Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-30

continue his quotation from Goldsmith, for
the very next lines would have placed him
hors de combat before this Senate. Sir, i
will continue the quotation:
But self-dependent power can time defy.
AS rocks resist the pillows and the sky"
prolonged cheering in the galleries and
on the republican side Of the chamber. The
Vice President is under the painful me
cessity of once more reminding the CALLER
ies." etc, but he does not say a word to the
noisy Senators. In the midst Of the uproar
Senator Mills makes his ESCAPED.
Mr.. Hudson of Kansas will no doubt
take the floor when the question, THE
Capitol grass; how to preserve It." shall
come properly before the House. Plutoc-
racy, Wall street and the minions of the
law will go down before his relentless ora
torical reaper, and for his peroration We
shall have these four lines from Goldsmith,
with the word "Coxey' substituted for
peasants:
While scourged by famine from the
The mournful peasant leads his humble
band;
And while he sinks. without one arm to
The country blooms-a garden and .
When Mr.. Walker of Massachusetts, was
taking for better system Of ventilating
the hail OF the House he was ''pestered"
considerably by the somewhat ex-watch
Cog of the treasury, Mr.. Holman. When
Mr. walker asked. How do you account
IG5 sns tSs hGhss prevalent in this
uproarious laughter. II Mr.. Walker had
then had the presence Of mind to say after
the restoration of order: Mr.. Speaker, the
scenes which have been enacted around
me, by the gentleman from Indiana and
many others. since I rose to address the
House, being forcibly to my mind an
apropos quotation from Goldsmith's De-
serted Village
The watch dogs voice that bayed the
whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant
1t would have required the combined effort.
Of Col. Ike Hill and the Roman fasces to
restore order
Mr.. Aldrich can warn his democratic
friends In the Senate that shortly after this
as law the lines Of the immortal bard.
Goldsmith. will find verihcation In this
country:
Proud swells the tide with loads of
And shouting folly halls them from the
shore"
There seems to have sprung I'D a mild
antagonism between Mr.. Enloe Of Tennes-
see and Mr.. Quigg of New York. The next
time they have a run in" Mr.. Enloe should
bide his time till Mr.. Quigg has made a
particularly happy hit and is receiving the
congratulations Of his republican collearues.
Ihen ne should repeat, with dramatic effect
these lines from the same work:
And still they gazed and still the wonder
grew
That one small head could carry all he
KNEW"
Mr.. Quigg will rush out to the telegraph
ONCE and decline a denomination In ad-
vance.
1t does not now occur Just what use can
De made Of the following quotation, but no
doubt some member will find occasion to
wlther some other member with 1t before
the end OF the present session:
Village statesmen talked with looks pro-
found,
And news much older than their ale went
round"
The solons on the bill should commit the
foregoing quotations to memory. They will
have frequent occasion to use them And
the source from whence they came is rich
with many similar gems
J. L. KENNEDY