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Permits were granted by the Village Trustees to the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and the New England Telephone Company to erect poles, wires and supports in Stowe, Main, Randall and Foundry Streets, February 9, and March 2, 1901.
Thirteen applications by land owners for the admission of their several tracts to the village of Waterbury were filed for record March 3, 1902. It was voted to admit and set over to the village certain described lands of: Edward Farrar, F. W. Powers, L. F. Ricker, Moses Labell, A. P. Foster, William P. Mason, F. A. Grout, I. H. Ather, William M. Strong, J. W. Keefe, H. Dillingham, W. L. Moody, Mrs. K. A. Demmon.
Under due authority, the trustees advertised for sealed bids until May 8, 1915, at 12 m. for $38,000 of the village of Water-
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bury, Vermont, four per cent coupon or registered bonds issued to retire a previous issue of water bonds, also to retire orders paid for water system extension and permanent road and sidewalk construction, under authority of No. 281, Acts of 1908, approved December 18, 1908. This issue was taken by the Boston house of N. W. Harris & Co.
The village officers elected December 26, 1883, for the fol- lowing year were: President, Henry Janes; trustees, George W. Randall, George E. Moody, Charles C. Warren, James A. Burleigh; clerk, George C. Washburne; treasurer, James K. Fullerton; collector of taxes, Zenas Watts; auditors, George W. Morse, Luther Davis, M. O. Evans; chief engineer, William Cooley; first assistant, O. E. Scott; second assistant, Edward Farrar; fire wardens, John J. King, Edward Wells, Charles Keene, L. Morse.
The village officers for 1885 were: President J. W. Moody; trustees, J. A. Burleigh, L. P. Morse; clerk, George C. Wash- burne; treasurer, N. Moody; collector, Zenas Watts; auditors, George W. Morse, G. E. Moody, C. F. Clough; chief engineer, William Conley; first assistant, Edward Farrar; second assis- tant, J. J. King; wardens, J. E. Sheple, T. B. Crossett, Charles Keene, S. H. Stowell. C. F. Clough was elected president in place of J. W. Moody who asked to be excused from service. Nathaniel Moody resigned as treasurer and J. E. Sheple was appointed by the trustees in his place.
The village officers for 1886 were: President, George W. Randall; trustees, C. F. Clough, A. J. Brown; clerk, George C. Washburne; treasurer, James E. Sheple; auditors, G. E. Moody, M. O. Evans, George W. Kennedy; chief engineer, G. E. Moody; first assistant, Joseph Somerville; second assis- tant, Edward Farrar; wardens, G. E. Moody, E. Towne, George C. Demmon, Charles Keene.
For the year 1887 the village officers were: President, C. F. Clough; trustees, M. O. Evans, Curtis N. Arms; clerk, George C. Washburne; treasurer, J. E. Sheple; collector, S. H. Stowell; auditors, G. E. Moody, J. A. Burleigh, C. D. Robinson; chief engineer, G. E. Moody; assistants, C. D. Robinson, Edward
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Farrar; wardens, E. Farrar, John Carroll, Charles Keene, G. C. Demmon.
For the year 1888 the village officers were: President, C. N. Arms; trustees, J. A. Burleigh, George W. Atkins, C. E. Wy- man; collector, W. B. Clark; auditors, G. E. Moody, L. H. Haines, H. Hazeltine; chief engineer, M. O. Evans; assistants, C. D. Robinson, Edward Farrar; wardens, Edward Farrar, John Carroll, Charles Keene, G. C. Demmon; clerk, G. C. Washburne.
For the year 1889 the village officers were: President, C. F. Clough; clerk, G. C. Washburne; trustees, James A. Burleigh, J. E. Sheple; treasurer, C. E. Wyman; collector, W. B. Clark; auditors, J. W. Moody, H. Hazeltine, C. N. Arms; chief engi- neer, M. O. Evans; assistants, C. D. Robinson, Ed. Farrar; wardens, Ed. Farrar, Charles Keene, Charles H. Lease, G. C. Demmon.
