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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25
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son Of EurIin,.top t,bo t,a,,'. f,,t. a,d ,i,,-
lIr.s shovyin. tb,. ta,,,'ft .,i.b . ,,1,r,"1,
would he to dairvucn. A committee OF i've
vas chosen IN lool. tbo ,,.,,t-r ~, ana ,.,
port later. Tre f.lloviul are the ron1-
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The annual business meeting Of the
Spring Grove Campground association
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The funeral services of Mrs. Sarah Bar
, mum Smith, widow of the late David
Sni h. viii take place at her late resi-
dcnce in Ferrisburgh to-day at . o'cio K
D.. m Mr.. Smith has always lived with
the exception of a sheet time in the house
: where She died. She was very charitable
, and many a poor p'cson has cause %
thank her for her kindly thought aud
gifts to them. Mrs Smith was - years
old and leaves TWO daughters Mrs.
. Charles Chapman and Miss Julia Smith,
, beside a large circle Of friends to mourn
her loss
The Lincoln and Bristol Telephone Co,
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Provisions of the Constitution do
Not Extend to New
Possessions. G
AN ABLE DISCUSS 81
That Shall Exist Between United
States and Dependencies-New
Department of Government
essary-Anomaly of Cuba.

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WASHINGTON Ian. 2s-In the Senate TO-
dav i'm accordance with q nroyio,,s ,lo-
tice. Mr.. Ross. RenD of Vermont.
claimed The recognition of fine chair TO de-
Ive, q sn.erb ON mo pbilinnirc ou..tfnn.
trha tnVt of bis aIr,,,nIrt a.. .,ip-
zion introducad b,. hin, e'vor,I ,,ts a,,,
,larIarin,, tb,t tb. ,,,,.i,io,, f ,l,. c,,,,sti j.
tutiop do nnt rnoid.,l h,. .,r, of - n.,... .s.
rxtond ovnr porto Rico and tba phflin,
mines: mat rho f.nitnd Statcs takes sovtr-
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TREATIES
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25
APPOINTMENTS MUST BE MADE
NON-POLITICAI.

The second step to be taken is to remove
all civil appointments in the islands from
the realm of politics The nation viii u
tcrly fail in the disCharse of its duty if
the islands are m de political footballs
subject 10 chlage in government with cV-
"ly political change IN the adpInis ration.
The administration of tie sovereignty
must he intelligent, honest and uniut'r-
rlptod A faithful, intelligent man. with
Il fun knowledge Of the situation, must not
pc displaced to give pldc" TO one ignOr mt
of the conditions, however capable cher
wise. The duty rests upon the entire ma
upn. 1t must be DISCHARGED for the IN" "r-
est of the whole nation. There are hCnoS s.,
capable men in every political party.
These should be sought cut and gwen
place in the administration of this soVer-
oiSn.y as ueir.N as may he in propCrt ION
to the strength Of the several political
parties in tn" nation. Then. when there
is a political chang in the administration,
thcre viii he no inducemcnt 20 make cX-
tcnsvc changes in the admins slratiVe APP
pointeos of the sovereignty.
Difficult as is the administration Of this
sovereignty if honestly and intc,ligently
undertaken such administration, | believe
will be beneficial both to the people Of
this nation and to the inhabitants of the
islands. Difficulties which have come as
these have come-unsought-hon and
faithfully encountered, bring wisdom ana
strength, The struggle for nearly "A CEN
tury III this nation over slavery gave Won
derful wisdom, strength and clearness Of
insight into the great principles which the
nati-u is now called upon 70 apply TO
these oppressed islands. Stagnaton Is de-
cay and ultimate death. Honest struggle
ondeavor. and discussion bring light
growth, development and strength The
primary object to be attained by the dis
charge Of this duty is the elevation Of
the rhabitanls Of the islands physically
mentally, and morally; " make them in
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25

