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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The Fool Democratic Congress.

From the Springfield Republican, May lOl
BY carrying through the House yester-
day 10y a great majority an outrageously
eXtravagant river and harbor appropriation
bill, the Democracy in Congress gives the
lie to every profession made in favor of
economy in expenditure of the peoples
money; to every claim of loyalty to the
Democratic principle of closely limiting
the jurisdiction of the federal government,
and to every appearance of sincerity in its
oft-repeated denunciations of the eXtrava-
gance of the "Billion-dollar Congress of
the Republicans.
The bill log-roled through by this Dem
ocratic majority is the most stupendous
and outrageous job of the kind ever voted
through either branch of any other Con-
gress. 1t carries direct appropriations of
some S25, ,OOO,OO and commits the nation
to the expenditure of S25, ,OOO, 900 more to
finish the work authorized. 1t plumbers
the public treasury in the political interests
of individual congressman and scatters
the money of the people with a lavish
hand TO dredge hundreds of creeks and
mud-holes with whose navigation the
national government has nothing to do I'M
der any construction of the constitution
consistent with Democratic professions.
and which are not worth the cost if it had.
1t is not to be compared for a moment with
the similar bill of the Republican 47th
Congress, which appropriated only about
SIS, 600, but which was vetoed by Pres
ident Arthur and made a law in spite of
his veto, and which was denounced from
one end of the nation to the other as a
wholesale robbery of the public treasury,
and which was passed upon two months
later by the people in vote that put the
Republican party out of power in the
House.
This Democratic Congress has richly
earned similar fate. Its economy resolu-
tions, adopted early in this session, have
been proved already a ridiculous bit of
| humbug. Its extravaganza threatens to
| equal, if it does not exceed, the unparallel-
ed record of the Reed Congress. 1t has
been found utterly untrustworthy in deal
! ing with the silver question. Its desultory
and half-hearted and incOngruous efforts to
reform the tariff have created a popular
impression of insincerity and fearfulness
even there. 1t has proved itself at every
turn an incompetent, hypocritical, untrust-
worthy, unOrganized, leaderess mob.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The Disgrace Is Undivided.
From the New York sun.

More than two-thirds of the Democrats
in the House who voted at all on the river
and harbor bill, voted to pass that product
of scoundrelsm and idiocy. If not sim
gle Republican in Congress had voted on
the river and harbor bill, the bill would
nevertheless have passed the House by
more than a twO-thirds majority.
No part of the odium, therefore, can be
shifted to the shoulders of the Republican
survivors of the billion Congress, or the
Republican inheritors of billion traditions.
The Democracy must stagger along until
November as best it can under the burden
which the crazy folly and treacherous self
ishness of siXscOre of its representatives
have fastened upon its back.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
277o Difference
The "ROyaI" the Strongest and
Purest Baking Powder.

Whether any other baking powder is equal to
"Royal," let the official reports decide. When
the different powders were purchased on the open
market and examined by Prof Chandler, of the
New-York Board of Health, the result showed that
Royal Baking Powder contained twenty-seven
per cent. greater strength than any other brand
When compared in money value, this difference
would be as follows:
If one pound of Royal Baking Powder sells
for 50 cents,
One pound of no other powder is worth over
SO cents.
If another baking powder is forced upon you
by the grocer in place of the Royal, see that you
are charged the correspondingy lower price
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
Sham Economy.


