Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-03-04
A YEAR OF TAFT'S ADMINISTRATION
Problems Which Mr. Taft Encountered and His Accomplishments
Up Date Exhibit Which High School Students Should See
Various Notes Of Local Interest

tgate the cost OF production
Several other measures have the en-
dorsement and support of the admins
tration. and which the President hopes
to push TO successful conclusion, I'm tho
interest OF public welfare. and thus keep
faith with party promises.
Congress will il is believed, assist tine
President in his efforts though il may
require some little pressure from him i'm
order to take them through and secure
early adjournment Taft will surely
make good asserted leading Congress
man today. He is honest, industrious
and able characteristics i'm a public SER
want inevitably crowned with success"
Besides, he added. Taft has a wealth
of common sense and determination he
hind his sunny temperament, and he IS
surely growing i'm public favor. Despite
all obstacles which seem to cloud the
political horizon today, President Tafts
administration is hound to he successful.
Justice Wright of the district supreme
court. decided Monday that members of
Congress acting Ina ministerial capacity
enjoy no rights, privileges or preroga-
tives under the constitution, not enjoyed
by heads of departments, when asked to
show cause why mandamus should not
issue This decision defends the rights
of citizens to challenge the validity of
the action of joint committees Of Con
gress. in a case like that Of the Valley
Paper company of Holyoke, Mass. which
secured a writ of mandamus ordering the
joint committee on printing of Congress
to show cause why it should not consider
its bid 10 furnish paper for the govern
ment printing Office. This would seem to
require that the Senate members Of the
committee-which alone refused, the
House members recognizing the courts
authority-appear in court either in per-
son or by counsel. The hearing, II il
comes, may prove interesting as the
question involved is the first 10 arise
under such conditions.
The Aldrlch bill, providing for a com
mission to investigate business methods
in the executive department passed the
Senate Monday.
A conference of representatives of the
several state boards of public health will
be held here next month. Surgeon-Gen-
eral Wyman is the head of the bureau
as well as the head of the marine hospi-
tai service. Gen. WYman is graduate
of Amherst and a Classmate of Arthur
c. Bradley of Newport, ~ H., a former
Brattleboro boy. II is Gen, Wyman' s
hope to visit Brattlehoro this summer,
if possible.
One of your well-known business men
met Vice President Sherman the other
day, who expressed interest in Brattle-
boro and its people, several of whom he
remembered when, number Of years
ago, he visited your town as guest of
DR.. w. II. Rockwell.
The House passed, last week, the Sher-
lev bill TO establish "A uniform bank
ruptcy law throughout the United States,
which action will interest your legal fra
ternity.
The Sterling bill TO amend the employ
ers' liability act was also passed The
bill would permit action to be brought
in a federal circuit court concurrently
with the state courts, and would give
right of action to survivors or next of
kin of the injured employee.
Many Vermonters and especially resi-
dents of Wilmington, will pleasantly re-
member the late DR.. David II. Cochran
for 35 years president of the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn, n. Y, and sum-
mer visitor TO Wilmington, where he was