The Washington weekly post., 1900-05-29
CAPITOL CHAT.

The annual effort OF the clerks az the
Capitol 20 secure an extra months pay
is n0w In progress.
II is 4 grab game, pure and simple.
There is no reason why the appropriation
OF thirteen months paw for twelve months
work should be made. especially as SIX
months of the alleged working time Is
occupied during the recess Of Congress
In doing nothing except drawing a salary
The clerks are paid better salaries than
employees OF the departments. who are
glad enough TO be allowed to stay on the
rolls. without making a demand for thir-
teen months pay.
Protests innumeTahle have been made
against the gift TO the Capitol employees.
but the latter seem to have a pull which
cannot be overcome. The outlook i,
therefore, that when the clerks come 10
Congress again this year with the de-
Inand that a months salary be dropped
into their hands, both the House and
the Senate viii meekly yield
But the extra months salary is an in
excusable, undeseryed gratuity. after all.
1t is a little late In arriving, but II is
here Senator Platt, of New York, ap-
peared yesterday in new gray alpine
hat. Every year the venerable Senator
ions the jaunty headwear and every year
he looks younger than ever.
Senator Kyle is very much interested in
| the Vice Presidential boom which has
been started for Judge Bartlett Trip, of
South Dakota
The boom is largely based upon assur-
cnPae said rn have
Eastern leaders of the party to the ef-
feet that if the Northwest agrees upon a
candidate, its Choice will be ratified by
the national convention. Washington Is
| said to have instructed its delegates for
| Trip, and it is said that Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, and North and South Dakota
| will also give him their votes. To be sure,
even If all these States support him, the
| total will be less than sixty. and Penn
| sylVania alCne can offset them all This
| fact however, does not deter Judge
| Trips friends from asserting that the
| East is favorable for him, aud they be-
gin by counting upon Maine, which is his
| native State.
OF course the great objection to Judge
| Tripp is that he was a Democrat four
| years ago. He did not identify himself
| WIN Ntlt INcJuBllIduS uHNll llil &C ltdiS
| ago, and in 1888 came out squarely and
| fairly on their side Senator Kyle says
| that now Judge Trip is a good Repub-
| lican, and will always remain one. II
| Is a curious fact that when Judge Tripl
was a Democratic leader in South Da-
kota. Senator Pettigrew was the chief
cogwheel in the Republican machine
Pettigrew has drifted cut of the Repub-
lican party, and Tripr has driftcd into it
| Just as soon as the gavel finally falls
| in both houses of COngress-which will
| probably be on June s. and not later thar
the 9th-Senator Frye is going fishing
He will hurry up to the RestigOuche tC
lure the gamy salmon and then will come
down into Maine.
! And while the politicians are steam.
ing and stewing in Philadelphia at the
| national convention, Senator Frye vii
be up in Canada. wearing old clothes anC
| a flannel shirt, and utterly oblivious Il
everything except the salmon at the enc
of his line. And like Mary Of old, he vii
have chosen the better part.
No one in the Senate keeps better in
formed on Oriental politics than Senator
Pettigrew, of South Dakota.
Mr.. Pettigrew Travelled extensively
through the Orient net long ago, anC
since his return has kept informed upOI
all developments. Among other things
he is a regular subscriber to and keep.
a bound file of the Celestial Empire,
weekly paper published in Shanghai
Senator Pettigrew says that it is q per
1 mir Of Ea arr1 al TairG and ~
ercises a tremendous influence on the 9th
er side of the world. although almost un
known in America.
|
It was Representative McCleary whC
the other day resurrected the three ia
nous toasts on the United States. Herr
is the first:
Here is to the United States, bounded the nortl
by the British possessions, on the south by Ae1ic
and the Gulf of Mexico oa the east by the Atlantic
and on the west by the Pacific
The second, a little more expansive, i
as follows:
Here is to the United States, bounded on tn
north By the north pole. on the south by the souti
pole. on the east by the rising of the sun. and Cl
the west by the setting thereof.
And the third reaches this climax:
Here is to the United States, bounded on tn
north by the aurora borealis. on the south BY n
procession Of the equinoxes on the east by primeya
chaos, and on the vest by the day Of Judgment.
For the first time in the history Of tn,
government, women will be admitted thi
wear TO the floor of national convention
There have already been elected 10 tn
Philadelphia convention two woman alter
mates. One OF them was chosen BY tn
Utah Republicans, and the other, Mrs. J
Il West. will be a member of the Idah,
delegation.
II know Mrs West very well" said Sen
ator Shoup, of Idaho. yesterday she i
4 lady Of the highest type Of character
very popular. and handsome. Both she AM
her husband are North CarOllnians, an
are well known to Senator Pritchard. The,
came into Idaho about nine years ago, an
have made a multitude Of friends. MI
| West is register OF the land ONCE, Il
the city where he resides, and Mrs. Yves
has always taken great deal or interes
in politics. especially since the wOme
we're granted the right 10 vote. She Wa
elected both on account Of her own ser
vices TO the Republican party and becaus
tho State convention desired 10 show
through her. the appreciation OF the Idah
Republicans for the devotion OF the ldah
women to our party"
The Forces Of Nature.