4 Scathing Exposure of Democratic
Methods In the Present Congress.
In the House of Representatives on Tues.
day, when the sundry civil appropriation
bill was up for discussion, Gen. Cogswell
exposed relentlessly the methods of the
Democratic majority in their pretended
watchfulness of the public treasury, show
ing how they have no scruple about voting
away millions of the peoples money on
the river and harbor bill which is an outrag-
eous fraud, and then turn about and prac-
tice a systematic cheese-paring of appro-
| prations which are essential for the con-
| duct of the government and the support
and development of its institutions. Among
the damaging facts shown by Cen Cogs-
well is that for an extension of the light
house and buoy service, for which the
| lighthouse board asked 81, ,26S, 750 the
| picayune Congress grants only S42, 800, al
though the board had formally declared
that 3l7,0O0 of the estimates were absO-
| lutey Indispensable The appropriation
for the lighthouse establishment is cut
S305, 600. That for the life saving service
is not increased, though seven new stations
have been added. This stroke of "econ-
closed this year, for the superintendent has
no power to create a deficiency The coast
and geodetic survey has had its estimates
cut S7l, 800, against the protest of the chief
of the bureau that it would seriously Grip
pie his work. True to his traditions, the
Democratic Congress savagely assails in
these reductions the welfare of the Amer
lean merchant marine.
II also attacks The pauSp m pInpatiOn nv
making $1,000 cut in the appropriation
for Howard university, and a $4,000 Re-
ductiOn in the Alaska school estimates,
which will require the closing of some of
the much-needed public schools in that
far-away territory. The appropriation for
the National Museum has been reduced
S25.OO0 and there has been a further cut
of Slj,OOO in the appropriation for the
museum'~ fixtures and appliances. The
fish commission suffers to the amount Of
>jl 900, and sop is thrown to the South
eTn ''mOOnshiners' by a reduction of one
half in the appropriation for the punish
ment of violations of the revenue laws.
| tab polygamists will rejoice that a bene-
ticent Democratic Congress has cut Slj, 900
out of the estimates for arresting and
guarding malefactOrs in that territory, and
cOunterfeiters will gladly welcome a SINH
lar cut in the amount devoted to suppress
ing their attempts to defraud the govern
ment. There is a reduction of S40S, 800 in
the appropriation for the United States
courts, and of 500, 600 i'm that for heating
and lighting public buildings
These are some of the items which Gen
eral Cogswell recomts in his indictment of
the Democratic politicians for imperling
the interests of the merchant marine. as
sailing the cause of education, and OBJ
structng the enforcement of the laws and
the transaction of the public business. 1t
is an appalling record, and it will be used
with telling effect against the Democracy
in the approaching campaign.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

binds the country, will carry the actual
total up to $685., ,sO4, G7Q.1S in the end,
while "the whole total appropriation of
the second session of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress, and which obtained for it the noto-
riety of being the first billion-dollar Con-
gress, was only S52j, ,OlS, ,672.55."
1t is no wonder that the Democrats are
blue under such showing, or that the
New York World appeals to the majority
in the House to bolt in their mad career
bluntly declaring that "If there be not an
instant bolt and a complete about face, the
Chicago convention may as well not meet. 8"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
Under the Stars and Stripes.
The Two Finest Steamships AfiOat 10 be
Admitted to American Registry.


Admitted to American Registry.
The famous transatlantic steamships,
City of Paris and City of New York, of
the Inman line, are to be admitted to
American registry, and will hereafter sail
under the American flag. The House
passed bill admitting these vessels to
American registry last week. and on Mon
day the Senate promptly passed it in con-
currence.
1t has been the fixed policy of this
government for hundred years to require
every vessel flying the American flag to be
built in the United States. The company
owning the Inman line, the International
Navigation company, is made up of Amer
leans, and its stock is almost entirely held
by citizens of the United States, but it is
compelled to fly the British flag upon its
vessels because they were built in Great
Britain and because that nation pays them
about Sj00,0O0 year for carrying its mails
and for being liable in case of war for
service as British cruisers.
The steamships City of Paris and City
of New York were especially constructed
with view to naval as well as passenger
service. They are, with one exception,
the Majestic, the fastest steamships i'm the
world. They have water tight compart-
ments, SO they will not sink, even if seri-
ously damaged by collision or by shot and
shell; their machinery and boilers are pro-
tected from projectiles by coal bunkers,
and they are each equipped for the mount
ing of commerce destroying rifled guns of
large calibre.
The bill passed by the Senate Monday ad-
mits TO American registry these two for
h1If 4 IL.
condition that their owners contract with
in six months for the building in American
shipyards of steamships of an aggregate
equal tonnage and also available for use as
cruisers in case of war. The two British
vessels cannot ply in coastwise trade. but
must make transatlantic journeys. The
contracts for the new vessels will call for
the expenditure of about S2000.0OO for
American labor and material, and it is
probable that other American ships will
be built by the company to run on other
transatlantic lines which it owns
Mr.. GriScom, the president of the In
ternational Navigation company. says:
"By transferring these vessels from the
British to the American flag our company
loses about S100,OO0a year of subsidy now
paid by the British government for carry
ing mails. We expect to make that ND by
increased commercial business. For ex-
ample, | think that three out of four
Americans going abroad would prefer to
sail under their own flag, provided the
ships We're as good, than under any for
eign flag. Moreover, under the postal aid
act of the last Congress we shall be able to
bid for carrying United States mails. and,
if We get the contract, that will more than
make up for the loss of the British sub
sdy.''
The vote in the Senate on this measure
stood Al to TO- Mr.. Morrill, voting no and
and Mr.. Proctor yes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The New rvr5. enumeration Fraud.