l"lS 'Ni'u ana No'u' mat the same ell
''t "ou!u no' result IL Territory was
'."..tr"' ~. s'"T' '"' tl''S'l' ur m VH uoV9 "ul
H"''' ""' ''Nc9 '! .'r ~ m =, 'u' W ''9 ~
~ 81 "pP"l Noii '"' l.'t III III" l'rF'oil"s
ohsi re- 'Ncl'iSVS iltharF po"rr III lVNE-
~ "'Hr' '"AV'' an" III gu, 'N''cISe o'
'"9 P""'l Gun" "Ptoi 'lCI O"' '"N -
IuIIeu ny IHe cohSu'utIon ""oUE tl'
- '"lIN W. H, 'tH.'' ~" .''Noi,.
- VI W '.'i'''i' ''''' '".'''' t''Po'N
r'oo''' o''H "'' HuPPOi' 'ii' U'' ii"''
""' '"c i'N'i7''
,,trt1t>.Sr1rp
4 In consid ring citizenship shall not d.s-
CuSs the ShughtorhuuSn cases and como
others which are upheld, because the acts
of tho states complained of a. impingiug
upon tho rights of citizens secured by the
constitution we're held 10 he valid within
the pulrs power of the State although
scmc expressions in the opinions may give
the careless reader the impro ssiou that
the cons .i;ution rXtepds over the District
Ol Columbia and the Territories. maidcd
hy act of Congress or by treaty. for. If
any such expressions can fairly be held
to have such force. they were clearly out
side the points considered and decided,
ANA arc no more than diCta. In nit, 1t
states ". Wang Kim Ark O6l L. s. GlD
II is held tina: iho defendant i'm error, born
of CEin parents in California while his
and could not. under the laws of the Uni
ted States bee natuTalizcd. hcc lnc a citi-
@cn of The United States under the 1ith
amendment. rho case was decided bY q
divided court after very full consideration
Tho majority Of the Judges hod tnat the
comnon-lav doctrine in regard TO birth in
n country, from fore ign parents residing
there. entities the child tn tho protection
Of the country, and for that reason he
owes TO such country allegiance, and he
comes Il citizon under the terms OF the
amcndmc nt
Their" is force in the dissenting views If
chief Justice Fuler and MI Justice IIar-
Ian. holding that the hirtE must he from
parents vino, by the laws If the country,
could nave become citizens by naturaliza-
| ton to give the child such status. ln
| the discussion in the opinion representing
the views of the court. some expressions
are used which carry the impression that
such a birth in the Territories or where
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plant from which the current which is to
operate this gencrator-motOr is derived 1t
can be run by steam and used as "A gen
orator for furnishing either lights or pow
cr.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25
FATALLY INJURED BY A TEAM.

bennington, Jan "a distressing acci-
dent occurred here Tuesday night Mrs.
Florence |. Hall of North Bennington was
here with party 10 attend an entertain
mcnt in library hall. At its close they
tried to take an electric car for home The
car was crowded and all could not get ci,.
Among them was Mrs. Han. As she tlrl-
ed away from the car, a team that was
being driven rapidly came down the strvct.
The horse struck Mrs. Han. She was
thrown to tho ground, one leg was broken
and there was also a fracture of the skull
with other injuries. She was taken to the
residence of Col. f. II. Bennett and un 10
late hour this afternoon had not regain
cd consciousness. The physicians state
that her recovery is impossible
Nelson w. Cover Of Hoosick, y. Y, has
h'rn Identified as the man with tho team
Hnd Deputy Sheriff Godfrey went tn re
this afternoon and Sworc out warrants and
and had Cover arrested
He refused to come here without reuui-
sition and was held until ono can Je pro-
cured.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-25

