The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1904-12-23
BRADFORD, FRIDAY MORNING.
Jack HaTris'S Washington Letter.
Washington. 21, 9 04.


n &
worm has turned, whenever I ge
ready to fit south each fall TIL
neighbors congratulate me on tE,
prospect of "escaping the hard Yer
mont winter" and long after l ge
here l frequently find the same ten
der sentiment secreted in my mai
from home. Now, please let up or
this congratulating business. 1t i;
overdone. 1t has no basis in fact
1t is a swindle and fraud, a delusiur
and snare. If you are having any
more winter in and around Bradford
than we are groaning under here,
then you must be in cold storage for
sure. For the past ten days the
town has been coated with uot much
less than a foot of SNOW and ice, and
| Saturday last another invoice came
to add insult to injury 1t is Juggling
with tate to try to walk any dis
tance over the icy sidewalks. as the
frequent imm ediate result is that
you find one leg breaking an en-
trance into some adjacent private
residence, while the other brings up
across the street against the fence.
Even if you do NOT fall and knock
off several corners of your corpus
deficit, the wrench from continually
doing the split is anything but
pleasant. So, cease congI atulating,
ETC., please.
Well, they're off again, Finnigan,
that is Congress. Last Friday after
noon wound up the legislative work
Cor the present with the passage of
Senator Lodges Philippine govern
ment bill, and the bunch adjourned
over to today, Monday. Today they
meet at noon, as usual, and solemnly
adjourn to Wednesday. On that day
at noon they meet and profoundly
adjourn for two weeks for the holi-
days, to Jan. 4th. This meeting
Monday and Wednesday is necessary
as neither house can adjourn over
more than one day at a time unless
by concurrent resolution. There
fore we are having practically near
ly three weeks intermission and rest
from our arjus labors. AS many of
the members of each house will re-
main in the city the various COM
nist}es VIII. o4E vi tFc 3pr- 7-;s.
tion bills and get them IN shape so
that business can be hustled when
and right up to adjournment. March
4th the work of the session will just
hum. Only two months, including
all the Sundays, and tremendous
pile of necessary work TO be got rid
of. It is more than likely that the
last month of the session will see
many night sessions, and the wheels
will go around twenty four hours in
the day along toward the end.
On redssembling the ''unfnished
business" which always means that
particular bill on the calendar which
IS given the right of way over all
others except appropriation bills will
new states from Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, and New Mexico
and Arizona, respectively. The bill
was reported to the Senate from
Senator Beveridge's Committee on
Territories Friday. and will be
pushed. The committee was not
however,. and though
the bill is practically certain to pass
and become a law at this session,
nevertheless in its present form it
will be fought step by step by the |
democrats on the floor of the Senate.
The democrats of the committee,
by Senator Bard of Calitor-
MIA, will submit minority report
which will form the basis of the op-
position. 1t is admitted that the
Sight will be spread out over nearly
The whole session. In fact, the
majority does not care to pass it too
soon, or it will serve to prevent the
OF some certain mat
.ers which they do not want to come
% the front. - There have been oc-
casional faint rumors within the
past few weeks that the O1eomarg-
1rine Manufacturers and dealers are
y send a lobby here 10 push for the
epeal of the anti-oIeo law. but moth
ng will come of it. The so-called
irout law has become too firmly in
renched to be overthrown by any
ittack which may be made on it by
he opposition. The latter has
iever given up hope that the law
night at sometime be repealed, but
the time seems far in the
uture.
Just here 1 am impelled to say
hat the knocking out of oleo has
Tot caused an era of spotless purity
n everything in the form or SEM
,1ance of butter. The law was a
lear gain for the right, as far as it
vent, but it did no. necessarily make
IL butter pure and decent and
ealthy butter. Pity tis, tis true.
n this connection quote belo~ the
gord of DR.. Wiley, the official
hemist of the agricultural depart
nent, at meeting of the state
anitary engineers of New York at
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