The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Matters Which Are of Interest to
Michigan People.
nURROwS' PRIVATE SECRETARY.


PIace-senator McMillan's Private Sec
Nj 1 tary Busily at work-Hon. q. l.. spaid-
|t v g a Competent Official In the Treasury
HI lepartment - Bert Kennedy at the Ma
HI ionaI Capitai-A Grewsome Foreboding.
Washington. Dec. 7.-Henry NJ. Rose
will tomorrow take possession OF his
desk in Senator Burrows committee
room and resume the work of private
secretary to that statesman. Mr.. Rose
g probably acquainted with every
Michigan man of prominence, and he
certainly knows every Michigan man
Who comes TO this city. That is the
lind OF private secretary for states
nan TO have. Ii beats all the stem
,graphers in the world to have a man
who knows men and Is familiar with
public affairs. When visitors call and
me senator Is not in his committee
pom they are cordially welcomed, and
Henry Rose can rea6iav find the SEN
ltor on the floor OF the senate or in
he senate cloak room.
Charles Moore, political and confiden-
ial secretary to Senator Mcmillan. has
been here for two weeks buslly prepar-
ng the work of the committee on the
District of Columbia. 50 that ii will
be we'll In hand for Senator Mcmillan,
the chairman OF the committee, when
business is called up before that COM
mittee.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
Hon. o. L. Spalding, assistant secre-
AIRY of the treasury, has been acting
,aecretary for several weeks, and is re-
III Irded as the most competent official
u j the treasury department His ex-
perience here az Michigan congress
man and then as assistant secretary
Of the treasury during the Harrison ad-
ministration, naturally developed all OF
his administrative and executive quail
ties. Secretary Gage places great de-
pendence upon him, and the entire de-
tail work of the great department prac-
tically rests upon the shoulders Of this
lndefatlgable Michigan worker.
Bert Kennedy is here. Every Michi-
ran politician, of both parties. knows
Bert Kennedy. He began public life
as a page in the Michigan legislature.
He came to washington as a page in
the house of representatives In the
Fifty first congress. He has been kept
or duty here ever since, and at the
beginning of the present congress he
was elected assistant doorkeeper. Very
Michigan girl and brought her to this
oity. When the congress adjourned last
summer Bert and his wife went to
Michigan. Your correspondent met him
tr1is morning in a capitol corridor, and
his boyish face was beaming with hap
piness He said 1--WE are back again;
I'll three of us. We have a little girl
almost 3 months old, and / want all
of my friends to call and see the young
lady She will entertain you in some
manner either by cooling or by making
II faces az you. She is not yet much of
eonversationalist, but she sometimes
has something to say after midnight"
Like All the Rest.
Which means that Papa Bert is al
realty learning how to walk the floor
in the early morning hours with beau
tifTl anarchist in his arms. Michigan
babies are like all the rest.
Judge Harlan of Kent county says:
1.-The entertainments of the Michigan
N association this winter will be the most
II Movable ever known to our Wolverine
blony. We are already making ar
kngements for literary and musical
togrammes We will have speeches
n our senators and representatives
pme Of our Michigan girls can sing
Ike angels Several OF our young men
Re superior elocutionists. All OF our
eople are good people and all of them
,fe fraternally and socially inclined.
~ he association knows no politics and
tks no political diversities.'
frank Hosford is still bowling Tor
flee silver coinage. No man on the
Ietroit Free Press was more popular
Nth "the old man" than Hosford. He
/ II IN Va 81 n
fbr six years. But in the last presi-
dental campaign Frank went into poll
Tics I'D to his elbows, and in order to
}e free to do his own will he resigned
lis position on the paper. He is get
ling along all right. though, and does
hts of good newspaper work for syn
dcate Of far western newspapers.
III River and Hsrbor Bill.
Congressman Bishop of Luomgton
has a grewsome foreboding concerning
lhe river and harbor bill. He thinks
hat the effort which is being made TO
tkansfer the bill to the old committee
IA appropriations Is likely to succeed,
tt at any rate. to excite a spirit OF
etonomy akin to parsimoniousness.
Honest old Sam Stephenson never had
Amy trouble in getting ample river and
kIarbor appropriations for Michigan
tshop must hustle.
vThe deep waterway to the Atlantic
NJ II probably receive consideration DUR
the present session Of congress. One
1.-The leading members Of the commit
u i on railways and canals. Congress
Belknap of Illinois, says that this
ter is one of the greatest, not only
BUSINESS men and shippers, but also
lie farmers and plain people of the
Invest. He believes that the great
can and ought to be connected
III the ocean by deep water canal
- Bays that II IL practical. practical
T. ind can be economically construct
It is unfortunate that Michigan
HI 20 representation on that impor'
committee.
iator Mcmillan is a member OF the
te committee on commerce, ano
- be able thereby to exercise consid-
cable influence in favor of the deer
waterway in the senate. The entire
Michigan delegation Will work for IL In
tie house of representatives.
CONGRESSMAN Mesick OF Mancelona
vho IN n member of the committee on