El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21
WASHINGTON

Talk-The kiyl In the Senate
A Fat Secretaryship Laying
Awake Nights To 6obble Up q
GuiIeIess Texan-And Some
Other Matters.
special Correspondence of the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-Politic:
may come and politics may go; silver
senators and gold bugs may grapple
blue: Pettigrew may slide down the
poll tical banisters and yell: Hear may
enunciate his theorem that whose
easeth mince pie and is white, whose
doth not eat minoe pie and lie not
| white, they are OF the elect: whose
eateth nos miuce pie and is white, he
is doomed to ultimate irredeemable
purgatoriaticn; Grosvenor may prove
the: ad ADMINISTRATION just little lower
than the angels and rapidly gaining;
Sulzer may swear that 1t is net and
that in the pages Of the New York
World alone resides salvation: Bever-
idge may work the dictionary OF
synonyms and phrases overtime
throwing roses at Uncle Sam; million
dollar a minute senators may be ex-
PEELED from the senate or admitted !:
Chauncey Depew may tell stories and
edit th e New York Central railroad via
the long-distance phoue: and what not
aud what not-but all thase are as
superficial trivialities to the solemn
Ger emonies now taking place on Con-
necticu.. avenue between * street and
Dupont circle.
For feminine Washington has
just come from church with
her new easter dress On
aud is parading therein before reve
rently admiring masculine Washington.
1t is part of the constitution of the
United States, possibly not go written
but surely to be read between the lines,
that every woman in Washington shall
clothe herself in new garments from
the tips of Der presumably little pink
toes to the top of her couture on Easter
Sunday and walk on Connecticut ave-
nue.. l was just over there, as in duty
bound, being Washtngtoniau, to ad-
mire the procession. And it is really
gorgeous. The men all have new things
too, of course, but that doesn't matter
so much. Tomorrow will be the child
rens' day. All the tots will be expect
ed to provide themselves with dyed
eggs and go to the park back Of the
White House to roll eggs down hill
and have egg chipping contests and egg
eating contests and every kind of con-
test aginable to child with fer
tile imagination and lots OF eggs. This
also is grand state function. The
Marine band will be stationed in the |
White Lot to provide music, President
will review the proceedings. |
md so on.
The tariff bill for Puerto Rico has |
passed and the foundations of the |
government are still standing. L |
peak advisedly because [ made a |
pecial trip over to the capital to see.
so far as the administration has been |
Ible to learn, battle, murder and sud
len death are no more prevalent now
han they were before. But there are
OTIS and lots of congressman who will
all by the way side in the next election
IN account of Puerto Rico, and some OF
hem are simmering volcanoes when
hey happen 10 speak of the island in
'rivate. There is nodoubt that tariff
vas the wisest thing, apart from the
uestion of precedents, because 1t will
f1a To-
government with lees friction than any
system of taxation. The
honey collected all goes back to Puerto
sico. Some body once defined political
economy to me when l was studying
nat chaste science, as being the art of
the maximum revenue with
ne minimum squeal and a customs
ariff fills the bill nearer than anything
ise ever devised by the ingenuity of
IAN. In ills case, however, 1t happens !
nat we have had the maximum squeal, |
OF from the people who pay the duties,
ut from the democratic delegation in
ongress and they have succeeded in
citing the political pot boiling over
'ne country demanded absolute free
rade with the island without 'sifs' or
ands'' and, not having gotten it, some
the congressman will suffer
|
Admiral Dewey is still playing
pink, but we are promised a full, {
lear, concise and exact statement of
is opinions on things in general next
tuesday,. In the meantime Mrs.
'ewey Is refusing to be interviewed.
enator Pettigrew is back from Cuba