Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL cnRRRsPosDENcB OF rHR MONITOR
Wnsbin0foa- Feb 18th. 1897.

ESPECIAL cnRREsPos DEEcB OF rHR MONITOR
Washington, Feb 18th, 1897.
Inauguration echoes are now heard
wherever one turns inS Washington.
Work upon the streets stands from
which portion of the spectators will
view the parade, which promises to
be the handsomest, If not the largest,
ever seen, has been started, and the
Inauguration committee has begun
the distribution of fifty thousand pa
per flags and fifteen Thousand por-
traits of Mckinley and Hobart, to be
used by the residents along the route
their houses. These are given away
by the committee. so general is the
sentiment in favor of having the
West Point and Annapolis Cadets
take part in the parade that it seems
probable the joint resolution, offered
in the Senate by MIR. Frye, and in the
House of Representatives by Mr..
Baker of N. H., requesting the Pres
ident to order the cadets. and their
bands to Washington. and appropriate
ing the money to pay their expenses,
will go through. 1t is known that Mr..
Cleveland favors having the cadets in
the parade and that he will gladly is
sue the order if Congress will adopt
the resolution. EA9
The democrats are already begin
ming to howl about the total amount
of the appropriations for the two
years will exceed $1,000, 600, 900, but
the democrats would show more wis
dom if they would point out single
appropriation made, or to be made in
the short time remaining of the ses-
sion, that is not needed, or that the
government will not get full value
for, instead of yelling "extravagant
appropriations like lot of parrots
The Senate is not a republican body
would that it were-yet it has not on
ly approved all of the appropriations
made by the House, but has in every
bill increased them. Besides, it should
not be forgotten that a considerable
amount of the money appropriated
by this Congress was made necessary
by continuing contracts made by the
last democratic Congress for River
and Harbor improvements, public
buildings and the increase of the
navy. Chairman Cannon, of the
House Committee on Appropriations,
stated the situation when he said that
contract previously made had to be
observed; that Congress could not al
low unfinished public buildings to re-
main exposed in all kinds of wheath-
er, and that the pension laws could
not be ignored. In short, that no ap-
preparations have been made that
were not necessary for the conduct
of the government and the preserva-
ton of its interests. Mr.. Cannon's
idea of economy in public expendi-
lures are SO rigid that he has offended
many personal friends by refusing to
sanction propositions for appropria-
tions which have come before his
committee. There is no item in any
appropriation made by the fifty
fourth Congress that any republican
need be ashamed of; the appropria
tions are all needed and the money is
all to be spent among'the people and
for the people. Ss$4ts
1t is about settled that the arbitra-
ton treaty will not be voted upon at
this session, but viii go over to the
extra session of the Senate that will
meet March 4th, and remain in SEES
sion until the extra session of the full
Congress meets. This has been made
necessary by the opposition to the
treaty in the Senate.
Representative Woodman of Ills,
has asked the House and Means Com
mlttee to increase the revenue tax on
cigarettes from so cents to $50 thou
sand. Mr.. Woodlands object is to
stop the smoking of cigarettes by
children, which he says is "a habit
which is destroying our youth, filling
our insane asyluns, and shrouding in
gloom, by the destruction, mentally
morally and physically Of their young
sons, many of the best homes of our
land" Mr.. Woodman said in his
speech to the committee: ttAs long as
boys can buy the death dealing ar
ticle at cent piece or two for
cent, so long will the evil continue.
When they are taxed SO as to produce
larger revenue, which tax will place
them out of the reach of school chill
Z dren, then Mr.. Chairman, we may
look for a mitigation of the evil.
Then may we congratulate. ourselves
on having performed one act the re-
suits of which the whole nation, with
one accord, will approve -