New-York tribune., 1902-12-12
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
rRY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNB.l
Wasbinpton Decem b

AIGER HAS NOT GOT HIS SEAT 1EI--Wlth
the tails OF his long coat flying behind him and an
evidence excitement in his dilated puplls. tepr
sentative William Alden Smith entered the senate
chamber to-day and sought out Senator Ager.
General" said he 1.-The President has just sent
in the nomination of postmaster in hotly co con.
suspension of the rules to secure his continuation d
William, said the Senator laying MS aa hana
the younger mans shoulder Il w0ur1, @5
in the State of Michigan I'd rather pay ,hesr
salaries of my pocket You must rtIell
I'm new in this saddle and haven't got my seat
And so Mr. Smith sought out that warworn vet,
eran, the junior Senator from Indiana and secured
the confirmation of his friend
THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA.-of the
hopelessness that has gradually become the pohu-
cal tone of the Indiana Democrats Representative
Lands tells a pat example
"At a country school in my district. he said
where the teacher asked me to talk 10 the boys
asked them a few questions about history ana
politics. and finally wound up by asking how ,a many ny
did OF course. with the exception OF one ntignt i
and 5ts dn Shfp SEEM n .ne at SIIngr all interested
Don't you want to be President. sonnyF IN
Well Yer mister he s explained b.Gocpnt hitehing n
his trousers and sco%hns. owl @ .btS oe Inch about it.
DR. MIBURN'S OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton in the Senate cloakroom recently turned on
the personality OF DR.. Mburn. formerly chaplain
of the Senate and Senator Hoar related an Incl
dent illustrative of the doctors intense American
ism He had been invited TO deliver the Thanks-
giving Day at union meeting III Ih'
church of the Covenant. The doctor had heen
dia+ine on the many facts for which Americans
should give thanks. and finally fell to deprecatng
the OF such compound terms as h Aeainans
Who first saw light in foreign lands said the doc
tor before they came to America, His F Iib
erty and law they developed INTO the perfect peri & ne
ings for which their Maker had intended tnenl.
wit his glorious coat OF green was
once the ugly tadpole. The butterfly with It's gor %
Who would refer to the 'tadpole-frog' or & to the
56t hsn Tag ne Does not
simple American imply all they are or shoulu
hope to be?
A LACK OF OBSOLESCENT LINGUOSITY-
Senator Blackburn was recently detected py ms
colleagues in the act of reading the Presidents
Message and as he read he chucked to himself
Finally their curiosity became aroused, and one one
of them approached the Senator from Kentucky
aiG It has lust occurred to me- soemnly observed
not coruscae with the pyrotechnic scntlllai9ns 9t
obsoescent hnguoSlty Whlcn 81 ,,st ionl Of Pres
ident Cleveland
MONTY" LEssLER DIDN'T RUN-EYer since since
Montague Lesser came back to Washington after
mis- defeat by Timothy Dry Dollar SULLIVAN ne
has been a target for general condolences rNef
resentative Lessler takes them all in good part
and has his own little joke for each symparhiTf5n pat 5o
The other day Western Republican memn9r, Ia Mtlo
IN al fbe corridor and said sweetly oh tell us ABOUT
your run mo- Snvthiug to tell was the grim re-
ionder Il didn't run. just marked time
NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTH CAhOLiNA
A fash of sarcasm that suggested ante-oelluiii
5.1,s in the Senate appeared yesterday senator
Tillman of South Carolina, IN discussion on liie
eubiect of cheap labor in the insular possessions
manfred whether the speaker, Senator Burton OF
Kansas believed that there must necessarily De d
class o 'mudSillS' IN the lSlailuS
Wi the Senator kindly favor me Rnrton wsh
oh drawed Senator tor Ganger 6n9 OF o9th ns 70
shire. that's term the people oo"n 0"u'i use -
describe the people up North
THE REINA MERCEDES TO BE REFITTED-
Orders have been issued by the Navy Department
for tho attinp out of the former Spanish warship
the Reina Mercedes, as a training snip Inc 'esSel
is now at Portsmouth, and 1t is estimated that a'
least six months will be required to mt her out IN
the war with Spain the Reina Mercedes was sunk
a. tho entrance to the harbor of Santiago and
under the walls the Moro Castle. She was sunk
outside the Merrimac but did not block the chan-
mel After the surrender OF the city she IRE na
raised and towed TO this country Owng 10 Il .ne
she is the only remaining ship of the Spanish fleet
at Santiago and possesses hsf4Grc @ dsnacement is
3.o9O tons. and her armament consisted OF SIX %
inch and two 2.7-inch Hontoria guns and f1Ve tor
pedo tubes She built at Carthagena in 1887
NEW STAMPED ENvELoPEs.-Wthin few
months the Fostoffice Department will have ready
for delivery new issue of stamped envelopes radl
call differing in form from the present envelopes
-Four styles are t. be made to sell for one two
four and five cents. AT present the stamp on the
stamped envelope is ellipticaI in shape 1t is IN
tended to make one of the new stamps rectangular
another will be round still another will be clip
teal and the other will probably be square The
full details have not yet been settled nor nave
The designs been submitted 1t is determined, how
ever TO have each of the envelopes distinct In
apnearance from the others. that there viii be
no confusion among the different styles and shapes
ovERcOAT'S OWNER MISSING