The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-05-25
"Capita1" Letter from Harris.
Washington, May q, 100.

congress is in session these days. Mean
while the members of both houses are as
a rule fairly aching to adjourn and &c
home, and the only thing that pl events
an immediate agreement on an early date
| is that each individual has some one last
pet scheme that he wants to engineer be-
fore the clock runs down. He also wants
to keep an eye out that some other fellow
of whom he has suspicious dosen't have a
chance to do any mischief. AS matter
of fact the glory and success of states
manShip consists about as much in block
ing the other fellows game and prevent
ing something being done as it is to get
in ball game, his crowning glory is in
striking out" men.
For these reasons it has as yet been i'm
possible to get date formally fixed for
final adjournment. 1t is supposed, how
ever, that it will be during the week be-
ginning June 9th. Pretty much every
body is tired and nervous and want to go
home. The president wants rest from
the eternal visits of senators and repre-
sentatives and their friends and the cabi-
net heads of the different departments
want to get out of range for few days of
the eternal and endless resolutions of
enquiry which some bum-headed nixy
in one or the other of the two houses is
eternally getting passed and fired at him.
Some senator or representative will take
it in his head all at once that it is neces-
sary to do something so he will gravely
arise and move a resolution of enquiry of
the Secretary of Agriculture as to the eX-
tent of garget in Berkshire pigs during
some particular period. Then he re-
weeks, and the office force at the depart
ment searches through several hundred
volumes for statistics.
They all want to go home, but yet they
defel naming a certain date for fear that
they will freeze themselves out in an at
tempt to get someth hing of their own
through at the last hour They are re-
ceiving letters and kilograms from home
begging them to come at once and pro-
tect their own interests for a renomina-
tion, and-they don't dare go and they
don't dare stay.
Judge Powers picked up his other col
lar and socks one week ago last Saturday,
showed them into his carpet bag with a
cold boiled egg and five cent turnover,
and made bee line for the cars to bear
him to home and friends, and others. If
he had stayed here until adjournment he
might have had chance to vote two or
three times and his head would have af-
forded pasturage for the flies while he
nodded in his chair through the long af-
ternoon with the rest of the push but
what would all that have amounted to-?
AS matter of fact there was nothing
more for him to do here, and he went
home where there is something for him
to do, as appears by public prints. OF
course he did what anybody else but
strat lsmatic microbe would have done
under the same identical circumstances,
land this talk of remaining at his post"
is largely the language OF political ex-
tingency marked down to 50 cents.
Drink fair, Betsey, wotever you do
Besides, he left his clerk behind, Joe"
Veazey, alais Little Lord Fauntleroy,p
so called because of his angelic cast of
Years of experience have enabled Joe to
carry the mail every morning from the
House postoffice'to the committee room,
consume box of siggerets between meals
and call up pension case as slick as an
eel. In fact he can do any of these things
as well as the Judge can, the slggerets
much better. And, seriously, member
at home with good clerk-not necessa-
rily good man-here can accomplish
much.
| may be mistaken but it seems as if
Senator Proctor is looking very tired
these days, after long winter of contln-
uous hardwork, and | suspect his mind
has begun to dwell on Plco Pond up IN
old Yarmouth and the bullplugs therein
saggragated. Won't there be hot time in
that old town the night the senator hits
his log cabin?
1t is generally supposed in official and
diplomatic circles that the distinguished
success which Senator Proctor has made
in public life has been largely owing to
the care taken of his education and con-
duct by his secretary, the Hon. Bralnerd
Avery. Mr.. Avery is lofty and digni-
fed gentleman with what is known as an
alabaster brow and with such an air of
being lost in the contemplation of the
aweful vastness of statesmanship that
the teeth of Holbrook, the assistant sec
retary, fairly chatter whenever his eye
at our senior senator's success, with such
backing?
Senator Ross is new man this session,
as distinguished from last Not in the
sense of the new woman," but he
creates the impression among his TRENDS
and acquaintances of having been sand
brushed and trimmed so to
speak. His clothes fit, and are carefully
attended to in every detail. In fact he
has accumulated polish even as a rolling
stone is said to. And then, he is oc-
casionally granted the precious boon OF
Avery's society.
Senator Ross is served as secretary by
his sisters son, Mr.. Edward Nye of Gov
entry. who succeeded the writer In TINS
mouth last year. Mr.. Nye is modest
and quiet young man, is willing to admit
that the apostles might have had their
good qualities, and his head has not as
vet expanded to the extent that he can
not get on his underest garment without
tipping it down the back. In these de-
generate days consider all of this to be
in his favor.
Gen. Grout's secretary is his nephew,
son of his brother, Theoph, and thor
oughly equipped and qualified incumbent
of this very responsible position. The
position is not sinecure by any means,
and Charles job is one of the kind where
the officeholder earns his salary. Gen.
CIRCUITS mail is one of the largest in either
house and to care for it properly is a good
continuous job for two men. Charles is
Just completing course of law studies
and before many months will likely have
a board out somewhere in Vermont. His
wife is a daughter of Hon. Barney Can
non of Bellows Falls, we'll known
throughout Vermont, and month ago
Mr.. and Mrs. Grout became the parents
of a little daughter. Their. first born,
boy, already wears overalls and labOrs in
the garden.
Gen. Grout has flash hissef to de
mas and is working steadily eighteen
hours a day, at least ten hours being con-
sumed in his congressional duties. Last
week he was busily engaged in getting the
ls.f OF hill ananfnd into