News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-03-01

is so radical and 1cOnOclaSt1c that
it is doubtful if it is accepted for
a long time to come.
Several thousand distinguished
ladies, representing all the states
in the Union, have been here this
week conducting and attending
the eighth annual continental
congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and have
evidently made of the affair a
very large success. The crown
ing event of the program was
the card reception at the Cor
coran gallery Wednesday even
ing-a most brilliant full dress
affair. Vermont was represent
ed in the convention by several
prominent ladies.
Tom Reed says he is a great
admirer of the system of theo-
logical teaching of the Filipinos
by this country, and allows that
we have at last got the thing
down to a fine practical working
point. Says Tom: "Our present
practice of sending theniggers to
headquarters for information re-
garding the hereafter by the aid
Of grape and canister is both
practical and effective. Tell them
that there is world of rewards
and punishments, and if they re-
fuse to grasp the fact make a
hole in them whereby their grace
less spirits can get out and go
and see" Tom never loses an
opportunity to sneer at the
methods of the administration.
He wouldn't be Tom Reed if he
didn't.
Yesterday | overheard a visitor
from the Mountain region ask a
Senate doorkeeper where the
Presidents room was. He was
directed around into the west
corridor on the Senate floor, but
the doorkeeper advised him that
he couldn't get in, by Gee, i"
was the answer, IN see if /
can't. l come all this way tosee
him, and I'm agoin' to" and off
he went in the direction indicat-
ed, with fire and determination
in his eye. AS a matter of fact,
the President is never in his room
at the Capitol except to sign
bills on the last day Of the ses-
sion. At all other times his room
is an uninhabited and Arctic
country.
A few days ago the guard at
the foot of the private rear stair
way for Senators and Senate en-
ployes exclusively, saw a large,
ungainly looking old gentleman
in a heavy overcoat standing at
the foot of the stairs in an unde-
cided way, and finally he started
along up. The guard called to
him, "Here! That stairway is
private" The granger said moth
ing, but kept on his weary way.
Come back! !" yelled the guard,
Il tell you that stairway is pri-
vatel" The old gentleman turn
ed and smilingly asked, Just
how private is it?" Then it oc-
CURED to the guard that the
smiling old man was Senator
Lindsay of Kentucky and he
wilted. Judge Lindsay is a great
overgrown boy-although with
gray hair, and always smiling.
The same doorkeeper had an
other experience yesterday of a
like character. A gentleman
came along to his stairway and
after considering a moment be
gan the ascent. He was very
Slight and thin, a black frock
coat closely buttoned, iron gray
hair and a thin, pale face. He
looked like a college professor or
an archbishop, and the guard
looked upon him as a lost sheep
wandering atwill. So hestopped
him, and told him that if he was
not a Senator or attache he must
step down and wander in anoth-
er direction. The pale and deli
cate stranger said pleasantly, l
am Attorneys General Griggs OF
the Presidents Cabinet" and
passed on. The guard again
wilted, and swears that any
id stranger in the world can
go up that stairway now. He
has nothing more to say.
There was an awful lot ofsufer-
ing and misery here during the
blizzard, even among Congress-
men. This is strange but true,
and l will explain. Monday dur
ing the height of the three days
storm perhaps fifty members OF
the House reached the Capitol,
but the gale increased so along
towards night that thirty Of
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