner under
Mr.. Mann's bill for the investigation of the
agricultural and manufacturing interests
of the state, and to devise means for their
development. Mr. Valentine is man of
well-known ability as we'll as of large bust
ness experience, and what is equally i'm
portant he is a firm believer in Vermont
and her capabilities. That he will try to
use his Office in way to develop, strength
en- and upbuild our state resources there
can be no doubt. Gov Dillingham; very
properly asked Mr. Mann to accept the of
flee, but he declined for personal reasons
The people of st. Johnsbury are disap-
pointed at their failure to secure the loca
ton of the new asylum at that place, as
they have a perfect right to be but their
course in accusing Gov Dillingham; of de
liberately fixing" the locating commission
SO as to assure from the beginning its es-
tablishment in his own town of Waterbury
is one which they will regret when the first
flush of disappointment is over. The PEG
pie of Vermont do not believe Gov. Dilling
ham to be that kind of man, to begin
with, and in the next place there is album
dant indication, as the Waterman points
out this week, that the governor acted in
choosing the commission with sincere pur-
pose to secure men who had given the sub
ject previous study and were qualified to
act intelligently and for the best interests
Of the state. The real question is whether
Waterbury is as good "A location for the new
asylum as could be found, and the general
answer seems to he an affirmative one.
The extraditon treaty negotiated 10y the
Cleveland administration with Great Brit
ain was recently rejected by the United
States senate by the decisive vote of 10 in
favor to 3S against ratification. The Spring
field Republican comments thereon as fol-
lows Five Republican senators had the
courage to vote for the ratification of the
extradition treaty with Great Britain
Frye, Hawey, Hoar, Sawyer and Sherman. -
The Republican does not state whether in
its opinion the 10 Democratic senators who
voted against ratificaton--Bate of Tennes-
see, Call of Florida, Coke of Texas, Eustis
of Louisiana, German of MARYLAND, Nor
gan and Pugh of Alabama, Reagan of Tex
as, Salisbury Of Delaware, Turpie of In
diana, Vest of Missouri, Voorhees, of Indi-
ana and Wilson of Maryland-exhibited
any degree of courage in so doing. lnas-
much as three more Democrats voted
against than in favor of its ratification il
ought to he quite plain that the treaty
would have been rejected had the matter
been left entirely with the Democrats Of
the senate, Thus has been defeated in the
house of its supposed friends another of the
much.lauded diplomatic measures of tn,
present administration.