News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-01-18


the general appropriations commit
tee and chairman of the sub-commity
tee which has in charge the District
appropriations. When this bill is
delayed, the local wheels of govern
ment in the administration of the
affairs Of the city run hard. Now
that the general is back, the bill will
be hustled along and the boys will
get paid off.
The Ebbitt is the army and navy
hotel headquarters in this city, and
usually several more or less distin-
guished heroes can be seen there, pos
ing for the admiration of little knots
of friends and the general public. l
noticed there one evening the past
week Major Generals Wade and But
Ter and Admiral Sampson. Gen.
Butler looks the same and only a
little older than when he represented
South Carolina in the Senate only a
few years ago. Photographs have
made him known by sight to every
American.
. The House has finally passed a bill
to remove the remains of Gen. John
A. Rawlins, Grants boyhood and
lifelong friend and chief of staff, from
the Congressional cemetery in this
city to Arlington, the nations grand
bivouac Of the dead across the river.
Why Gen. Rawlins was ever inferred
in the Congressional cemetery is a
dark mystery. Surely every Union
soldier of note in the civil war should
rest in Arlington. was at Airing
ton last Sunday, went over on the
electfics, and warmed my chilled fin
gers by the glowing coal stove in
Robert E. Lees sitting room. What
memories come to one in such a spot !!
l will tell you all about the place
sometime, likewise Of Mount Vernon,
the grandest spot on earth.
There is certain to be a big fight
over the bills to reorganize and in
crease the army, and it is predicted
around the capital that none Of the
measures yet suggested can possibly
pass. 1t looks like a long struggle
and as if an extra session mustcome.
The Joint High Canadian Com
mission is in session here, and the
eminent Canadians are the social
lions. Sir Wilfrid 'Laurier, the prem
ier, is a statesman and diplomat of
extraordinary ability, and is at least
one of the most distinguished look
ing men OH the continent.
This is the promised land of the
cockroach, and he has come over and
possessed it. He is entirely at home
in all places and under allconditions.
He struts majestically on the gold
braided collar of a footman at a for
eign embassy, or wanders disconso-
lately across the face of the balmy
sleeper in a station house cell. All
times and seasons are his own. On
the marble sideboard of the million
aire senator or on the pie of the alley
vagrant he is alike at home. The
Washington cockroach is an institu-
ton and point of interest.
A solemn and digni6ed Senator, in
the course of q conversation with a
little knot of friends one evening last
week" evening" in Washington be-
gins at II meridian and lasts until
II midnight-spoke Of our country's
commercial future as follows: THE
Spanish war has opened our eyes
and ears and minds and pockets.
We are larger in mind, every one of
us. New markets are being found
for our goods, and our export trade
is developing in ways but a little
while ago undreamed of. For in
stance, we have been exporting mis-
sionaries on the hoof,' as 'twere.
The proposition now is to dress and
can them here We will thus meet
all climatic conditions, and in view
of the abundance and cheapness of
the stock we can easily undersell a
like product from any other country.
Then, too, when we get good trade
thoroughly established on a prime
article of canned missionary we can
frequently slip in a Chinaman or col
ored man and thus work off the sur
plus in that direction" Now isn't
the above a magnificent idea? Who
can foresee the ultimate destiny of
this glorious republic?
The announcement yesterday
morning of the death Of Congress
man Dingley the evening before was
a distinct shock to the city, as it had
been announced and was generally
supposed that he was much better
and that the worst was over The
funeral is to be held in the House at
noon tomorrow, after which the
Ibodv will be taken to Lewiston,
Maine, his home, with a Congress
sional escort Of distinguished Sena-
ators and members The House and
Senate were in session only twenty
minutes Yesterday, from IL to II 20,