fore the civilized nations Of the world. The
Inhabitants of cuba are the bcncfcarcs
of this voluntarily assumed duty, and
when a difference arises between this
government and them, whether the duty
has been performed and whether this ma
tion is to be compensated for the expense
of its administration have a right to ar
raign this nation at the bar Of nations
and demand that it give account of the
stewardship which 1t voluntarily assumed.
The determination OF the rights of this
nation and of the Cubans under this as
sumed duty may involve many nice ques-
tions and many difficulties.
THE PHILIPPINE QUESTION.
Yet there are those who earnestly urge
that Congress should make a declaration
that the nation holds Puerto Rico and the
philippine Islands under the same unde-
fined yet in a sense particular duty. In
my judgment, such Il course is beset with
complications and difficulties. BY adopting
II the nation would court tho Sc and invite
the inhabitants of the islands to engender
pcrpleNing questions and ontanglements.
Under the treaty the nation takes the
sovereignty Of Puerto Rico and OF the
Philippine Islands, under the general duty
to use it in such Il manner as Congress
may judge will best suhserVe the highest
interests Of their inhabitants and the in
habitants of this nation. | would an
nounce no other duty in regard TO them.
Many more complications ana entanel'-
III nlS may arise in tn" discharge OF inc
particular duty to CUBA than are likely TO
arise i'm the discharge of the general duty
10 Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands.
CONGRESS SHOULD ANNOUNCE so
POLICY EXCEPT THE FLAG.
It is urg thai this nation should an
nounce the policy of it's purpose in the adj
miniStration Of the lVercigntV. The flag
islonds rb,t Is Tho .nhInn, or itg noIir,.
ana c,cr has boon ,ven v,b.n =, ha1r
mast no,rninn thn loss Of her son. slam
in its dcf.rcl. ,rbo An,r ,,n,,nr lid ond
ropc meyer may rcproscnt bitt one policy
,yb,t uo1i,v is indi,idtiaI rnarbood. fine
,ipht fo cniov religious and civil liberty.
rho ripht Of every man IN boiin..e in ana
yyorsbin God according to tho dictato. of
his own conscience. the ,irbt to stand pro-
tccted couallv with every other man be-
fare tho law in the eniovmcnt of freedom
of norsona1 rights ana of nronertv Tns
tho flag as the reprcsentativr nf these
uinciulcs he nlantcd and h.comf doiui-
nont on and ovor ovorv island and every
inhabitant No other no better Doli,.v
can he proc1ainod. In no other way can
this Conrros. nd nation Discharge lis du-
ty TO thc ueoplc of the United States aud
to thc neonlc of the islands Conglts
should proclaim this policy by It's acts and
make no attempt to do what il has no
uower TO ao-pledga or limit tho action
of future Congresses. What future Con-
crosses shah do Is for them to dotcrmiuo
and proclaim. II can not hc assumed that
wisdom will die with the present CO gre.s,
nor that it IS any part of it, duty to vro-
claim Nhlt future Congresses shall do.
Sufficient unto the day is the duty thetc-
Of.
CONSENT OF INIIABITANTS NOT Ne
nT-TDL.I1
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VERMONT
Local Items of Interest From All
Parts of the Green Noun
tain State.
THE NEWS BY COUNTIES

The Winooski Valley, Villiges up North,
From the Island in the Lake to the
Passumpsic, Along Otter Creek
and by the Shores of White
River Covered by Special
Correspondents.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-19

