The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-30
W ashington Gossip.
Picked Up Around
the Capitol.

written the name of the soldier, Who
received the wound in the Philippines
and who now lives in Sioux City, and
a brief inscription on the picture told
the story of his claims for a pension.
The most popular document that fell
under the eyes of statesmen at, the cap
itol the past week was the statement
about the offices that Secretary Cortel-
you has to fill in the new department
of commerce. There are some 800 in
all at salaries ranging from $500 to 81. =
500.
There will be a lively scramble forth
with, particularly if the places are not
declared under the civil service. ,nnap
Representative Cushman told an an
ecdote of a noisy man who hooted in
the rear of one Of his campaign audi
ences last summer.
"While was on the stage, in the
preliminary part of the meeting said
Mr.. Cushman, there were frequent
cries of Jones' Jones' I should men,
ton that they had no reference to my
colleagues in the house, but to another
Republican, who was operating in that
particular locality. > .s l,n ii3.1Iay &
;, Finally the rclamor became SO great
from this one noisy fellow in the rear
that Jones moved forward and took the
stage for a brief speech. Il nas ar...
"'Why,' exclaimed the fellow who
had been making all the noise, when
he saw that this man was going to
speak, that is the very man who has
been telling me to boiler for Jones.
+ Hon. G. r. Davis, of ST. Peter, Mimi,
who will succeed Congressman Heat
wole in the next house, is guest of the
Raleigh. Mr.. Davis is a native of Illi-
nois, but has lived nearly all his life in
the North Star state. He is a gentle
man of attractive bearing and has ev-
cry qualification of a national legisla-
tor.
did you telegraph ahead for accom-
modations? No. Well, then, am
sorry, but we haven't a vacant room in
the house."
This was what many weary pilgrim
to the capital heard at the hotels for
many nights in the last two weeks. 1t
has been said so often by the polite
young men behind the desks of the var
ious hostelries that it has got to be as
pat as a formula. The jam at the no.
tells is almost equal to an inauguration
crowd and is abundant proof that the
attractions CT Washington as winter
resort are coming to be appreciated as
they never were before.
The most significant feature of this
influx, which is quite Independent OF
conventions and congress, sthat the
visitors instead of staying one or two
days, as of yore, now prOtract their So
journ into weeks.
In speaking of Philippine legislation
at the New Willard, Mr.. Brewster Cam
eron, who is in Washington as the rep
resentative of all the commercial bodies
of the islands, said: ut makes any
one who is at all familiar with the
present deplorable conditions in the ar
chipelago, positively shudder to con-
template the possibility of the adjourn
ment of congress without action by the
senate on the house tariff bin.
''The bill voting 100000 in aid Of
the islands, said Mr.. Cameron, sis a
mere bagatelle; it is like giving S. to
a man who appeals to you for the priv
ilege of supporting his starving family
by honest labor. He does not want
charity; he wants chance for life, an
opportunity to do for himself. And the
Philippines, above all things, need leg
islation that will enable the people to
do for themselves.
'"The consolidation of Arizona and
New Mexico to form one state is in the
highest degree Objectionable" said
Hon. Robert z. Morrison, of Prescott,
Ariz., at the Riggs House. Mr.. Morri
son is one of the leading lawyers of his
territory. He has been United States
district attorney, and last fall he was
the Republican candidate for delegate
to congress.
''The people of Arizona" he contin-
ued, "are immutably opposed to state
hood if they are to obtain it only by
merging with New Mexico. Away back
in Mr. Lincoln's day Arizona was de-
tached from New Mexico and made an
independent territory, and today she is
entitled to admission to the union on
her merits. The formation of such
big state as the two territories would
make is in the highest degree objec-
tionable. Their combined area amounts
to $4,000 square miles, an extent of
country unWieldy and incOnvenient
My belief is that our people would pre-
fer to have the territorial status main
tanned than to lose our identity in the
way that will follow the enactment of
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