The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-01-31

There is something new with regard to
| the Blaine house. 1t has been proposed
to erect a theater on the spot where the
old building has been torn down. In
fact the old house had been completely
demolished. But now Senator Gray Of
Delaware introduces bill to appropriate
this land for the uses of the Government,
paying for it. of course, a sug-
gestion which entirely upsets the
theater proposition II it should be
pressed. The theater people wilNgo on
building their house though getting the
more for it If the property should ever be
condemned, which very likely it will not
be. 1t was suspected that Senator Cam
eron of Pennsylvania, who is next door
neighbor and who has been rather dis
appointed at the prospect that a theater
will be built next door to him, was back
of this Gray resolution, but Gray says
not.
1 met Captain Pat O'Farrell on the
street today and have you heard of him,
/ wonder. Gallant Pat O'Farrell, a red
hot Irishman who fought "a bravely as
anybody in the war, who had pension
business afterward and made lot OF
money, but it is fiat now, he says, and the
patent business also, and nobody ever
goes to him now to get a dollar out
OF him for any purpose but he
says: al won't touch a single new thing
until there is a Republican administra-
tion." The pension business has been
knocked nearly fiat here. Geo. s. Lennon,
who customarily had 100 clerks, is down
to six, and there Is practically nothing do
ing at the pension Office. The clerks pore
over the papers of yore, but they
don't grant pensions, and 1t is proposed
to discharge two or three hundred OF
the clerks themselves, which may be done.
So you see Washington suffers in one
hundred ways, as almost any other city
does, from the hard times. Five OF six
thousand people have been thrown out of
the departments in the last two years, and
many others have had their salaries cut
down. tell you, it has come very hard
on them.
Mr.. Carlisle admits that an extra session
is absolutely necessary, and that the
President will call 1t unless some settle
menf OF the financial question is arrived
at by this Congress, a thing which. OF
course, will not happen. 1t is hard ad-
mission to make, n confession that a
President and both branches OF Congress,
all OF one party, have not been
able in two years to do anything
that the country means to want or need.
Many Democrats admit that If an extra
session is called II will be the greatest
Democratic humiliation since the war,
but they see no other remedy. Indeed it
is not expected that an extra session
could do much. for how, it is argued,
could Democratic President and Re-
publican House agree upon anything yet
it seems as il 1t must be tried as kind of
last resort.
The fact that Hon. Tom Carter OF Mon
tana has been elected 40 handily TO the
United States Senate recalls a political
defeat which he encountered on one occa-
sion, not that OF 1872 in which he was
chairman OF the Republican ma
tionai committee, but one OF the
previous years In which he was
beaten for Congress by MIR. Dickson.
Mr.. Dickson had wife, and she was very
lovely and very smart. She saw Mr.. Car
ter's private secretary on one occasion in
the latter gentleman's office, and, as it
happens, he was none other than Con-
gresham Sugg, who had been but short
time before that the editor OF Republican
paper at Helena The private secretary was
somehow induced to give up all OF Mr..
Carter's lists OF yotors. IL was the beau
tiful Mrs. Dickson who did il. She took
these away. The Dickson family realized
that they were valuable. They reached
hundreds ifnot thousands Of these Carter
people. Dickson was elected. This may
not be the sole reason why Carter was
beaten, but it was a good one on the
private secretary.
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