El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07

| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES vi NOI III
Carolina, His Side partner-pic-
lures OF Beveridge And pettus
Must We Whale the Turks?-
Batson OF the Mdcdbebes-
And Some Other People And
Things.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, March 3l.-Though
the weather bureau has lettwo or three
unexpected and wholly unnecessary
storms clip through holes in it's pocket
recently, yet it's getting springier
every day in Washington and we are
rejoicing thereat. Out in the parks
are lot of ny-colored buds which
past experience tells me will coon be
full blown crocusses, or croci, or what
ever several of crocus are. In day
or two il will be time for the man who
is loaded with his little jest about
ibid you ever hear a white crocus?" to
PROFOUND it. That is always q symp-
tom of spring here. Last night l heard
q venerable, white haired poet, who Is
an additional attraction thrown in with
the free lunch at q local beerery-he
doesn't know it, bless his soul, but
that's really his vocation in life now
reading q delicate little threnody or
some suoh thing about tender violets"
to bibulous crowd. Then it's payday
all over town today, being the last OF
the month, which is a source of graft
6oo Of In
ator Pettigrew has gone 10 Cuba and
Washington feels roster. The SEN
ator Is always aggrieved about some
thing and he never keeps bis skele-
tons at home. Senator Hoar-aud
Hoar is on Pettigrew's side OF the
fence pretty much of the time-says the
South Dakotan Is the evenest tempered
man he ever knew; he's always mad.
Probably he'll come back from Hav-
ana with new crop of assorted
troubles; but then they III be new and
maybe George-Washington Lafayette
Lincoln St.-Cecilia Man
and-Brother Aguinaldo and Ditto
ing and the weary, meaning me and
others, will be at rest for awhile.
Senator Pettigrew Is accompanied
by another populist senator, Butler, of
North Carolina. Probably they will
do their joint little best to convince the
Cubans that Mckinley is re-incarns-
ton of Caezar, Napoleon, Lucrezia
Borgia and Benedict Arnold, likewise
of all the pictures in front of the side
show; but that is one OF the un-
avoidable ills. Meanwhile your es-
teemed contemporary, the Congress
sional Record, is less corpulens.
Butler is the youngest of the
senator's, but in appearance he is al
most senile compared with Beveridge,
who is attracting so much attention
just now. Beveridge is q man of great
force OF character-must be to attain |
his present prominence, but he doesn't |
look it; not any. Physically he seems
like boy Ia his teens and he has . |
very juvenile way OF talking, throwing |
bricks or roses as he happens to feel |
inclined, with all the lavishness of the
BON of market gardener. But he has,
81 Ssmivel Weller, used. to say, 1.-The
Likewise, he generally has som ething
20 say, though not always. He is
writing q series of Philippines articles
or the press now which are illustrated
~ series of photographs which are
more or less charmers. They invar-
ably shoe shs senator from Indiana In
he center, little to the front. and,
vhen the subject permits, with one
land showed In the bosom of an ex-
'anstve shirt in . strictly oratorioal
'ose. Flankicg him q little to the
ear, and looking impressed, Is always
bevy of elderly men, Otis, and
Dewey, and Macarthur, and that set.
The articles themselves treat of the
soldier, in a way which makes
he blush with pride at remembering
ave q fifteenth cousin in the army.
rom his remarks 1 gather that the
veraRe private out in Luzon is q
lodern Apollo Belvedere, clad in q
ecent suit of clothes, in fact, a stylish
nit, and resting in negligently easy
ttitude upon pedestal OF taffy.
o o o
II Is strictly against tradition for q
,nator to speak in his first term, but {
everidge has not only done so but {
as managed to get the whole coun-
y busy guessing as to what he would '
~ and when. Which does not please j
lie senate. Wherefore Mr.. Bever. l
lge has been catching it from all hands
nd not eniovinp the nrocess at least