The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-21

The president Monday transnlIttc'
to the House the correspondence con
corning the burdcnsome restriction
placed upon various American M
insurance companies by the German
government There is considerable
hope that the new minister TO Ter
many. Mr.. Uhl. who had the negotla
tions IN charge while assistant secrc
tary of state, will succeed in getting th'
rctrictions removed. If not ~ II
proposed to rctaliate by imposing SIN
liar restrictions on German companies
chiefly fire, doing business in this
country. The New York Legislature
has already done SO as regards tha'
state.
Mrs. Mckee, the daughter of cy Pres
idcnt Harrison, who is in the east te
attend her fathers wedding, over
which the family unpleasantness has
| been patched up, was given an elegant
| luncheon pariy by Mrs Cleveland
Monday.
Representative Talbcrt of South
Carolina whose declaration Of nonre
greet for his part in secession caused
the Barrett outbreak last week, is IN
clined to take a humorous view OF the
antics of these people. He objected
Friday to bill restoring to Il widow
a pension she had forfeited by marry
ing again, as he has very rightly done
whenever such a bill has come before
the house, when Mr.. Hardy Of Indiana
arose to deliver an assault on South
Carolina. When be had finished. Mr..
Talbcrt gently observed II do not in
tend to notice what has just been said,
but rise merely to suggest that Can
ada t1ardy's native country HAY
ing been heard from, We now nave a
vote. = And there was applause, The
next pension bill that came up Mr..
Talbertisupported, and the Republicans
applguded him heartily when he said:
1t is not always, nor often, you
find the old veterans who met each
other in the red blaze of war fighting
it over again 30 years after the conflict
is over. Those who indulge themselves
in this way are generally those who,
while invinciblc in peace were irwin
cib,e in war. There is no
brave man on either side that can fail
to see the point of this.
Representative Ray OF New York.
has introduced a resolution TO meet
wv ATTAIN pI tblliDlIoll'l
Bowler and Secretary Morton by pIoy-
iding for determination by the |
house committee on the judiciary of
the condition of the law i'll relation TO
the right of an executive officer of the |
to refuse 70 enforce or
obey law Of congress, on the ground /
that it was unconstitutional. The /
point at issue is whether the eXecu
i've officers Of the government have
Jther than ministerial functions, or
whether or no they have any discrc
ion in the discharge OF the duties
imposed upon them. On the one side
I is claimed that the responsibility
ests on executive officers TO obey the
first, and that if they en-
orcc an unconstitutional law they do {
% at their peril the other opinion is
hat the fact that congress enacts
aw is prima facic evidence Of its con p!
and that all executive
Ulcers must enforce and execute it |
ntil the courts have declared it in. |
aid. y
Representative Gillett of Massa. !,
husetts has introduced Il bill 10 re- :.
uire a residence Of one year on the /
art of a person seeking a divorce in q
he territories !,
Senator Thurston o. Nebraska has !
ltroduced bill to pension every :
cgro who was born in slavery. the :
mounts to range FROM s. month for
ne who is less than 30 years old, to
ID month for one who is over 20. g
ersons of the latter age or over are TO :
'ceive bonus of 500 in cash. This
eats the forty acres and mule that u
as offered for votes in the black belt !,
lring the carpet bay times.
Speaker Reed called Representative Z
rout of Vermont to the chair Satur !,
~ afternoon and the General presided :
it'll dignity. y y
PETERS resolution for an investiga.
on of the bond bill was pushed .,
rongly in the senate Tuesday and :,
cdnesday but Hill headed ii off 10y {.
liking against time. He evidently y
inks such tactics smart, = but they II
G the height of folly, The admins 81
tion Processes to have no objection -.
an investigation. ";
Both the majority and minority re. !,
rts have been made in the Della .,
are senatorial case, the Republican n,
va iliG i'hli 'hA = hNlilI iSSlNit anu lllt
amocrats opposing. The case turns ~,
the right Of the speaker di
the senate. who was acting d;
vernon 10 cast his vote. Du- sh
MT on joint 10y ballot had just ID ar
ties, or just half OF the whole number mr.
the speakers vote was counted or "a
e majority if it be rejected. The az
laware constitution is peculiar in ST,
provision for the speakers becom- wC
, acting governor in case of "a va th
icy, but does not say whether or not otI
) performance of this duty vacates ST,
place in the legislature. and all th
> preccdcnts IN Delaware history r,
vc indicated that il does lot there "
5 never been new election to till Ga
h 4 vacancy, and when the duty of faI
ing governor ceases the speaker
; always returned to his legislative
ty. Dupont has 10 governors Ger
cate. according TO the Republican ma
c in the electoral commission. and of
sole evidence that he relies on is a Iii,
nscript of the legislative record me
{ Democrats have repeatedly offered by
submit the case to the Delaware tro
,reme court but Dupont and his old
Iporters have steadily refused. "a :
he House territorial committee re ua'
IS adversely the bill for the admis- era
n of Arizona To statehood. the
1crrill has bill in the senate and the
nut one in the House To pension the alb;
low of Ger. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, ban
IN of that Judge Samuel Hitchcock ser
} received his commission direct ter
n the hand of Washington. and a tur
ndsnn of our Revolutionary hero. as
AN Alien. distinguished in the of
liuolc and Mexican wars and com he
sioner for the exchange W prison bun
during the civil war. He
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