Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-06
DIFFICULT QUE STI0N
Which One Controls, the Rail-
roads or Uncle Sam?
An Amazing Corporate lnllu,ncs--
Spanish Language il Senate.
Inaugural Exercises as1 Inc Senate -jssiies
Miller md the stranger.

the passage through the house Of bill n
prevent ticket seafping. It was asked for
~ all the railroad companies In the conn
Try. and tho railway corporations IN pass
ing this bill gave signal exhibition Of
their power in tho lower branch. While
there Is an honest difference Of opinion as
to the public policy 6f driving the ticket
brokers out Of business the bill as II passed
the house is far TOO drastic. For instance,
tickets must bc purchased l,y the person
who Is to use them. man cannot under
The law buy q ticket for the use Ct his wife
She must go and buy 1t herself
Owned by Rsiiroad Corporations.
When this bill came up for pamage, .
man stationed in the gallery and looking
down upon The floor below was able to tell
who would vote for The bill and who would
not. He was newspaper correspondent
familiar with the politics In most Of the
states. That nan belongs 10 the Wander
Eilfs, that one 10 the Northwestern,
.'this one to the Atchison, there IL d
member who is owned by the Burlington
"hc is all right because lm votes as the l..
and n tells him. These were samples
II lis chGracterizations. In most cases he
WIS right. The extent to which tho mil
road corporations Of the country control
votes upon the floor of both house and SEN
ate IL national scandal The wonder 10
that the railroads. are not able to get every
thing they want. do not mean Ia say
that all the men who opfcd for this law
were awncd by railroads, but u majority
Of them were There never will be any
reform in this matter till political parties
ere reformed. One party is about as had
as another in this respect
..floolio SsngeeIy."
One Of the amusing incidents of the re
cent Cuban debate In the senate was a
bout between Senators Lodge and White
concerning pronunciation of Spanish
names. Senator Lodge is well known az
scholar. A year ago he visited Spain,
and it is supposed acquired some knowl.
edge Of the Spanish language. Itwas only
natural therefore that when Senator White,
in an effort to ridicule the iipgoes who had
been demanding that warships should be |
scnt 10 Cuba. pronounced the name Of
Julio Sanguilly as Hoolio Sangeely, and |
made the senate and the galleries laugh |
by doing so. Mr.. Lodge should come to the |
r,scuc. Mr.. Lodge accused Mr.. White of /
s7lsuutSu nattiCS, 0fl0 S1t0
THE question was too serious a one to be /
treated in that manner. But Senator
White turned the TALES very neatly. He
showed that he not only knew how to pro-
noui.ce Srarish names, but that he could
read the Spanish language Senator White
Is said to lie the only Spanish scholar in
the senate. and 1t will be long time be-
fore MIR. Lodge tackles the Californian
again on - question of Spanish pronuncia-
ton.
Some OF this Spanish names trouble our
statesmen very much. AS rule they get
them all wrong. Senator Sherman, the
new secretary Of state, stumbles over ali
foreign names, except those in most CON-
n ON use Some years ago he greatly
amused the senate by persistently referring t
to Samoa as Sammy OH senator cor
rccted him, whereupon Mr.. sherman used
the right pronunciation just once. Then
he rplapsed to his Sammy oh, amid gen
eral smiles. Secretary Sherman admits
his inability to cope with tho pronuncia-
ton Of foreign names; but says, quite
truly, that pronunciation is a matter of
small consequence.
When Major Mckinley stood before the
multitude at the east front of the capitol,
he looked for thefirst time upon ono of tho
grandest achievements Of American art
and architecture. I mean the new library
Of congress. which made mapgificcnt
foreground for the enhancing picture. Its
golden dome, its classical outlines, its no.
BILE facade. were things which every one OF
the vast throng of Americans present could
BE- proud of. Those who waited till the
excitement of the day was over and visited
the interior Of the building were lost in
The new library is the most
beautiful building in the world Its store
Of richness, in both decoration and archi-
tcctural lines, is not equaled by any palace
In the old world. 1t is the show place of the
rational capital. 1t Is the Mecca of all
visitors. President Mckinley himself has
heard so much of the glories of the new
structure that he says he is going to take a
lew hours some afternoon and look it over.
At last the United States has perfect
At last it has q public building
Whlch Is beyond criticism. Best of all, it
IS an American work.
The Selfish senate.
There has been great deal of llissatis-
action at the manner In which the senate
took exclusive charge Of the arrangements
'or the inauguration at the capitol. Tho
'cnate acted upon the assumption that this
vas ceremony with which the house Of ,
representatives had nothing whatever to
10. The house was invited to be present,
butt only rs guests. All authority rested
With the senate. This notion was carried !
% such an extreme that the stand erected !
or the accommodation Of the presidential !
,arty and invited guests was built alto /
yether ON the senate side Of the capitol, the
irst time this was done. There have been 9
he usual complaints about unfair distri
'ution OF tickets, the senate being charged I
With "hogging" everything in sight
am reminded Of . comical incident Of !
he Hayes Inauguration. There was some
quabble about the tickets then, and cards
4 admission to the presidential stand were :
ssued by rival authorities. 1t CHANGED
hat when Justice Miller Of the supreme
curt walked down to take his scat near !,
resident Hayes he found his chair occu- !
lied BY stranger. The justice demanded i
hat the chair be vacated, but its occupant y
vas not willing to cOmDly Some worula