Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-03-11
Views outside Vermont.

New England is considerably excited
about the insiStent report that Charles
A. Prouty, lately resigned, from the
Interstate Commerce Commission, is
candidate for the Senate to succeed
Mr., Dillingham;. Precisely why there
should be excitment is not apparent.
If any man in New England has earned
the right and demonstrated the qualifi-
cations for a Senatorial seat. he is Mr..
Prouty. He is perhaps the foremost
American authority on the GREATEST OF
problems that involve administrative
supervision and regulation of great
business. If there is any particular
line of experience and information
that Congress needs right now. in
dealing with this intensely practical
set of problems, this is it. Mr.. Prouty
would be real addition to the Senate.
He could i'll be spared from the great
work which he has undertaken, of
directing the valuation of the rail-
roads; but the very fact that he is so
eminently equipped for that great
task is only another evidence of his
eminent fitness for Senatorial service.
Washington ID. CD Times.
Mr.. Prouty of the interstate COM
the biggest jobs the world ever saw if
he enters the United States Senate
from Vermont IS Mr.. Dillingham; S
successor His candidacy is announced
by his Republican supporters. Doubt
less, Mr.. Prouty will stay on the job
of the ply steal valuation of the rail
roads OF the United States, which is
the stupendous task referred to. until
the question of a senatorial career is
decided for him in Vermont. In the
Senate Mr. Prouty would be able to
give excellent service, especially IN
relation to transportation questions.
In recent years he has seemed to lean
toward government ownership as the
| only solution of railroad problems.
! Does Vermont stand for that. ever
remotely?-Springfeld Mass, } Repub
! lican.
The campaign which the friends Of
Commissioner Charles Prouty are
starting to make him the successor OF
Senator Dillingham; may call for still
further readjustments. Mr.. Prouty il
an able man and very likely wher
transportation problems are so numer
Gus and prominent he could be {
valuable member of the Senate
Though suspected of Progressive lean
ings he has promised that he decide!
to lend his consent and efforts to the
movement it will be as Republican
| It would seem as if he might render
greater service by staying upon the
job of physical valuation of the rail
roads of the county with which he ha
recently become identified. Senators
will come and senators will go before
he and his colleagues get to the end Of
it.-Boston Transcript.
Mr. Prouty has long had desire TO
seat in the senate. He was candi
date in 1900, when Mr.. Dillingham; wa
first elected. after a bitter struggle
with Gen. w. w. Grout, and has eve
since been considered a possible candi
date. Senator Dillingham;
will not be easily defeated. His ser
vice in the Senate has not been bril-
liant but it has been capable ana
efficient. AS chairman OF the commit
tee on immigration he has become one
of the authorities on that subject, an,
though Vermont is not especially inter
ested in immigration it takes pride il
the distinction he has won.
Mr.. Prouty has won distinction OF
the interstate commerce commission
as Mr.. Dillingham; has in the Senate
and a strong argument in his supper
will be that his special knowledge O.
railroad matters will be of value in tn
Senate at tbs time.-BoSton Herald.