Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-05-25
THE CIRCUIT SIDE
As Stated
By His Friends.
md Doubtless with His Own Personal
Endorsement.
zen. GROUPS Record.


From the ST. ohnsbury Republican, May q.
The feature OF the week in the senatori-
4 contest has been the appearance of a
,ro.paqe circular, mailed at Bath, N. II.
.nl sieued by Hon. John Young of New
,ot purporting to give record of Gen.
.mnt's Ii years in Congress and advocat-
osibe candidacy of Commissioner Prouty.
NJ wish to give Mr.. Young the credit of
.o,ire fairness in this matter, and yet the
rsry title Of his pamphlet Isl msnomer, for
joes not give a record of Gen. CIRCUITS
srser in Congress, and this fact, of course.
'.ods an air Of suspicion to the whole un-
,.riakng. 1t is one of the many instances
rbere half-lruth is little better than de-
b4rate fasehoOd. Then, it is limited that,
,lbough Mr. Young does not favor Gen.
lroul's candidacy, his advocacy of Com
missioner PrOuty is not, after all, that he
0ys, bis Newport friend more, but that he
soud love his position most. Hence this
ssallh of needless pamphleteering.
Mr. Young says that his interest in the
sDaora question has led him to cause
NE cOngressman's record to be examined
5r the purpose of ascertaining what the
raj facts are as to the amount of work
lone. and he discovered that of the 80 pri-
nte bills introduced by Gen Grout that
lave been passed, so are private pension
bills, each granting pension to a single
lliyidual; one (jlst Congress) granted
rief to a single person, and one (54sh
Congress- authorized the delivery of a
0niemned cannon TO the Grand Army
post at st. Johnsbury.
Mr. Young wants to know il this record
sufficient to justify the claims of Gen.
trout for pomotion? Well, yes. mas
much as the record-the same record which
Mr. Young pored over so industriously-
viii show that this is a larger number of
bills, that finally became laws, than was
Introduced in the same length of time by
Morrill,, Edmunds or any other member
rom the Green Mountain state since the
Ge it was part of the New Hampshire
grants.
Mr. Young asks whether Gen. Grout
la. become leader in the House in his 1G
J,ars service there? Mr.. Prouty himself
las answered this question on several &C.
AsiOns during the past two years when he
.N stated that Gen. GrOut is one of the
q leading men in the lower House of Con-
Uess,
Mr. Young's interest in the record evil
.eny tagged before he came to the mat
,a Of speeches. Gen. CIRCUITS friends
never have claimed him to be a Cicero or
Dsmosthenes, and yet the fact remains
That whenever he has anything to say he
5 accorded hearing. Among his last eff
forts may be mentioned those on the Ge-
leya award French spoliations, Fitz John
Porter, Stark and Webster, the currency,
district appropriation bills, eulogy on Sen
ilOT Morrill,, and several on tariff and PEN
SONS That nearly 5000 copies of one
Of these speeches were circulated for cam
pgn purposes shows the value placed
Upon ii by the national committee. In the
PRESENT session no better and more effect
iespeeches were made on the Porto Rican
% the Roberts exclusion bill than those
;! the present representative from Yer
nOnls second district.
It is evident that Mr.. Young, in his
thirst for the truth about Gen. CIRCUITS work
Congress, began to realize that SO bills
passed quite record for he makes no men
ton Of the numerous effective measures
Introduced by Gen. Grout and passed in
evil appropriation bills, of which COM
l.llee Gen. Grout is prominent member.
imOng these items may be mentioned the
al for the fish hatchery, for the establish
ant of military post in Vermont, provid-
lg for the dividing of the Vermont Gus
IONS district and the formation of the
Aemphremagog district, for public build
ngs at Newport, ST. Adams, Island Pond,
Oay nothing of the sub, committee for
he District of Columbia where Gen.
trout reported five appropriation bills
altng the last five pears, carrying total
o. over $50, 600, 600, all of which became
avs These bills were all introduced by
Gen' Grout. One of them occupied the
House in discussion for an entire week.
Another went through without a single
'lalge in full committee or in the House,
high compliment to his standing and
7alrTshlp. One outcome of the General
conservative administration of district at
aIs IS reduction in the cost of electric
ghling there over half, and saving tt
@epubIIc treasury Of hundreds of thous-
inds of dollars.
ten, CIRCUITS record in Congress cannot
condensed into twO-page circular az
A. Young has attempted TO do. His
work appears on nearly every page of the
lA.Oh's record. We venture the state
uenl that in all the roll calls in the II
Years Gen. CIRCUITS vote is recorded. Id
was was IN his place, and another important
Jung Is that the record shows that his vot'
vas cast on the right side. This is tn
reason why he has the confidence of his
wlsIlInents and this is why the majorit.
October,
All the facts above referred to are mat
N Ss OF public record and can be easily yer
uu' Most Vermonters know all about i
p" Mr.. Young can easily find on
uvusn Tor another twO-page pamphle
Hu sun not stretch the truth If he put
~" be continued" at the bottom of tn
page.
oeh' CIRCUITS lG years of unremittiDg il
.Ss'Iy and honorable effort for his con
|,s"uehls, from the most pronounced I
% Ie most humble, is an earnest of his con
o ~uueu lallhtulness and efficiency whe
N'eu 10 the higher duties of the Senate.
"""'' Record Compared with that {
Morrill, and Edmunds.
u" us issue of May / the Newport Express al
v'auuard states that it asked l. A. Coolidg
"%ShlngIon correspondent of the Boston Jou
| TO look up the records OF Senators Morr
auu Edmunds as to the number OF bills /
ouuced by them that have become laws"
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