El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02
WASHINGTON

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Old Women of Washington-pol-
itlcldns Studying Out an EffeC
tive Slogan For the Coming Cam
paign Roberts OF Utah Agltat
ing Society-The Isthmian Canal
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Special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Nov. &c. Admira
Dewey has held the center of the stage
In Washington this week. For the
early morning performance at Manila,
he has been Kissed and the people who
paid for the house have wanted their
money back. Whether Dewey's deed
ing his house to his wife was criminal
or not-and at the very worst it seems
merely a debatable question in taste
all Washington took it as personal
affront. For day or two the progress
of gossip about it in town was like that
amusing game, "Russian Scandal"
where A whispers something to B, B
whispers it to G, and so on till q comes
out with q statement several miles
wide of that started by A. Given the
that the house ia almost next door to q
Catholic church, incomplete for lack
of funds, and the elements are present
for q very pretty lot of scandal. Then
somebody whispered "breach of prom
ise," and before night we knew q sur
prising amount concerning the lady
who was threatening the admiral with
the law. She denied that she knew
him or had ever seen him, but the
tale was too good to lose for details.
The whole affair from the buying of
the house to the end of the episode has
been a study OF Mysteries, aud the adj
miral now knows considerably more
that interesting psycholog-
ical phenomenon than he used to.
There were and are good many old
ladies', masculine, feminine and cpl
cine in Washington, and blowing hot
and cold in alternate breaths comes |
easy to them. There is another move |
ment started, for q new subscription to |
pay back their money to protesting |
Roberts of Utah is having the time |
Of his life. We in Washington have |
. personal interest in the matter of |
his being representative. In some |
mysterious way the foundations of the |
government rest about fifty per cent
upon the social observances in con-
yressiopal society in Washington, and
We are quite certain that if any in
traction of the etiquette of calling oc-
ours, that things will tumble into ir-
pi. Hence to the overwork-
ID wife of a monogamic congressman
With four hundred odd similar wives
20 call upon each week, the addition
If polygamic congressman with
number of spouses is serious matter.
Besides, there is q number of COM
olexities about the proper procedure
n calling upon a lady who is only an
Indefinite better-fraction, as are the
- complicated a proposition as that
struck by man 1 know, whom the gov
,rnment sent up to New York to study
Mile Christine, the two headed wo-
nan, and find out whether she-they
themselves-herself as "I'' or
'we'
However, it looks as If Roberts
would retain his seat. He is. for free
liver and is also an anti-expansionist,
Y hich renders him valuable to the
democratic minority. The republicans
AVE a very small majority in the
congress, something like
thirteen or fourteen, and every opposi-
ion vote counts. The republicans nat
rally want to increase their vote and
'ill probably try to refer his case to
be committee on elections. If the COM
1ittee can find an excuse for
sporting him not entitled to seat, he
an be thrown out by q strict party
ote, but il he is allowed to take his
eat he can only be expelled by a two
birds vote. In the interests Of econo-
~ furthermore, 1t Is proposed to ex-
edite all the contested seat cases.
ordinarily they are allowed to drag
II near the end of the congress which
lsures both the contestee and
le contestant, II successful, the two
ears salary, $4,000 each, besides
1000 apiece for expenses, making q
'tal of 1924, 900. 1t Is said the sultan
Sulu takes lively interest in Mr..
oberts, being polygamist, free-silver
1vocate and anti-expansionist him
If.
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The isthmian canal is to be one of
le foci of interest this session. MIR.