For 1890 the village officers were: President, Frank H. Atherton; trustees, George W. Atkins, John C. Griggs, C. E. Wyman; treasurer, George C. Washburne; clerk, W. B. Clark; collector, C. N. Arms; auditors, J. W. Moody, C. F. Clough; chief engineer, C. D. Robinson; assistants, Edward Farrar, William Deal; wardens, Edward Farrar, Charles Keene, C. H. Lease, G. C. Demmon.
For 1891 the village officers were: President, Frank H. Atherton; trustees, George W. Atkins, J. C. Griggs; clerk, George W. Morse; treasurer, C. E. Wyman; collector, H. Sheple; auditors, C. N. Arms, J. W. Moody, C. F. Clough; chief engineer, C. D. Robinson; assistants, William Deal, E. H. Farrar; wardens, Charles Lease, J. H Carroll, E. H. Farrar, G. C. Demmon.
For 1892 the village officers were: President, William Cooley; trustees, John J. King, George H. Dale; clerk, George W. Morse; treasurer, C. E. Wyman; collector, H. S. Sheple; auditors, G. E. Moody, George W. Randall, C. F. Clough; wardens, Edward Farrar, George C. Demmon, William Deal, M. O. Evans. Vacancies occurring in the offices of president and treasurer, at an election held at a special village meeting
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January 22, 1892, the vacancies were filled by electing G. E. Moody, president, and George W. Morse, treasurer.
The village officers for 1893 were: President, George H. Dale; trustees, John C. Griggs, Doctor D. D. Grout; clerk, George W. Morse; treasurer, same; collector, H. S. Sheple; auditors, C. F. Clough, G. E. Moody, M. O. Evans; chief engineer, Edward Farrar; assistants, Erwin Cooley, L. H. Atherton; wardens, C. D. Robinson, C. S. Wrisley, J. C. Griggs, H. E. Boyce.
The village officers for 1894 were: President, C. D. Rob- inson; trustees, J. W. Moody, William Cooley; clerk and treasurer, George W. Morse; collector, H. S. Sheple; auditors, C. F. Clough, J. A. Burleigh, G. E. Moody; chief engineer, Edward Farrar; assistants, Erwin Cooley, L. H. Atherton; wardens, J. H. Carroll, Edward Farrar, Charles Bailey, James Green.
For 1895 the village officers were: President, George W. Randall; trustees, O. E. Scott, G. E. Moody; clerk, J. J. Colby ; treasurer, H. S. Sheple; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, J. S. Batchelder, Henry James, L. H. Atherton; chief engineer, Edward Farrar; assistants, Erwin Cooley, L. H. Atherton; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, Edward Farrar, J. C. Griggs, G. W. Randall.
For 1896 the village officers were: President, C. F. Clough; trustees, H. D. Brown, John Deal; clerk, J. J. Colby; treasurer, George W. Morse; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, H. James, L. H. Haines, Charles Keene; chief engineer, Edward Farrar; assistants, Erwin Cooley, L. H. Atherton; wardens, Seth Jones, G. E. Moody, Joseph Hutchinson, James Somerville.
For 1897 the village officers were: President, J. A. Bur- leigh; trustees, H. D. Brown, Edward Farrar; clerk, J. J. Colby; treasurer, J. W. Moody; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, G. E. Moody, G. W. Randall, W. V. Bryan; chief engineer, Edward Farrar; assistants, L. H. Atherton, Erwin Cooley; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, James Somerville, · Charles Keene, Will Seabury.
For 1898 the village officers were: President, James A. Burleigh; trustees, H. D. Brown, Edward Farrar; clerk, J. J.
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Colby; treasurer, J. C. Farrar; auditors, G. E. Moody, M. O. Evans, S. W. Jones; chief engineer, Edw. Farrar; assistants, Erwin Cooley, James A. Hattie; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, S. W. Jones, P. G. Wright, W. H. Seabury; water commissioner, for three years, James A. Burleigh.
