Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-29
FROM WASHINGTON
How the Servants of the Public
Earn Their Salaries At
the Capital.
Congress Has Not Done Much
Hard Work So Ear This
Session.

Has Not Done Bkuch
Hard Work So Ear This
Session.
South Dakota Democrats Pre-
pairing TO Visit This City
i'm March.
From Our own Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Dec. T7.-Congress is
hard at work again; that is, they
meet each Monday, Tuesday, Wedness
day and Thursday at noon and adj
journ at any time between one and
four o'clock. On Thursdays they
adjourn over sill Monday noon. A
week hence they win adjourn for the
holidays-that is, from Thursday
until Tuesday, Jan. 8. And they get
5000 a year for it, with the extras of
1925 a year for stationery and twenty
cents a mile for each mile travelled
in going to and from a session.
For the first time in five sessions,
all the South Dakotans are located on
Capitol Hill, and on adjoining blocks.
senator Pettigrew and family occupy
100 b street, N. E., as they have from
the time he became senator. Col.
Jolley is alone and in quiet quarters
across the street from him. Major
Picker and all of his family are a
block to the west ON Delaware avenue
No. 246. Senator Kyle is in 81? North
Capitol, the house he occupied during
the last session. Mrs. Kyle and the
children are expected here after the
holidays. His jolly secretary, Nc
Farland tformerlya senator from Day
county,, boards with him. Mac is a
confirmed old bachelor, but he is a
whole-souled Scotchman with a warm
grip in his fist and a good story ever
at his tongue tip. Frank IIalligan,
Senator Pettigrew's secretary, boards
at 80, B, n. Z. His wife is with him,
| believe a man named Cressey from
your state boards at this house. Col
Jolley does his own letter writing and
will sit up every night till 2 O'Clock
the next morning to answer his let
tiers rather than let one of them e
over. Major Picker has a stenogra
pher to attend to his correspondence
Not much has yet been done. TIL,
army appropriation bill passed tn
house, yet it may be the last on
; signed by the executive at this SEES
, sion. Such was the course OF tn
District of Columbia bill at the las
: session.
There are fourteen of these regula
appropriation bills, including tn
deficiency. l give them in alphabet
. ical ORDER Agricultural, army, def
: cheney, diplomatic, District of Colum
bia, Notifications, Indian, legislative
military academy, navy, pensions
a postofice, rivers and harbors, sundr
civil. Usually there is one river an,
/ harbor bill passed in a congress
' Very seldom is there one at each ses
sion. Once in long time this bill
| will fail in an entire congress. Blu
! the other thirteen bills are indisper
a sible TO the wheels of government.
E Most of the democrats are offende
: at the treatment of Speaker Girls
last Saturday at the New York tart
reform league dinner. They look a
. il as a slight put upon him by tn
4 mugwumps who cn"n"-~ the ledgu
in the ,nvpe of defeating him f
i speaker of the next congress. II
effect IS the opposite to their int
tions. He has been popular as
tn speaker with both parties; he
much more so now. The slight is
5: boomerang and puts Crisp's stock f,
j. several points.
TO MOI will there be much done. IT
three parties are intently lookii
Or westward to the states where co
tests are raging for senatorships, (
Of on those contests depends the col
pleXion Of the next senate. 1t
laughable to watch it. The repub
l. cans believe the democrats are pic
1T ting to steal some seats; the dem
10 Gratis are confident that the reput
he cans are ripe for such larceny; al
al the independents, who hold the b;
is ance of power in some of these state
70 quietly smoke their pipes and thin
y "Where are we att" The fact is tn
lie most of the chances favor the dem
a Gratis securing the senate. 1t
a. believed that in the reorganizatiC
ID which will come after the fourth
lg March, Senator Kyle will act Wi
10 the democrats and Senator Pefr
lie with the republicans. And there
n more than a possibility that the vo
H. of Aberdeen's senator will result
T. giving the senate tothe democrats.
~ Are all the democrats in your sta
N coming here in March? Judging
10 the number Of notifications sent
u for board and rooms, a quorum
10 them will witness the next preside
"a tial Inauguration. Most of the
" heard from are coming via the Bali
u more and Ohio road from Chicag
There is no extra charge on their IA
y, trains, as there is ON those of |
rival; the road is just as good; Il
ID distance is forty miles less; and u
K grandeur of its scenery is unrivall,
ID east of the Rocky Mountains.
Capt. Lucas sends word he will
n home in February to find a good pla
u to camp and to hunt UP a wealth
commissary.
~ No winter here, yet: white roses a
a blooming in capitol park, and r,
"a ones are seen in many front yard
n How we pity you who shiver, und
n fifteen degrees below zerol
W SUNSHINE.
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# nous, last years appropriations f
n printing and binding amounting