The New ork Tribune prints careful
analysis and review of the Democratic
enumeration in New York, under which
the new enumeration for congressional and
legislative districts was made. This re-
view proves completely the corrupt and
fraudulent character of the enumeration.
The count was falsified in four ways. |.
The number of actual citizens, upon which
the legislative apportiOnment is required
by law to be based, was increased by the
addition to it of certainly as many as 250,-
600 aliens This was done because it was
obvious that the net result would be an in
crease of Democratic representation in the
legislature 2. In numerous instances un-
classified inmates of penal and charitable
institutions were tabuated as citizens,
though the returns, by specifically stating
the whole number of citizen inmates,
clearly signified that any addition to that
number would be fraudulent. 3. On the
last day of the session the population of
Brooklyn was arbitrarily augmented by
ri, 1870, after it had been exactly ascertain
ed and formally announced, because the
true population fell below Democratic eX-
pectations. 1. On the night before ad-
journment the force of computers and YER
ifiers, carefully weeded out was ordered to
and did alter arbitrarily, in a large or small
degree, as the emergency required, the pre-
viously manipulated enumeration cards of
20 counties so as to bring the totals into
conformity Such were the devices and
achievements by which the returns of
census originally stuffed in Democratic
stronghOlds and squeezed in Republican
were finally falsfied in the interest of the
Democratic party.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

DO you drink the finest soda,
SerVed 7vitA neatneSS and zvith
bromPtneSS,
WIN ciVt2Ity and quick skill,
WIN, I'm gladtO do your pleasure,
In each sparkling glass that S
served ?
Are yom sure yOu sip the finest ?
PureSt 7vater, best material,
Expert making, choicest brOduct
Ofthe art ofthe alchemist.
Cleanliness, presiding genims
From the cellar TO tile fountain.
9uiceS from the fruit that's choicest
We'll breSer0ed in natural favor;
Mixed 7Oifh syrup Of bure sugar,
Not the refuse from the making
Ofroch candy, but tie best.
These, 7Vhen sparkling, ice cold,
foaming,
SerVed in thin glass, dainty, neat,
WIN Cream Foam or ice as zVaNted
Constitute tile best that can be kaa
At Chabin's and John HackleyS.
ConnotssemrS say, best in to7Vn.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
There Is StII Hope.
lFrom the New York Press.

Our anserine Mugwump contempora-
ry, the Boston Herald, mournfully con-
fesses that sin the Democratic party there
is an element of bold, defiant undisguised
badness" We beg to congratulate our
Athenian contemporary upon its discern
ment. To be sure, it is rather late in the
day to discover the "badness" of the party
of slavery, secession and reputation, the
party whose power depends upon the dom
nance of the criminal and ignorant popu-
latiOn of our great cities and the forcible
suppression of Republican votes in the
Southern states; the party whose purpose
and spirit are represented by Tammany
Hall and David b, Hill. But it is never
too late to learn; and there is hope in the
future even for Mugwumps,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
Reasons for Supporting Col. Fuller.
From the Burlington Clipper


