Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-09
(From our regular correspondent }
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, May 4.

WARRINGTON May f.
There seems to be great deal of useless
mystery in reference to the date of th,
assembling of the Forty-Fiflh Congress II
extra session. The mystery, it is said
will be cleared by the presidents procla
nation, TO be issued to-day; bnt it is gen
orally understood that it will be on thu
9th of June, which is certainly bette
day than the 18th, since it will give more
time for organization and work before tho
suluy dog days.
1t will be remembered that Blue Jeans
Williams, the present governor of Indiana
when he was II member of Congress, he
roically threw threw himself into the
breach and staunched the Niagara of lem
onade that was draining the country of its
substance, throueh the kissing hot gullet.
of Congressman. Our Legislators were in
the habit of quafing great draughts of this
liquid, so grateful 10 the heated viscera
after nocturnal saturnalia. But when
Blue Jeans came to Congress, he "shut
down on it," Why should this "greatest
republic" 1.-THE envy of surrounding
tribes" etc, 90 into the lemonade bust
nessP 1t is opposed to all maxims of pc.
litical economy for nation to enter into
competition with the mass of its subjects
old ncgresses, for example, who sell lem
onade on the street corners from wooden
buckets, ice cold, only five cents glass.
l hope you will not think that your cor
respondent is surreptitiously advertising
lemonade, much less ridculing the econ
omy of the governor of Indiana. There
are two men from that state, no longer in
national politics, who deserve each II
monument from the national government,
but hrad-slone with the truth inscribed
will suffice A lfe-like statue Of one OF
them would be no better than an aesthetic
scare-crow; while us to the other, al
though of heroic head and figure, the ex-
pense of monument would be opposed
to the theme and labor of his life-a re-
duction of the public burdens. The re-
mark that Judge Holman of Indiana saved
the people sum of money equal to his
weight in gold, is short of the truth. |
shall not forget what heard from prom
inent republican member when he babe the
great political economist goodbye, at the
close of the Forty-Fourth Congress.
Judge" said he, II have been very
angry with you when you opposed us,
but look upon your departure from pub
lie life as u public calamity" But, to
return to the subject
Blue Jeans stopped the leak in govern
ment lemonade. There was no more rea-
son why the government should supply its
legislators with lemonade than that it
should supply the babies of said legislators
with condensed milk, which would be
practically impracticable. Now, when n
member Of Congress has been drinking
too much fiery stuff, the fountains of lem
onade being dried up, he will be compelled
to 60 to soda fountain or pump for his
antidote; and this brings me to the begin
ning-the propriety of IN early extra ses-
sion, with an adjournment if possible be-
fore the heat Of summer makes it neccssa-
ry for Senators to wear anything so un-
senatorial us linen busters and palm-leaf
fans. Apropos of the weather, spring
has come on schedule time by the alma
nae, but there is nothing in this raw, chill
ly atmosphere to suggest her genial pres
ence. Still, we know by the house clean
ing, by the moving of furniture, by the
pretty irl in the Treasury Department
having laid off her fur-trimmed cloak, and
by the milk and butter, which taste of gar
lie, that spring is here. Spring, radiant
and roseale! | had intended to write a
neat tidy apostrophe to spring, merito-
rious subject that is too much neglected,
but find myself at The bottom of the page,
and will mercy suggest that it being II
broad and original field, some writer will
yet make a reputation by devoting himself
to the unhackneyed theme. C.