Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.


man to cross the extra session bridge
before he gets to is. He has called
the attention OF ,'pngress to the legis-
Iation he considers necessary, as it Is
his duty to do. If congress fails to
act, iG vii. .hen be his duty to consider
whether an extra session will be nee
essary, Naturally, he would prefer
avoiding an extra session, but he Will
not allow his preference to cause him
to shirk his duty. Whether there will
be an extra session depends upon
congress, not upon the president.
Senators and representatives who
have called at the White House in the
interests Of constituents who seek
commissions in the army, under the
re organization act, have been very
plainly informed by the president
that so far as it is possible to do SO,
these appointments will be given to
the officers and men who have served
with the volunteers in the Philippines.
This position is such just one that
nobody has uttered one word of pro-
test against it.
Rapid progress is being made in
both house and senate in disposing of
the regular appropriation bills, and 1t
is not probable that any Of them will
fail. whatever other legislation may
be left Enacted upon at the close of
the session.
The lawyer who wins the most cases
naturally gets the most clients. Z. A.
Snow & Co., the Washington patent
LAWYERS. get more allowances Of pa
tents than any other firm practlc1ng
before the U. S. Patent Office-last
year they got 1897, many Of which
had been previously rejected.
Senator Depew has received many
CONGRATULATIONS on his speech in favor
of the ship subsidy bill. Having been
a railroad man all his life, he is thor
oughly familiar with the transporter
ton Of freight both on land and sea.
He cited numerous excellent reasons
WHY the subsidy bill should become a
law, not the least OF which was con-
tanned in these words of his: "lt Is
estimate that there is paid by Amer
lean producers to foreign ship owners
in freight charges, at least S175, OOO,O 900,
a year. Four per cent on this would
give us an American merchant marine,
and the expenditure of much the lar
ger part OF this money in our own
Before giving up his seat to Senator
Clapp, elected by the republican leg
islature of Minnesota to succeed the
late Senator Davis, Senator Towne,
the democratic populist, who held the
seat a few weeks by gubernatorlai ap-
made a political speech,
in which all the isms condemned by
the majority OF the voters in the late
were exploited. resolu
ton for the independence of the Phil
ippines was made the text for this
wall of woe.
President McKinley's message to
congress, transmitting report Of
Secretary Root, and report Of the
commission, on existing
and needs in the islands,
although not long, is receiving much
attic ntion. 1t concludes with these
words: 81 earnestly recommend legis-
.ation under which the government of
the islands may have authority to as
,ist in their peaceful Industrial devel-
opment in the directions indicated by
the secretary of war" The Philip
pine commission strongly urges the
passage of the Spooner Philippine bill
BY congress, saying of it: "Until its
passage, no purely central civil gov
eminent can be established; no public
franchise of any kind granted, and no
substantial investment of private cap
ital in internal improvements is posi-
oIe.n OF the need of civil laws in the
Islands, the report says: ''The army
has brought the Philippines to the
point where they offer a ready and
attractive field for investment and
but to make this possible,
here must be mining laws, homestead
and land laws, general transportation
laws, banking, and currency laws"
Of the general condition the report
says, after noting the favorable effect
IF the re election of President McKin-
ey: "From now on conditions in
these islands will grow steadily better,
md however formidable the difficult
lies really are, the possibilities that
present themselves of improving the
condition of the people in education,
wealth, comfort, and in the knowledge
If how to govern themselves, cannot
,ut awaken the deepest enthusiasm or
he part of every friend of civilization
amiliar with the actual conditions.0