El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-26

the general lines of the official subsi-
died show houses in Paris and other
towns and placed under the genera
supervision of the librarian OF con
eress. He has introduced bill fOr
that purpose, written by j. P. Voor
bees, son of the late senator. Mr..
Voorhees, Is an amateur actor and says
he wants to act for fame and mo-
glory. Nothing which could raise she
blush of conscious modesty to thu
cheek of virgin innocence is to be pro
duced except SHAKESPEARE, nothing bu
solid improving dramas intoxicating
deepest moral lessons. There will be
no purple patches of Shskspere swim
ming in q prismatic scintillant mael-
strom OF color" as somebody defined
some body else's chow while back.
Mr. Voorhees, foresees the possibility
that the theater might be trifle uA-
remunerative and proposes TO set aside
800, 900 yearly to meet losses. One OF
the representatives thinks, however,
that there ia no necessity OF deficiency
If the place ia run along rational lines.
For instance, the governmental Of
hcers might be induced to
offer their services during of hours in
dignihed shows like "Julius Caesar"
He points out that q production with
the secretary of the treasury in the
title role playing against the secretary
of she interior as "Brutus," with the
secretary OF war or navy as "Cassius,"
and the secretary of agriculture In the
humble but necessary part of "Ciuna"
the poet, would be sureto be draw
ing card. Then there could be q
chorus of senators and an introduced
ballet of patent Office clerks. Is does
sound applausibls. 1 think 1 could re-
concile myself to separation from half
dollar TO see 1t. Particularly I'd like
to see the most grave and revered SEN
atOrs dressed in costume and trying TO
keep up their garments with safety
pins. Buttons were factor in civ.li-
cation which the Romans didn't pos
ses. which Is why they ultimately got
whipped out. No man oAn fight we'll
or do business clad in Tapping toga
suoh as they wore. 1t was nothing on
earth but glorified bed quilt and
did, II they had TO devote one hand and
a section of their intellect TO keeping
their clothes up. Which reminds me
of the story of the Texas sheriff who
took all thoughts Of escape out OF lot
Of prisoners by simply cut
ting of their suspender buttons.
After which they paid their exclusive
attention to their trousers.
Senator Morgan ia still industriously
endeavoring to push the Hepburn
canal bill through the senate against
the wishes of the steering committee
of that body. The Panama people
have q large and athletic lobby at
work trying to defeat it and this, added
10 the senatorial indispositlon to take
the matter up at this session, will prob
ably Illustrate his efforts. Somewhere,
somehow, she French investors have
to throw S4OO, OOO, 900
20 the birds in connection with what
little has been done on the Panama
Panama railroad, lot of dredges, q
little hole In the ground and some
franchises. Naturally aforesaid in |
7estors do not grow enthusiastic about |
/ canal in Nicaragua.
The Shriners are coming to town |
lext week and fatsed calves are ~ q
premium. They will meet q large and
welcome. One man, how
YER, is sounding a discordant note.
lie has written to the commissioners of
he district complaining that the
estivities committee is to be allowed
. use larger fire crackers than are to
- permitted on the fourth of July.
md he thinks it's unfair discrimina-
lon against the fourth.
The Gu ban possofice scandals are
Offering our officials more than .
stle. However, the culprits are be-
az run down aud 1t looks IS II the way
the transRressor was to be made un-
sually rocky. Still, as Olive said
bout himself In re his Indian fortune,
70 are surprised really at their mod
ration. Taking an average crowd
own into such hot bed of corruption
. Havana il WAS fair guess In ad-
anoe that somebody would prove to
q q weak sister and yield to tempta-
alton. But there is one beauty about
ur style of doing things. Nobody
yer does anything off -colored very
ing before the newspapers get hold OF
nowadays and thereafter somebody