St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-03-14
NOTE AND COMMENT.

General circuit says, the cabinet is
strong one; and it will speedily
win the confidence of tbs country
Senator Morrill, considers it "a live,
vigorous assemblage of competent
men in every department
| The Boston Herald neatly turns III
one on the cabinet as follows: The
real reason why Tom Platt d1dn t
get into the cabinet was because Jer-
nv Rusk was to go there. The Pres
ident objects to Tom and Jerry
Postmaster-Genera Wanamaker is
reported to have said to the clerks IN
the department who were presented
to him: Boys, there will be no poll
tics in this department; but the slug
CARDS must 60" This looks as if the
Sunday school statesman" meant
business.
The Italian newspapers think Pres
ident Harrison's immigration utter
ances in his inaugural address will
tend to discourage emigration from
that quarter. There is fair pros
pect that the organ grinder and the
padrone will be content to stay in
sunny Italy.
Mayor Grant of New York says
that the telegraph and telephone
companies must get their poles down
within thirty days; in short that the
wires must go under ground. But
the aforesaid companies assert that
the thing cant be done and the pub
lie will await with some interest to
see who backs down, the mayor or
the mOnOpOlies.
Secretary Window, it is said, will
retain in the service of the treasury
department the present assistant in
charge of customs, Mr.. TichenOr,
whose long experience has become in
valuable and whom the democratic
secretaries could not well spare. He
is a tariff expert without any equal,
and knows about every custom
house in the country.
The Congressman are so much
sought after by Office seekers that life
in Washington has become a burden
to them. Senator Quay found rest
from the fact that his door bell broke
and so he lost Il number of calls.
Several of the Congressman have fol-
lowed the example of MIR. Wade of
Missouri and changed their quarters,
New Hampshire voted on seven
amendments to the constitution last
Tuesday, the one attracting the
most interest being the question of
prohibition in the constitution, which
was defeated. This will be something
of a damper on the Massachusetts
temperance people who will vote on
the same question April %. The
rum power is Il powerful antagonist
and has plenty of money.
Massachusetts has followed the eX-
ample of Vermont's Lawmakers and
the bill granting municipal suffrage
for women was defea ted in the legiS-
1ature Tuesday by a vote of 1877 to
IS. Inopening the debate one of the
speakers alluded to the fact that
100000 women had asked for this
vote in the years past; that 5000
petitioners asked it this year, while
no remOnstrance was put in, and on
1y four men appeared before the COM
mittee in opposition.
The only important change i'll the
select committees of the United
States Senate is the substitution of
of Senator Vance of North Carolina
for Senator Cockrell of Missouri as
chairman of the committee on woman
suffrage 1t will aforementioned that
Mr.. Cockrell refused to sign the ma
jority report of the committee favor
ing woman suffrage and it was re-
ported by Mr.. Blair. Mr.. Vance was
not a member of the last committee,
and his selection as chairman is a
gain for woman suffragists.