The Italian navy will be armed with
automatic rife firing seventeen shot.
a second.
Lord Charles Beresford had his flag.
ship painted dull gray, the Amer.
can color
The cars financial expert said tina,
Russia is not prepared to make a loan
to Bulgaria.
A Belgian expedition is said to have
discovered gold in its territory on the
Congo in Africa.
The king of Belgium presented the
nation all his real estate holdings for
use as public parks.
Or. Joseph Kenny, noted Irish Par
nellite leader and former member OF
parliament, is dead.
JOAN Hanlan, vessel owner and
brother to Edward Hanlan. the ex-
champion oarsman, is dead
1t has been decided that all exhibits
in French buildings at the Paris ex-
position will be open on Sunday.
The British naval authorities are
considering the question of meeting
attacks from submarine boats.
Franz Josef's visit to Berlin is said
to be due to need of public demonstra-
ton of the emperors' mutual loyalty.
Pope Leo is said 70 be much cha
grined because the duke of Norfolk has
abandoned his proposed holy-year pill
grimage.
Reports from Colon say that a Col
ombian expedition has probably taken
David, the colonial capital of the Chrl-
qui province.
At Copenhagen Herr Won Schested,
vice president of the landsthing, has
formed a new ministry, representative
of the rightists.
A Toxic dispatch states that Japan
is ready for war, but there is said to
be no Immediate prospect of an out
break with Russia.
James Daily of Jamaica has been
hanged for murder This is the first
occasion of the death penalty's being
enforced in Nicaragua for murder.
Pope Leo XIII. granted an audience
to the officers and crew of the United
States auxiliary cruiser Dixie and pre-
scented them with a chalice in com
memoration of the visit.
The parents of Jean Baptiste Sipido,
who made the attempt on the life Of the
prince Of Wales at Brussels, have
addressed petition to Queen Victoria
in the interests of their son.
1t is reported from Constantinople
that the bubonic plague has appeared
at the Asir district. among the Benl-
Amer tribes There have been two
deaths in the village Of Lasfa
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-19

and another in the vicinity OF Wessefs
mex station. The enemy is reporter
strongly intrenched at Helpmakaar
Kipsardt was formally reanneXed 10
cane Colony. amid the cheers Of the
assembled troops 4 large number OF
jnsnrgent colonsts, including many OF
their leaders. are now imprisoned here
The boer troops will try TO block
Cen. Roberts plan to play a waiting
game by compelling him to continue
an active campaign. This is the rea-
son they are 50 active around Bloem-
fOntein.
Information mas been received TO the
effect that e130.OOO worth of negotiable
securities. lodged by law with the Free
state government by foreign insurance
companies, have disappeared. The
New York Mutual has issued a warn
ing against dealing therein
Lady Sarah Wilson and other Mafe-
king correspondents send diaries Of
the doings there, showing that the
beers have tried, by abandoning
their trenches, to lure the besleged
into mined ambush. Fortunately
the British engineers discovered the
mine, cut the wire communication and
unearthed $50 pounds Of dynamite and
war gelatne.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-19
FOREIGN.

Gomez sailed for San Domingo.
The pope IS suffering from d cold.
London will have a religious daily
paper.
Rudyard Kipling sailed from Cape
town for London.
Denmark will not sell its islands to
the United States,
French troops have occupied Igli
near the Morocco frontier.
An outbreak has occurred in
Ashanti British west Africa.
a man died from the bubonic plague
at Fremantle, western Australia.
Consul Fee reported 100000 famine
sufferers are receiving relief in India
Edinburg university Will confer the
doctorate Of laws on Ambassador
Choate.
Queen Victoria took another drive
IN Dublin and was greeted By large
crowds.
Baron Tnchiquin edward Dono-
ghue O'Brien) is dead. He was born
in 1899
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-19

