The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-20
NOTINGS.

: The directors of the Bennington and
Woodford Electric railroad company
have declared l. per cent, dividend
|. out of the profits and voted TO eXpeno
. $50. coo in extending the road and mt
: ting up 4 summer resort.
+ The Atlanta journal, Secretary
Hokc Smith S paper, announces that
: the Georgia Legislature IS likely to pass
t Il bill establishing state bank OF
issue. which will proceed to put out
It's notes and then test the constItu
| tionality Of the law Of taxing such
: circulation by an appeal Ia the courts
There is little doubt if the question
could come aquarry before the court
as a prohibitorv tax, it would be held
unconstitutional But the court will
avoid the issue. as it did, in the olco-
margarine case by holding that it can
not qucstlonthe good faith of congress
and when tax purports To be rev
cnuc measure 1T must he so ned.
\ conference of lcaling colored uen
from all over the United States at De
troit last Thursday voted Ia from a
national association to further the in
terests Of their race. Among otncr
country recuunting their wrongs in
detail. which they consider to be many
lust now. and protesting especially
against the disenfranchisement meas
ures in Louisiana, Mississippi and
| South Caorlina. which they character
! lied as Lately rehclIipus states.
Powers at the head If the commit
. Tee ON Pacific railroads, which is
. ti,,t.
/ aud CIRCUIT at The head OF thr Dis
. trict 1T Columbia committees. whore
! ir has rendered efficient service in
{ the past.
"Vindicated at last, Was Senator
Brices ejaculation. when the presi
dents message was read indorsing
the "pripciple'' Of tine new tariff
The president ought to have quail
fled that sentence little.
Though every BODY knows that the
government has not money enough |
coming in to meet its expenses. there |
is no abatement of the congressional |
disposition to extravaganza. On the |
first day Of the session bills were in |
troluced in the House calling for an /
expenditure of y, 10000 for public
buildings. and bills in the senate cal. |
ling fors5, 300. 600 for like purposes.
William II. Harvey, the author If
Coins Financial School, is forming
Il new secret order TO promote bi-mctal
lism to be known as the - Patriots of
America
Rudyard kipling says there is only
one great pleasure for an author. and
that lies in work. He finds his nap
piness in creating. not IN critics.
Senator Sherman in discussing the
tariff question in his book not only
certiiies, with many others. to the
remarkable period of national pros
perity under the tariff of 1916. but he
also says that a great mistake was
made i'll not accepting the lower rates
of duties recommended by the tariff
commission under Arthur presidency.
1t was only prevented. he admits, by
the lobby and he believes that if it'll
had been done the country would have
been content and we should have es
capped the years of unsettling and dis
tuiblng agitation since.
Gov. ". O. Bradley of kentucky is /
formally IN the field as Il candidate for
the Republican presidential nomina !
tion. He will not only have the en- |
dorscmcnt of his own state but expects {
that of all the other ueighboring states '
except Tennessee. where mis- case is l
by the candidacy of II. I
Clay Evans. He also figures on being s
the second choice of the Mckinley men Z
at least in Ohio in case the latter is i
unable to get the nomination himself. {
iov. Foraker and bradley are great Y
friends. e
Edward McPhersop. So long clerk of
the lower house OF congress. from ls63 I
to 1913 and ever since when the Re a
pnhlicans had majority, and even o
more famous as Il statistician. died l
Saturday at Gettysburg. Penn. from Il
inc result oi Il mistake in taking i
Medicine He was native of Gettvs IN
ourS. where no was born in 1880 and e
educated as lawyer. but be was il
Elected 10 congress and after serving
.Wo terms was unanimously chosen !,
,lerk. Tie Was the author of numerous i.
WORKS on political history and parlia S
lent"'E 'a"' Conspicuous among them l.
'elne ms Handbook of Politics = b
biennial publication. which has al.
sa!s peen regarded as "a standard Il
work. lie was also for MANY wears cd. [,
tor of the New York Tribune SImapoc y
Reports have been circulated. and Id
low nave official denial from the British
'ore'gn Office. that England is peroti. te
Jung with Spain for the cession of p'
,uoa. The story ran that the Snanisb d
ZINE Minister. Senior Cauoyas Dol h
jastillo, contemplated. as last resource ol
ne abandonment of the island h, b
treat Britain. which. in return, wouid a
ssume the Cuban debt, restore GibraI. OF
ar. and acquiesce in the Span;sb n;
iaims on Morocco. il
congressman Hiborn of California is p'
70 longer IN favor OF the annexation of q
ia"ali' "a visit to those islands mad "
Ist summer having converted him IL
ne went to Honolulu 10 study the sit. n'
a.ion with the purpose of obtainin. W.
l,or nistlon at first hand which shouLi 70
e.efmine his action in Congress an q, ~
ne question of annexation. and he M
eht as An avowcd anpcxationist Ue '"
Junu Tie situation very different from, al
nat ne expected. and now SAWS that ID
lie enormous influx of Chimes III III
apanese has really Mongolized Hawai- ca
III Inat IL We annex these islands u.o "a
lake in I.