For 1899 the village officers were: President, G. E. Moody; trustees, G. B. Evans, T. O'Neil; clerk, J. J. Colby; treasurer, J. C. Farrar; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, S. W. Jones, W. V. Bryan, C. M. Griffith; chief engineer, W. H. Carroll; assistants, John Deal, James Hattie; wardens, S. W. Jones, Charles Keene, P. G. Wright, Joseph Hutchinson; water commissioner, for three years, G. E. Moody.
For 1900 the village officers were: President, G. E. Moody; trustees, W. J. Boyce, O. L. Ayres; treasurer, J. C. Farrar; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, George W. Morse, George H. Dale, George W. Randall; chief engineer, W. H. Carroll; assistants, Erwin Cooley, John Deal; wardens, Olin King, S. W. Jones, P. G. Wright, Joseph Hutchinson.
For 1901 the village officers were: President, W. J. Boyce; trustees, Erwin Cooley, John Deal; clerk, J. K. Fullerton; treasurer, George H. Dale; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, G. E. Moody, George W. Morse, W. V. Bryan; chief engineer, W. H. Carroll; assistants, Olin King, Grant O. Russell; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, S. W. Jones, J. F. Somerville, Heman Morse; water commissioner, for three years, H. D. Brown.
For 1902 the village officers were: President Charles B. Clark; trustees, T. B. Crossett, John Deal; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, G. H. Dale; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, G. E. Moody, George W. Morse, George W. Ran- dall; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, C. R. Lyman, S. L. Barber; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, S. W. Jones, H. L. Morse, W. H. Seabury; water commissioner, for three years, G. E. Moody.
For 1903 the village officers were: President, Charles B. Clark; trustees, W. B. Clark, W. E. Thompson; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, G. H. Dale; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, George W. Randall, C. D. Griffith, George W. Morse; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, Grant O. Russell,
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Frank Towne; wardens, S. W. Jones, Joseph Hutchinson, Frank Towne, Frank Williams; water commissioner, for three years, Edward Farrar.
For 1904 the village officers were: President, Edward Farrar; trustees, G. E. Moody, M. E. Davis; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, G. H. Dale; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, C. D. Griffith, J. S. Batchelder, G. H. Dale; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, S. W. Guptil, Grant O. Rus- sell; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, James F. Somerville, O. L. Ayers, Frank Williams; water commissioner, H. D. Brown.
For 1905 the village officers were: President, George W. Morse; trustees, Charles Keene, O. L. Ayres; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, George H. Dale; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, C. D. Griffith, James K. Fullerton, F. L. Knight; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, Frank Towne, J. F. Somerville; wardens, Joseph Hutchinson, O. L. Ayres, F. E. Williams, Fred Towne.
For 1906 the village officers were: President, George W. Morse; trustees, L. J. Roberts, O. L. Ayers; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, G. H. Dale; collector, C. C. Graves; auditors, F. L. Knight, H. D. Brown, C. H. Haines; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, Frank E. Towne, Erwin Cooley; wardens, C. I. Hatch, Joseph Hutchinson, O. L. Ayers, J. F. Somerville; water commissioner, for three years, D. W. Cooley.
For 1907 the village officers were: President, C. C. Graves; trustees, O. L. Ayers, W. H. Berdan; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, G. H. Dale; collector, G. S. Blaisdell; auditors, C. H. Haines, H. D. Brown, F. L. Knight; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, Frank E. Towne, F. C. Evans; wardens, C. H. Haines, H. D. Blakely, C. F. Bailey, E. E. Campbell; water commissioner, for three years, H. D. Brown.
