News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-04-04

LLWtOg GOthOe
observations of H. Dumpty Esq"
published elsewhere, are taken from
the st. Adams Messenger. They are
unique and quitet to the point. Capt.
Green as "H. Dumpty" is a success.
Chancellor Rowell has announced
his decision in the famous Van Ness
House liquor case. He denies the pc
tition for an Injunction, stating that
the proprietor took all the necessary
precaution and that the ale which
was furnished at the Fish and Game
League banquet was without the con-
sent or knowledge of the proprietor.
Now listen to the Rutland Herald.
c. E. Bartlett of Boston, President
of the st. j. & L. c. railroad, died at
five O'Clock this morning. He was an
estimable man and a veteran of the
civil war. He has been president OF
the road ever since it passed into the
hands of the Boston & Maine. 1t is
a remarkable coincidence that the
first president of the road, Waldo
Brigham OF Hyde Park. and the last
President both died the same week.
The Franklin county candidate for
congress has an enthusiastic advO-
cate in the Boston Sunday Globe,
which paper is being systematically
and persistently woFkedin his behalf.
The candidate in Vermont who has
the unqualified support of the Bos-
ton Globe ought to feel reasonably
sure of election. The Globe is so in
tensely Republican and so unselfshly
interested in Vermont and Yer
monters.
DR.. W. S. Webb of Shelburne has
been asked by a number of repre-
sentative Republicans of Chittenden
county to allow the use of his name
in connection with the nomination
for one of the State Senators from
that county. We understand the
doctor has consented, provided there
is no contest. There will be no con-
test and Chittenden county will have
an able Senator in the person of DR..
Webb. The doctor has served two
terms in the lower house and is en-
inently fitted to 90 up higher.
Vermont is not only noted for its
Governors, numerically as we'll as
otherwise, butalso for the abundance
of brevet Colonels-made so by ap-
pointment upon the Governors Staff
Judge Taft, our present amiable
Chief Justice, remarks that some
time he expects to be Governor of
this Commonwealth and has already
made his selection of staff which will
be made up of Judge Stanton of
Roxbury, DR.. Foster of Windham
County, Fish Commissioner Bailey
and Orrice Ballard of Fairfax. What
this may lack in numbers will be
more than made up in avordupois
aud downright good nature.
Senator Proctor made a stirring
speech in the Senate last Thursday
in opposition to the Porto Rico tariff
bill. He was very emphatic in his
declaration that this country should
keep faith with the people of the
island by extending our tariff laws so
as to include them and give them the
same benefits that the people of the
United States now enjoy. Senator
Ross made an able speech Tuesday
in favor of the bill, believing that the
constitution did not extend to Porto
Rico upon the signing of the peace
treaty and thought it would be IN
wise to extend it by legislation. He
thought free trade should be estab-
lished as soon as possible. He
voted for the bill, which passed the
Senate Tuesday by nine majority.
Senator Proctor voted with the mi
nority.
Hon. Chas. A. Prouty has issued a
pamphlet in which he sets forth fully
+ and at length the reasons why Gen.
circuit should not be elected to the
United States Senate. We wish we
might give it a place in our columns
because it is, in Vermont politics at
least, unique document. The criti-
cisms of the State press are some.
what varied as of course might have
been expected. That it is an aggres