Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-03-10
WA SHINGTON LETTER.
CFrom a ur Regular Correspondent

the record is CdiViuhg SVho V'Or, IL
will be seen bat the Fifty .ffU Con-
eress, now goI ,e to join the great
army of hasbeei rs, did much more
than was worthy of comm -endarion
that was open to ,sensure. Its total
ofappropriations-I1ore than billion
and half of dollars, was at first
glance startling, but war is expensive
and River and Harbor and public
building appropriations are popular,
in the neighborhoodv where the
money IS spent, as well as
in neighborhoods which hope
to secure similar ones hereafter. Con-
gress, with almost it's last breath,
made play That is little short of
childish. 1t is contained III the Nav
al bill, which provides for the build
ing of battleships and at the same
time makes it mpossible to build
them, by providing that no more
than $500 ton shall be peid tor
armor, and that no contract for The
ships shall be made until contracts for
the armor have been made. When
the bill went from the Senate 10 con-
ference, it authorized the construction
of government armor plant-a bluff
ut the armor-makers-if the arnor
could not be bought at the price
named, but that clause was struck
out in conference, leaving the whole
thing an absurdity.
Nothing connected with the closing
hours of Congress gave pleasure TO
greater number OF persons than the
confirmation of the new Naval pro-
motions sent to the Senate on the last
dav of the session, which made Schley
a rear Admiral, two numbers ahead
of Sampson, instead oftwo numbers
behind him, as the first promotion
sent in, which the Senate hung up,
would have made him. Public opln-
ion sometimes gets on the wrong side,
but in this case it was right from the
frat, and it is responsible for the &C
ton of the Senate, which brought be-
fore the public facts that compelled
the administration to reverse the &C.
ton of the little clique Of the Navy
Department, which had inveigled the
Secretary of the Navy into making
recommendations not justified by the
records. calls we'll that ends well,' /
but this case might not have ended
well if public opinion had not raised
a fog. Everybody also rcjoiced when
Dewey was made a full Admiral, but :
it should have been done the first "
hour of the session of Congress, ill., Il"
stead of in one of the last.
The little verse which was moor ;,
porated in the farewell speech OF :,
Senator Wilson, of Washington, who -
Joined Senator Warren, of Wyo., IN .
protesting against the treatment ap-
for the West received If
n the conference on the River and
Hsbor bill especially that provid- W
ug for irrigation, which wss dropped 10,
With others, will not soon be forgot p
en-, owing to its aptness. Mr.. War on
en- said the Westerners were repre- dis
ented by the young goose and the sal
fasteners by tho old goose in this all
erse: die
The Young goose winketh, winketh, winketh; m,
he old goose blinketh. blinkoth, biinketh'
ut the young goose never can tell
hat the cid goose. thinketh, thinketh'
thinkelh." Ian
The announcement Of Representa- Oh
we Bailey, made because the House wi
fused 10 consider the resolution de- inc
,ring the seats of the four repre-
,ntatiyes who accepted Army CON-
issions. to have been forfeited, that, tin
wing to his great love and Veners
on for the Constitution, he would
0 longer attempt tolesd the minori'
:, yaa dramatic, pathetic or farci'
II. Just according TO the way it was
oked at. Had the resolution itself
cen voted upon, it would have been
lopted without question, because
n. BsiIey's contention tbat the con-
tuition prohibits a member OF Con-
'ess holding other office under the N,
,yernment is conceded to be sound. llf
1T UPON vote as to whether that
solution shogll be considered, the
'puIarity Of "Fightipg Joe" Wheel TIL
turned the scales against taking IT is
sin
When the Senate, by a,,yote of a. ina
IL adopted. Senator Forskers KIN
lendmsnt to the Army bill, delcar ~,
, that no property franchises or con-. tru
,sions of any kind should be grant gel
III Cubs Outing U. >. occupation o On
the island, it served notice upon ass
ride of schemers, TINT they would imi
t no help from this government in 70,
FIR efforts to get something for cal
thing in Cuba. wh
The anti.Nlcaragua Canal lobby the