El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-05

man Of war in this country and over
pay the constructor $4,000, which
sum Uncle Sam IL to squeeze out of
him. The sultan is willing, SO is the
| battle ship man, whose name L do not
give as he doesn't advertise in the
HERALD, and only the state depart
| ment is hanging back. But isn't it
oriental? 1t reminds me of the cele-
brated event when the devil tried to
pull himself round a stump by the
tail.
Admiral Dewey hasn't come out yet
with that confession of the faith which
is in him, scheduled for a week or 60
back. His candidacy is not much dis
cussed now, but he has brought out up
on himself an avalanche of jokesmfths.
And if there is anything which Wash
fogton plays for long suit 1t Is joke
smiths. So the admiral's last estate ia
worse than his first. The perpetra-
lions at his expense range from NOR
alizing over the breach o. naval regu-
lations incident upon full-fedged
admirals marrying his second mate to
fact that the origin al Sampson Without
| q p-married and got into trouble,
whereas the modern Sampson with a
lp-didn't and Dewey did. The con-
struction and the "why fs-like-''
and 'why isn't-like-;' are too COM
plicated for me to remember now, but,
given the raw material as above, 1
| No olx of = I'm
readers to evolve omething artistic.
| o 90
We have had q circus here for two
or three days and the avers &c
| attendance on congress fell off fifty per
cent. Mine did, anyway. 1t was an
unparalleled aggregation, of course,
and it had faint sawdusty odor that
brought back memories of the days
when 1 would do anything In reason or
out of 1t, for a quarter-on circus days.
Other days 1 wouldn't. at least, not
without deliberation. The lady who
rode the camel in the street parade
was pinker than I have ever known
her before and the calliope footed
| wood notes wild, and the clown on the
burro did things no diplomat would
do, and the elephants honked and
swung around as all elephants do since
| Kiplipg said it was the proper thing
| for them, and the brass was clashed
and the horns were sounded and the
big bass drum doomed, and altogether
it was q successful circus.
| The house is blowing ahead through
routine business. The postal appro-
priations have been up this week and
there has been a big row over the
pneumatic tube service in New York
and other cities, resulting in cutting it
out. 1t will be remembered that some
Years ago a tube, working on the
bean shooter plan, was laid connecting
the New York postoffice with points
farther up town. It was quite success
full and other towns want it; but their
desire to have Ii laid is faint compared
i with the consuming ambition to lay
| them which the pneums tic psople
| cherish. And thu matter has resulted
| In come little scandal, Representative
Moody charging that block of stock
| was sent relative of some body. not
nearer identified, to influence legisla-
ton. Mr.. Moody was quite warm
] a bout the matter and combated the al
legation that the various cities wanted
the syste N installed by the statement
that "if this congress had thousand
pest houses to distribute, every con-
gressional district would demand its
proportion" Cummings OF New York,
who is a newspaper man and
an able one too, argued for the
appropriation, on the basis that New
York paid a IS 900, 900 profit into the
post office every year and it was only
square to spend portion of it in i'm
proving her facilities. Incidentally he
jumped on Talbert, of South Carolina.
A day or two ago Mr.. Talbert, who ia
no deaf-mute, was going for the
"trusts" and remarked that all people
we're either "skinned or skinner" and
he personally wanted to be one of the
"skinned." There is certain happy
optimism In the way which Talbert
views his fellow man and their mo-
tives that Is quite impressive) Mr.
Cummings was Of the impression that:
'If you don't let US take 1928 900 of
that money and use IL for our own
benefit, we are the skinned, and you"-
skinner"
The beer people have had large
delegation here, opposing the war tax
of 81 a barrel on beer. 1t seems that