The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-17
DULL WEEK Az WAslIINGTON.

during the war, To Dc consui-gcnerdl u
the United States at Havana, Cuba
, vice Ramon O. Williams resigned
4 Gen. Lee is IA personal friend q
Cleveland. and is appointed to an
him in dealing with the Cuban prob
( lens
: The Tory bankruptcy bill was prac
, ticaly ngroed upon Friday by tn
o house committee on the judiciary. |
> provides for involuntary bankruptcy il
, ease OF fraud and is limited in its III
voluntary features to traders, banker
and other business classes.
The Mckinley men in the hous
turned in with the southerners an,
New York city representatives las
week, under the lead of Grosvcnor. f
defeat the bill to abolish compulsor,
pilotagc Mckinley and many othe
| Ohio men voted Tor a bill of exact.
tho same effect in the 5lst Congress
but the knights of Labor had pro
nounced against this and there seemed
to be point of Mckinley in beating It.
The House committee on Pacific rail
roads Monday ordered a favorable re
port on the Pacific railway rcfunding
bill. and Judge Powers, who leads in
it's support, is assured that ample time
shall be given for the consideration OF
the measure, and it is thought that
about three days will be devoted TO
general debate. 1t may he reached
next week.
The senate Wednesday voted to ratify
the treaty with Great Britain for ii
com mission to assess the damages sus
tanned by Canadian scalcrs seized in
the Behring Sea by our government
without right. as the Paris tribunal de
cided
The House had an ugly debate We'd
nesday over the election of four govern
ors of the board in charge of national
soldiers homes, to succeed those whose
terms expire the present month. The
attack was directed against the gallant
Gen. W. B. Franklin, one of the four,
because he sustained Smith, the Govern
of the Leavenworth, Kan, home. Repre-
sentative Blue of Kansas, made two
hours speech charging Smith with cor
ruption and brutality, and with being
drunk, vomiting brawling drunk 100
times within the last three years, The
debate developed the fact that n beer
saloon is run in connection with the
home and for its profit, leading Talbert
of South Crrolina to inquire, humorous
ly, if Kansas was not a prohibition state. !
Franklin is sustained by his associates |
on the board. most of whom are Rcpub-
licans, and one of them, Gen. Steel of !
Indiana, who is a member of the house. |
spoke in his behalf. He declared that /
the charges against Smith had been .
fully investigated and found to be |
groundless. Blues motion was to sub
stitutc the name of Gen. O. O. Howard /
for Frankln'S.
The house passed the ratification
bill Tuesday after some discussion but
a division, though it arpro-
PIRATES 81 900, 600 this year and begins
work that will cost 800, 000. 600. Sena
tor Squire of Washington made u
SNOWY speech Tuesday for national de
Tense.
An effort is to be made in confer,
cpce committee over the past office
bill to secure such ac
ton as will permit consultations
already made to remain if not to pro
vide for the further extension of the
system.
An amendment to the sundry civil {
appropriation bill has been proposed
BY Senator Morrill, (which provides an
appropriation of 10000, or SO much
hereof as may be necessary, TO be ill.,
nediately available to be used for :
making repairs upon the government {
at ST Albans was recently {
destroyed by fire,
The House Military officers committee (
las reported favorably the Joint resolu- i
ion to promote Gen. Miles to the 5
ank of Lieutenant General, particu- I
arly as a recognition Of the services '
# the volunteers in the civil war, t
whom Gen. Miles so werthily repre- a
ents. The question Of his fitness for a
his special distinction is disposed of r
~ the fact that he has won his way S
rom the ranks almost to his present !
position. t
The house Saturday by vote of lG0 O
o 5S-democrats mainly in the mega v
ivc-passed a bill imposingtaXes on the a
and sale Of filled Il
heese,' which means cheese made s
Up, in imitation of the genuine article +
rom milk with a mixture of animal or /
egetable oils The bill is essentially a
n imitation of the oeomargarine law s
fllSS6, and is intended to cripple the p
lied cheese industry in the same way r.
n which the oleomargarine bill was in |,
ended to handicap the manufacturers W
t that article There was two days Fl
cbate and several of the southern Il
lembers opposed the bill on constitu- b
ional and economic grounds. ii
The House territorial committee re il
orts formally the bill for the admis o
ion of New Mexico as state. She W
as a population larger than that of 81
lontana nearly twice as large as h
laho, more than twice as large as el
fyoming and more than three times G
$ large as Nevada. Her exclusion is OF
course unjust if the admission of -
lc others was right. The argument
rought against her that she is
\ lndianizcd and MeXicanised terri
ny. is nearly baselcss. Out OF
'tal population in 1890 of 1913, ja} only
], 0i4 were Indians and 1900 Mexi- CT
ms. The only objection to admis- h
on is the fear of strengthening the r,
liver power in congress but Judging $,
ON experience this will not count if n
lie Republican majority can only be
tisfied that il will be Republican ci
ate. h,
Lynchiug is hereafter to prove an
.penslve pastime in Ohio. The Leg
lature has passed bill, cmbodying
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