Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.


having conducted the negotiations
with Chill to the stage where an ulti-
matum was regarded as neces -ary
and having taken all needful precau-
tions to put the country in a condi-
ton to maintain its just demands by
force, if necessary, now turn the re-
sponsibility of deciding whether we
shall continue to wait on the pleasure
of Chill, make a demonstration in
force to hurry the Chilians up, or de-
clare war to enforce our demands,
over to Congress-, as provided in the
constitution. Congress having all the
facts before it will doubtless treat the
matter with due consideration and
finally arrive at a conclusion that will
be satisfactory to the people at large.
There is no partisan politics in this
question, which involves the honor
among the nations of the world, and
it is not believed that any attempt to
drag politics into it, which may be
made by congressman of small cali
bre, will be countenanced by the
democratic leaders.
Another democratic scheme has
come to grief. 1t was asserted by
members of that party, that the
treasury was becoming SO depleted of
cash that it would be necessary to SO
amend the Mckinley law as to bring
in larger income from customs du-
ties, and to prove this assertion, the
Ways and Means committee adopted
a resolution, calling upon the secre-
tary of the treasury to appear before
it, and declare the present and pros
pective condition of the treasury.
Secretary Foster being absent in
search of health, assistant Secretary
Spaulding appeared before the COM
mittee, and by short, business like
statement refuted every charge that
democrats have made so conclusively,
that they are probably sorry they
adopted the resolution. He said that
the actual receipts of the government
for the first six months of the present
fiscal year were STA, Isl, 900 and the
DlOi ,OGt,OOO, dlld UiItO
the estimated expenditures for the
entire fiscal year were 1888, 0OO, 900,
or just S24, 600, 900 less than the esti-
mated receipts, 1862, 100000. Besides
there is at present on hand in cash,
S139, 72S, 900, which added to the esti-
mated surplus which will exist on the
3Oth of June next, will give the
treasury on that date total surplus
of s123, 1893, 900. Nothing very depict
ed about that treasury, eh?
Mr.. Mills has blood in his eye, and
it is bad Texas blood. He is still sore
over his defeat, and he does not care
a continental who knows it. He in
Inmates, and some of his hot-headed
friends boldly declare that he intends
to lead revolt against the Crisp gang
when the first tariff bill is reported to
the House from the Ways and Means
committee. Mills also swears ven
geance against the presidential as
piration of Senator Hill, and says he
shall never get a single vote from
Texas.
IhS
combination is ruling the democratic
party with a rod of iron, in spite of
the squirming of the kickers. 1t owns
the democratic national committee,
as fully proven last week; it owns the
Speaker of the House, and it intends
to dictate the presidential ticket, and
the platform upon which the demo-
Gratis will make their national cam
paign this year.
The funerals of the late Justice
Bradley, of the supreme court, for he
had two, one here yesterday, and one
at Newark, where the interment is to
take place, were by his requests
strictly private, being attended only
by his family, intimate friends, and
the justices and officers of the SUI
preme court. He was appointed a
member of the supreme court by Gen
eral Grant, in March 1870, and during
his services on the bench he had made
a reputation that is part of the histo-
ry of that tribunal. He was known
to his colleagues as the hardest work
er and most scholarly man on the
bench. Much interest is already ex-
pressed in the appointment of his
successor.
The democrats in the last Congress
spent a goodly portion of their time
in denouncing the code of rules adopt
ed by the republicans of the House,
particularly that portion of them
which curtailed the privilege of the
minority to fillibuster indefinitely,
and now they have Incorporated in