St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-20
Leeeh Lake Indians Without
Railroad Tickets and
Food.
Cranks at the Capital The
Man Who Wants More
Pension.
Special 10 the Globe.

square hole. and is simply bowling for
a teacher OF elOcution. The men in
congress who know how TO use their
voices as voices were intended TO be
used can be counted on the fingers of
one hand; and who they are prudence
forbids me 10 say-lest. being weak after
the manner of the flesh. they be seized
with conceit, which is a great enemy 10
public veal, Our national capitol wasn't
built with regard 10 acoustics. For that
matter, have yet 10 find out what it
was built with regard to. 1t turns /
lis back on the city, il is lnconyen- |
lent, aud that it Is very beautiful to |
look at from the outside seems To be |
wholly an accident. The houses OF con- |
gresS are simply dry goods boxes, and |
if man wants TO be- heard above the |
din of the gallery visitors and the con |
veTsatlOn OF his fellow men on the |
lobby sofas, he has to shout, or thinks |
lie has 10. Most Of lhe time he simply |
bellows in a way that would strain the !
throat of a trombone. Few are the leg !
islators who can speak quarter OF All |
hour without getting hOarse, and break |
ing into mTth-prOyoklug SqueakS Mr.. |
Holman. OF Indiana, whose articulation |
is seriously interfered with by notice |
able dental deficiencies, saves wear and !
tear of his throat by talking through his |
nose; but the men about him hold their
Threats like iron, talk as loud as their
lungs will admit, and then wonder that
they are h0arse, and that their voices,
even with the aid IT eQPious dUughtS
of water every five minutes. dwindle
into husky whispers and sehOoiboy
pipes that nobody but the official re-
pOrters can hear.
Nobody wants TO Hear.
I1earP Why. nobody but those same
reporters preteHdS 10 hear what's going
on. A man will make an eloquent
spread-eagle speech, and then be IN the
lobby swapping snake stories while
somebody Is replying 10 him. He knows
that he can read it all up in the Con
gressiOnal Record before II Is time TO
talk again. and as for courtesy, there's
no such thing except little tOrmality
Ia the senate. Congressman sit on
desks, loll in their chars, lean on each
other quite like lot OF ill-eOnditiOned
schoOlboYS; and yesterday one interest
ed man sat himself down on the floor OF
the aisle and took his knees in his
hands TO listen to Mr.. Holman's char
acterlstic plea for economy. 1t Is really
so unusual for a man to listen to any
thing he's not supporting that the inter
est and unde Waiting attention Senator |
Palmer has given Senator Chandler on |
the popular election question is posi-
lively a subject for comment
Sans Tickets and Food.
The most discouraged, downcast and
totally detected group OF the week here
was made up of five Indians from the
Leech. Lake reservation. They have
been in Washington 4 fortnight, and
each one, including the interpreter, is
more stupid than the next one. They
cane without the knowledge or consent
of the agent, and they came expecting |
that every cent the government owes
them would be instantly paid into their |
empty pockets. The voice OF the siren
that led them hitler, however, faded |
into silence. The efIeteness of Wash |
ington civilization began to Cypress |
them, and the laws delay and the dim |
Consciousness OF failure to weigh upon /
their souls. They rOamed up aud down /
Pennsylvania avenue with their green
blankets and pigeOn-tOed gait, but by /
and-by they yearned for home. Nobody !
had authority to send them back 20
Minnesota, but finally the Indian COM
missioner procured them railroad tick
cts. The depth of their misery was
sounded then, for poor LO had not cent |
to buy HIM food, and, not being camel, |
he was not prepared TO make Il |
three days trip without a meal or |
two. He might have done 1t, bnt he /
didn't want 10, and five OF him be- |
sought Senator Davis for help. OF |
course, somebody ultimately bought /
those innocent red men provisions, but /
for while they were as blue as red men
possibly can be.
Cranlks at the Capital.
The cranks of the country grayitate
toward Washington by some mysterious
sociological law Washington woods
are full of them. The White house IS
their rallying ground. Queens OF Eng
land, inspired prophets, women win
absurd claims and men with griey-
anceS would make the Presidents
life excellent training for perditIon, but
that there's somebody else 10 bear the
brunt of their visits. Capt. Dun5moTe
is head usher Of the executive mansion.
On HIM deyOlYes the duty Of seeing that
nobody depriYes the president Of his
life. and from long experience lie has
become most expert in the management
Of cranks. Up AT the capitol there's
crank they call the Anarchist"
because he wears a red ribbon
on his hat, crimson Shirt
He fought and bed for his country
thirty years ago, and has been after il
pension ever since. For some time he
was an inmate of the soldiers home.
and every day. for six long years he
was ut the pension Office waiting pa
tiently TOR a pension. He has one now
OF $50 month. bat the thing he lives
for is TO nave that $50 increased TO 81.
He says, truthfully enough, that man
Oughtn't to be expected to live with no
one to love, no one to make home pleas
ant for him. no one to call his own, and
so be wants the government TO Increase
his pension TO $72 month so that he
can marry. 1t is hard that two loving
hearts should be kept apart BY mig
gardiy haggling over a few paltry dol
lars, but the government doesn't seem
to take that view of it.
In the Streets Center.
Washington people have very odd
fashion Of walking in the streets. Of
course, you can cross the b1sleSt thor
oughfare in town just whenever and
wherever you please, but even when
you're used to that it seems bit strange
TO see people walking briskly along in
the very middle of the asphalt roadway.
1t is limited darkly that in the dusk and
night the OYerhanging trees screen
Lurking bandits in dark doors and alley
ways, ana that for safety after nightfall
one must take TO the street. That
would explain it, were it purely noe
turnal custom, but il isn't. It's simply
a habit without any reasonable origin.
Allen Is Serious.
Congressman Allen - Private John
Allen, of Mississippi-is noted far and
wide for his jokes and (stOries. His
bearded face and invariably tousled
hair give him an expression of whim-
steal discomfort which adds materially
TO the fun of his stories. But of late,
since flood and famine have wrought
such havoc ameng his people, Mr. Allen
h. g.. 1