The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-03

UiiS WuiNh ~ uuOBtSN w VIZ fiOboS,
will divide Vermont into two colec-
ton districts, identical with the con-
gressional districts. The first, called
the district of Vermont, will have Bur-
lington as the port of entry; the Sec
ond, called the district of Memphrema-
cog, will have Newport as its chief
port. A collector is TO be provided for
each district, and to be paid salary.
The amendment was adopted by the
Senate at the session on Sunday. 1t
would seem to be likely to pass the
House, and thus would the Gordian
knot over which Vermont is just now
exercised be united.
SENATOR BURROWS believes, not
withstanding the address issued by the
silver republicans last week, and the
positive assertion of Senator Dubois to
the contrary, that they will vote with
the republicans for the tariff bill.
Speaking on the subject Mr.. Burrows
said: q" 1 have every reaaon to believe
that while these gentlemen have an
nounced themselves as silver republ-
cans, they will cooperate with their
colleagues of the republican party on
this line, and when we have secured
such legislation as will supply the treas
ury with necessary revenue for govern
ment support, it will be time enough to
take up the silver question. 1 suppose
this proclamation of the silver party
has reference more particularly to the
campaign of 1900, aud l confidently be-
lieve that before that time the country
will be in such state of prosperity
that the silver question will not be able
to engage 10 any extent the attention of
the public"
AN incident of state interest &C.
cured in the debate in the Senate on
the resolution asking of the State De-
partment information respecting the
arrest and imprisonment in Havana, of
George Washington Aguirre, a youth
of nineteen years and citizen of the
United States, who surrendered to the
Spanish authorities, about July 4, 1896,
to obtain the benefit of the amnesty
previously proclaimed by the Captain
General of Cuba. "There," said Sena-
tor Morgan of Alabama, who intro
duced the resolution, {" is an assoca-
ton of names and dates that have a
great hold upon the American people. )"
The Senator further read letter from
Ethan Allen of New York, stating the
facts in the case. When he pronounced
the writer's name he said: "There is
another name connected historically
with the United States, and suppose
can venture to assume here that this
boy whose name is George Washington
Aguirre is citizen of the United States
because Ethan Allen has said he u.s."
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, exhib-
iting that satirical wit and humor that
has shone out in the debates on the i'm
prisonment and murder of American
citizens in Cuba, in unenviable emu
lation of the strains of Nero's fd-
die while Rome was burning, "jocu-
larly" asked if the writer of the letter
was the Ethan Allen of the Revolution.
Senator Plat of Connecticut suggested
that he was the president OF the Cuban
Junta of New York, Senator Morgan
retorted:
"He Is the grandson of the Ethan Allen
Of The Revolution, and he is very apt, there
fore TO be president of the Cuban Junta 1
ask the adoption, of the resolution"
1.-The arrest, itOrture, imprisonment and
murderer American citizens of Cuban
parentags who HAPPEN to be caught in
Hsyana q seems h always indescribably
funny to thatenoble pair of New Eng
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