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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

Senator Mcpherson of New Jersey puts
himself in a very bad light in the matter
of senatorial speculation in sugar stock
while the sugar schedule is being arranged
in the new tariff bill. About two months
ago, when it first began to be said that
members of the Senate finance committee
were speculating in stocks which were af-
fected by tariff manipulation, Mr.. McPher-
son arose in the Senate and admitted
that he had bought such stocks, but had
ordered them all sold when it became evil
dent that pending legislation might affect
their values. In his testimony before the
Senate investigating committee, however,
he has been forced to admit that he sim
ply transferred the stocks to his son. His
explanation, which does not explain, is
that he first bought 1000 shares which were
transferred to his sons name. Afterward
a telegram to his brokers was written or
dering the purchase of another 500 shares.
Just at this time the investigation began to
be talked about and both father and son
thought it would be improper to make the
purchase, and decided not to send the tele-
gram; but by a strange inadvertence it was
left where a servant got hold of it and
sent it. When this was discovered the
brokers were ordered to sell the stock
which they did with becoming promptness,
but the stock market was quicker than the
brokers, and father and son got check
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

The Republicans of Oregon won a vic
tory of unprecedented dimensions at their
state election Monday. In a total vote of
$4,000 Judge Lord is elected governor
over Pennoyer by plurality of $1,000,
both Republican representatives have been
returned to Congress, and a strongly Re
publican legislature has been chosen, as
suring the election of Republican to the
United States Senate.
The most encouraging, as well as signifi-
cant, result is the defeat of GOV. Pennoyer,
who has been laying pipe and burrowing
underground for months to obtain a fusion
majority in the legislature that would en-
able him to succeed Senator Dolph. Pen
noyer has been twice elected as a Demo
crat, but he has brought more discredit
upon his office than either Gov. Waite or
Gov. Lewelling, and has been as blatant a
Populist and as shameless demagogue as
either of them. 1t is cause for profound
qualification that he has been turned down
thus decisively.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

The New York World frankly says that
laid bare there has been no revelation made
in New y ork which created such consterna-
tion as that brought out before the LeXow
committee. This is the Republican com
mittee of the Republican legislature which
is investigating the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst's
charges against New YOrk's Tammany-
cursed municipal administration. The in
vestigation, as thus far conducted has re-
vealed a systematic practice on the part of
the New York police of levying blackmail
on the keepers of disreputable houses and
their degraded occupants, the money being
eXtOrted precisely as DR.. Parkhurst has
charged as the price of police protection.
These transactions have been circumstan-
italy described in the course of the com
mittee's hearing by some Of the unfortu-
nate victims of official robbery. On We'd
nesday, for instance, Lena Cohen. the
keeper of one of these houses, testified that
she paid the police $500 in cash and so a
month for being allowed to carry on an un-
lawful business. What is far worse Mrs.
Cohen testified that her husband wished
her TO give up her dshonorable occupation.
Thereupon the police instead of encour-
aging her, threatened to punish her if she
dared to close her house and thereby de-
prive them of their accustomed blackmail.
OF course the "swag' which is gathered
in this way, does not remain in the hands
of the police sergeants and captans.s They
are merely the agents for collecting it.
They may retain their stipulated percent
ages, but the balance goes into the pockets
of their superors, the Tammany sachems,
and helps to explain the suddenness with
which cheap bruisers and the proprietors
of low groggeries have blossomed out as
capitalists, with mansions on the avenue
and country seats on the Hudson, after a
brief connection with the machine
The New York sun, which has all along
opposed the methods of DR.. Parkhurst,
says of the investigation: "If the testi-
mony given before the LeXOw committee
is genuine, if it is founded in truth and is
not the product of conspiracy and fraud,
then it reveals condition of depravity and
corruption in the department of police al
most beyond human belief. If it be true,
and unfortunately probability apparently
points to its truth then there is uncovered
the foulest moral cesspool that was ever
disclosed in the history of a community
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

resolution was adopted declaring that it
belongs wholly to the people Of the Ha-
waian Islands to establish and maintain
their own form of government and domes-
tic polity; that the United States ought
not in any way to interfere Herewith, and
that any Intervention in the political af-
fairs of those islands by any other Govern
ment would be regarded as an act unfrend-
ly to the United States. This can hardly
be called an endorsement of the Cleveland
Gresham Hawaiian policy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
whom the Gods would Destroy.