OF these candidates Fuller. Fletcher
and Spear and it is not likely that other
names will be seriously considered at this
late day-the Clipper believes that Col.
Levi h. Fuller is the man best qualified to
fill the gubernatorial chair for the next
two years. There is certainly no qualif-
cation mentioned for consideration in the
other two candidates which does not ap-
ply with equal force to Col. Fuller, while
in some particulars it must be admitted
that he has superiority over those gem
tlemen. His acknowledged business abili-
ty, his extensive and worldwide acquaint-
ance, his high standing as a representative
of business which is the pride of Yer
mont, and which cOmmends itself to the
highest esteem of the commercial world.
places Col. Fuller in position where as
governor of Vermont he could do much TO
advance the interests of the state, espec-
tally at the worlds fair. In
short Col. Fuller is candidate whom every
man can vote and work for feeling that in
doing so he is supporting an honest and
upright fellow citizen, self-made man.
and one who if elected would carry along
the state administration on its present con
Seryative business principles. .
Windham county has had no governor for
30 years while Windsor county has had
three during that period and Orange coun-
ty has been favored with a governor with
in the past few years. This will be an inn
portant consideration to many voters who
believe in fair play, now that Windham
county presents so worthy a candidate as
Col. Fuller. We believe that large ma
iority of the Republican voters who have
given the matter any thought fully agree
with this journal in the opinion that Col.
Fuller is a safe man and the right man tC
nominate for governor this year; and that
no person seriously mentioned as a candi-
date could poll larger Republican vote in
September.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
Cheapness at Too Dear a Cost.

lOonsIesSlndn D. r. DOluVer OF Iowa.
have often stood in Castle Garden, at
the gateway of the Republic, watching that
restless throng out of every kindred tongue
and tribe of people. | have seen young
men standing there holding in their hands
"a suit of "taXed" American clothes for a
brother arriving on these shores out of the
very countries where clothes are the cheap
est. | have seen young women timidly
hiding under a taxed American cloak
the bright cOlOrs of new hat for a sister
who had just come from a land where ev-
erything is so cheap that nobody can buy
anVtbiu1
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

All of the delegates to the Republican
and 32S of the 900 are definitely instructed
for President Harrison, while 3l2 Others
who are uninstructed, are known to be
favorable to him. The preferences of 1856
are unknown, and the remainder are divid-
ed according to individual fancy between
Blaine, Alger and Sherman. The present
outlook leaves little doubt of President
Harrison's denomination. Within the past
fortnight there has been a diligent attempt
on the part of Mr.. Harrison's opponents to
renew talk about Mr.. Blaine, and to set a
John Sherman boom in motion.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The Mckinley Bill from an English
Standpoint.

The fact that Great Britain and other
European countries hope for the success of
the Democratic party in the United States
tells its own story. Those countries realize
what the Mckinley tariff means, as will be
seen by the following from London Engi-
neering, a leading trade journal, in an ar
ticle on the exports of British manufact-
urers to this country: "The volume of
that export trade has decreased it is true !:
the (McKinley) bill was intended to foster
native industries, especially the tin plate
industry, and this it is doing, to a very
satisfactory extent from the American
point of view, and just so much as it has
stimulated American industries 'at the eX-
pense of our own, by Just that extent it is
regarded with favor by large majority in
the United States, no matter what their
shades of political opinion may be, There
is a somewhat general idea in this country
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
a sample of Democratic Economy.
From the New York Press

The fraudulent majority of the recent
New York legislature passed measures by
which the Indebtedness of New York and
Brooklyn will be increased by about $780,
100000. This is larger increase than in
any year since the Tweed ring ruled the
city from Albany. 1t is a startling com
mentary on the assertion of Senator Hill
that this was an economical legislature.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