For 1908 the village officers were: President, C. C. Graves; trustees, O. L. Ayers, W. H. Berdan; clerk, James K. Fullerton; collector, G. S. Blaisdell; auditors, H. D. Brown, L. C. Moody, F. L. Knight; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, A. E. Edwards, Guy Scott; wardens, F. E. Williams, Arthur John-
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son, J. A. Foster, H. L. Morse; water commissioner, for three years, Charles Keene; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn.
For 1909 the village officers were: President, Harry C. Whitehill; trustees, E. E. Campbell, F. C. Luce; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn; collector, W. J. O'Neill; auditors, F. L. Knight, L. C. Moody, C. C. Graves; chief engineer, Frank E. Towne; assistants, B. A. Lavelle, Horace J. Tatro; wardens, Henry Carpenter, W. J. Redmond, B. F. Atherton, Frank Williams; water commissioner, for three years, W. H. Berdan.
For 1910 the village officers were: President, Harry C. Whitehill; trustees, E. E. Campbell, F. C. Luce; clerk, James K. Fullerton; collector, W. J. O'Neill; auditors, F. L. Knight, G. H. Dale, W. B. Clark; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, Guy C. Scott, W. N. Gilbert; wardens, Olin King, Guy C. Scott, W. N. Gilbert, S. W. Guptil; water commissioner, for three years, G. E. Moody; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn.
For 1911 the village officers were: President, E. E. Campbell; trustees, A. J. Kelley, F. W. Powers; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn; collector, W. J. O'Neill; auditors, G. H. Dale, F. L. Knight, M. H. Moody; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, Guy C. Scott, W. N. Gilbert; water commissioner, for three years, Morris Daley; wardens, Olin King, Guy C. Scott, W. N. Gilbert, S. W. Guptil.
For 1912 the village officers were: President, F. C. Luce; trustees, D. T. Harvey, F. C. Lamb; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn; collector, W. J. O'Neill; auditors, E. E. Campbell, G. H. Dale, F. L. Knight; chief engineer, Patrick Grace; assistants, Guy C. Scott, W. N. Gilbert; water commissioners, O. L. Ayers, for two years, W. H. Berdan, for three years.
For 1913 the village officers were: President, F. C. Luce; trustees, D. T. Harvey, F. C. Lamb; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn; collector, G. S. Blaisdell; auditors, G. H. Dale, F. L. Knight, E. E. Campbell; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, James Dickie, W. F. Gilbert; wardens, W. F. Gilbert, Guy C. Scott, Olin King, James Dickie; water commissioner, for three years, G. E. Moody.
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For 1914 the village officers were: President, V. L. Per -. kins; trustees, C. D. Swasey, J. A. Foster; clerk, James K. Fullerton; collector, G. S. Blaisdell; auditors, M. L. Thibault, Earl Boyce, C. C. Graves; chief engineer, Olin King; assist- ants, Guy Scott, W. F. Gilbert; wardens, Frank Williams, Olin King, Guy C. Scott, W. N. Gilbert; water commissioner, for three years, O. L. Ayers.
For 1915 the village officers were: President, C. D. Swasey; trustees, Jesse A. Foster, F. W. Powers; clerk, James K. Fullerton; treasurer, E. E. Joslyn; collector, G. S. Blaisdell; auditors, C. C. Graves, G. H. Dale, E. E. Campbell; chief engineer, Olin King; assistants, W. N. Gilbert, Dan Guyette; water commissioner, for three years, W. H. Berdan.
The quarter century of 1875-1900 marked the country's great electrical development and commercial and industrial application of electricity to the needs of the times. The first telephone in Waterbury was installed by Colonel Andrew C. Brown, late of Montpelier, in the residence and tannery of C. C. Warren. About 1882 a toll line was built from Mont- pelier to Waterbury and a telephone was installed in the store of M. O. Evans. In 1884 a small exchange was established in this store and all lines were then connected with the exchange.