The indictment against the Democratic
party is not merely that it has imposed
needless duty on sugar, and taxed the poor
mans breakfast table, for which it pro-
fessed such yearning solcitude, but that
it has sold for a consideration to the greed
lest monopoly of the day the right to tax
the people for its own benefit. The people
look upon this action as the fruit of shame
less corruption, and the Democratic organs
themselves confess to the worst possible
view of the matter. If there is anything
in the ancient maxim about heaven-sent
madness, the Democratic party is certainly
doomed to destruction.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

for an extra $500, which represented the
advance in the stock between the time
when the blundering (?) servant sent the
telegram and the hour when it was sold.
The Tribune is reminded by the Sena-
tors explanation of the story of the old
darkey who was found leaving farm-yard
with the feathers of chicken sticking
through hole in his hat. When his at
tention was called to it, he said "Fore de
Lord, boss, dunno how dat chicken got
dere; must a crep up my trousers leg"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
Vermont sheen Rreeders.

The annual meeting of Vermont Sheep
Breeders was held at Morrisville Tuesday.
The Green Mountain COtswold Sheep as
sociation elected these officers: President,
G. w. Flagg of Braintree; vice president,
F. S. Phillips of Glover; secretary and
treasurer, A. A. Niles of Morrisville. The
Vermont Shropshire Sheep association
officers are: President, James Atwell of
Eden; vice president, j. Merriam of Nor
ristown; secretary and treasurer, A. A.
Niles of Morrsville.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
Will They Approve 1t?
What the Infamous Bargain with the
Sugar Trust Means.
From the Boston Journal.

sugar trust ntHnss
From the Boston Journal
The infamy of the sugar schedule lies
in the fact that in fiat defiance of all free
trade principles and professions it gives the
sugar trust a stiff protective duty on its
finished product, and gives it under condi-
tions which, in the words of the Demo-
cratic New York Herald. "virtually tender
a present of twenty or perhaps thirty mil
lion dollars to this INSCRIPTIONS and
greedy combination. While it is provided
that the German tariff on other articles
shall 60 into effect on July l, at the begin
ming of the fiscal year, the duty on sugar
does not become operative until Jan. l,
1895. This six months grace will enable
the sugar trust with its enormous resources
to bring in, duty free, a years supply of
the raw material for its refineries The
new sugar duty, like all free trade duties,
always adds just so much to the price of an
article and is paid in full by the consumer.
When the new duty does take effect, the
price of sugar will Immediately 90 up, and
the trust can take advantage of it after
New Years to add the amount of the duty
to the price of every pound of sugar it re-
fines, though the raw material was i'm
ported free of duty.
1t is this immensely profitable privilege
which moved the trust to buy up the Dem
ocratric senators. They have consummated
the bargain.
VIII the American people approve it?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
ShnmeIessIX CORRUPT.

From the New York Tribune.l
If the sugar trust bought the Democratic
party at wholesale, by its contributions to
the campaign fund in 1892, the Democratic
administration and senators have delivered
everything they were asked to deliver. .
1t will be held in the future, when the do
ings of this Congress come to be calmly
and dispassonately reviewed, that the
most shamelessly corrupt act of which
either house of Congress has ever been
guilty is this passage of schedule dictated
by the sugar-refining monopoly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
What 1t Means.

From the Albany Journal
The sugar schedule approved by the
Democratic majority in the Senate Tues
day, means:
Higher prices for sugar.
A gift of at least S34, 10000 to the sugar
trust.
The imposition of an annual tax of S34,
900, 900 on the American people.
The destruction of all reciprocity agree
Indies and Central and South America
also loss of trade with all those countries.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

Much interest attaches to the presiden-
tial election in France, which will be held
next October, the senate and chamber of
deputies in joint session being the elective
agency. Casimer-P Perier, the present pre-
mier, is the leading candidate, although
Charles Dupuy, president of the chamber
of deputies, is a formidable antagonist,
and President Carnot is not averse to re-
election.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

The Republican senators look for a vote
on the tariff bill during the week beginning
June Is. A vigorous attack will be made
upon the wool schedule and the injustice
will be shown of protecting the sugar trust
while running one of Americas greatest in
dustries by putting wool on the free list.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
Gbe Dermrunt 39b@nf1.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, JUNE s, 1894.

