The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-29


Committee Disciplined For Oppos-
ing Ship Subsidy Steal Teddy
Starts OF Well-McKinley's OPP
timistic sentence-Contradic by
History-Pronlxes to Cuba Should
BE REPRESENTATIVES and Fatalities
Of the Last Congress-Louisiana
Purchase Fair.
Especial Washington letter.
One of the most turbulent legislative
bodies that the sun ever looked down
upon was the Polish diet. In that
assembly every member possessed an
absolute veto on any measure. To kill
any bill all any member had to do
was to yell ME Potzwallumw and
the bill was as dead as smelt. As
q rule the gentleman who did the yell
ing was also dead, for when he yelled
''Nie Potzwallum" and stopped the
proceedings usually his fellow men,
bers were SO enraged that they ran
their swords through him and put an
end to him.
Senator Thomas II. Carter performed
the ''Nie Potzwallum' act for the river
and harbor bill, acting, so it is whis-
pered, under instructions from the
White House, but he didn't do it with
two words. The senator babbled on
for 1872 hours, only falling short by
one hour of Senator William Vincent
Aliens matchless performance as a
long distance. taller. If the hour of
IL m. had not arrived, Carter would
have broken the Nebraskans record
And Thomas hath received his re-
ward--an appointment as Louisiana
Purchase Worlds fair commissioner at
nice little salary of $1,000 a year
and not much to do. More fortunate
than the Polish patriot who yelled
"Nie Potzwallum" Carriers senatorial
brethren did not run their swords
through him, though several of them
were angry enough to have done SO in
jigtime. They were smacking their
lips in anticipation of the juicy bacon,
and, 10, when Carter spoke there was
no bacon-but much cussing.
All of which recalls the famous lines:
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggy bone,
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare,
And SO the poor doggy got none.
Hanna Grinned.
No doubt Mark Hanna grinned a
sardonic grin as the hands of the big
clock pointed to IL w., for he
was savagely evening things up
with his eminent fellow citizen,
Hon. Theodore E. Burton, chair
man of the river and harbor COM
mittee, who openly announced his
popularity known as the ship subsidy
bill. Sweet is revengev' Mark would
have said if he had ever read Lord
Byron, the greatest poet and revenge
getter of them all. Byron gibbeted his
enemies before high heaven that all
men might gaze upon his victims.
Mark knocks them in the head and
leaves them by the wayside. In the
language of the sporting fraternity,
ats a horse on" Burton-and "a horse
ON a good many conscript fathers
who looked upon the pork barrel with
watering mouths.
Teddy.
As veracious chronicler of current
events it is my duty to inform my mil
lion readers that Governor and Colonel
and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt,
flippantly and affectionately yclept
Teddy, pulled OF his part Of the inau-
gural show not only with great sue
cess, but with great eclat. He perform
ed In the senate chamber, with roof
over his head to keep of the rain, while
Mr.. Mckinley labored under the disad-
vantage Of speaking to vast con-
course Of people who were being soak
ed to the skin by steady downpour.
Colonel Roosevelt bore himself hand
somely and delivered very nice speech
in clear, audible voice and proceeded
with the routine duties Of presiding Of
deer as though he were veteran. He
made favorable impression on all
present. take pleasure. in stating
these things because Mr.. Vice Presi-
dent Roosevelt is much more admira-
Bile character than was Mr.. Candidate
Roosevelt. He certainly added nothing
to his own fame or to the estimation In
which American public men are held
at home and abroad by his capers dur
ing the campaign. But he starts well
In the vice presidential Office.