consular officers at San Francisco and
New York, in which the Chinese resi-
dents are directed to make proper re-
plies TO questions put TO them by
enumerators.
H. A. Lamar & Co.. whose factory at
the Ohio penitentiary was burned sew
eral days ago, have 100000 insurance
with companies not licensed to do
business in Ohio. The state Insurance
commissioners have given notice that
they will promptly cause the arrest
OF any person coming into the state 10
adjust the losses for these companies.
70 satisfy claim of 81, 250,000 which
Signorina Maria Cedroni, an Italian
woman of high birth, has against
the government of Guatemala, two of
the leading lawyers of Italy are on
their way to this country to levy at
tachments on arms being manufac-
tured for Guatemala at several places,
including Hartford and New Haven.
A divorce from Media, the prima
donna, has been granted Chas. Arm
strong at Galveston, Tex. They were
married in Australia in 1882. have
one child, a boy 16 years old, and they
lived together as husband and wife I'M
til 1899. Armstrong is a son of Sir
Andrew Armstrong, bart, u p, and
Lady Frances Fullerton Armstrong Of
Kings county, Ireland.
A sensational jail delivery took
place Saturday at Tombstone, Ariz.
Jailer Draven was shot by Billy Stiles,
who was placed in the corridor
TO look after the prisoners awaiting
trial for train robbery. Stiles testified
against his companions who com
prised the gang that held up the Ari-
IONA & New Mexico train, at Fairbank,
two months ago and secured $4,000
Admiral Dewey is much encouraged
by the assurances of support he is re-
ceiying. His friends believe he will be
a factor in the presidential race. Ad-
miral Dewey reiterated his answering
democratic faith The Army and
Navy Register declares Dewey has
nothing to gain by entering politics
Betting men in the larger cities offer
odds that Mckinley will defeat either
Bryan or Dewey, Mrs Dewey has
changed her faith from Catholicism to
Episcopal. President Mckinley, on
learning that Admiral Dewey had ac-
cepted Chicagos invitation, said: I'm
glad of 1t. He's great sea-ighter
He often has told me that ! made him
but that's neither here nor there"
Tammany leaders intimated that
Croker might come out for Dewey's
candidacy when he returned from Eng
land. Carl Schurz wants a third
party, with a platform of moral
ideas" and says Dewey won't do
Dewey declares he would make pub
Hc statement dn a few days. His
friends say he will be amply repaid if
he is not elected and if Bryan is de-
feated Dewey declined to make his
trip to Chicago a political one. He
was offered a special train, the runs
to be made in daylight, and even
promised crowds to hear him if he
desired to make speeches in the furth
erance Of his candidacy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-19
Stomach
Troubles
in Spring

Are THAT. HILlOUS FEELING, bad
taste in the mouth, dun headache, sleep
leSsueSS poor appetite
No matter how careful YOU are about
eating, everything YOU take into your
stomach turns sour. causes distress.
pains ana unpleasant gases.
Don't you understand what these
symptoms signals OF dIstress-mean1
They arc The cries of the stomach for
help! IL is being oyerworhed II needs
the peculiar tonic qualities and diges-
tive strength 20 be found Only In
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-19
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
spANIsH-AMERIcAN ISLANDS.

General Otis in a report tells OF the
occupation by General Bates Of the
islands OF Mindanao and JoIo'
Gen. Funston may be couTt-martlal-
ed for executing Two Filipnos without
trial
Martial law has been declared IN
San Juan, Porto Rico on account OF
labor riots.
Omclal reports from the Philippines
show that no more troops are needed
at present
Captain Sturgis recently encounter
ed Filipino soldiers within five miles
OF Manila.
According to letters written by army
officers in Manila Aguinaldo is IN
that city In hiding
Corpl Mygatt writes from the Philip
pines of the slaughter Of eleven Fill
plno prisoners by American troops.
Gen. Corbln says the story is false
Five murderers. Simeon Rodriguez.
Eugenio Rodriguez, Cados Pacbee.
Hermogenes Pachico and Resale San
tiago we're garroted at Ponce, Puerto
Rico
Gen. Young and Gen Bell com
mandng n north and south Lnzon,
have appealed for reinforcements In
surgeut activity is Increasing through
out the island.
The mayor Of Santiago, Senior Grinan,
has suppressed the newspaper lei
Cubano Libre and Imprisoned It's stan
for publishing an editorial severely
criticlsing his administration,
Capt Louis Ostheim killed himself
IN Chicago on the eve Of his wedding
lie is believed 10 have been temper
arly insane, his health having been
broken by service In the Philippines.
In Havana an elaborate demonstra-
tion took place In honor OF General
Gomez and in consequence of the ad-
verse attitude adopted by him with re-
spect to the Temperance Of the
autonomisis In the political field,