Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-07-31

that the man whose name the law would
bear should furnish the pen with which to
/ make II a law. The president said, after
he had signed his name in his best
style at the foot OF the sixty pages
OF parchment, and had congratulated
Governor Dingley heartily on the out
come of his long and arduous labors,
that he wished it understood by the
members OF The cabinet and the personal
friends who were present that il was not a
perfunctory approval which he had given to
the bill. but that he had never signed any,
thing in his life with more satisfaction. He
said that 1t was as satisfactory as any gem
eral revision OF the tariff could be- and In all
It's main features met his cordial approval.
There Is nothing dramatic about the event
except its Importance. Gov. Dingley and
the other ways and means Repub-
licans. with hundred other mem.
bers Of the House who TODD and sat behind
the we'll filed senatorial chairs. and the peo-
pie who thronged the galleries. gay with
summer costumes. saw Senator Stewart OF
Nevada trying to talk above the noise OF
conversation In calamity predictions until
two minutes before 3. when he gave 1t up. and
vick-President Hobart taking time by tho
forelock declared that the hour of 3 o'clock
had arrived and put the question to the
vote. There was no uncertainty about the
result to make them watch the roll call
closely.
An analysis OF the vote shows that tho
Affirmative vote was cast by 81 Republicans,
one Democrat (McEnery), one silver Re-
publican (Jones OF Nevada) and one Popu-
list (Stewart). The negative vote was cast
by 20 Democrats and two Populists Harris
and Turner). Mr.. Teller (silver Republican,
and two Populists. Allen and Butler, were
present and did not vote. One Populist,
Kyle, and one silver Republican, Petit
grew, were absent without pairs.
The president sent a message to the
House recommending the creation of Cur
order the Stone BILL introduced some days
ago, with the approval of the admnistra-
tion, was brought to vote after a de-
bate in which considerable feeling was
manifested on both sides, aud in
which there were some sharp ex-
changes. When the vote was taken the Re-
publicans presented an unbroken from. with
two exceptions, Mr.. Linney Of North Caro-
lima and Mr.. Mahnny OF New York, who
voted with the opposition against the bill.
which was passed by vote of l24 to o. As
the final net the speak announced the ap-
polntment of the committees.
The following are the New England
assignments on committees In addition to
those announced at the opening of the
Moody; judiciary, Mccall; banking and
currency. Walker, chairman, Hill, Connecti-
cut; agriculture, Henry. Connecticut: inter
state and foreign commerce, Simpkins;
foreign affairs. Gillet; naval affairs. Bou-
tele, Maine, chairman Bull, Rhode Island;
territories, Knox. chairman; Pacific rail-
roads, Powers, Vermont, chairman; Wright:
labor. Walker; patents. lowering; pensions,
Weymouth: District of Columbia Sprague;
reform In civil service. Sprague; alcoholic
liquor traffic. Barrows; expenditures of the
war department, Grout. Vermont, Russell;
expenditures OF the interior department,
Clarke. New Hampshire; expenditures OF pub
lie buildings. Knox; coinage. weights and
measures. Lowering; rivers and harbors. Bar
rett merchant marine and fisheries. Simpkins;
pOstOffice, Sperry. Connecticut; Indian af-
fairs, Barrows; public building. Burleiyh,
Weymouth Barrett; militia. Burlegh. Oar
rows: invalid pensions. Sulloway. N. H.,
Henry, Conn; war claims. Fitzgerald cleo
tion OF president and vicc president. Capon,
r. l.; Powers; immigration and naturaiza-
tion. Mccall; expenditures OF the navy de-
partment, Gillet; expenditures OF the
Posrofflcs department, Sperry. Conn;
expenditures OF the department of Justice,
SullOway, N. H., Moody accounts. Bull, r.
l., Sprague. Considering the number OF
new men in the delegation. New England
fares very we'll. All the important commit.
tees havc New England representatives.