Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-04-27

before the Supreme Court OF the United
States. ana it mas been sustained as con-
stitutional. No measure has ever passed
Congress that has proven of as great ben
eft to the dairymen Of the country as
has this. The price at which butter is
maintained shows its benefit to the Yer
mont dairymen.
In the Fifty-seventh Congress Col. Has
k!ns secured an additional appropriation
of $4,000 necessary to secure the erection
of the custom house and post office build
ing at Newport, this state.
During both the Fifty-seventn and Fiji
ty-eigth Congresses, while a member of
the committee on elections. there were
several very important cases-one where
the evidence taken comprised over 1000
pages of printed testimony-and there Is
no doubt that Col. Haskins's knowledge
of the law was an important factor in the
proper settlement of these cases.
During the Fifty-eighth Congress. in
addition to the two committees above
mentioned, the Speaker. evidently recog-
MIXING Col. Haskinss ability. gave him
an additional assignment TO the COM
mittee on War Claims, which is a hard
worked committee, having to deal with
and all other wars in which the country
has been engaged, and on this committee
he performed efficient service, as the facts
here given show.
When Secretary Shaw withheld payment
of a portion of the money due the state
of Vermont for interest paid on its war
| bonds, under claim that the state of
Vermont was indebted to the general gov
] ~ I'D str
furnished the state militia, Col. Haskins
carried through the committee the bill
authorizing the auditors office of the
treasury department to adjust with the
state of Vermont all claims and counter
claims of the government and the state.
and to pay whatever balance might
be found to be due to either party.
| Col Haskins made the report to the
House. and engineered the bill to Its
| final passage, which put into the treas
ury of Vermont over $4,000, besides wip-
ing out every and all claims the govern
ment pretended to have against the state
During the same Congress Col. Haskins
secured favorable action in the War
| Claims committee upon bill to refund
| to Benjamin Burrows of Bloomington,
Vt, money which he paid as commuta-
| ton TO get release from tAe utdih III
| July, 1863 when, by reason of physical
defects. as ii subsequently appeared, he
was in no manner liable to military duty,
This bill was originally introduced in
1866. by Hon. Portus Baxter, then repre-
senting the Third district of Vermont and
IT had been re-introduced into. and
was pending In every Congress since that
time. until favorable action was taken
and the claimant secured his money
Another measure of some local inter
est. in which parties in Windham county
| were interested, was claim OF $IOOO toI
a steamboat seized on the Tennessee
river during the civil war. and converted
to the use of the government. This Dill
had been pending in every Congress 1oi
over thirty years. When Col. Haskins
became a member OF the War Claims
| committee, he had 1t taken up in COM
mittee. was authorized TO report II IA
vorably to the House, and secured us
i passage through that body. He followed
IL over to the Senate committee or
claims, and through his efforts 1t was
there taken up and reported favorably
passed and finally approved by the Pres
ident.
The law passed in 1883, and amended II
1901 authorizing the secretary of agricul'
ture TO establish quarantine In any
state or territory TO prevent the spread
OF diseases among live stock had beer
held in the supreme court OF the United