Show LITTLE STAT LITTLE MEASURES I I i Secretary PROCTOK Is making another visit to Vermont previous to his promised appointment by Governor PAGE to the senatorial sen-atorial vacancy caused by tho resignation of the Hon Mr EIJMOXDS Mr PROCTOR Is the owner of extensive granite quarries which ho visits occasionally when the pressure of his duties in the department becomes relaxed There is nothing that Vermont produces I that hasnt some claim on the general government p gov-ernment and therefore it is important that L every man who goes to Washington to r represent her must be a protectionist The senior Senator Mr MORRILL is called the I tariffs father hen the MCKINLEY bill was pending this Senator managed to get in an amendment giving a bounty of 2 > j cents aWpound on maple sugar made in the United States There isnt o t 2 I enough of this staple in the country to sweeten n single cup of coffee all round but what there is comes mostly from tho Green Mountain state and it is a settled policy up there to compel people of other sections to pay a price and a half or two prices for everything made or put up in New England whether it be a box of codfish a spool of thread or a block of granite This msple sugar bounty was so childish and absurd a thing to put into nn net of con gross that other advocates of the bill wanted to leave it outbut DMUNDS told them in his imperious way that if they omitted maple sugar tho tariff gooso was cooked so far as his vote was involved and they let it go It was a pitiful matter yet big enough to show the measure of Now England Republican statesmanship and we doubt if Mr EDMUNDS successor will rise to any higher plane |