Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Fifteen Millions Tor the Fatnec Of Wa
ters- Sample Whisky For Legisla-
tors Morgan's Sayings.
Especial Correspondence

Line T0C6ub ACOuS the M1SSlSSIDD1
will be made the text of an appeal next
winter for S15, 900, 600 appropriation
at the next session. Representative
Catchings of Mississippi, who used to
be the chairman of the river and har-
bors committee, said recently that this
amount at least would be needed to
raise the levees along the Mississippi
four feet on an average in order to pre-
vent the recurrence Of the disasters
which the states of Mississippi, Arkan-
sas and Louisiana have recently expert
enced. Fifteen millions of dollars, -
said he, seems TO be a very large sum,
but we have already lost $50, 900, 900 in
the cotton and $40, 900, 900 in the sugar
plantations, to say nothing of the great
loss to railroads in the tying up of trains
and the lack of ordinary freight traffic
that results from good crops. -
To Control the Mississippi
Representative Savers of Texas, who
was chairman of the appropriations
committee in the last Democratic con-
gross and who has had much experience
in dealing with government works, sug
gests plan for comprehensive settle
ment of the Mississippi river problem.
Mr.. Sayers would have the United
States government invite the engineers
of the world to consider the problem of
controlling the Mississippi river and to
present plans for permanent system,
SO that the government might adopt the
ideas of the best engineering talent.
For this purpose he suggests that COM
petition might be brought about by an
off of 10
plan which should be considered best
and $25, 900 for the second best, induce
ments sufficient to attract the most skill
full engineers in the world, those who
have dealt with such works as the Suez
canal and the dikes of Holland By this
plan, Mr.. Sayers believes, the govern
ment could secure the ideas of the best
engineers of the world, who might be
induced by the offer Of large reward
to personally study the great river and
the possibilities Of controlling it.
Very Small Samples.
Washington is full Of people who are
seeking the influence of the Legislators.
Now and then business schemes are
planned to appeal to them.
Every senator and member of con-
letter from a Kentucky distiller, con-
tanning an order upon a local liquor
seller for bottle Of new brand of
whisky. The orders were in the form of
handsomely engraved drafts, such as
are used by banks generally, and were
numbered with a check perforator to
prevent counterfeiting. Not all senators
and members called to secure the afore-
said bottle, but some of them did, and
very few orders indeed are there that
have not been presented by some one.
congressman clerks in many cases
have presented them, and now and then
a page, who has picked one up from
the floor, besides few colored tonsorial
artists and an occasional bootblack.
Was it good whisky, and how big a
bottle was it?' asked one congressman
of a friend who had ''cashed i'm his
order the day before.
1.-THE 1iquah was all right enough,
sub, was the reply, "but if man had
been Ghusty he would have needed two
or three bottles. sab. -
Morgan and Reed.
Senator Morgan's new name for
Speaker Reed, 1.-THE great white filibus-
ter" seems likely to stick to the speak
er. for 1t is being quoted and repeated |
all over the country. This reminds one
of the fact that Senator Morgan occa-
sionally hits the bullseye with phrase
that sticks. No one, says the Washing
ton Post, will ever forget his utterance
that certain senators were cuckOOs, who, |
every time the White House clock struck |
the time Of day, put out their heads and
the hour. 1t is not known,
however, that the senator got his sug-
gestion for his famous saying from
cuckoo clock in the house of personal
friend in this city. One night, while
the senator was calling upon his friend,
the cuckoo came out of the clock and
uttered its plaintive note. The senator
made no comment at the time, but on
the following day he used the simi1e
which travelled over the country like
wild fire.
Transfer of the Chinese Seals.
The ceremony CT the transfer of the
seals from the retiring Chinese minis
ter, Yang Yu, to the present minister
Dlenipotentiary, Mr.. WI, took place in
5he annex of the Arlington recently.
Mr.. Yang Yu and his suit came down
rom the legation on Fourteenth street,
bearing the seals with them They are
made of brass, stamped with the impe-
.ial signature, and bearing the words,
'Manchuria and China They were
nclosed in handsome leather case, and
with them were the documents which
Mr.. Yang Yu signed on taking office.
Minister WI and his suit met Mr.
Yang Yu and the others in his parlors,
md there the seals were solemnly trans
'erred Minister WI signing the papers
If state, which were then placed in the
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