News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-02-28

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charge of all affairs relating to mines,
including the geological survey. This
is also understood to include the
quarrying ofall marble, granite, slate,
mica, asbestos and everything of the
kind, besides minerals and ores. In
this case the Office would be- of con.
siderable consequence to Vermont.
That bill, however, has small chance
of passing in view of the bill to create
the department of Commerce and To-
dustry. That would and does in
clude mining and qaarrying, a1d if
any proposition is endorsed it will be
the greater which comprehends the
lesser.
Nobody here appears to be paying
any attention to the parcels postage
bill and it has not one chance in a
hundred of becoming a law. 1t is un-
fortunate and mysterious that such
a fellow as Pettigrew, who introduced
the bill, should have the power to
raise such a turmoilin Vermont news
paper offices. Nobody here pays any
attention to anything he does, except
when he calls the President or Dewey
a liar in open Senate. Then he is sat
on. In place of gathering a concen-
sus of opinion, on the effect of par
cells postage bill, let me advise you,
boys, to write Uncle Tim Wheeler of
Waterbury for his representations
on the coming sugar season. 1t
would be at least as profitable.
Governors Victors l. Spear of all Of
Western Orange County and Homer
W. Vail of all of Northern Windsor
County, gladened the hearts of their
many friends here last week by a
sight of their honest and familiar
! Vermont faces. | understand that
they gave the Industrial Commission,
before whom they appeared, some
valuable information as to conditions
in our end of Gods country, and
am certain that they boughtno green
goods while they were here and did
not have to borrow money to get
home with.
Mrs. Dewey seems to be very un-
fortunate, socially, with a large ca
pacity for doing and saying the
wrong thing, and every few days a
new story is told of some social
trouble in which she has involved her
self She would appear to be entirely
devoid of tact, which may be a nat
ural infirmity rather than a fault.
She was very wealthy and prominent
in society before her marriage with
the Admiral, and her idea seems to
have been that with her money and
the lustre of his reputation she would
be equalIed by only one lady in the
land from society standpoint. But
the iron rule of society has decided
differently and in opposition to her
views. That there are Others is par
ticularly CALLING to her pride, so much
so that her resentment takes an I'M
comfortable and disagreeable course
at times and makes her trouble. This
will occasionally cause her illness
and withdrawal from society for a
few days until she RECEIVERS her good
temper. | believe that there are quite
a number of women in this country
who would have taken her millions
and George Dewey aud been tolerably
happy with them. 1t certainly seems
as if this could be done. But then,
there is as much difference in folks as
there is in people. We will try tosym-
pathize with Mrs. Dewey, and hope
that she may be happy yet.
The loved ones at home, combined
with stern duty, have kept our Yer.
mont members busy during the past
week. Senator Proctor was one OF
the guests of honor and speakers at
the first annual meeting of the Wash.
ington Business Mems Association
Thursday evening last. Within the
past few days he has introduced the
following: A bill to incorporate the
National Red Cross to erect a pub.
lie building at Burlington, to al
low the construction of a pneu
matte tube between the government
Printing Office and the Capital, tc
print an extra edition of the veal
book of the department of Agricut
ure for distribution among the PEG
pie, to amend the law relative tc
naturalization, for the relief of Sarat
Jane Johnson, to pension Edward o
Porter, to pension Francis a. Sta
pies and to increase the pensions 0
Florence l.. and Florence E. Stuart
Also petition of Kimball Bros, foI
repeal of stamp tax on medicines, o
citizens to adjudicate Cuban wa
claims, from the Postmasters of Ben
nington county to increase salarie
( OF Fourth-class Postmasters. II
these may be added bills to pension
Henry W. Walker and for the relief Q
Leonard |. Brownson.
In the same interval Congressman
J Powers introduced bills to carry int
J effect treaty stipulatons with Spain
to amend the rules of the Honse t.
pension and for the relief Of Franci
, H. Staples, for the relief of Darius L
{ Houghton. Also petitions and pa
! pers from the Merchants Association
of Boston for competing cable lin
} to Cuba, from the Ohio WoolgrOw
| er's Association against the ratifica
ton of the free wool treaty with tn
Argentine Republic, from Kimbal
Bros, for repeal OF the stamp ia.
: on medicines. for certain Legislation