The House defeated the movement for
the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on state
bank notes, Wednesday, 10 to 102. The
northern members of both parties voted
almost soldly against repeal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
The Maine Republicans renominated
Gov. Cleaves by acclamation at their state
convention Tuesday.

In Gray county, Kan, there is a school
district that contains only one family. The
father, mother and oldest son have elected
themselves trustees, and engaged their old
est daughter at $35 a month to teach the
Younger children.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
A Democratic Diagnosis.
From the Boston Post. ]

1t is dawdling, trimming, compromising,
ineffective democratic majority whom the
people condemn for the delay which is
wearing out the patience, as it is endanger-
ing the prosperity, of the country.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
Carpet
Department..

Never the annals of the Carpet Business fine carpets
sold such low prices offer my entire stock Awool
Ingram carpets 50 3d. SO Cotton and wool Ingram
carpets &c. 35 and AZ cents Tapestry Carpets 49, 3d. and
65 Fine Brussels carpets 85 SO cents and $ll5 China
Mattgs Oil Cloths Door Mats and Smyrna Rugs reduced from
10 to Is per cent. An early inspection is solicited.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
The Arlthmetie Nan Heard From.

An arithmetic man, who has abundant
leisure on his hands during the dull times,
submits the following:
During the last thirty years there have
been eighteen sessions of the legislature,
at which the Windham county representa-
tion in the Senate has been as follows:
Athens, Newfane,
Bratteboro, u Putney,
Grafton, Rockingham, 5
Guilford Townshend
Jamaica Westminster, 3
Londonderry, ] Nottingham,
Marlboro Wilmington. ,
Towns which have had no representa-
tion during this time; Brookline, Dover,
Dummerston, Halifax, Somerset, Stratton,
Vernon, Wardsboro, Windham.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

From the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcriptl
Traces of the bicycle are found on Egyp-
tian obelisks, so they say; but may be they
are only outlines of camels. The spinal
conformations of the camel and of the bi-
cycler are said to be nearly identical.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

After the date for the schedule to go in
to effect had been fixed several amend
ments offered by Mr. Manderson of Ne
braska (Republican) were voted down.
These were to continue the sugar bounty
till 1905, to continue it with annual reduc-
tions of 1-10, to confine it to the producers
OF beet and sorghum sugar only, and to re-
duce it to one cent a pound.
The debate was marked by the sharpest
cross fire between the two sides of the
chamber that has been seen since the tariff
discussion began. There were, in conse-
quence, several sensational incidents. Chief
of these was the plain and unvarnished
accusation by Senator Chandler that some
of the senators were guilty of speculation
in sugar stock After denouncing the
tariff bill as bargain which was being
forced through the Senate by mysterious
influences. Mr.. Chandler said with much
heat: Il believe that senators have specu-
lated in sugar stock. | hope that we will
not have final action until the committee
charged with the investigation of these
scandalous rumors completes its work"
The feeling of western Republicans
toward the progress of the bill was aptly
described by Senator Manderson of Neb
raska, who said: - do not see that there
is any Use offering amendments to this
schedule when the Democratic majority is
intrenched behind the bags of the sugar
trust, as were the forces under General
jackson at New Orleans protected by bales
of cotton
Senator Aldrich showed in the clearest
manner how the postponement of the date
till Jan 1895 would put not less than S34,
600, 900 into the pockets of the trust.
Senators Allison, Aldrich and Teller made
an effective point by showing that the
schedule would make present to the
sugar growers of Louisiana of about
S12, 100000 by enabling them to reap the
advantage, not only of the bounty on their
crop, the bounty being continued until next
January, but also the advantage of the 40
per cent al valorem duty upon raw sugar
which would 60 into effect just when the
bounty would cease.
Senator Palmer attempted to call Mr..
Aldrich to ac count for the use of the
word "infamous " in speaking of the sugar
tax, but the Republican leader informed
the venerable Mr.. Palmer that he not only
| characterized the tax as infamous, but un-
| iustifable, and if the Senator from Illinois
! could suggest any word which would more
strongly condemn the sugar iniquity, he
would be glad to use it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
The Halo Around Breckinridge's Head.

