Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-14
FROM THE CAPITAL
The Ofice.seeking Horde Got
ing Desperate..-A Mob
In Q Mansion.


ing Desperate..-A Mob
In Q Mansion.
Tho Roach Investigation Likely
to Be Dropped...An Extra
Session Assured.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Several
years ago in the days Of my kidship 1
heard couplet which made me
think it would be a splendid thing to
he president. 1t ran thus:
II we're president Of these United states,
I'd slide upon the cellar doors and swing
upon the gates.
For soto slide and swing was the
goal OF my kidly aspirations. But
I've changed my ideas on this being
president. Mr.. Cleveland's visitors
have become so voracious that they
act more like bristled carnivorous ami
mails than gentlemen when they call
son him to present their own names
or others for Office. Many go into
his room together, and each one pre-
-sents his case i'm the order that they
reach him-or that was the order
three weeks ago. But this week
their cash is low; they have already
left the swell hotels and gone to
cheap boarding houses; they smoke
'"twofers:" drink beer instead of the
beaded champagne; and patronize
the lunch counters ON the sly.
Hence their desperation.
Thus the quiet quest for Office has
degencrated into an unsecmly
scramble for few crumbs that fall
from the masters table.
Their rudeness has become so
marked that the local papers have
taken up their cudgels in the presi-
dents behalf. They intimate that
a continuance of such ungentlemanly
conduct will not conduce to their
success in seeking for Office. They
should head their articles, ga Mob
in q Mansion" The evil is growing
worse and worse with each successive
presidential term. Some mode of
stopping it needs to be devised.
1t is utterly impossible to forecast
the result of the Roach investigation.
The records of congress do not show
a case OF senator being expelled
for acts performed prior to his be-
coming senator, and which had
nothing to do with his election. But
they do reveal cases of wrong-doing
prior TO their being elected senators
and which we're brought before the
senate for their consideration, but
the body positively refused to in.
vestigate them. So the precedents
are against any action being taken by
the senate. 1t is intimated today
that the matter may be dropped. Is
it case OF one side afraid and the
other ''dassent?" I think not; but
rather an evidence that all believe
such cases have no place in legislative
halls. The grand jury and the court
room are their "native heath"
Admission of the appointed sena-
tors from Montana, Washington and
Wyoming is occupying the senate's
attention. All the precedents since
the Lanman case, in 1925, have been
against such admission. but the feel
ing is gaining that every state is
entitled to its full representation in
congress at all times, and ii the legis-
latiye fails to elect then the gov
ernos should act. This is an entirely
new theory, but it has such strong
man as Senator Hoar as its advocate,
than whom there is none stronger in
the senate. Fortunately, the division
on the question is not on partisan
grounds and 1t is more liable to be
decided on its merits than on party
bias.
There seems to be no doubt that an
extra session of congress: will be
called for the early autumn. The
president has told Ex-Speaker Crisp
that he will do this. A modification
uLlO VXSxAluACy O1I1A 0W 40 VlAO AO0A
cause for this early assembling. But
it will not be wholly repealed for
the reason that the millions 1t puts
into the treasury arc needed to run
the government. AS for free trade,
it can hardly come. The expenses
of government are too great to be
liquidated by puttering little taxes
on whiskey and tobacco. But doubt
less the democratic congress will
show themselves competent to deal
with the financial questions that
may arise. They have one Of the
best llnanciers in the country at the
head Of the treasury. This extra
session of congress is also believed to
mean that the officers of the senate
will hold on till that time-about
Sept. lst. The democratic caucus
resolution provides that the officers
whom they propose to elect shall not
,nua1ifv until Iu1v 1sk The difference