Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-08-11
THE LION AND THE TIGER.
better now than let the bill pass. The
bill was then ordered to a third reading
and was passed without division.

better now than let the bill pass. The
bill was then ordered to third reading
and was passed without division.
! Representative BOatner has finished
his report on the result of the investiga-
ton made by a special committee of the
house into the charges preferred by
| Representative Watson of drunkenness
among members on the floor of the
house. The report is approved by the
three Democratic members of the COM
mittee, and, with some qualifications, by
| Representative Grout of Vermont. The
report declares that the committee has
no hesitation in declaring that the
charges, construed in the sense in which
they are made, are false and libelous I'M
der the strictesC legal definition of those
terms; that the evidence was overwhelm-
ing that the charge involving Represent
alive Cobb is contradicted by the wit
nesses, and there was nothing in the evil
dence to justify the imputation made
against him. The facts are, the report
will say, that three, and probably four,
members appeared on the floor more or
less under the influence of liquor, but
none in the condition described in the
charges.
The conferees on the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill have reached complete
agreement. After the action of the SEN
ate Friday there was but one point of
disagreement remaining to be disposed
of. That related to the Pinkerton detec-
tives and forbade any government officer
or person holding government contract
to employ such detectives. 1t required
two conferences after the afternoon ses-
sion ended before the conferees could
get together on this proposition, and it
finally assumed this shape: s"That no
employe of the Pinkerton detective
agency or similar agency shall be en-
plOyed in a government service or by
any officer of the District of Columbia"
provision, which was prop
osition for the employment of Pinker-
tons by any government contractor.
The statement is published that the
British cruiser Champion has seized
johnson Island in the Pacific Ocean in
the name of Great Britain. 1t is said at
the state department that the United
States has exercised jurisdictional right
over the island since 1853, when an
American guano company landed party
thereon and occupied it. Territorial ju-
risdiction has never been annexed. The
United States would exert Its jurisdic-
tional right over the island to protect
the guano company in the pursuit of
their avocations, but 1t is said there
would be no conflict with the territorial
jurisdiction set forward by any other
government.
The judiciary committee of the house
Thursday morning, after getting into a
preliminary tangle with respect to the
report to the subcommittee which IN
vestigated the Homestead trouble and
the PinkertOn system, instructed the sub
committee to continue the inquiry dur
ing the recess and report at the next SEES
sion Of congress. Chairman Oates of
the subcommittee was prepared to re-
port, but the majority of the sub-com-
mittee declined to adopt his report, con-
tanning, as it did, "too much dynamite"
as one member said.
Secretary Foster has decided that no
Chinese sailor shipped outside of the
United States can be employed by the
Pacific Mail company or any American
snip, rs American VeSSelS are always ana
everywhere American territory. The
crew imported on the City of Picking
will have to be returned to China as pas
sengers by the company. The Pacific
Mail steamship Peru sailed from China
with Chinese crew. Forty of them
were green hands shipped here and the
rest experienced men taken from the
City of Peking and the Oceanic.
The president, accompanied by Mr..
Tibbetts, his stenographer, and servant
left Washington for Loon lake on a
special train at 11.35 o'clock Friday even
ing. Before leaving the city the presi-
dent signed the sundry civil bill and a
number of other measures.
The president has approved the act
granting pensions to army nurses.
Windham County Prohibition Convention.
The Windham county Prohibitionists
met in convention August at Newfane,
and the number in attendance was larger
than at any previous convention. The