w. C. p. Breckenridge says that be will
eschew personalities and run on his rec
ord. How his halo must chafe his head at
times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

The report of the comptroller of the
currency for the year that ended Oct. 81,
1893, contains some figures that have a di-
rect bearing upon the sectional genesis of
the corporation income tax. The comp
troller prints a table showing the aggregate
savings bank deposits by states, the num-
Der of depositors, and the average amount
due to each depositor in 1923.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
THE VERMONT PHOENIX.
.,.ssprysayrRiDAYATBRATTLEBoRo,vT VT by
o. L. FRENCH.

-revs. st55psr year in advance; if not paid
within u.g ,nyr, rI-iNG furnished on application.
sn1t,tHs and Marriages published free;
Bdas Wines. Cards of Thanks, etc, 15 cents
y,'i'f .y',..a,f Of, 10 lines or less. p... oesoa 80 .
.II,,.., mail matterl
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
Sold Out to the Sugar Trust

And the Goods Delivered---The Demo-
cratic Majority i'm The senate Vote TO
Put $4,000, 900 in the Pockets of the
Trust.
On Tuesday the Democrats in the United
States Senate crowned all the acts of folly
of which their party has been guilty since
its accession to power by a complete and
absolute surrender and sale to the sugar
trust. In spite of united Republican pro-
test, and of every measure of opposition
that could be devised, the sugar schedule
as arranged and reported by the finance
committee, was adopted. The infamous
part of it is that the date when the ne W
ahead, Jan. /, 1895, giving the trust the
privilege of importing raw sugar free of
duty up to that time, and of refining it and
selling it with the duty added afterward d.
1t is said, and not denied, that the tru st
has bought up all the crops of the year in
the West Indies, and nobody disputes SEN
ator Aldrch's charge that the privileg es
which it has secured are worth clean
S34, 4,000.0 .000 every cent of which will come
out of the pockets of the people, and not a
dollar Of which will 60 into the government
treasury.
The final vote on the adoption of the
schedule stood, yeas 81, nays y. Hill Of
New York was the only Democrat who re-
fused to consent to the sale and voted nay.
Quay of Pennsylvania was the only Repub-
lican who voted for the schedule. OF the
Populsts Allen and Kyle voted with the
Democrats aud PETER with the Republi-
cans. Irby of South Carolina was paired
against the schedule. Including the pairs,
the political complexion of the vote stands:
irmative-Democrats ~; Popuists, 2;
Republicans, 1, a total of 45. Negative
Republicans, 81: Democrats, 2; Populsts s,
/, total of IS. This vote is regarded as a
crucial test of the tariff bill, and as assur-
ing its final passage when vote is reached.
By none is the surrender to the trust
more roundly denounced than by leading
Democratic papers like the New York Sun,
World and Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

The Ohio Republicans held the largest
and most enthusiastic state convention
seen in any recent year at Columbus We'd
nesday. The platform strongly indorses
Gov. McKinley's administration and COM
mends the course of the Ohio Republican
representative in Congress- and of Senator
Sherman in their earnest efforts to "defeat
the vicious legislation which an unscrupu-
lous majority has forced upon them" 1t
recognizes the Mckinley act as the ablest
expression of the patriotic principle of
protection yet enacted and denounces
the Wilson blr and the Senate-substi-
tutes therefore as ''unpatriotc, favor
able to trusts, and as subversive of the
prosperity and happiness of the people of
the United States" The Ohio elections
this year are secretary of state, judge of the
supreme court, and minor state officers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

The Young Mems Christian association,
which is now celebrating, in London, the
fiftieth anniversary of its establishment,
has witnessed a remarkable growth from
It's start. The entire body now includes
4G14 associations and 467,j15 members.
In the United States there are 1889 assO-
Citations, with 232, 653 members, 63l libra
ries containing 476,572 books, and owning
property valued at S15,211, ,639. 1t will be
seen that, although the association was
started in London, it finds a larger mem
bership in the United States than in all
the rest of the civilized world. 1t has
been surpassed in membership however,
by the Christian Endeavorers, who, in
1881, had only IS members, but when it
met in Montreal last July, to hold its an
nual convention, it claimed 20, 800 societies
and 100000 members.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08
Dress Goods.

