McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c., Jan. II. 's5.


Monument which is soon to precede the
Inauguration ceremonies, promises to be
rather tame affair at best. Mr.. Win
throp's grafton has been prepared some
time but the orator will hardly be aLle
to deliver it in person, while the propo-
sition that Mr.. Winthrops son should
read it is far from being satisfactory
When the corner stone of the Bunker
Hill Monument was laid on the 18th of
June, 1925, Daniel Webster was the ora
tor, and his magnificent address on that
occasion was inspired not only by the
presence of Lafayette but by hundreds
of the old veterans of the Revolution
themselves who occupied seats directly
in front of the orator. On the 18th of
June, just eighteen years afterward, the
capstOne Of the monument was lifted to
its place, and Mr.. Webster again deliv-
cred the grafton, this time with Presi-
dent Tyler and his Cabinet among his
auditors, and still hundreds of the Revo-
lutionary fathers with open mouths and
hands to their ears, drinking in the sub
lime eloquence of the country's greatest
! orator. TWAS this occasion that brought
forth the familiar quotation "VeDer-
able men You have come down to us
from a former generation, &C., which
was not in Dir. Websters prepared
speech at all, but was suddenly inspired
by the surroundings and circumstances
of the occasion. The writer of this,
though meie BOY, was present on that
occasion and can never forget the scene
presented when these rough old patri-
archs wept like children at the thrilling
words of the great orator.
The folly of both houses originating
bills upon the same subject is to be some
what sadly demonstrated in the prospec-
tive defeat of both the Cullom bill in the
Senate and the Reagan bill in the House
which provide for the regulation of in
ter-State commerce. The Cullom bill
will pass the Senate tomorrow, and the
Reagan bill will pass the House some
day this week There is not much sim
ilarity in the provisions of the two bills,
so that it is not more than likely that
the Senate will pay the least attention
to the Reagan measure, than it is prob
able that the House will take notice of
the Cullom production. The upshnt of
the business will be that neither. bill,will
be reached, and the railroads as usual
will come out first best.
So far as the House could accomplish
it, there is to be Department. Of Agri-
culture and Cabinet minister 20 look
after the beans and potatoes of the coun-
try. Is it possible that Congress sup
poses that any Cabinet minister is going
to make IA specially of advancing the ag-
ricultural over any other of the many in
terests of this prodigious country? And
if such Cabinet minister were disposed
to make speciality of playing into the
hands of grangers as the high muck-a-
muck of oficialism, how long will it be
before the iron interests of Pennsylva-
MIA, the Goldfish interests of Massachu-
sets, the wooden-nutmeg and brass
clock interests of Connecticut, and the
Saddle Rock oyster interest of Virginia
and Maryland, will be no wing for places
in the Cabinet?
The resident population of Washing
ton have taken it upon themselves to in
augurate Mr.. Cleveland in style entire
ly becoming to the kind Of a President
who gets chance to be inaugurated but
once in Il quarter of a century. There
is to be more of a military display per-
haps thar COMFORTS with the Republican
simplicity that We boast of, but what
kind of a demonstration would we have
without the blaze Of buttons and the
blare of trumpets #? The ground floor
apart for SIR. Clevela Is ball, and the
elegance of the raiment to be worn on
that occasion | shall describe to you as
infinitely as [ SHALL possibly dare to.
Dow PEDRO.