The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-03-08
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in a Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
From our Correspondent
WASHINGTON March ! 1SC

1 ASHINGTON, March 1, 1895
! President Cleveland certainly had
cause to be glad When the fall of the
gayeIs Of Vice-PreSident Stevenson aud
Speaker Crisp announced the lega
end Of the FIfty-third Congress. 1t i.
not believed that any other President
has ever had as hard physical task
imposed upon him as has been per.
formed by President Cleveland in the
last Is hours of almost coutinuou.
work OF the most wearing sort. Up t.
Saturday only two of the thirteen reg,
ular appropriation bills had become
la"s-au uupreceuted state Of affairs
aud eight of them were still in confer.
euee ciuce then they have all bseu
acted upon. To get All idea of the
enormous amount of work tue Presi-
dent had To perform it must be remem.
oeTed that the more important of these
appropriation bills CONSIST of hundreds
Of pages Of itemized appropriations,
and that President Cleveland never
signs his name to auythiug without
knowing just what it Is, although he
mad Ia this case To sigu bills contain
lug Items aud amendments that were
decidedly Objectionable, because the
oils eontaIuIug them could not be We
toed without making au immediate
extra session necessary, something
tuat he had no desire to do, if it could
possibly De avoided Later on there
NAV have u BE- an extra session Of
eonSress called, out there is at pres
cut q good prospect OF escaping il eu-
eIFeiy, unless there shall be another
run Oh the Treasury for gold.
II i fashionable To abuse Congress,
out When ole takes the trouble to 20
carefully over the work Of the Fifty
thiru Congress, it viii be seen that
there Is lit le cause for abuse from any,
2 'dy ana none for abuse from Demo-
cfat-. True, this Congress did not
meet he expectations Of the President
IS to financial legislation, but why was
II? The Democratic party has a " avs
taught that the first duty Of a Seu.
Ator OF Represe utative was to rspre-
seut bis constituents Well. that is
precisely what the Democrats il thu
Senate and House of the Fifty-third
Congress did, aud that is whv there
was no financial legislation. Presi.
deut Cleveland realized this, and he
nad 40 word OF abuse for Congress
men who stood by the views OF their
constituents, although he has not hest
tailed Co express the opinion that tdose
views were wrong aud that time would
convince those VINO held them of the
fact.
It Is not often that members Of the
opposition party pay as high a tribute
% 1he AGILITY and patriotism Of q mem-
Der ot the cabinet as Senators Aldrich.
o. IT, l., and Lodge, Of Mass, did to
secretary Herbert in their speeches in
tue Senate against q reduction Of See.
retafy herbert'S estimate for the Naval
Appropriation. Secretary Herbert has
every reason to feel proud Of such com
puments, deserved though they were.
Oue of tine surprises Of the last week
81 Congress was that Senator Cbsud-
Ter, Little Billy of New HAMPSHIRE
should have dared with his record. f.
naneial and political. I'd have attacked
tue honesty Of other Senators. 1t NAV
have been parliamentary for Sena-
tor Hull, who gave Little Billyn A
terrible tougue-thrashing to refer to
hlm As hyena,o but its aptness ex-
cused It's Use in that particular case
Senator Martiu, after saying that he had
heard It said that If Chandler had his
just deserts be would be in the peui-
tertiary Instead of the Senate, referred
To Chandler a. "buzzard" who sat in
Use nest OF an eagle aud "yomited
forth It's filth on every occasion. y
Whlle dispute was going en- as to
whether Senator Martins words should
DC taken down, he said that be would
withdraw the objectionable words
from respect to the Senate. but his
withdrawal Of them would not change
his belief ia their truth.
President Cleveland will this week
start on a hunting and fishing ex-
pedition along the Carolina coast.
he has certainly earned vacation.
and everybody hopes be will eniov
10 and return with renewed strength to
his arduous duties.
Among those who extended congrat-
ulations to Postmaster General Wilson.
who succeeds Mr. Bissell, was General
John b. milford, Of New York, now
visiting his old-time colleague ia the
arrangements for the exchange of I'm
Ion and Confederate prisoners, Repre-
sentative Hatch. of Missouri. 1t was
the first time that Mr.. Wilson had met
General Milford since the war. Grasp
ing him warmly by the hand the new
Postmaster-General said: General, I
am overloyed to meet you again.
You had me in charge as a prisoner
OF war. | have never forgotten from
that hour to this your soldierly bearing,
your genuine courtesy, and the kindly
interest you took in every prisoner on
your boat on that occasion. I greet
you with the greatest kindness and re-
spect.n