The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-24
DOM ESTIC.

cation will doubtless be undertaken 10y
the sensational admission made before
that body yesterday by Frank Water
house, manager Boston Steamship
Company of Seattle, in hearing on
the proposed publication by railroads
of important export tariffs, Water
house testified that his company had
contract with the Northern Pacific
railroad which prevented the latter
from accepting Mauila hemp from
tramp steamers for transportation from
Seattle to st. Paul. Nearly a hun
dred traffic managers from various
railroads were present and they caused
an uproar when this statement was
made.
Washington, Dec. 1S.-The govern
ment today received a despatch evil
IDENTIFY of disturbing nature from
Panama. After its receipt Acting
Secretary Loomis had long confer
ence with Secretaries Root and Moody
He admitted that an important des.
patch had come from the Isthmus but
the nature was such that he could not
discuss it or make it public until af-
ter today's cabinet meeting.
Washington, Dec. 17.-By tine de
cisive vote of 81 to Is the Senate
passed the bill carrying into effect
the reciprocity treaty with Cuba. The
bill carries into execution the treaty
between the United States and Cuba
ratified last March. The Senate also
agreed to the House resolution provid-
ing for a holiday recess from Decem-
Der 10 to January 4.
Central American affairs were dis
cussed in the House today and also
pensions, industrial and agricultural
conditions and labor. No action was
taken on the pension appropriation
bill.
Washington, Dec. II. "A bill has
been introduced in the House OF Rep
resentatives fixing the number of
copies to be printed of the report Of
the secretary of agriculture and of the
report of the bureau of animal indus
try which is of wide interest to farm
ers. The bill provides that the number
report, commonly known as the year
book, shall be doubled and makes Il
liberal increase in the number of
copies of animal industry.
Boston, Dec. 1.-two suspects, who
may have been members of the robber
gang which left one of their company
dead on East Boston Marshes Thurs
day morning, were caught at daybreak
by the police after lively tussle in
the Oharlestown freight yards of the
Boston & Maine road. Each suspect
had a big revolver which from APP.
pearances had been in recent service.
Neither of the men told consistent
story.
New York, Dec. 10. The New Will
liamsburg bridge, the second material
tie to bind Manhattan and her sister
borough, Brooklyn, more closely to-
gether, was formally opened this af-
ternoon by appropriate exercises in
which the leading officials of Greater
New York participated The opening
was witnessed by thousands of people,
The exercises took place on the Brook
Ign plaza. Gustav Lindenthal, COM
missioner of bridges, presented the
bridge to the city and Mayor Low ac-
cepted and formally declared the bridge
opened. President Cantor of Borough
! of Manhattan, President Swanstrom
of Borough of Brooklyn and others de-.
livered addresses. The civic parade
followed and the salute of hundred
guns was fired at each end of the
bridge. Tonight there will be a dis
play of fireworks and the bridge is to
be illuminated with colored electric
lights. Previous to the fireworks there
will be a marine parade of two hun
| dred vessels.
Lewiston, Me-, Dec. 19.-Fire this
morning destroyed a carhouse and
| thirty five cars of the Lewiston, Bruins
wick and Bath Street Railway, in
volving a loss of $50, 600, The road
will be crippled for the present and
service from this end will be stopped