Arizona republican., 1897-11-13
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

Commissioner Cailhoun's Expa1i- ences.-Whsn Commissioner Calhoun was in Havana last summer his stay was hardly long enough to familiar iZe himself with the la- gTuage, but after minute directions one day he started out to drive to 'hla cathedral of Columbus The cabman happaneId to be one of tfla few in Havana who do not understand English. Mir. Cal houn undertook to give the directions in Spanish. He did it without trip ping on the tongue once but was a little disconcerteid whl;n the cab brought him up fn front of the jail instead of ths cathedral. On another occasion, Mir Calhoun's destination was a famous French restaurant In vain he tried to make the cabman understand where he wanted to go, though the restauramt is in one of the principal thoroughfares of the city. Several poicamen sought to assist the cabman. But none of them appar- entity had ever heard of the street MT. Calhoun was giving up in despair when sudden illumination solved tha riddle. The cabman by ircuition guessed it. "Ca1le del OiRay-ol-ya," he cried and whipped up his horse. When MT. Calhoun neached the res- taurant, where the American colony was awaiting hfrn, he told of his trib- ulations and wondered how the hack man at last divinad where he wanted to go. 'fWheFe did you tell him ?" said one of his friends. q told him O'Reilly street,' said MT. Calhoun, giving it the Hfberniam pronunciation Amid the laughter which followed it was explained to him Lhht though the Celts who had distinguished them selves in Spainis service retain the spelling of their names, fhe pronun- ciation is made to conform to the Spanish tongue.
 Senator Cockre1l's Trump Card Senator Coehren has the document habit worse tiham any man in public 1 life. The document habit is a conn plaint that grows and never yields to treatment. It is the bane of the en- l ployes in the document rooms, but i the congressman care nothing for that. When Senator Cockrell gets a requasiL from a Missouri constituents for certain bill he writes note tc
 AmA Smith saying ,lhat he wants
 bill No. such and such, introduced in the present congress. Also bills on the same subject introduced in the
 LIIId, LIId, List, Lth, XLIXth XLVIIIth, XLVIlh, XLVI1h, XLVth
 XXIIId and XVIIth congresses. Like
 wise senate reports on those bills
 Also house reports on the same bills
 Furthermore, executive document: bearing on the subject. Then he has
 these sent under his frank to tn;
 Missouri constituent, who Slhereupor
 thinks Senator Cockrell the greatest
 man alive, and lights his fires wiiE public documents all through tn
 winter. When an indefinite reques
 comes the senator is at his beclt
 Some one, will send for report ot
 the engineer officer on river ant
 harbor improvement. Thereupon Sen
 ator Cockrell will make a memoran
 dunn to have forwarded to him tn reports of the engineer officers on al
 rivers and harbors in the United
 States. Also the nine volumes of thu
 secretary of wars annual report, tn
 ordnance recommendations, the ne
 bellion records, the naval records the report of the board of geograph
 ical names, the intelligence bureau reports, tihe signal service weathe observations, the roster of the stat militia, the findings of the lates court martial, and a few collatera publications which emanate from tn
 war departmemt Sometimes he vii : go through the documents and mar passages of interest. Then he will write a letter to his constituent, tell ing him what is coming. No wonde that out in Missouri they think Sen :; ator Cockrell greAr man and keeI on Ielecting him to the semate