Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-08
ALL SPLIT UP.
The Tariff and Finance Have
Worked Havoc in Parties.
Silly Civil Service 0rders--A Few
Ways Of Spelling Mo|asses.
hanna's Funny Experience -Lacey's Story
-EpgIand's Cheerful Givers.

Since the war h2ve artios in congress peeh
SO much split up into groups as they arc
now. This was shown last week when the
house voted Oh the tariff bill. For once
the Republicans, or those who openly avoW
themselves Republicans, voted solidly Tor
the bill But five Democrats broke away
from their party on the tariff question.
Then the Populists silver men, former
Republicans and independents signaiizea
the division Of the house into groups by
falling to carry out an agreement which
they had tried to enforce The plan was
that all the other gronrs should not vote
Mt all But one of them broke away ana
cast his vote for the bill, while two or
three voted against it. What will happen
in the senate it will be interesting to note
when the time comes. In the official clas'
sification of the politics Of senators and rep.
resentatives we now have RepubEcans,
Democrats Populists, silver men, silver
Republicans and independents II the OH
cial records told the truth, they would add
moderate silver to the names OF some
other Republicans, "moderate antisilver'
lection" to the names Of quite number
of Democrats.
Brought TO the Front.
The long tariff debate in the house OF
representatives has brought to the front a
new presiding officer. Representative Sher-
man of New York presided nearly all the
time over the deliberations of the commit
tee of the whole, as the house is called
when it goes through fictitious sort OF
metamorphosis for the sake of facilitating
business. MIR. Sherman is young man
with round, boyish face, pink checks and
mild eyes. No one had suspected him OF
being an embryo speaker till Mr.. Reed dis
covered him and trotted him out to keep
the boys in order during the tariff debate.
Mr.. Sherman did his work to the queen s
taste.
Enormous pressure is being brought to
bear upon President Mckinley to induce
him to revoke some of Mr.. Cleveland 5 civil
service orders. Every day senators and rep
resentatives pour into the president S ears
tales of the harlships which the blanket
civil service order has worked upon the
faithful of the Republican hosts. Incon-
sistencies and absurdities of the law, like
the ''hopping" test applied to candidates
for places in the government printing Of
flee, of which SO much was made by Sena-
tor Gallinger in the senate few days ago,
are constantly being brought to the prcsi-
dents attention. Those who are near TO
the president predict that he will be COM
PEELED to do something. The pressure is
greater than he can withstand. Mr.. Nc
Kinley, understand, would be pleased TO
have congress divide the responsibility with
him by taking the initiative and passing
law on the subject for him to sign
Molasses as 1t Is Spelled.
A friend of mine who is employed in the
civil service commission tells me they find
many funny things in their examination OF
the papers of would be government clerks.
For instance, from one bundle Of papers
the other day my friend made notes of the
following unique ways of spelling the SIM
pie word "molasses:"
'Molassises, "molassoes, - malacies, :"
"molassesess, "nalass, - "moiasalos, F"
"molasyse, - Embassies" "mulasiz, "
"moolassis, "mulaciz' and "mullassas. "
Mr.. Hanna, the powerful senator from
Ohio, TO whom all doors open and every car
is turned, has his funny experiences as he
goess along. One evening young man
came up to him in the lobby of the Airing
ton hotel. You are Senator Hanna, aren t
your Eyes, sir; am he ''Wcll l am
Mr. Blank. 1 am Secretary SO-and- so S pri-
waite secretary, and | want to tell you that
we shall be glad to see you down at our
place" Here the young man slapped the
senator Familiarity on the back. You
don't need to be afraid to come down and
ask for what you want, for the secretary
and have heard of you, and if you don t
get what you think is right from the sec
rotary you just let me know and | will fix
it" young man." said Mr.. Hanna, with
merry twinkle in his eye, "Ill be down
to see you. And while I am at it l think
III. go over and see the president and tell
him that he has made mistake in your
department You ought to be the secretary,
while the secretary should be made your
clerk"
MIR. Laceys Story.
One Of the best of the many stories told
during the tariff debate in the house was
that of Mr.. Lacey of Iowa. Mr. Lacey is
a sober, dignified sort of man, and no one
had supposed he was going to tell yarn
which would convulse the house with
laughter. He was talking about the Dem
oSiotS WIN IdtA dSStltu W ttiliC oNNi " VIZ
Republican side in support of the tariff bill
because of needed protection to their home
industries, and this reminded him of the
young man out in Nebraska last fall. He
called on his lest girl and found her sitting
up with a Populist. Then he went on to
the house of his second best girl, and she
was sitting up with another Populist. bic
tried third house, where there lived q
girl he had once been sweet on, and she
had a Populist for "a guest before him.
Much disguised, the young man walked
along the road that Sunday evening, when
he came to a church where they were hav
ing prayer meeting. He went in, and whei
1t came his turn to pray he said, 80 Lord
perhaps you are surprised to see me here
tonight, but am here because there isn''
any other place to go!'
"Thirty Thousand Cheerful Givers Of
England" is the title of remarkable bool
q copy of which l have just seen in tht
hands of rich Washingtonian. 1t actually
contains the names and addresses Of 80, COS
Englishmen who are set down as cheerful
giyers to the poor and to charity. o
course it is published for the benefit of pro
fessional beggars, and the man who con
ceived the idea has doubtless made goot
thing of it, for every beggar in the worlt
will want u copy. Begging by means c
letters is a regular business in England. l
Is well organized and is carried on witt