Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-27
THE TOMB IN THE CRYPT
DESIGNED IN 1899 BY CONGRESS
FOR BODY OF WASHINGTON.
Washington's Will Defeated tho Pro.
jeet-Arrival in Washington Of Yer.
mont EIeetors--InausuraI Prepare.
tions-Business Of Congress.

washington ID, o., Jan. 23, o.
An eccentric old veteran whom used
to know up In Caledonia county was
wont to relate this episode In his
career. During the progress Of some
great battle, Gen. Grant rode slowly
along the Zines and asked, rs Private
ED woodward In the ranks?" HE is"
final desperate charge" said the
great commander. The messengers
bringing the electoral vote from the
various states have been dropping In
here very plenteously during the past
week, and Friday the united body of
! Vermont electors, with Messenger
Stone OF st. Johnsbury and Col. Ed
FLYNN of Springfield towering majes-
tically in. the front rank, sailed in
Although the marine band did not
welcome them with appropriate mu-
sic, they at once found plenty of warm
friends who were glad to look again
upon four honest Yankee faces from
Gods country. Vermont has now
been heard from, concentrating the
hurricane which 1t started at the Sep
TENDER election, and Roosevelt and
Fairbanks are as good as elected.
Beside the noble four above men,
TONED, Vermont has been represented |
here the past week by Hon. Alex +
Dunnett of st. Johnsbury, Col Curtis
Emery of Chelsea, Esquire Weston of
Bellows Falls and Col. +. ID. Proctor.
Lawyer Weston has been spending
little time here in winding up a gov
eminent claim which has long been
pending. II appears that during the
civil war the party who was after
ward Mr., Weston's father-in -law was
the owner Of schooner or sailing
vessel of some sort which the gov
nd
afterward sold for $4,000. The only
redress for the heirs was the filing
of claim which has been pending
ever since the war, about the usual !
length of the tendency of a claim !
against the government. Finally, l
however, congress has recognized, .
partially, the justice of the demand !
and has awarded Mr.. Weston $1,000
without interest. OF course simple
justice would have been the full
value with interest, but a congress
sional committee takes the ground
that claimant is mighty glad to
take whatever he can get, which is G
true. a
Inaugural preparations are pro- p
crossing finely, and sufficient finan- q
cial aid has been guaranteed to as Ct
sure most complete success. vast II
amount is to be used for decorations g
arches, and especially fireworks and 9
The latter will far exceed anything of -
he kind ever before attempted in any "
country About $4,000 will be used a,
~ the committee of arrangements. 81
Only six weeks more of congress, Ia
,ut it will be amply sufficient time w
o accomplish all the leaders desire Is
o have accomplished. The question Ia
# an extra session for tariff revis- sh
on purposes is as dead as a kit of ar
and nothing will be done mi
long that line until the regular ses- sa
ion next winter. The bill to regulate mi
abroad freight rates is booming II
long in the house, and the general WI
teering committee will push some mi
hing of the kind through at this ses- n'
ion If 1t can be done without kick no
lg up too much opposition and de- DO
ate. If it is seen that 1t is going to COZ
AXE trouble anywhere or is likely to INK
revoke acrimonious argument or de-
isagreement in the party, it will be roc
uietly dropped. The usual appro- I'M
ration bills are slow in being re- tax
orted, and as so comparatively short tax
time remains, they will necessarily
} through both houses rapidly as
ION as they get once started. Looks
If they were all coming in a lump :,
is session as only two or three
nall ones are through the house and an az
Ny one through the senate. OF VI
urse If 1t were compelled to, con- ii.ia
ess could pass all the legislation cre,
w on the program in forty eight anu
urs, cutting out the usual and ut
Fly useless pro forma debate, but
iat's the use, as long as it has time
procrastnate and dawdle? So if n
thing were done in the line of pass the
measures uhtH lne last week OF post
: session there would yet be plenty No
time. T.;
rhe most serious question is how to 9oo
pose of the Swayne impeachment STAT,
e and no solution yet presents it tow,
-. -, We nopeu .liat tile nouse max
ui a Nh Ine mater Wheh II iiIally as f
,.a,o ~. - ias' VIZ put pis pucn law.
nocracy for impeachment, and now
S up to the two houses to spend a
nth, more or less, in grinding over
dry and weary details of a case It
cn NOBODY cares colonial moot impr
ut. 1t Is parallel case to the rigid
RENE court OF vermont sitting IN fecti'
bench for a month to see whether ment
us'ice u .ne peace ever uld any in V
u IN ms ne when shouiu deprive more
few days ago / made a discovery NJ
CHI cannot fail of being of interest
'ou, as it was to me most decid-
!. While wandering through the Th'
race of the CAPITOL, so-called. land
Iy the first basement T stopped To is a
with the ancient colored man ahce
acts as messenger in the Office enteri
he architect of the capitol and in chans
ntally he spoke of the tomb in map
crypt which had been prepared a now
ury ago for the body of George New
hington The "crypt" so-called all so
he subterranean cellar exactly in the e.
center of the building and under North
dome. In the exact center of the feeder
t, surrounded by four gigantic ing a,
rs is a catafalauue on which the terrific
ct containing the body of the throus
president was designed to rest. A mont
resolution of congress passed sesses
mber, 1899, asked the relatives west
the interment might be permit brancl
n this place of all places for the ly to
Dse but Washington's will spe- and n,
lily designated where his tomb the we
d be located and the project was northv
family abandoned. copy of the clear
ltion and extract from the will westw;
wv framed and hangs alongside densbu
ron front grating of what was to of Ne'
been the last resting place of the territo
II remains of the father of his land. '
ry. Certainly the grand and ing dir
~ vault under the dome of the York
u which he established for the a new
y empire which he did so much perhap
cate was the most fit place for sorptio
emains. From the lower sub Wander
lent the crypt is entered by a fected.
flight of stairs and through a i'm quit
or, all of the most massive lions, v
e masonry, until one reaches Central
ircular crypt. The place and of with al
2 the entire terrace and sub the Ne
tent below are constantly lighted open u
Indreds of incandescent lamps, traffic
q eft ,sf ~.