Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
TRUST BUSTING PROGRAM
NEW sPEclAlTiEs BEING ADD
ED DAY BY DAY.
What viii the Harvest Be?-Estra
Session of Senate Called-Visiting
vermonters Of the Week-Coming
Week of Excitement.
fspecial to The Reformer.)

Week OF Excitement.
(Special to The Reformer)
washington, d. c.. Feb 81 90
Probably II the senate had the
mower, IL would find the house man.
o.ors guilty of the largest kind of
| contempt for the dignity OF the form
or distinguished body and give the
managers "A long term in the peniten-
tiory for bringing such an utterly
| ,onsensical case before II as the
swayne impeachment trial The lat
fer has consumed nearly all the time
of the senate during the past week
and finally wound up Saturday In a
oo,,nlete failure on the part of the
nrosecution. II case with no more
so,ndotion had been brought before
Vermont Justice of the peace, he
would have instantly dismissed the
ease and fined the attorney VINO
brought the suit for contempt OF
curt There was absolutely nothing
10 the case from the beginning, eX-
cont personal spite and quite likely
some political feeling against the
iudge on the part of southern demo-
Gratis.
therefore the senate has made very
little progress the past week In actuai
legislation, although 1t has done
stroke of real work here and there
IN the occasional intervals when real
LEGISLATION was possible. Although
o,,orum had to be kept on the floor
for the purposes of the trial, the
committees have been busily at work,
and two or three of the large appro-
nriation bills have been put through.
The new bill on the Panama canal,
which materially revises the one OF
last year, was finally passed Thurs-
day, and this will straighten out mat
ters down there and very considerably
facilitate work on the canal. Inc
question of the final disposition OF the
statehood bill has been hung up dur
ing the week, but it will soon go 10
conference and the house and senate
conference committees will find way
out in some manner.
Meanwhile the house has been put
ting in long hours and many of them,
and has it's work well in hand. Only
two more of the big appropriation
hills remain to be voted on by that
body, and it doesn't seem as II II
would have to hurry much to get
through in time. 1t has also passed
a small river and harbor improvement
bill, calling for about sixteen mlll1ons.
The middle of the week Speaker Can
non gave out word that no more new
work must be reported from commit
tees, so all that remains to be done Is
to clean up the business now on hand'
There is a mass of this, of course,
largely private or sectional legisla-
ton and, although not a tenth part
of it will ever be acted on, all that Is
really desired to bring forward can
be run through in hurry A matter
which will interest all old soldiers is
that congress has agreed to resolu-
ton restoring all the battle flags cap
tured by either or any army during
the civil war to the states from
which they came. 1t is thought that !
this will about entirely wipe out the
last vestiges of sectional feeling ana /
bring about the realization of the idea
of forgive and forget
VI course the pIliiSiPai Ie'ih O.
the capital is trust busting and rail-
road rate regulating, and this has
Just had added to it the scheme of a
government investigation Of Standard
OIL AS have said, there will be no
action taken by the senate on the
house bill regulating freight rates.
for lack of time and the evident ne
cessty of more light on the subject.
The senate interstate committee Is
continuing its hearings in the exam
ination of important witnesses from
all sections of the country, and is
out many facts which VIII
be used in the future. Next winter,
or at the proposed extra session next
October, the senate will get right
down to business on the general sub
ject of governmental control of rail-
road rates, and with the present
house bill as a basis or with new
bill of its own will be very likely to
accomplish something. The senate
fully realizes that the people are act
ually in earnest in demanding that
action be taken on this