William Paul Dillingham was born in Waterbury, December 12, 1843, son of Paul and Julia (Carpenter) Dillingham. Be- sides the public schools, he attended Newbury Seminary and Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire. He holds the degree of LL. D., both from Norwich University and Middlebury College, and that of A. M. from the Univer- sity of Vermont. He was a law student in the office of his brother-in-law, Honorable Matthew H. Carpenter of Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, and afterwards in the office of his father in Waterbury. He married Miss Mary Ellen Shipman of Lisbon, New Hampshire. One son, Paul Shipman is now a resident of Montpelier, except during the summer months when he, with his family, occupies the Dillingham home on Blush Hill.
William Paul Dillingham was admitted to the Vermont bar 12
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in 1867, and maintained an office at Waterbury until 1890. He was for many years in partnership with his father, and after the latter's retirement he practiced his profession in an in- dividual capacity. In 1890 at the close of his term as Gover- nor of Vermont he formed a partnership with the Honorable Hiram A. Huse of Montpelier under the firm name of Dilling- ham & Huse, which was afterwards enlarged by the admission of Honorable Fred A. Howland, which partnership continued until the death of Mr. Huse in 1902. Since that time Mr. Dillingham's activities have been connected with public life. He was state's attorney of Washington County in 1872-1876; secretary of civil and military affairs, 1874- 1876; town representative from Waterbury in 1876, 1884 and 1885; state senator in 1878 and 1880; state tax commis- sioner in 1882-1888; Governor of Vermont, 1888-1890. He was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Honorable Justin S. Morrill, October 18, 1900, and has been reëlected by the Legislature since-to succeed himself in 1902 and 1908, and again by the people November 3, 1914.
Mr. Dillingham's career as a public speaker was determined largely by his election to the office of state's attorney. It had been his intention as a lawyer to devote himself to office prac- tice and to leave advocacy to other members of his firm. Like many another lawyer, he discovered that his constant court work as state's attorney developed an unsuspected taste for advocacy, giving him an impulse along the lines of forensic work. One of the important prosecutions of his term was that of a gang of Barre Bank burglars, resulting in the trial, conviction and sentence to Windsor of the leader of the gang, after many obstructive and dilatory legal moves in New York City involving a series of hearings on habeas corpus writs sued out for the purpose of resisting the respondent's extradi- tion into Vermont. These obstructive tactics in New York were eloquent of the difficulties entrenched crime could place in the way of due administration of justice in those days of pull and public graft.
In his first message Governor William P. Dillingham dealt
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with the usual overcrowded condition of the State Reform School and also that of the Vermont Asylum at Brattleboro. Indeed, the ratio of increase of those demanding admission had grown so great as to call for immediate relief. The Governor advocated "the erection of a state asylum at some convenient point capable of accommodating a part or all of the insane poor and such private patients as may be desired, and upon a plan which will permit of additions or extensions as the needs of the state may require." The prohibitory liquor law had proven so far ineffective, by reason of lax enforcement, that its operation had become farcical in many respects. The Governor asked pertinently in his message whether the time had not come when a sentence of imprison- ment should follow the first conviction under the law and when a provision of that character would do more to stop sales than any other measure yet proposed.
In his valedictory message to the General Assembly at the October session of 1890, Governor Dillingham dealt with such subjects as the education of deaf and dumb, blind and feeble- minded children, the agricultural college fund, the work of the- commissioner of agricultural and manufacturing interests, the chancering of bonds (a practice under which systematic: abuses had grown up in the treatment of bond forfeitures in liquor law violations), the Nuisance Act, education and Swedish colonization.
