St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-01-30
Current Press Comment.
Representative GrOuI.

GrOut handled the district approprla
ton bill last week in the House causes
the people in Washington more thar
ever to regret his approaching depart
ure from congress. He explained the
provision of the budget with skill anc
discretion, acknowledging the necessity
for large total, defending the increases
due to an charging population, and ii
general guarding the bill at all points
against attack. In the filtration mat
ter Mr.. Grout wisely avoided arousine
friction as to the process to be employed
and thus secured the adoption of the
necessary money provision while leav.
ing the choice of system to be determ.
ined by other and better means than a
hurried debate on the floor of the house
This exhibition of good management
and fair play to all concerned has char.
acterized Mr.. CIRCUITS entire career as a
legislator, and especially his work af
fecting the District of Columbia, and it
is matter OF sincere sorrow that as a re
suit OF his legitimate aspirations for pro.
motion to the senate, in pursuing which
he relinqushed his chance for reelection
to the house, this efficient public servant
temporarily retires after March to pri
vate life, leaving a gap which will be
difficult to fill. 1t is hoped that his alb.
sence from Washington may be brief.
washington Star.
1t was only few days ago that 1 call
ed attention to the remarkable accuracy
with which the mails are handled and
the security of the registry system, and
the report of Mr.. Madden, Third Assist
ant Postmaster General, suggests another
reference. Of nearly 100000 articles
handled in the registered mail by thous-
ands of employees last year, only 81 were
lost by carelessness, accident or dis
honesty. During the same time there
was transmitted through the regular
mails about 1877 100000 in govern
ment money. and not dollar was lost.
Surely no greater testimonials possible
to be given to any service than these as
founding figures" Mr.. Madden says,
land it is doubtful if any private corpor-
alton in the world can match it. If the
government can with perfect confidence
iutrust billions of dollars OF its money to
the registered mails-and the government
matter is not hedged about with any
greater safeguards than encircle the let
tiers of the humblest Northumberland
cause for apprehension can exist to deter
the private citizen from patronizing this
service ~ Chicago Record.
! John Marshall, the anniversary OF
whose accession to the bench of the
United States supreme court is to be OBJ
served Feb. 4, was one Of the most illus
trious men in American history. 1t was
Marshall who, as chief justice, laid the
foundations and reared the superstruct.
ure of our Jurisprudence While he was
great man and profoundly learned
judge in all branches OF the law, it was
in constitutional law that his pre-emin-
ence was most noticeable. While he was
active in his profession, nearly all the
great questions in regard to the constitu-
ton were passed upon with marvellous
acumen and ability. 1t was Marshall
who was the power in the court. and
who dominate it by the force of his
wonderful intellect Vermont Journal.
The one national bank in the Hawaiian
Islands is prosperous Its assets amount
to about So, 900 900 and the bank has
been established only about six months
One of the blessings in store for Porto
Rico and the Philippines is stable bank.
ing system, such as no Spanish posses
sion has ever had or known. The ad.
vantage of this to the development OF
trade and industry in the islands of the
sea cannot well be over estimated Bell
nington Banner.
January has been fateful month in the
life of the English royal family. Queen
Victoria passed away on the eighty first
anniversary of the death of her father
Duke of Kent, which event occurred Just
six days before that of his father, George
III, in 1920 1t was on January 90
1896, that her son.in-law, Prince Henry
of Battenburg passed away, and it was
also in January that the Duke OF Clarence
the direct heir to the throne in the second
generation, came to his untimely end
Burlington Free Press.
Several of the patriotic societies of the
middle west are engaged in the good
work of locating the graves of men who
fought for the independence OF the Ameri.
can colonies. Systematic and thorough
inquiry is being made; and the work will
be prosecuted until the last grave is
found and marked. Public officials and
private investigators have become inter
ested in the undertaking and the latter
are entitled to much credit. After the
adjutant general and the curator OF the
historical department of Iowa had re.
ported that there was no reliable record
to show that any soldier of the revolu.
ton was buried in the state, private in
vestigation has located the graves oil
two such men, and is on the track of a
third. Since Iowa did not become ter.
ritory until sixty-two years after the
declaration OF independence, this discov-
cry is somewhat remarkable, and indi-
Gates the wide range which these dis.
charged soldiers took after they left the
army Vermont Journal.
Put this in your scrap book, and when,
because of the facility of the rural free
delivery or other temptation, you think of
subscribing for city daily, take out the
book and re-read tit is from Press and
| Printer:
"The daily papers are all right if you
want them, but it is the weekly paper
that advertises your business, your
schools, your churches, your numerous
societies, sympathizes with you in your
affection and rejoices in your prosperity.
In short, it is your weekly paper that
mentions the thousand and one items in
which you are interested during the year
and which you do not find in the daily
papers. II Middebury Register.
The King of England is the first Eng
| lish sovereign who could recall visit to