The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-12
CENSUS EMPLOYEES AND FRIENDS
ANGERED BY CIVIL SERV-
ICE RULE
PET LAMBS" ARE NOW SAD
Twelve Hundred Employees Thrown
Out of Work, but Another Crowd
of Equal Size Is Ready to
Take Their Places.
TUNNEL UNDER THE CAPITOL
FROM THE GLOBE BUREAU,
WASHINGTON. ID. C,

Washing tOn, ID. G.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March ia
tunnel running under the congressional
library and the capitol building will be
one feature of the new union terminal
depot of the Pennsylvania and the Bal
timore & Ohio railroads. The best en-
gineers of the war department will ex-
anime the plans to make 1t perfectly
certain that no injury will be done to
the foundations Of the two most beauti-
full and historic buildings in the country
1t is expected that congress will approve,
at this session, the necessary legislation
for the union station project and that
work may be commenced by fall, or even
earlier. 1t was thought that the terminal
problem for both these railroads had been
solved by the bills passed last winter; but
the merger Of the Baltimore with the
Pennsylvania, which now controls a ma
jority Of the B. & o. stock opened the
way for uniting the roads in building one
large and magnificent terminal station
The tracks are to be elevated or de-
pressed so as to bring them clear of
grades, and as many millions will be spent
by the railroads as are necessary 20 build
a station which will be a credit to the
national capital, and adequate to the de-
mands of the next fifty years.
The people of Washington have oc-
casion this spring to complain bitterly OF
their drinking water. In color it re-
sembles the waters Of the Missouri river
which st. Louis residents pretend to
drink. The red sediment is so thick that
the water is scarcely fit for bathing. The
Potomac is very high this spring, and at
the Great Falls, where the supply is
taken into the conduit, the river is more
than hundred feet deep; the falls and
rapids have quite disappeared. The gov
eminent has started filter works; but they
will not be completed for two years.
That was a cruel blow delivered by
President Roosevelt when he issued the
order to accompany his signature of the
permanent census bill, prohibiting the
transfer of census employees to the other
government departments under the civil
service protection. 1t might have been eX-
pected; but it was not The bill was work
ed through both branches of congress
With as little friction as butter through a
colander. The reason: almost every
member and senator had from one to six
young persons, male Or female, who
would be taken care of and given per-
manent employment in the government
service, if it passed The pet lambs
were bleating piteously, and the congress
slonal shepherds did hear their voice.
But the wolf in the White houses snapped
his jaws, and with one fell stroke of his
pen, butchered them all. About 1900 cas-
ualties are reported.
All the same, lot of outsiders, who
have passed the civil service examina-
tons and are waiting patiently on the
elibible lists, will be glad the president
did not let this big crowd here get into
line ahead Of them. 1t would not have
been exactly fair.
The weather conditions in and about
Washington during the past six weeks
have n9uSa6 the ta1pQranh mic +0
lose thousands and thousands of dollars
Not for half a century have they been
so seriously crippled by sleet floods and
wind storms. For a number Of days tele-
grams between Washington and New 4
York were sent by train. The companies
have been obliged to refuse great guam
titles of business. The extra relaying of
matter here from the south has kept the
operatives working day and night; in
many instances the men have worked
until they fell asleep over the instru-
ment. Some Of the men became hys-
terical by the long strain and had to be
taken home.
In big envelope in his inside pocket
Senator Bard, of California, is treasur-
ing gift which he prizes most highly
He is waiting until he feels in the pink
Of condition to enjoy it-some placid hour
when the digestive functions are just as
they should be and he teeIS the calm
of good dinner warming his ventricles
1t is cigar-said to be the best in the
world. 1t was given to him by one Of
the richest men in the world-Senator w.
A. Clark, of Montana. Senator Bard is
a connoisseur of cigars. He has sFQokfd
all the fancy brands he has met. But
he is not rich man himself His $4,000
600 or $5,0O00 900 do not justify the purchase
Of such brands as the Montana copper
king may affect.
Il am assured said Senator Clark,
IN his solemn way, on the occasion of the
presentation 81 am assured, and believe
correctly, that this is the best cigar in
the world. I commend 1t to you as a
connoisseur, senator. It is the best that
money and labor can produce. I want
your judgment on it,
And the gentleman from Montana
touched the California gentleman at his
most susceptible point
Representative George Edmund Foss, Of
Chicago, has a constant and faithful
boomer in the person of his colleague
William Alden Smith, of Michigan. 1t is
the faithful William who has been herald
Ing Foss as successor to Secretary Long
in the cabinet. He thought it might helm
George out in his aspirations toward the
senatorship.
There is a quiet but determined cam
paign in progress to. secure legislation
from this congress permitting national
banks to issue currency against thair &c