St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-04-03
FLOOD OF VERMONTERS
MANY Visited Washington Last
Week-DemOcrats Not Likely to
Touch South With Tariff Bills.
Washington. AM /. Is12.


The red naples, which are every
where and the only variety OF maple
known in this latitude. are partially
leaved out, the early flowers in the
parks and front yards are in full
bloom, and in a few days certainly
the iTcullud boys will be digging
dendelion green's.
All of last week the town was IN
undated with Vermonters, and still
they come. Most of the past week
we had excellent samples with us Of
Waterbury, Montpelier, Barre, Ran
doIph, Hartford, Springfield, Bel
lows Falls and Brattleboro, with
ofFshoots from two or three dozen
other towns, and things were doing
every minute. They hustled every
where i'm pairs, squads and droves,
overran the capitol, invaded the
departments, Libraries, galleries and
museums, hit up Mount Vernon and
gazed in wonder and awe at the
book beer works of art in front of
the thirst assuager parlors.
With the advent of the pilgrims
from Caledonia county and the re-
gions over against it this week will
be a fac smile of last, in gross and
i'm detail The Vermonters in and
around the capitol give every last
one of them a cordially welcoming
hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Stocker of
Danville arrived in town last week,
and will spend some days with
friends here before returning to
their Vermont home. They have
been passing the winter in Califor-
mia, returning home via New Or
leans and this city.
DR.. Crane and Esquire A. b.
Thomas of Hardwick were in town
most of last week on business, re-
turning home yesterday.
Congress is Hurrying.
Congress is hammering out legis-
lation pretty rapidly these days, and
with the apparent determination to
hurry matters along to final adj
journment not later than the first
half of June. The senate was occu-
pied with the Stephenson case the
first half of last week, and Thurs
day and Friday to the consideration
Of the pension bills. The matter
was brought to head late Friday
evening by the defeat of the House
bill, known as the Sherwood bill,
and the adoption of the senate sub
stitute. The result appears to have
given general satisfaction, and 1t is
the expectation that the conference
committee of the two houses will
come together on the measure with
out much difficulty or delay. OF
course something may come up to
prevent agreement and adoption,
but the probabilities are that the
whole subject will be finally dispos-
ed of at this session.
The House closes its three days
debate on the wooden schedule bill
and II is expected that it will be
passed today by a large majority.
1t is not certain that the cotton bill
will be taken up at this session, as
the House leaders say that it will be
considered only in the event that the
senate enacts the wooden bill and all
the other tariff bills with which the
House has been bombarding the
senate from the beginning of the
session. AS it is morally certain
that this ruck of half-baked bills
will not be favorably acted on by
the senate this result will give the
House an excuse for dropping the
cotton bill The idea of the removal
OF any considerable part of the duty
on cotton is very unpopular in the
South, and the representatives from
that section dread nightly to touch
it. Free trade is a beautiful thing
when it does not hit the South, but
it will insist on adequate protection
on all that concerns it. AS the
president has sent in a message ask
ing for a reduction in tariff duties
on cotton goods, this puts the South
erners squarely in a hole out of
which they can only extricate them
selves by promising to reduce cot
ton duties if the senate will do lot
of things which it ought not to do
and will not do.
Shadow of Bryan Growing.
The presidential situation from
the democratic point of view contin-
ues to shift slightly in favor of first
one and then another candidate,
but all the time the shadow of
Bryan looms larger and blacker. He
is vehemently opposed to any can
didate who does not consent to
wear the Bryan collar and confess
blind submission to his leader
ship. What sort of a crisis this is
likely to eventually lead to in the
democratic situation everybody can
easily forsee for themselves. At
the 18th hour Gov. Foss of Massa-
chusetts has decided to become the
favorite son of his state as a candi-
date, about two months too late. If
he had energetically begun his
campaign when he should it is
quite probable that he could have
united most of the New England
bunch of states in his favor and
thus gone to Baltimore with back
ing that would have been able to
accomplish things, but his day has
gone by. Today he is back num-
Der, practically repudiated by his
party in his own state. Up like a
rocket and down like a big stick.
J. E. HARRIS.