There are great bargains here Fancy and Staple Dress
GoodS Silks and Wash Goods Table Damask Towels Crashes
Uounteane Shegs and Domestic Oottons of every descp
uOn Hosiery Gloves Laoes Coset8 Jersey and Gau7e and
Muslin Underwear, Shirt Waists and Ladies' Wrappers in great
protuSon at an important reduction from standard prices
Ladies' and ChIdren's
Spring Top Garments Go Now
For One-third and Some for One-haf
OFF the Regular Prices.
Rare Chance for Unparalleled Bargains
Second Floor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-08

There were Il, 100 more savings bank de-
positors in Vermont than in the whole
South, and the amount of Nermont's de-
posits was more than six times those of
the whole South. The state of Connecti-
cut had 2S,0j5 more depositors and
S31, ,239,5SS more deposits than the
western states. These figures speak for
themselves. 1t is only necessary to add
that true mutual savings banks, that
is, savings banks in which the whole
net profits are distributed to the de-
positor, are virtually unknown in the
West and South. The two per cent tax
on the net profits of such institutions is a
tax to be paid almost entirely by the North
and East
Abendblatt., 1894-12-19
Die bohbabnfhIeife.

9aS llebereinfommen Der 8ertreter Der
Observation-Disclosures in 8e3uq auf bic
gemetnibattlt9e 8enuBung Der QepGanten
9o3bahnzS9letf fpurbe getern Ra6mttz
tag enbli4 unter3ei6net. Ser Gebte, Der feiz
men, gtalnen ltnter bds Document TeBte, mar
ggfal0ent Honosrbad BON Der Gbicago 0ortb
Shore Street NatlipaD 60. Sic in benz
Gontraft entbaltenen 8ebtnqunqen finb. nie
9err Yertes unO Die iibrigen 6erren erflaren,
Prtoaten @barafters unb ni8t fir Das 0ubliz
tum beItimmt.
Oas in Der IeBten @erIammluno Der Muz
bo1b 4be, gropertp Onner'8 47ociatfon err
11annte Subz@ommite, ipelbes ben Q(uftroo
bate, bic Blame fir ben Die @abuI6 Npe. Be-
treftenoen She'll Der 6o9ba6n : G9leife au
ee5flpa9er, bat it4 no9 auf teinen b%etimnten
pldn etntgen t0nnen. 0as @pmite pirb am
q. 9e3em6er cine GiBung ob6alten, in fpeI~
9er es gu einem &efuItat tommen gu t0unen
bofft.
Abendblatt., 1894-12-19
death Valley"

Sin Banner nit obtger Nuff6rtft purbe
ge1tern @6eno am Me1tenbe bes Waf6inqz
tonitr.= Sunnel5 aufgert9tet, Sin tiinftlez
rii9 ausgefii6rter @9Goel nit ben freuaz
ipeife ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS &np9en mar
als tpeitere @arnung mod bin3ugefiigt.
BON 8 bis 10 lt6r tpuroen Die 9af1agiere in
oteier Deife getparnt, Damn na6men bic
S9ergen be5 Baron Yertes bas Ding tpeq.
8etern lpurbe iibrigenS bic Gegel einaez
fiibrt, baB tetn &abelba6npagen in ben
&unnel Rineinfubr, ebe Der i6m boruusz
gebenoe 8agen Die tiefIte@teGe errei6t bate
uno Die @Onbutteure erit bann bic 8remIe
OerlieBen unO baS 6abrgeIb einIammeIten,
tpann ie tpieber aufpdrts fu6ren. Me6rere
Bdfagiere, tpel3e i'm 2aSaQezS Str Sunnel
bic 8e3dDlnng be8 Sa6rgeIoes berfpeiqerten
un6 ben betr. @Onbutteur oufforberten, 1i6
lieber an bic 8remfe gu iteaen, muBten, ii6
DIE 9%robiten S9md3reben gefalen Iafen,
bod 'purbe in teinem San @etpalt anqez
tpenbet.