Worse than "a Billion Dollar Congress.
The more cautious and level-headed of
the Democrats in and out of Congress are
becoming thoroughly frightened at the
record of extravaganza with the peoples
money which the big Democratic majority
in the present Congress is making. Ap-
preparations are already in sight which are
larger in their total by several millions
than those made by the "billion-dollar
Congress" out of which the Democrats
manufactured so much capital. Mr.. Beltz-
hoover, a Democratic representative from
Pennsylvania, has given the New York
World detailed comparative statement of
the appropriations by the first sessions of
the Fifty-frst and Fifty-second Congresses
respectively, which show the following re-
suit:
Total Appropriation, Fifty-hrst Congress. first
session, S4i339S,5lO 70: total appropriation. Fifty
second Congress first session Sass sol 679 ~: eN-
cess 10y present House, S23 IOG, l6903 But that is
not all Before Congress rises there will be an ad-
ditiun Of at least SlOOOO,OOO to the pension bill
civil bill. So that the actual excess of the apprO
priatiOnS Of this House over those made at the
first session Of the last House will be- about S3s,
0OO,OOO"
Mr.. Beltzhoover goes on to show, fur
ther than this, that future appropriations
to which the action of Congress already
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The Lieutenant-Governorship.
ICol. Forbes In The Boston JournaII

If the Republicans should select Col. F.
Stewart Stranahan of st. Albans for lieu
tenant governor he would strengthen the
ticket and make a splendid running mate
to Col. Fuller Col. Stranahan was gal
liant officer in the First Vermont cavalry,
has been president of the Vermont Officers
Reunion society, town representative, state
senator, and is one of the trustees of the
reform school. He is an excellent presd-
ing officer, and is fitting representative
of the younger class of Vermont Repubii-
cans.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

that the Mckinley tariff bill will be re-
pealed before long, or at all events be so
much modified that the sting will be taken
out of those clauses most Objectionable to
British manufacturers and it is for this
the approaching presidential election are 50
largely shared i'm this country"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The Sentiment I'm Favor OF Col. Fuller.
From the Brandon Union

The sentiment in favor of the candidacy
of Col. Fuller of Brattleboro continues to
gain strength, and it is the opinion of many
in all parts of the state that his name will
be the only one presented before the con-
vention for that Office. He is a strong, en-
ergetic, attractive and clean man, and that
is the kind of man that ought to win in a
commonwealth like Vermont.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

The indications are from the newspaper
sentiment of the district that there will be
no opposition this year to Gen. CIRCUITS re-
nomination for congress, it being conceded
that no one could do the constituency bet
ter service
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
A A $50. 900. 900 Rive. and Hnrbor Bill

The Democratic Iiodsc % Rerrescnta
tives threw overheard its last claim to
economy on Monday by passing, by a
vote of 1856 to 66, river and harbor bill
which for reckless extravaganza, puts ev,
cry other bill of the kind in the shade
The bill carries an immediate appropria-
tion of over S2l 900, 600, and involves the
expenditure of S26,OOO.OOO more under
contracts which it authorizes the secretary
of war to make without further action by
Congress. This is the biggest river and
harbor grab ever known and discounts al
most three times over the bill of SIS, ,OOO,-
600 passed by the Republican 47th Con-
gress, which President Arthur vetoed, but
which was passed over his veto, and the
result was political overtun in the next
House, so great was the public Indignation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The Rat in That Free silver Meal.

The report of the director of the mint
makes it clear that, on the basis of last
years productions, the silver mine owners
would have profited TO the extent of near
ly $1S,0O0,OO0i if they could have unloaded
their product on the government at its
coinage value instead of having to sell it
at its market value. No wonder they
clamOr for free silver
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

1t is understood that Col. Hooker will
retire this year from his position as the
Vermont member of the Republican ma
tional committee and that Col. George T.
Childs of st. Albans and NJ S. Colburn of
Manchester are prominent candidates for
the place.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13

Chicago buyers purchased 10000 barrels
of whisky in one lot last Monday. 1t will
be observed that preparations for the ma
tiOnal Democratic convention are going on
rapidly.-N Y. Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-13
The N0nbare5I
Bell Skirt

Made from the Beaver Coz
Egyptian Cloth.
The Nonpareil Bell Dress
Skirt is designed to be worn
with any style Of shirt waist,
the popular garment of the
times.
This tashionably cut skirt
can te adjusted by the pur-
chaser to make a neat and
stylish appearance on any fig
ure, and is the most comfort
able knockabout summer gar
ment in the market. Made
in the fashionable shades, and
sold at a popular price by