The Washington times., 1894-07-06
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.


very high idea OF the rapidity of government
action in the matter OF erecting public build
fngs or the sceilence OF the methods 1t takes
to secure its sites.
"when we decided on the location Of the
post Office building on Pennsylvania ave-
nue." said he yesterday, ''Mr. Window. the
then Secretary Of the Treasury, was very
much afraid that the price for which the land
was offered by the owners, s10.5O a foot, I
think, was excessive, and he therefore in
sisted on having the property condemned.
1t was done. and the government had to pay
|. S12. II, or thereabouts. per square foot. OF
course Mr.. Window was very much dis
gusted. 1 believe when the government
wants site it ought to buy 1t like other peo-
pie. always being careful that the price is not
excessive, but it is often thought to be when
it is not.
"When Mr.. Boutelle, Of my state. came
back from Chicago last year." continued Mr..
Mlliken, I'VE had talk about the short time
and the construction of the collection OF
buildings. one Of which, the Liberal Arts
building. was large enough to put all the
included, and then shake them around like
nutmegs in a box. asked 'Boutelle how
long, in his opinion. 1t would have taken the
United States government to have selected
the site and gotten those buildings up
which Chicago had accomplished in about a
year. He replied that, proceeding in the
usual way, he thought II the government had
started when Columbus discovered the coun-
try they would probably have gotten two
thirds through by the present time"
The District OF Columbia Committee held
no meeting yesterday on account Of the con-
tinued absence from town of number OF its
members. 1t will do so to-day, however, and
a report ON the proposed issue of bonds for
sewer extension is then expected.
81 want to get away just as soon as can.
think this is teriible-a calamity" said Mr..
Grosvenor, Of Ohio, when asked yesterday
how soon Congress would adjourn. ~ don't
think Congress cares to do anything more
than get through with the tariff and the ap-
preparation bills this Summer" he added.
by the time we get away we shall have been
here for nearly year. 1t is getting tiresome
and, ;" he added. as he started to fill out his
blank for the last months pay, "mighty ex-
pensive."
Speaker Crisp said yesterday that no ac-
ton had yet been taken by the Rules Com
mittee toward setting aside day for the con-
sideration of the bill providing for the cleo
ton Of United States Senators by direct vote.
Of the people. 1t is understood however,
that this bill is certainly to come up, as 1t is
one Of those indicated by the Speaker in DIS
cussing proposed legislation, which it was
expected to dispose OF this session. 1t is said
that the bill will command enough strength
in the House to secure its passage, but that
it will be stranded when it reaches senatorial
shores.
''Pickler, of North Dakota" said an un-
friendly congressional critic yesterday, "uses
his voice as child would rattle. He has
found out that he can make noise, and ap-
year-old would with toy. And he doesn't
use it much more discreetly either"
Mr., Reed has come out with new ad1'tior
to his toilet in the shape of nice pin a It
is perfect in shade. fashionable in il " e.
up, and has made a number Of his colleagues
very enyious.
Probably the first appropriation bill to be
taken up in the Senate will be the pension
bill. This was not the first to be reported
and placed upon the calendar, but it is under
stood that Senator Cockrell thinks it can be
gotten out of the way quite expeditiously and
that 1t will set a good example for speed in
the consideration of succeeding appropriation
bills
1t is probable that the session of the Senate
to-day will be exceedingly brief. and that an
adjournment will be taken over until Mon
day. 1t is unlikely that quorum will. be
present, and most Senators are too jaded to
be willing to sit in their seats again without
more complete rest.
While the Hon. Marriott Brosius. OF Penn
sylvania, the Jupiter Tonans of the House,
was delivering one of his impassioned ora
tions yesterday. Marcus Aurelius Smith came
rushing into the lobby. Five dollars TO any
man who will go into the chamber and ask
Marriott, 'Will-the-gentleman- -from-PennsyI-
yield-to-me-one-moment.' ." in this way,
and Mr.. Smith took up the Pennsylvanian's
ecstatic-tremulo pronunciation in way that
made his auditors fairly dizzy Then he
added sorrowfully: mo use; Tn afraid
have been refused by eight men already"
The members of the Senate Finance Com
mttee are making the most of their first brief
respite after six months of uninterrupted
work, during par. of which the thermometer
climbed up to one hundred. Senators Harris
and voorhees, have each hired phaeton and
drive around town in a very self-contented
way as means of relaxation and amuse-
ment. Worries has a coachman and fairly
OnOd horse Harris does his drix nd
has a good, old-fashioned mare that dslikes
the cable cars and prefers the side streets.
The Tennessee Senator still clings tenaciously
to his soft felt hat
The House of Representatives is not pleased
with the new electric fans put into the \
chamber by the architect OF the Capitol at the
request of the House. They made SO much
noise yesterday that Messrs Reed, Cannon
and others who tried to talk and were so
drowned by the whiZzing asked to have them
stopped.
At first the Speaker took ii as joke but the
members seemed to be really annoyed. So
upon Mr.. Cannon's suggesting that 'they
were certainly not the usual machinery of the
House, they were stopped.
There are number of indefinite rumors at
the Capitol that Senator Hill is to be tread
out Of the Democratic party by excluding
him from the caucuses OF the party in the
future. Another story is that Senator Black
burn will engineer caucus resolution against
him.
Not much credence, however. is given to the
report, for with the present marked differ
ences between certain elements of the party
adherence 10 creed would inevitably split it
beyond recognition.
Coupled with this story of Democratic dis
,ipline comes. another in which Caffery and
Blanchard are to be victims of .'boyeott'' in |
he conference, and that Irby and Allen are
o be further placated, all of which is interest
ing but not probable. /,
In the House yesterday Representative Tur- |
,er, OF Georgia. rose to question of priyi-