Arizona republican., 1898-12-15
GOSSIP OF
 WASHINGTON

r WAS1lNOION
 There are no more dark corners in the Senate. The gospel of light and cheerfulness is diffused everywhere. The old recesses in the far-away an gles, where the somnolent citizen could sleep undisturbed while Senator Stewart plCdded along with the drea. y tale of the crime of '73, have disap- p5ared.
 The change $ notice able the m ment one enters the senate chaubar. The dark walls have been repa It d he are no longer dingy and dull.- The pre- vailing tint is a light terra cotta, while the recessed nichss, in which are placed the busts of the vice-prssidents, are n darker shade, forming a pleasant con trast to the whi.e marble. The walls which support the galleries are also much lighter in tona, and the sunlight is reflected most admirably. It Is easy now to see into the farthest tier O. seats in the galleries, whereas bsfCT5 1t was almost impossible to distinguish human forms in the dim and dark dis tance. Altogether, the senate of the United States, always a delightful place for the aspiring statesman, is nciw' more cheerful and atract.ve than ever "a fact which may tend to increase the constant crop of candidates.
 Senator Morrill, is almost ninety years of age, but though his form is slightly bent and his walk somewhat feeble, there is nc evidence Of his in tention to step quietly out of the sena- torial arena. On Tuesday he delivered a speech in favor of the bill providing a new supreme court building. At the conclusion of his remarks he asked the senate to pass the bill, which was done, and then the measure Wsnt to the house, where Speaker Reed will eye it askance and it will degcend to the lowest avernus of dead legislation.
 The neM library building is, in very large measure, monument to Senator Morrill,, for it was under his fostering care that the project grew in national interest and appreciation. It would bs a great climax for his senatorial carear if he could see the beginning of a pal ace of justice, so to speak, where the United States supreme court, the dS- partment of justice, the court of claims
  ernment could be properly housed. There could be hall also wherein such commissions as the one which is now at work upon the Canadian questions could be assembled. Such building as this is contemplated by Senator Mcr- Till, who would TlaveI it located on the square northeast of the capitol, just across from the library building.
 
 q have learned a great lesson, says Representative Hartman, of Montana. q am. net going to draw upon my health any longer without r7cupeTatlng every. year to the extent of the de- mand."
 MT. Hartman looks the picture of health His face is Tuddy, his step IS springy, his blocd is active, and aito- gether he feels as if the springtime of his life has come again. All this is be- cause Mr. Hartman tcok a holiday last summer. For years and years he has worked along, catching day here afd there for such Tecrs a-ion as he houzh he needed. Last summer he went on a new tack He felt worn cut and ka= W it was not medicine but rest he neede1 So out into the mountains he went, thirty miles away from the railroads, taking his family with h-m, but other wise cutting loose from civilization. He left word that nc letters or tel5- grams were to be forwarded tc' him, and then he hald communion with his fishing rod.
 ..rext year." he said yesterday, ''I am going to take six weeks off. There IS nothing like 1t in the world. IT Q m1n were to. put $5 900 in front Of me now and offer me the entire sum if l would 20 back tc the way I felt before l went into the mountains, I would spurn the offer. and s5,0O0 is not 9 small sum to me-"
 Somebody suggested to Senator Per zins, of California, yes terday that S2o'- DOG. 900 for the 1O,000,000 inhabitants # the Philippines was equivalent to $2 | ] head.
 seWelI." said the senator. recalling the days when he was sailor, T can remember the time when l would have paid S1,OO0 a head for these people-lf somebody had killed them. We were wing becalmed,' he continued, of one If the islands of the group, when three unks, manned by Malay pirates, pulled off from the shore some five or SIX niles away While we waited the ex- 1ected attack the wind came and filled 1ur tops'Is, and we managed tH get away"
 "So you know the Philippines"
 seYes, indeed" replied the senator T know all about their hurricanes, which blow 150 miles an hour and ,pread ruin and devastation every where. I know all about their earth makes. for from the 9th day of July to he 24th day of August I felt a shock every day, until we finally saw the ca .hedral razed tc the ground. l know III about their heat, for the average is 84 degrees and the min mum is 59 degrees. I know all about heir cholera and smallpox and other