Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-18

MINOR NOTES.

The Senate is expected to pass the
army reorganization bill today.
The Senate passed the Burleigh re-
apportionment bill which originated
in the House and which provides for
3S6 instead of 359 representatives in
the House.
Bird S. Coler, the young controller
of New York city, has been in Wash
ington to consult with democratic
senators in regard to the nomination
of David B. Hill for the presidency in
1904. Hill is an avowed candidate, and
Coler says he is the man of the hour"
G. w. Bridgman of Hardwick will
be candidate for the Office of depart
ment commander of the Vermont divis-
ion of the Grand Army at the next an
nual encampment. Mr.. Bridgman
was a member of the I'd Vermont regi-
ment and served with distinction
through the war. He enlisted as a
private, but was promoted to the rank
The memorial to Gov. Wolcott which
it is proposed to erect in Boston,
probably in the form of a statue in the
state house, is meeting with general
favor and already over $4,000 has been
subscribed in sums of 25 cents up.
This is intended to be a popular me-
mortal. and the committee say in their
appeal that any sum of money, no mat
ter how small, will be gratefully re-
ceived.
The Barre Times bemoans the
slaughter by the recent legislature of
the bill drawn by some of the leading
lawyers of the state to reform the Yer
mont grand jury system. The bill
is said to have been modelled after the
Illinois law, and was approved by a
part of the judges of the supreme
court. The Times says: Grand
juries are necessary and desirable
institutions but four-ffths of the labor
performed by grand juries this state
is an absolute waste of time and money,
disgraceful extravaganza that does no
body any good.
Matthew Stanley Quay won the
long and bitter fight for election to the
United States Senate on Tuesday
when he received majority of the
votes in both branches of the legis-
lature, and obtained total of 1870
votes against llS for all the opposi-
tion candidates. Mr.. Quay will take
a seat in the Senate, in which he was
for eT.fg Rrv,tV.
at the next session of Congress.
Senator Hoar was elected Tuesday
for a fifth term. He received the
solid vote of the Republicans of the
Massachusetts legislature. He re-
ceived one Democratic vote in the Sen
ate and five Democratic votes in the
house. but Richard Olney was support
ed in the main by that party. Mr..
Frye of Maine and Mr.. Mcmillan of
Michigan were reelected on the same
day Frederic Dubois. who left the
Republican party on the silver issue
and was soon afterward defeated. will
come back To the Senate again. having
reviewed Al out OF 20 votes cast by the
Idaho legislature. Henry l.. Burn
ham of Manchester. who defeated
Senator Chandler in the caucus last
Thursday, was elected senator from
New Hampshire Thomas NJ. Patter-
son, a newspaper man OF Denver was
elected from Colorado to succeed Sena-
tor Wolcott. In Montana w. A. Clark
of Doodle fame, who was unseated last
year. received one majority on the
separate ballot of the two houses.
F. Hopkinson Smith. a bright and
versatile genius. who has made his
mark as architect artist, author and
lecturer, in speaking before the New
ton CMassD club, said he did not
think Harriet Beecher Stoves I'm
Gle Toms Cabin" portrayed the truth
of Southern life. He pronounced it
the most vicious book that ever ap-
peared. compared it with Kennan S
work on Russia, and said he could go
into the prisons of the North today
and write a similar book, closing by
saying: The book precipitated the
war. and made the North believe moth
ing but the very worst of the South
We are not an inhuman people; We
are Americans. 1t was an outrage to
raise the North against the South
The book was an appealing, awful
and criminal mistake Afterward, on
being interviewed in New York, Mr.
Smith gave expression 10 similar sen
timents. His position has been gen
orally combatted by the newspapers
The following is from an extended an
swer in the Springfield Republican:
If Uncle Toms Cabin was AN ap
palling, an awful criminal mistake .
then all that this nation went through
in four years of civil war that the
stain of human slavery, which made
the republic of freemen a byword over
the whole world, should be removed
from our flag, our statute-books, our
legislation, and that human equality
should be once more proclaimed with
new emphasis all that dread time
of trial was also 'an appalling, an
awful, a criminal mistake"