The Washington critic., 1890-01-31
CONGRESSIONAL. FuN.

MIR. Georges Tears That mia Not Flow
and Hr. Mitcheli's Grammar.
The scheme to build an addition to
the White House came up in the Senate
again Wednesday and was laid over for
the fortieth time. IL looks as though
the Harrisons would have to peg along
the best way they can, sleeping on cots
in the East Room themselves whenever
they have visitors.
Mr. George, in the Senate Wednesday,
made most affecting speech. In ref
crencc to his great political Grafton of
the day before he said that the official
reporter had misIcprcsentcd him. II
am represented in the printed RccoR," "
said he, las saying that certain circum-
stances caused Inc TO weep have
applied TO the reporter and he tells me
that he did not catch the words. ! am
not sure that Know of my own rccol-
lection the exact words / did use. but |
am sure did not use that word l
have consulted with some friends,
among them the Senator from Della.
ware (Mr. Cray, who sat very close to
me, and he informs me that the word
was paine causes me pain desire
to make that correction" Although
Mr.. George was in great pain, he did
not weep. The country will please
correct its opinion regarding the emo.
tioual affairs of Mr.. George
Mr.. Mitchell of Dakota was, we be-
lieve, schoolmaster. He spoke at
great length in the Senate yesterday on
the bill for free silver coinage, and his
erudition in the dead languages was
beautiful to behold. There Is in this
statement" said the gentlcmau--refer.
ring, of course. to the statement of
somebody else-"an objectionable sup.
pressio veri.' That means "a suppress
sion of the truth h"-but how much more
effective is the tongue defunct! Any
body could say Suppression of the
truth" but "supprcssio veri'' has all
the scholarly flavor of the prescription
of veterinary surgeon. And it was
not only in the realm of the languages
of the ancients that Mr.. Mitchell
performed most marvellous feats--he
exhibited an acquaintance with classic
literature which must have driven half
the Senators to the Congressional
Library for educational purposes. "We
must not" he said, lin discussing this
important subject deal in gcneralities
We must speak as Gradgrinds, not as
Don Quixotes. The immortal shades
of the immortal Dickens and of the
immortal Cervantcs clasped hands in
the darkness of the Capitols great
dome and smiled.
1t is pity that a man so learned in
Latin and in literature as Mr.. Mitchell
should. in a struggle with simple
English, be overthrown and dragged in
the Senate from point to point, without
reference to intervening furniture, and
left mangled and bleeding, new
warning to Ambitions dcvotees. "Sup.
pressio veri" and "Gradgrind and ID IN
Quixote" where is the glory of their
exhibition when a man ultimately in
carcerates his understanding and the
sensbilitics of his listeners in sen
tence like this? "The effect, as all
muA admit, of the demonctization of
silver so changed the existing gold
standard, heightened the yard stick.
so to speak, which as a unit
Of value had entered into all
previous and then existing contracts
and obligations, and by which they
were measured, enlarged the bushel
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