The remarkably interesting experiment had been inaugu- rated of inducing the best class of Swedish immigrants to come to Vermont and settle on what were then known as unoccupied or abandoned farms. There had been a steady depreciation for many years in farm values. Vermont in common with other Eastern states had suffered from a steady exodus of young men who were attracted away, either by the lure of commercial or industrial pursuits in manufacturing centers or large cities or the call of a semi-adventurous and wholly speculative career in the West. Many back or hill- farms were either unoccupied or indifferently cultivated, though the lands were of good quality and not worn out. Emulating the example of their neighbors, the American-born
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sons of foreign parents, who had settled in groups here and there in the back towns, also began to look farther afield than Vermont. It finally came to the pass where some systematic scheme of repopulating the sparsely settled farm communities should be put into immediate operation. A number of Swedes were induced by the State to settle in the vicinity of Wilming- ton, Weston and Peru. These were of the thrifty well-to-do class, having sufficient means to make advance payments on their farms. The Governor recommended a patient, careful and candid study of the problem presented by the commis- sioner of whether the experiment so auspiciously begun should be further carried out by state aid. A measure for this purpose appropriating a sum of money was deferred action until the closing hours of the session, when it was defeated.
It was in May, 1889, the occasion of the celebration of the centennial of Washington's inaugural in New York, that the magnificent parade of State and Federal troops was held. The National Guard of Vermont, with Governor Dillingham riding a spirited mare, led the column of Vermonters. The Kentucky troops followed Vermont's in the order of disposi- tion, with Governor Simon Buckner riding ahead. Upon breaking ranks, the old Confederate chieftain looked the Vermonters over admiringly and expressed to Governor Dill- ingham a naive curiosity as to how the Green Mountain lads came by their great stature and inquired if it were not due to drinking lime water!
Since Senator Dillingham became a senator of the United States, he has served for a long time as chairman of the Com- mittee on Immigration, the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the Committee on the University of the United States, and as a member of the important committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Appropriations, District of Columbia, and Territories. His long service both as chair- man and member of the Committee on Immigration has given him an exceptional knowledge of the problems connected with foreign immigration so that when in 1907 Congress au- thorized an exhaustive examination of the whole question he was made chairman of the commission, which consisted of
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three senators. three representatives, and three gentlemen selected from civil life. This investigation covered a period of three years, and embraced every phase of the subject. It necessitated travel throughout a large portion of Europe and a special trip to the Hawaiian Islands, where the labor problems are important. The printed reports of the commission are contained in forty-two volumes. His speeches upon this question delivered in the Senate from time to time are too numerous to be mentioned and too comprehensive for analy- sis in this place, but they, in connection with addresses which he has delivered in some of the larger cities of the United States, have done much to educate the public mind and to shape its opinion upon this question. In fact, Senator Dilling- ham has an international reputation for his knowledge of immigration questions, and his reports and speeches are widely quoted as authentic.
As a member of the Committee on Territories, Senator Dillingham was a member of the sub-committee which inves- tigated the conditions in the territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, and he took active part in the debates upon the question of their admission to the Union. He strongly urged the admission of Oklahoma, but recommended delay in respect to the other two.
As chairman of a sub-committee of the Committee on Ter- ritories he visited Alaska, extending his journey the whole length of the Ukon river, 2,300 miles, at the mouth of which the committee was met by a revenue cutter and a visit was made to Nome, the Pribilof Islands, the home of the fur seal herds, to the Aleutian Islands, and to all of the Pacific ports of Alaska. The committee were for over six weeks beyond the reach of communications; their report, drafted by Senator Dillingham, so completely covered all legislative action that it was accepted as the basis of Alaskan legislation for many years. As a result of their investigation of the fur seal herds upon the Pribilof Islands, and of their recommendations to Congress and to the Department of State, a treaty between the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, has been entered into for the protection and preservation of the fur seals in
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Behring Sea, and legislation has been adopted to carry the same into operation.
The limits of this sketch render it impossible, even if ad- visable to refer in detail to the service of Senator Dillingham in the Senate. It is sufficient to say that as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia he has had an active part in shaping all the legislation both for the Government of the District and for that remarkable development of Washing- ton along all lines which are fast making it one of the most beautiful capital cities of the world. In his service as a mem- ber of the Committee on the Judiciary, he has had to deal with questions both intricate and important, and, as a mem- ber of the Committee on Appropriations, with problems which readily suggest themselves to every intelligent reader.
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