Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TsPEotAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR' |
Washington, april 18th, 1897.
The Dingley tariff bill having last
week passed the House, receiving
every republican vote, five demo
cratic votes and one populist vote, is
now in the hands of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance. Every statement
made concerning changes in the bill
by that committee is a guess. Sena-
tors Allison, Aldrich and Platt of
Conn, who have been going over the
bill as sub committee, are not the
kind of men to announce their con-
illusions, even when they have defin-
itely arrived at them, to the public,
before making their report to their
collea CUES on the committee. When
the committee decides upon the
amendments to the bill will be time
enough to praise or to criticize its
work. Until then your guess is as
good as anybodys, if you must have
guess.
The honor of being the first fourth
class postmaster appointed by Pres
ident Mckinley fell to Mr.. John P.
Kelley of White Cloud, Kansas. The
delay in making appointments of
this class was owing to the change in
the office of Fourth Assistant Post
master General. Mr.. Bristow is now
occupying that position and will pro-
coed as rapidly as possible to fill the
$500 vacancies which have accumu-
lated since the new administration
came in. There will probably be an
average of about so appointments a
day made until the work gets up to
date.
Senator Elkins has for a long time
been studying the question of how
best to restore the old time prestige
of American shipping. AS a result of
that study, he made very strong
speech in the Senate in favor of his
bill providing for the imposing of du-
ties upon imports in manner that
will discriminate in favor of Ameri-
can shipping.
President Mckinley seldom makes
promises in connection with appoint
ments, but he has made one that will
please every patriotic American, that
is, to appoint young Phil Sheridan
cadet to West Point as soon as he
reaches the age of eligibility, which
will be sometime next year.
representative Grosvenor of
Ohio, is a good lawyer, and the fol-
lowing opinion from him on the de-
cision of the Supreme Court which SO
many persons, especially democrats,
profess to think is opposed by the
amendment to the tariff bill making
the duties imposed by that bill go in
to effect April 1, and upon the right
of Congress to pass such an amend
ment, is both timely and interesting.
Mr.. Grosvenor says: "Simply and
solely what the Supreme Court did
hold was that the Wilson law, which
went into effect on the 2Sth day of
August, and was said to take effect
from the first day Of August, did not
repeal the Mckinley law until the day
when it was passed, and how any
body could have had a doubt about
that is mystery to me, but the Su-
preme Court did not hold that the
long line of retrospe Give legislation
in the Wilson law was not approved.
That law bristles with retrospective
legislation. Whiskey in bond and not
in bond that had been manufactured
and deposited in the bonded ware
house or was on that day deposited at
tax of 80 cents, was Immediately
raised to $1.10. New bonds were re-
quired, the whole system remod eled
but no lawyer in the U. S. ever dis
puted the power of Congress to pass
just such an enactment. The best
evidence of the popular estimate of
the retroactive amendment is found
in the fact that the vast body of i'm
porters who presumably have the
best legal advice at their command,
have all accepted as conclusive that
Congress has that poWer.n -
One minute is all the time necessary to de- /
eide from personal experience that One Min I
ute Cough Cure does what it's name implies. |
II. G.. Pierce, RartOn; D. w. Hildreth Bar /