Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-02-27
Washington Letter.
From u Regular Correspondent

The ''lady scrappers" as the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution are
frequently jocularly called on account
OF their scrappiness of their debates,
the strenuousness Of which in past
sessions would have made the Reed
rules look sicker Than a discarded
lover, are again holding their annual
Congress in Washington. Mrs. lair
banks, the president, has SO far pre-
vented any scrapping OF as serious a
nature as that at last years session,
but a number Of the daughters are go
ing around looking as though they be-
lieved themselves to be mothers of
revolutions and intended to trot out
their offspring. Consequently it
would not be safe to bet that the calm
would last another day. The daugh-
tiers are having a royal good time So
cially, as they always do have in
Washington, and as they deserve to
have everywhere, for they are as low
able a lot of women as could be found
anywhere, when they are not riding
their hobbies.
Representative Wheeler of Kentucky
awoke the day after he made his ''lit-
tie Dutchman" speech and found him
self notorious, if not famous. His
mail, which was before confined to a
few letters from his district, has
grown to hundreds of letters a day
from everywhere, and he says some Of
them are commendatory. About nine
out of every ten strangers who have
been in the House gallery since have
asked to have Mr.. Wheeler pointed
out to them, and some of them have
said things. One thing can be said
to his credit. He stands by all he
said and didn't try to tone his Ian
guage down in the Record.
Ii there was any illwill between the
president and Gen. Miles on account
of the Schley reprimand episode it has
passed away like a summer cloud.
The two men had a chummy private
talk of half an hour at the White
House this week and when they patti
ed both looked as pleasant rs a new
daddy.
Pres. Roosevelt has made it q rule
to decline invitations to bauquets Civ
en- by organizations in Washington,
but he made an exception in favor OF
the Department of the Potomac &. A.
r., and was a guest at the banquet
given tonight by the veterans in hon
or of Gen. Torrance, COMMANDMENTS
chief, and heard the ''old boys' tell
interesting "reminiscences of the war
that was fought when he was q kid.
Quite a number of noses were put
out of joint and possibly the exhibition
of a few elongated ears were headed
off by the decision of the high muck
a-muck committee that the local
authorities should have no part in the
official reception of Prince Henry
which is to be distinctly q national
affair. To let the three gentlemen
who are jo1nt-mayors of Washington
under the titIe Ct commissioners down
easy, it has been arranged to allow
them to call on Prince Henry at the
German Embassy, after the president
makes his ceremonial call. One OF
the commissioners is an army officer,
and if he should take o notion to wear
his full dress uniform when the trio
make 5heir call on\ the Prince he will
probably be forgotten by his
civilian c~olleagues for ou%tshining
them ia the eyes Of The royal visitor,
but why imagine that he could be
guilty Of such cruelty. Perish the
thought!
Representative Georg& B. McClel-
Ian, of New York, enjoys the distinc,
ton of being the only man in Con
gress born abroad who us eligible
to the Presidency. He was born If
Dresden, Germany, while his parents.
Gen. Geo. B. (''Little Maryland Mrs
Mcclellan were making a touF of Eur
ope just after the civil war. He il
very fond of the country of his\nativ
lily although he left it before he wa
old enough to know anything abou'
it. He speaks German, but he\ &C