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From our regular Core, punlcnlt
WN,mSgroN, March II, 1919.
- Washington is lu,l now experiencing the
hun that prcccdc, the political tempest which
e. win ragc next week. Many members anu
senators, who have remained in tins clty since
the adjournment, went home yesterday to spend
n few DAYS in their districts, before the 18th OF
March calls them Ia OjIiot IL ID """ con-
cedcd that the democrats will be- able to con
troll the organization Of the iGth congress All
their sick are convalo sccnt aud they VIII nave
a small majority withoutcouningi those whose
election is IN dispute 1t is impossible to pre-
dict with any certainty who will be speaker or
who Will he the successful candidates for the
Iminor Offices For these the candidates are
legion and each train brings fresh and hungry
additions 10 the clamorous crowd. Many OF
them will be compelled to borrow money toI
take their precious bodies and disappointed
hopes back to that retirement in which they
can do their party and country least harm.
There are very few members or senator's in,
town, and the canvass for the offices goes for
ward rather slowly Randall's chances, how
ever, are undoubtedly far ahead, notwithstand-
ing the dcfcctions HIS advantage is very
great as he has possession which is as good
as nine points. 1t gives him u certain pres
tgc which his opponents cannot break. There
is not much OF fight over the Offices Of the
house Mr.. Caldwell, of Alabama, is looming
up very prominently for clerk of the house.
Should Blackburn be elected speaker, of courscI
in no event could Mr.. Adams who Is also from
Kentucky, be retained as clerk. The scramble
for the senate Offices is beyond anything ever
known before 1t would be useless to mention
names in connection with the senate offices, as
! it is impossible to give any intelligent judg-
ment. The result will depend largely on bar
gains and trades.
MI Randall has been ont of town tor two orr
| three days but will return to-day and establish
his HEADQUARTERS mt the National Hotel. Mr..
| Black burn will establish himself at Wizards,
where so many political battles have been lost
and won 1t is said that great many demo
Gratis who are out with Randall nave formed
about Blackburn, but that they will Cvcntu-
crat. Mr. Mcmahon, from Ohio will proba-
bly, be able torally the opposition betterthan any
other man. Mr.. Blackburns friends are, how
ever, very confident and even eXutant. One
of them has expressed the opinion that Kan
dali would get no votes from Indiana and Hi
noS, but one vote from Ohio, only one from
Virginia, and but two from Georgia, while
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas
are nearly solid against HIM on account OF his
opposition to the levee bill.
As to the programme Of congress after its or
ganzation, but little can be outlined now. III
is the opinion Of one Of the best informed
democratic senators that the house after or
ganzng will appoint no committees save that
on appropriations, and that no new legislation
will bc proposed He thinks that the appro
priaton bills will be reported in their present
shape, that is in the shape that the 45th con
gress left them on adjournment.
From a recent appropriation of quarter or
a million of dollars for National Museum, ltI
appears that at least one more grand publicI
edifce is to be built in Washington before the
National Capital is moved west. As now pro
poscd, the museum will be situated on thcI
southeast corner of the Smithsonian grounds,
and to be three hundred feet long by three hun
bred feet wide covering an area OF two and
onc-quartcr acres The style followed is the
Romancsdue to make 1t harmonic rs much
AS possible with the Smithsonian. The struc
ture is to be built of plate iron and glass, and
being only one story high, will resemble great
" the buildings at the Centennial. II Is TOT
contain four halls of 81 by 50 feet, four halls
$50 by 80 feet. four halls G5 by % feet and oneI
hall 65 by Is feet From the centre OF thei
building rises the dome, 96 feet high. Ninety
thousand square feet of floor space are TO be III
up bv 12,600 square feet Of glass, being bet
ter rht than was afforded at the Vienna and
Paris cXpositions There is to SIc pavilion
at each corner of the building, the side walls
OF which will be 81 feet high. while the walls
of the building proper are % feet high. Inc
fiat roofs are to be covered with metal, instead
of wooden shea,hing, laid upon porous terra
Gotta, or its equivalent in fire proof quality.
The sleeper roofs are to be slated upon iron
rafters, plastcrcd on the inside. 1t is intended
| to expcnd on the building the whole OF the APP
praion and its completion will make beau
l,iful addition to the architectural structures of
this city |. a. .
| Many persons say 81 haven't got the Consunp-
| ton" when asked To cure their Cough with Shi-
Iloh's Consumption Cure. Do they not know that
Coughs lead to Consumption and remedy that
viii rrrr Consumption will certainly and surely