St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-12-20
AS HARRIS SEES TT.
Tells of Some Vermonters Who Have
Visited National Capitol.
Washington, Dec. Is, 10

weather mas TO De SeCLIed tHFSI. we
are having some here, and thus far
it has been about like our Vermont
October Later and to date rather
more like November, as there was a
heavy fall of rain at the end of the
week. No snow yet, and no immedi-
ate prospects of any. Therefore log
cling prospects look rather slender,
the political log rolling is proceed
ing by leaps and bounds. Like. the
poor, that is always with US. We are
told that the real big politics will
not expand to their full dimensions
until after the holiday recess, and
if that is correct there will certainly
be something doing from the first Of
January on.
The winter exodus from the north
began month ago, and since then
the through trains from the north to
various points in the southland have
been packed and crowded every
hour of the tWenty-fOur. The emf
grafton has included quite few
from Vermont, on their way south
for the winter, and also sprinkling
of Green MOuntainers who have
visited here for a few days andre
turned north. Among these latter
[ have noted Col. Forbes of ST. AL
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Edward Reeves of Burlington and
our neighbor Tim Bronson of East
Hardwick. Mr.. Bronson was on his
way home from Chicago, whittier he
went as a delegate to the national
irrigation congress. Mr. Bronson
was accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Edith, now student at Johns
Hopkins University at Baltimore.
Among Washington winter resi-
dents are Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Shaw
and Mrs. Jonas Reed and C. B. Gray
of Burlington, as usual.
George H. Bickford of the Wood
bury Granite company, Vermont's
granite king, has been in the city
several days closing deal with the
government to furnish the stone
for the new city postoffice here,
ground for which was broken last
week. 1t will be constructed near
the Union Station, the granite for
which was furnished by Mr.. Bick-
ford's company. 1t is the desire of
the government to construct it's pub
lie buildings here as far as possible
of the same quality and texture OF
stone, thus securing q pleasing ar
chitectural uniformity. With the en-
viable record thus established, Yer
mont granite certainly has tremen-
dOus future assured in the matter OF
government work in this city.
Neighbor Horace Bailey, every
bOdy's friend and United States Mar
shall for the district of Vermont, has
Just been appointed and confirmed
to succeed himself for a third term
of four years in that Office. AS
a matter of course, there can be no
opposition as long as Horace can and
will hold the job.
The OIeomargarine Fight.
The House Committee on Agri-
culture has been struggling with a
bill to remove the legal ban on ole
margarine, and with considerable
prospect of success. The bill chang
es the name of the compound to
margarine" and removes the tax
substituting therefor a graduated Ii
cense. The bill leaves margarine"
considerably encumbered with re-
strictions, ali of which go to prevent
it's counterfeiting as butter, and is
evidently designed to permit of its
sale on it's own merits as an article
of food. Nevertheless, the effect of
the bill would be to cheaper the
price of real butter. Representative
Plumley is strongly opposed to any
such result. He is a member of the
committee having the bill in hand,
and can be depended on at all times
to do everything possible for the in
terests of Vermont dairying, but
there is now a good prospect that the
bill will be reported favorably to
the House.
Lorimer Investigation.
With this week the testimony in
the Lorimer. case will be all in with
the exception of that of the senator
himself, and Senator Dillingham; S
long seige of months as chairman of
the investigating committee is nearly
drawn to a close. After the holiday
recess Lorimer will be heard in his
own defence, and then the commit
tee will go to work on it's report.
This should not consume much time,
but when the matter is reported to
the senate the discussion of the
merits of the case will drag along
indefinitely. There will be nearly 20
volumes of printed testimony, and
no final vote can be had until every
senator has been given ample time
to read and digest it. Under these
circum stances a vote may not be had
for months, or near the end OF the
session. AT present tnefe IS uHueI-
stood to be a majority of at least
dozen anti-Lorimer among the 81
senator's, which same is likely to be
maintained to the end.
The dollar a day" pension bill
passed by the House last week will
be taken up by the senate pension
committee Immediately after the
| holidays, and a report made as soon
as possible. There will be some
changes from the House bill, but it
is not thought that the rate will be
cut in the least. The probabilities
are that something like the Sulloway
bill of last session will be decided
on and adopted by the senate, and
that the substance of the House bill
will certainly go through at this ses-
sion. This is the present outlook sin