Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-04-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
PRESIDENTS OUTING.
Hon. Jerry Simpson Outwit-
ted.
OLD SOLDIERS TO BE RB-IEsTATED.
Ex-senator Voorhees, Passes Away.
d SOLDIERS TO BE RE-IEsTATEp
Ex-senator Voorhees, Passes Away.

WASHINGTON. April IL. 1897
President Mckinley returned from
his little outing much improved Tho
weather was more or less dissgreeable |
during the entire time he spent on she |
Dolphin. but he got what he went af-
ter and what he needed most rest. |
He was at his desk to-day looking
fresner than for several weeks.
JERRY sIMPsoS.
Jerry Simpson made an attempt to |
prove that he was a bigger man than
t. e entire House. but he only proved |
himself monkey He thought. or
rather he thought that he thought, |
that M could compel Speaker Reed To |
appoint thu c0mmi ttees and the House |
to go ahead with miscellaneous bust
ness. although a majority had decided
that the legislation of the extra SEES
81 on should be confined tn passing the
leftover appropriation bills and the
tariff bill, both of which the House
has done Jerry made The point OF
mo q uOrum' to prevent the House ad
iourning from Saturday to "Wednesday,
but Speaker Reed had no difficulty i'm
counting a quorum. and Jerry found
himself down while the House ad-
iourned Whether he intends to get
himself knocked down every time the
House m cts Just for notorietY there
is I'm it, is yet to be seen. 1t is evident
that Speaker Reed regards Jerry mere
ly as an amusing little cuss."
RELIKF FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS.
Secretary Alger, under whose di-
rection the 5000 900 appropriated last
week by Congress for the relief of suf
ferers by the floods in the Mississippi
valley will be spent, lost no time in
putting the machinery of the War De-
partment to work in order that prompt
relief might be extended, where yer
needed. 1t may be a hard thing to
say, but it is strictly true that the
Cleveland administration was respoa-
sible for much of the damage done by
the Mississippi river floods, by its pol
icy Of delay in spending money appro-
priatsd by Congress to strengthen and
raise up tire levees along the Mississip
pi river at those points where United
, States Engineer officers had reported
the necessity of such work. Reports
are on file in the War Department
from the Engineer officers, made after
Congress had appropriated the money
urging that contracts De made end the
; work pushed on these levees, but il
T was the Cleveland Carlisle policy &c
[ hold back appropriations as long as
, possible, and these foods came before
I the strengthening of the levees had
I been completed A number OF the
/ breaks are at the points reported weak
by the Engineers and ordered to be
= strengthened by Congress. For al
q the damage done by these particular
: breaks, the Cleveland administration
e is clearly responsible.
j XIX UNION SOLDIERS.
President McKinley's announced
2 policy of reinstaJiDg all ex-Union sol
q diers who were dismissed from offic,
|. by the democrats for no other reason
e than their politics, is being carried
out in all of the government depart
ments as fast as the heads of the de
partments can get around TO the cases
In the cases OF the chiefs of the -civi
sions the democrats are being give
. better treatment than they gave -e
10 pub leans. They al allowed TO remai
Il in Office, in lower position, instea
j of being dismissed. as so many repuh
! Leans were under the last administers
In ton.
ie RoosEvELr's APPOINTMENT.
70 A republican Senator speaking {
the talk in regard t. the appointment
OF Hon Theodore Roosevelt, to be As
sistant Secretary of the Navy bein
likely to make trouble, said "Roost
= Welt may make trouble in the Nav
h, Department, but if he does it will b
M in the interests of better AdministI d
ton of its affairs, just as he has mad
trouble for the law-breakers of Ne
York city who had long enjoyed polio
II 81. -
h trouble stirred up by Roosevelt,
IN has always had the support OF thoi
nh who believed in showing up and r
sv forming wrong doing wherever fouL'
de and l am willing TO stand DAhind a
n the trouble he makes in the Navy ID
partment."
PENSION AGENCIES.
Mr. Cleveland's order reducing Il
number of Pension agencies, viii,
:, was to go into effect on the LIST of ne
ssn' September, will never go into effeC
es Pension Commissioner Evans has a
'O' certained 10y investigation that instei
of saving money, as Mr. Clevelal
claimed, it @ould cost more To suppC
the consolid ated agencies. He said
SsS the subject: "While / have no a
'ne thority to speak for the Preside
IL have excellent reasons for believi
'ue that the order will go into effect, a
N that the eighteen pension agencl
80 will emain as they are " Commissio
er. $3.50 ss;rS, pSS1s;-,, E~.,,,;n;r~ =,
We geOns under she civil service rules "
a be revoked, except in the case
S examiners who receive $500 year
- less.
lhg No date has yet been fixed for I
n reporting of the Dingley tariff bill
ouI the Senate by the Finance Commit
Elk Senator Voorhees,, of India