The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-05-17

THE NATIONAL TRlBUI
| it is last years birds nest 1t is neglected
| opportunity. Any time the Government will
| give enterprise show some publisher VIII
print the Record for ne-fourth its present cost
| provided he can run in advertising. Then the
| eloquent remedies Of Senator PETER will be
broken off by foot rule and fullface notices OF
the wonderful panacea Of Dr. Pufier. The
Postal Guide has advertising and why not the
Record-that is, paid advertising2 There is
advertising in the Record, but it does not pay
the Government. The average Congressional
speech is advertising for home consumption.
The average statesman still clings TO the no
| tion that his constituents size him up by the
length and frequency of his remarks. He is
badly mistaken.
"Tracey, / wish you would come inside the
House minute l am going to make mo-
| tion," said Gen. Dan Sickles, while strolling
about the lobby during the time the river and
harbor bill was under consideration. He ad-
dressed his colleague from New York State.
whats your motion? ?" inquired Mr. Tracey.
Il am going to move that the Chief of Engi-
! neers be required to make an estimate of the
cost of moving some Of these Western towns
near the rivers out there. It's proving too ex-
pensivc TO run the rivers to them"
"Pll vote for that" said Mr.. Tracey.
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Active steps arc being taken at the Interior
Department to increase the number of day
schools on Indian reservations. Official iDqui-
ria tn bc e I'm nj tod nptio NJ;
have been made, and circulars asking for sug-
gestons and Information have been sent to the
various agencies. About go OF the schools
now kept on the reservations. and an increase to
100 will probably be ordered. 1t is also pro-
posed to induce public school authorities of
States in which reservations arc located to
admit Indians in the schools under Govern
ment control.
Congress in general is pretty good temper
ance body. despite all statements to the con-
trary. The New England representatives, are
especially So. Mr.. Allrich frequently joins
Senator Allison in his bread and milk. Haw
ley and Piatt, OF Connecticut try to make each
other happy by gazing into each other's eyes over
glasses of soda lemonade. Chandler generally
linaris. Wolcott. of Colorado and Hale. of
Maine. poss SIS two of the most delicate palatcs
in the Senate Mitchell of Wisconsin. the
richest man in the Senate. is simple in
his tastes as PETER. who tucks his goat like
beard under his napkin as he solemnly i'm
bibes ice coffee. Senator Mills has a fondness
for beer, and Villas for apollinaris. Another
Senator whose taste runs apolinarisward is
Frye. and still another is German. He mixes
his apollnaris with ginger-ale and lemonade.
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Over in the House there is Temperance
body in spite of the accusations of Tom Wat
son. Tenn Reed keeps cool ani good-natured
on soda lemonade, and Bourke Cochran has
similar taste. Jnhn Alien fills in the moments
when he isn't telling stories by imbbing harm
less settler. Ashnr Caruth, i'll spite Of being
about the most popular man in Kentucky.
looks on wliskyas poison, and keeps his spirits
high with ginger ale. Silver Dollar Bland
rises TO the hight of a bottle OF beer about once
week. Bryan is another apolliuaris man.
Gen. Wheeler, Of Alabama, learned trick at
West Point which has always chung to him.
He rarely even drinks so much as a glass of
apollinaris during the day. but every night he
opens bottle of beer, stirs in little salt he
pours it ont. aud then sleeps like a top.
Representative John i. T. Hull. of Iowa, has
been appointed Gu the House District Committee
in place of the retired Mr.. IIillborn. Comrade
Hull is 53 years DID, aud has been a lawyer SOL
dier and statesman, combining The latter profess
sion al present with the business Of farming and
manu- featuring. lie WAS born and educated in
Ohio, but The breaking out OF the war found him
in Iowa, where he enlisted in The % Iowa
in July, 1862 in which regiment he became a
Captain. lie Was wounded in the charge Mt
Black River, May Il. 1863. and resigned from
the array the following October. Ia 1872 be
was elected Secretary of the Iowa State Sem
ate. and was reelected three successive times.
In 1873 be was elected Secretary of State, and
reelected in 1880 and 1852; was elected Lieu
tenant Governor in 1885, and re elected In
1857. He was elected to the SD Congress as
Republican. and reelected to the SD.
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eff Congress could only realize Western senti-
ment in regard to that legislative body as have
learned it during two weeks stay in Chicago.
think there would be speedy action on tariff
bill" said ex-Gov. w p. Kellogg, who was in
town last week. THE feeling is intense, even
bitter, and the charge of bribery and corruption
is heard OH every hand aud made in nearly
every newspaper. 1t is commonly asserted out
there that the trust dominates everything at
Washington and that schedules are made in its
interest and not in the interest of the people.
The feeling / speak of is general. There is
especial Indignation over the tax sugar, and
! don't believe that there is Congressman from
the State of Illinois who can be elected to the
next House should he cast his vote for bill
taxing sugar"
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Senatorial ages are full of curious statistics.
They snge all the way from 40 to "a years,
Senator Morrill,, at the latter age, being more
than twice as old as Senators Kyle and Irby,
the youngsters at the 40 mark. Seven of the
members of the Senate have passed the line of
20, six of them being Democrats and two Re-
publicans. The latter are Senators Morrill,, at
"a, and Sherman. at II. The Democrats are
Palmer, at IT; Harris at 70; Pugh, at "a;