St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-05-15
Washington, May 13.

yond the proper and usual date of
adjournment by the fighting out of
job lot of tariff bills which finally
amounted to nothing whatsoever,
and now Cummins is forcing the
same conditions With democratic
cooperation he has served notice
that no formal adjournment will be
permitted until a vote at least is had
on the four tariff bills now before
the senate and on possibly the cot
ton schedule bill yet to come, and
if the unhoIy alliance hold to this
tariff discussion alone will consume
from six weeks to two months of
itself
Then there is the final disposition
of the Lorimer matter, which will
certainly come to a head at this ses-
sion, and besides that there are al
SO several other measures of large
Importance which must be given
some time in their consideration.
Congressman Want to Get Home.
1t will be almost impossible to
keep a quorum of either house here
during the conventions, and after
they are held nearly everybody will
be crazy to get home and look after
things. Nearly all of them have
contests on for reelection
themselves, and it will come like
pulling teeth to be compelled to loaf
around here with the thermometer
at 100 in the shade while their OPP
ponent is cutting the ground out
from under them at home.
To further complicate the legisla-
tive situation the House insists on
its proposition to abolish the COM
merce court, and not only that but
it has begun proceedings which may
lead to the trial by impeachment of
Judge Archibald of that court. I'm
parchment trials are always held
before the entire senate as a jury,
and the bare possibility that the
senate may be compelled to sit here
through July and August for this
purpose is anything but a pleasant
one. In fact. it is intolerable. But,
this is borrowing trouble.
Dillingham; and Page.
The Dillingham; immigration bill
is meeting with some opposition in
the House, though its success there
later is predicted. There is the
possibility of amendment, but the
two houses will very probably agree
on it finally. Senator Page is yet
polishing and sandpapering his vo-
cational educational bill, and pro-
poses if it is humanity possible to
quiet all objection to it when it is
finally called up for consideration in
the senate. Criticism of it is stead
lily being overcome, and it's prospects
are now considered excellent.
House May Choose President.
In view of the present intolerably
muddy condition of the republican
presidential campaign attention is
called to what might happen in the
quite probable event that the final
choice of a president may be thrown
into the House by the running of
third candidate. From betting
here, and also from a
very widely pervasive "feeling" the
chances rather favor the nomination
Of Roosevelt as the republican can
didate at Chicago, and it is un-
questionably believed that if he
does not receive the regular nomin-
alton he will run Independently
In case the present House is call
ed upon to decide the matter a most
condition is encoun-
tered. Each state will vote as
unit, casting one vote, and this will
be decided by the political majority
of the state delegation. In the
event, to illustrate, if state has five
democrats and three republicans in
it's delegation it will cast one vote
for the democratic candidate. But,
the remarkable condition exists that
there are now % democratic and p
states on this basis, with
four states equally divided political
ly. With these conditions it would
be impossible for the House to make
a choice, unless some one member
turned traitor to his party.
New r. F. d. Route.
The rural free delivery division of
the post Office department. has finally
the installation of a route,
to be known as route No. /, from
the East Ryegate post Office, into
and through sections of the towns of
Barnet and Ryegate. The route
will run north from the East Rye
gate Office, and include the village
of McIndoes, thence running wester-
ly and through sections Of Ryegate
to point of departure. The route
will be put in operation at the earli-
est possible moment The star route
from south to East Ryegate is con-
tinued as now.
J. E. HARRIS.