Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-24
RATIFICATION PREVENTED
DOMINICAN TREATY FAILS AND
SENATE ADJoURNs.
Most Of the Appointments Confirmed
Inauguration acknowledgements
Of Vermont Dslssation-Wrseks Of
Unrealized Political Ambition.

Of Vermont Dslssation-Wrseks Of
Unrealized Political Ambition.
Washington, March 20, '05.-Inaug-
uration Is now but memory OF Hat
tened pocketbooks and a rich car
mine taste In the mouth. The elab-
crate decorations and colossal review
ing stands have disappeared as IL by
magic. The ostentatious temporary
structures are back In the lumber
yards, The saloon keeper has taken
his profits to the bank In a Wheel
barrow, and the lowly boarding house
keeper Is refurnishing the house from
the rake-off. The little coterie Of
purse proud hotel men have deposited
government bonds with the secretary
of the treasury to begin the institu-
ton of another ose-corporation ma
uonal bank, and the bedbugs are suf-
fering from indigestion and govt su-
perinduced by gorging themselves on
imported food and country produce.
These be some of the afterthoughts
of the occasion.
Since the fourth of March the house
end of the capitol has been as quiet
as Lake Mercy at Christmas or New
fame after a term of court. A clerk
occasionally glides across the orbit of
vision and at rare intervals some be-
lated member who breads to go home
fits through the gloomy corridors;
but the majestic police and the yet
more impressive house restaurant
walters mostly have the whole thing
to themselves Those members who
were reelected hustled for home as
soon as the hammer fell, in hurry
to see the folks and tell them how
glad they are to get back to first
principles and hang the dress suit in
the closet under the stairs; while
those members who were defeated
prowl around like Marius among the
ruins of Carthage, dreading to show
up to the ungrateful gang at home.
What a lot of has-beens there are.
caused by the awful political slaugh-
ter Of last November! They lie in
winrows, their wounds agape and
their grief unassuaged. Such Is the
final reward Of politics. it's all right
and very pleasant-while 1t lasts.
When you are at the mercy Of the
gangs who run political conventions
and they decide to dump you-well!
The history of American politics |
abounds with the wrecks cast up by
the tide of disappointed or unreal
lied political ambition, to whom the |
end soon comes via rum. the bullet or
a broken heart. Strong men don't |
die from love, but they do die from
politics. They lose their feet and are
swept away by the flood. Another
takes their place and the count is
kept good. The goddess and soulless
moves steadily onward, car
rying the hopeful and crushing the
hopeless, all in the name of a govern
nent by and for the people.
The extra session of the senate
called for noon Of March 4 was for the
purpose of confirming the vast num-
Der of nominations always made by
/ president at the beginning of his
ERIN, and to ratify the treaty, or pro-
ocol, or bargain. or deal with what
S by courtesy called the government
nations were important and impera- !
i've, but the so-called treaty was
What the president more anxiously {
ad in mind. The president was l
mighty anxious to have the senate !
atty his deal with the mob of I
ruffians constituting the !
an Dominican government. The SEN .
tie gave about ten days of close and 0
attention to the treaty, but v
ouldn't see 1t as the president did. u
inally, 1t is settled that the presi- a
ent cannot command, bully or drive II
he senate. That is decided, and it is "
lain that the two must hereafter U
ansact business on some more con- n
liatory basis. The senate wound up "
I'd adjourned without anything be- u
g actually accomplished, and the q
eaty goes over to the next session. q
his means that the treaty will be
written and very considerably al
red before it is again presented for
LITIGATION. There is no use in try
g the same old treaty again The M
suit in this case is the same as in re
e case Of the railroad freight rate pr
IL At the presidents request the no
use hustled it through and sent 1t pc
the senate but the senate looked pc
1t with disfavor Next winter the ~
nate will pass just the kind of a al
/ regulating freight rates that 1t no
lnts, If 1t passes any. pa
During the extra session Senators or
att of New York, Knox of Penn TN
vania and Aldrich of Rhode Island ca
re absent all the time and as they WI
re not present at the beginning of IN
, session they are not yet sworn ia
and could not be paired Aldrich wa
in Europe. Knox is in Florida and hlr
1T is in North Carolina. Senator COZ
raker started for Europe Saturday, !
company with ex-senator Quarles wa
Wisconsin. Senator La Toilette of Pre-
sconsin, elected to succeed Quarles, me
not been here at all and may cor
er be. 1t is rumored that he NAV Grt
4 onto the governorship and re- I
E to qualify. Senator Rate Of cid
,nessee is succeeded nv Gov wit
zier of that state, both democrats. 4
ides La Toilette, the republicans OF
short two votes by the legislatures to
Delaware and Missouri still fail arm
to elect. If all had been present ed'
all vacancies had been filled it is hm
Ely possible but not at all prob eelN
that the treaty might have been hui
fed. AS one senator can block Har
ness indefinitely, certainly thirty MAJ
: so. way
.nator Proctor was member of plet
senatorial committee appointed
accompany the remains of Sena- B,
bate 10 tennessee, ana went from beer
e TO HOT springs. Ark, for several men
stay. His secretary, Mr.. Hol- the
k, accompanied him. Senator will
ngham returns home to-day. His cisio
etary, Mr. Husband, returned to the
tpelier Wednesday. Col Has Mill
returned home Immediately after
house adjourned. to take the pre- !"
lary steps toward that garden
FRESHMAN Foster has been in II
lesion. S. c.. the past week. de- IN
ng what is reported as a mag
mt address before the United M
rnian societies of that city Fri ~
St Patrick's day. Contrary to
,tation, or intention the deIega-
did not find the time to confer
e subject of the Vermont federal
ntments before leaving the city
alter will have to hold basket
= for that purpose up in Yer q
I unload sufficient of the grin L "a
Malaria to undertake the journey.
nd TO take AIRS H. and start Fl n