Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-11

Washington, March 4, 1895.
There's a death at hand,
But 'stead of the funeral bell,
There's joyful shout all over the land
ETis well, 'tis we'll.
If the adage "only speak well of the
dead" we're literally followed it would
be impossible to speak at all of the
Fifty third Congress, which drew it's
last gasp at noon today. About the
best that can be said of the defunct
Congress is that it did not do all the
harm it might have done, and the
democratic majority should receive
no credit for that, as their intentions
were to do all the harm possible and
it was only by the alertness Of the re-
publicans that they were prevented
from carrying them all out.
About the only mourners in the
Congressional house of death are the
ex-members who know that their
public careers are ended for good and
all, and the Capitol employees who
only receive pay while Congress is in
session.
ExSpeaker Reed uttered a few
words while the House was discussing
under a suspension of the rules a bill
appropriating S17, 800 to reimburse
Washington and Lee University, of
Virginia, for injuries sustained during
the war, which were as sound in prin-
ciple as the foundation of common
law. After protesting against the
bill being considered on sentimental
grounds instead of the grounds of
reason and wisdom, Mr.. Reed said
Whoever provokes war must take
the consequences, even of lawlessness
which destroys institutions of learn
ing. No nation can afford to adopt
the doctrine that all injuries to such
institutions shall be paid after the
war is over"
Ex-senator Manderson-the "ex"
was attached at noon today-tried to
accomplish what would have been a
real reform just before completing
his Senatorial career. He failed, but
that should not prevent his receiving
tempt. Senator Henderson offered
an amendment to the general def
cheney appropriation bill, providing
that the wives and daughters of Sena-
tors and Representative should not
be borne on the rolls as clerks, but
the Senate promptly laid it on the
table, and the wives and daughters of
certain Senators and Representative
will continue to draw 800 a month
for work which, with rare exceptions,
they do not perform, and people else
where will wonder why it is SO diff
cult to get Washington jury to con-
vict those who rob the government.
Senator Manderson's amendment
should have become a law, and it's
provisions should have extended to
cover the sons as we'll as the wives
and daughters also newspaper cor
respondents, and to embrace all gov
ernment employment.
Senator Morgan was not mealy-
mouthed about the reported intention
of the British government to pay the
UdmdS0S dllOW0u ny O0cFOGafy 0f0Sn-
ham to Canadian sealers in Behring
Sea. He said in a speech in the SEN
ate : 'sSir George Baden-Powell says
that they want to pay the Canadians
and the recalcitrant and rascally
Americans who hired themselves out
under the British flag to rob the gov
ernment of the U. S., violate it's law,
and dishonor the country-and to pay
them in advance, SO as to have NOR
al claim against the U. S., for this
1926, 900, not one shilling of which is
due-not shilling. I propose that
the committee on Foreign Relations
shall investigate the matter. There
has been enough of falsehood and
Misrepresentation about this in official
documents and in the newspapers to
require, for the vindication of the
| honor of the country, that this inves-