The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-15
ARE THEY DEAD AS sMELTsl

In ths languor-compelling breezes
which burned like the hot breath of n
sirocco as they stole through the north
ern windows of the State Capitol last
week. tanning the fevered brows of the
overworked Senators, there was no sug-
gestion Of anything more than the swell
tering heat of unusually warm May days;
save as they were heavy with the per-
fume Of rare bouquets on the Governors
desk, or laden with the spicy fragrance
OF sweetest pinks in universal button
holes, the latter seductively eloquent of
the gratitude of our always esteemed
friend, NATE PIERCE, for pet bill
passed, or as they bore an occasional
sniff Of smoke from the flaming
forests OF Scituate. Yet in the same
gentle gale as they foated out OF the
windows to leeward there was faint
odor of mortality which attracted atten-
tion to two bills lying motionless side by
side on the clerks desk-one for $40, 900
from an out-of-the-world State College
dormitory on Kingston Hill, the other
for $4,000 for an equally remote and
impossible canal at Block Island.
A cursory examination shows that,
although the former has been commu-
nicated to the House, its spirit has de-
parted. and it is now, we hope, awaiting
resurrection in new form, and that
the latter is already shrouded on its
cooling board, the attendants having
given up all hope with the exception of
its promoter and one or two South |
County Senators. An autopsy has been
suggested, but, as animation may still |
remain in some Of the ultimate cells, |
and as an attempt will probably be mads
to galvanize into life at the May session,
or next January. we shall venture to
add nothing to the review of the prev
ious medical treatment and the few
well-meant suggestions for the future
that we made yesterday.
IT Is hardly necessary to mention the
Block Island election of April 8, 1889, of
Democratic Senator and Republican
Representative, or to tell how, while the
former left Block Island by special boat
'n the night of the election,
md was in his seat in Grand
committee when the Legislature as
embled next morning in time to
ast one very valuable vote in the eighth
md final ballot which made Hon.
NATHAN F. DIXON U. S. Senator for the
Inexpired term of Hon. JONATHAN
)HACE, the latter came by regular con-
eyance too late to vote. 1t would
o superfluous to mention how,
4 Republican administration,
grateful Providence, or perhaps only
grateful Westerly, willed it that the
lock Island postmastership should fall
} the Democratic brother Of the hustl-
lg Block Island Senator. 1t would
mack OF irreverence to attempt a par
cular description Of the expressions >
hich illunined the features of :
iese statesmen when they learned that,
means which they do not yet
loroughly comprehend, the Block
land postoflice was wrested from the
emocratic appointee and given to
aunch Republican, who held it for
veral years in spite of their most de-
rmined efforts to oust him. All these
ings are foreign to our subject, and
Q alluded to at this time merely TO I
ow how Democratic Block Island can II
tain Republican help at Washington, Al
though it must be admitted that the is
al fruits of such united efforts have in
us far greatly resembled the famous I"
'ad Sea apples %
(which tempt the eye sc