St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-06-01
Letter From Washington.
What Congress is and is not Doing.-The
Sunday School Convention
General News.
Esteemed CALIFORNIAN:

General News.
Esteemed CALIFORNIAN:
1t has been some time since you have
heard directly from me, but there have
been good and entirely sufficient reasons.
| have had congress on my hands from
incense breathing morn till dewey eve.
Everybody here has congress on his. her,
or its hands. 1t won't come off. 1t be-
gins to look like the epitaph on the edit
| or's tombstone, I'VE are here to stay!"
Like the poor, it seems as though we had
it with us always and like Banquo's i'm
| mortal ghost, it will not down. When
we started in everybody expected to be
home by May first. Later it was May
18th. Then the time was extended to
June. Now it is all in the Lords hands,
with the advice and consent of the in
| surgOcrats. However, within the past
few days matters are looking a little
brighter. and we are confidently expect
ing to clean things up and get out some
| time during the latter half OF June.
However. like the railroad time tables
| the right is reserved to revise this predic-
| ton without notice.
expected to unload it IL about three
weeks. Up to today, Friday, it is now
ending its fourth month of discussion. 1t
has been argued and debated and discuss
ed and mollyhacked until it no more
resembles its baby photograph than the
Vermont gubernatorial ST; uation looks
like an autumnaI sunset from Pumpkin
Hill. It may be wound up this week.
today or tomorrow, or it may go over
to next week. In any event, the end is
near. The House has passed all the
appropriation bills but two, and is prac-
tically through with the most important
of these. The remaining one will only
require few hours. AS | write the
republicans of the House are making an
attempt to get together some sort of
postal savings bank bill. If the sup
port of a majority of the total member
ship OF the House is secured to a measure
framed up by the caucus, then it will be
brought in under a rule cutting out all
amendments and limiting debate and
rushed through in a hurry. If this
assurance cannot be had, it will not be
reported at all. In any event, it cannot
consume much time. 1t has already
passed the senate.
The railroad bill off it's hands, the
senate will tackle the statehood PROPOSE
ton. This may occupy three days or
three weeks. 1t has already been debat-
ed at intervals for about ten years, but
| there yet may be those who wish to
charm their own ears with endless
| make us the subjects OF intercession from
on high, remembering that We want to
| get home and segregate in a tin pan the
stripped ultimate consumers on our
| potato tops.
Considering the railroad bill disposed
| of, that body will only have before it the
statehood bill, the remaining two
| appropriate bills and lot of minor
| odds and ends on the calendar This
| oil h. ofi i'll
a week, and the result would be exactly
| the same if they were given a month or
| twice that. And SO, there you are. 1t is
simply question of the amount of hot
air generated and emitted in SO called
debate. The days, weeks and months of
| hot air don't amount to a picayune,
| don't cut the least figure, don't change
| vote and is simply a habit, like talking
| about the comet. or going to the station
when the train comes in. Therefore, the
| only result of taking six months In doing
what might and should be done in twois
to keep the country bedeviled business
conditions uncertain and lot of poor,
miserable, homesick, lopsided atoms of
| humanity from going home and helping
set hens and take care of the baby!
| The Vermont delegation has stood up
| bravely through all this nerve-racking
| hapdoodle, and, as far as [ know, hasn't
| lOSt a meal. ne TWO House members
have been as busy as Vermont
campaign manager for the past six
months, and this will also fully apply to
the two senator's. In fact, Senator
Dillingham; worked himself into such a
condition that he was compelled to take
few days rest ten days ago, and has
since been at his home at Montpelier.
Nothing serious, only temporarily worn
and tired out. He will be back and on
the job by the time this is read. Senator
Page has been IN his seat every hour the
senate has been in session since it began
last December, believe, with the excep-
ton of few days when he went to Hyde
Park at the time of the fire. He is
probably the most regular in attendance
on all the proceedings of the senate of any
member of that body. fact which is
especially noted by his colleagues. Others
of longer service have important COM
mittee work to attend to, which
frequently necessitates their absence from
the floor.
The Worlds Sunday school convention
just closed here, was indeed tremendous
success from every point of view. The
attendance from every state in the Union
and from nearly every country in the
world is said to have exceeded 20, 900. and
excepting inaugurations. was the largest
number of visitors ever entertained by
the city. The results, too, are said to