News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-02-14
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| thpntirat ted report has gained con-
siderable credence that Sc 'ator Proc
tor has been doing some very tff c.
tive work against the Hon. Matthew
Stanley Quay for the past week or
ten days. 1t is stated that he has
brought around to his view of the
care nine of the republican Senators
who voted, as he did, to seat Corbett
of Oregon, which case is being used
hy both sides as criterion in the
Quay case, despite the fact that the
merits of the two cases are quite dis
similar. The Vermonter, it Is stated,
talks very freely to his colleagues,
though he truly refuses to discuss
the matter for publication. If Sena-
tor Proctor has made the Roadway
against Quay that is claimed it APP
pears certain that the Pennsylvania
stands very poor show" Senator
Ross, it is under TODD, has been of
the same mind all the time, and it
now looks as tin the event that
Quay is kept Quit will be directly
owing to the action of the two Yer
mont Senators. 1t is expected that
the question will come up for final
settlement in the Senate this week,
although no time is yet set. 1t will
probably be discussed several days
before a vote is taken.
Senator Proctor gave a dinner for
gentlemen last week in honor of Pres
ident Tucker Of Dartmouth, at which
we're Senator Ross, Senator Chand-
Ter, Commissioner Prouty, Congress
men Clarke of New Hampshire and
Might and Mccall OF Massachusetts
and other local alumni.
One of the social events of the week
was the twenty. fifth annual meeting
and banquet ofthe Dartmouth Alum
nj Association, made up of perma-
nent and congressional residents.
The banquet was held in the dining
hall of the Raleigh hotel, the guest
of honor being President Tucker. At
the business meeting the officers elect
ed for the coming year were: Presi-
dent, Senator Proctor, 81 Vice Pres
idents, Daniel F. Merrill, '36, and j.
Osmond Wilson, 80; secretary and
Treasurer, William NJ. Hatch, $50; ES-
erutive Committee, Henry P Blair,
$50, John c. Eaton, '93, W. j. Wal
lis, '99; Chorister, Prof. James W.
Cheney, 10; Historian, Philip Walk
er, 80. After the address of Presi-
dent Tucker remarks were made by
Senators Ross, Proctor, Chandler
and Galinger, Congressman Clark,
President Bancroft of Phillips Andov-
or Academy, Gen. John Eaton, Dr.
Robinson, Dean of the law school of
the Catholic University here and
others. Besides those named large
number of native Vermoutprs and
others, alumni of the college, we're
present and the event was at least
lone of the pleasantest and most sue
7 tPssiul in the quarter-century history
, of the organization. The special
train bearing the body of Gen. Law
J ton is expected to arrive here We'd
nesday or Thursday, and the funeral
= and interment will be held at Airing
= ton the next day. The President
{ and cabinet and the army and navy
and government officials generally
will be present and take an active
part, and business in the city will be
, largely discontinued. Mrs. Lawton
, was almost paralyzed with amaze
ment and gratitude on being told oil
, the magnificent fund raised for her
by the American people. She said
, that "Henry and I had always tried
, to save little monev for home,
, but never were able to-" She and her
, family of three children are certainly
we'll provided for now.
The River and HarbOr Committee
of the House has finally decided not
/ to allow an appropriation bill for
| this purpose at this session, and il
3 they stick to it the government treas.
? ury will not be held up and plundered
by the usual means of a river and
? a harbor steal at this session at
: least. Usually and in ninety-nine
, items out of a hundred this il fat
bare-facpd robbery under sanction ot
: law. Whether the committee will be
, able to hold out against the plumber.
{ ers is doubted, but we will hope for
the best.
What the House has been doing
the past week is entirely beyond com
} prehension, even by close student
: of the Daily Record, which purpol t,
= to he faithful transcript of it's pro
i. ceedings. AS matter Of fact it has
been in session very little of the time
| During the week it Grated owe" a de
} ceased Congressman from Louisiana
2 passed few private bills, introduce G
a few mischievous resolutions, made
! a little Roadway with the emergency
f appropriation bills and squabhled in
. ceIsantIy over all manner of inciden
{ tai questions | don't know but
! what it might be well to keep the
] above paragraph for pickup line
] too, although there is possibility
r that it may be varied occasionally
] Gen. Grout is absolutely confident
5 of the success of his bill to reguat,
sale of Oleomargarine, although, al
s was to be expected, the mighty com
: bination of Oleomargarine manufac
L turers will bring every possible effort
4 to bear against iJ. The bill is receiv
: ing the endorsementand material as
sistance of the dairy interest of states
q throughout the union, and lift hasn't