El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09
Special to The Herald.


WASHINGTON. Feb. 2-This being
ST. Grounding. his day. the weather
bureau is perverSe enough to hand us
out little sunshine. thereby ensur-
ing foul weather for the next six weeks
including March 4. when the admins
tration starts in again. Great prepar-
atoms are making for the fourth. in
Guiding khaki clad marchers; poly
phonic chats a new word to me, hence
use it, choruses; flags and decora-
lions by the cord; an inaugural ball
with no w. c. T. U. or Mrs. Nation
limits; extra police for the benefit of
the Pennsylvania militia, ditto fresh
lot of Senegambians expecting to be
hazed; and so on and so on. world
without end. If you come to Wash
ington for the occasion you will be met
by a warm metaphorical reception and
an actual physical one with the ice on
probably. There is no other town in
Christendom which is meaner than
Washington on March 4. 1t is mostly
just cold enough to be nasty and
pneumonia. just warm enough to pro-
vide slush. Which is why we lament
the prophecy of ST. Grounding.
Extra Session Talk Still Going On.
Extra session talk is still in the air.
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much time to do it in. and logically the
extra session is necessary to attend to
Cuba and the Philippines. The con-
gressmen however, don't want to come
back. naturally enough. 1t is pleas
anter to be home in the spring and
there is no extra per diem for working
through the sweltering early summer.
OF course there is extra mileage. but
that is not enough of an inducement
to most of them. The senate can get
through the necessary work this Ses-
sion. if it wants to-but the democrat
ic contingent are not exactly inclined
to make the way smooth for the re-
publicans. The house is not to be con-
sidered, because under present rules it
can dispose of all business and surplus
in ten minutes if the governing coterie
so decides. Likely there will DE the
extra session. For one thing. all the
congressman pretty much will have to
be here off and on to see about the dis
tribution of the 1900 places which are
to be filled under the new army bill.
and they might as we'll be attending to
other public business meanwhile.
New Army Places.
If there is any young man in Ell Paso
with martial aspirations and a disin-
clination to shoulder a Krag while
gratifying the same, now is his oppor-
tunity. OF course all the 1900 officer
ships are promised and repromised and
re-repromised already, but there is a
new crop of promises coming with the
jocund spring time. and the man with
the long pull gathers the perSimmOnS.
The staff got in it's fine work and there
are a lot of new bomb-proof. feathered
staff places for young men who can't
stand exposure, hardship, tobaSco
sauce, etc. The adjutant general gets
one lieutenant colonel and ten majors;
the inspector general has four majors
less; the quartermaster generals de-
partment-this is fine, easy work. as
Pat said of a bishops jobs given two
colonies. one lieutenant colonel. four
majors and twenty-three captains; the
medicine men have two colonies. two
lieutenant colonies, ten majors and lis
captains; the pay department-which
is gilt edged; nothing to do and an or
derby to do it's reinforced with one
colonel, one lieutenant colonel and 81
captains; and so on. In the line
where there is more glory and more
work. but no more pay or uniform,
there are places galore. In the artil-
lery there will be five new colonies.
five lieutenant colonies; Is majors; 80
captains; 80 first lieutenants and LOG
the higher Offices but only S5 captains,
IS first lieutenants and 105 seconds.
The infantry dittos both in the higher
Offices, but gets 100 captains. $50 first
lieutenants and as many seconds. APP
ply early and get your promise while
it is fresh.
Hawaiian Delegate In Trouble.
The polychromatic Hawaiian dele
gate is in trouble. There are some
people in Honolulu with whom he isn't
popular and they are after his scalp
with knife and an attorney and some
affidavits. 1t doesn't appear that Mr..
Wilcox has damned his number shoe
through the entire decalogue at one
JAM but it is charged that he has been
smashing it in sections. Bigamy is
one of the milder charges. He married
an Italian countess at one time in his
eventful career and subsequently es-
poused a number two wife without the
usual preliminary formalities. That is.
Mr.. Gear who is the attorney. says so:
Wilcox claims to have divorce in due
form. At one time the Hawaiian re-
public convicted Wilcox of treason and
sentenced him to be hanged. after
wards commutating the penalty to a
"35-year stretch as the McClure's
magazine writer's would call it. There
are other things alleged. but the one
on which the prosecution is relying
mostly. is charge that Wilcox wanted
to organize a rebellion against the Uni
ted States in Hawaii. and offered at
another time to go and help ell senior
don Elusivio Aguinaldo in his justly
celebrated sprinting.
The Administration Won Out.
The administration has won out in