The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-02-05

CONGRESS.

| OVAtOA\AOSs
The Notifications Appropriations bill
carries 81, O93, 943, which is something ovel
500, 600 less than it carried last year.
ooh, that mine enemy might write q
book That is an old saying that is
probably running in the mind of Gen
Grosvenor, of Ohio, just now. Gen. eros
venor, at the request of a firm of publish
ers, and for goodly consideration, wrote
la book, titled, S'The Book of the Presi
dents" When he turned the manuscript
over to the publishers. he declares his in
terest ended, and that he has no connec
ton whatever with il. Agents are out
with the book, however, and they are tell
ing pathetic tale of Gen. Grosvenor's
poverty, and that this book is written by
him to recoup his fortunes and stay his
old age, or words to that effect. All OF
which is, of course, screamingly funny
The friends of the Ohio Santa Claus,
however, are sending checks 60 Gen. eros.
venor, personally, and making him not q
little trouble.
An extra session of Congress is threat.
ened if Senator Quay persists in lacking
the Statehood bill on one of the ApprO-
priation bills. 1t is said that a majority
of the Senators will be marshalled against
the passage of such an Appropriation bill,
! and that an extra session will then have
to be called to provide money to run the
Government. The Statehood bill will die
with this Congress. So, if an extra ses-
sion is made necessary; only Appropriation
bills need be considered, and this is
thought to be the plan that those opposed
to Statehood will adopt in case Mr.. Q1ay
persists.
The House of Lords, namely the United
States Senate, will have as representa-
tive in that body for the next six years
Mr.. Levi Ankeny, Republican, of Wash
ington, a many-times millionaire, who sue
is closing six years whirl in that giddy
body.
Mr.. Ankeny was born in st. Joe, Mo-,
in 1914, but before he was a year old his
parents took him to Oregon, and he has
been resident of the great Northwest
ever since. He is a fine business man,
having amassed preat fortune through
taking advantage of many trade conditions
of that section. He has string of Ma
tional banks, which he established for his
own convenience in handling large sums
of money and treasure, and he is said to
have been more than generous in assisting
the farmers of Washington, whose paper
he held during the terrible years of de-
preston. Mr.. Ankeny will thus come to
| the Senate as one of the Original Sound
Money Men," rock-ribbed Republican,
and a man who is regarded as "Old Bush
ness" because he has always been man
of affairs.
| Mrs. Ankeny is Western woman, said
| ~ h. I'm; hIo bncfasc and in the hos
pitable and handsomely cOmmodious home
of the Ankeny's in Walla Walla she has
entertained most of the notable people who
have visited that section of the country.
There are five children, three half-grown
sons and two young daughters, Miss Har-
| riet, aged II, and Miss Charity, aged 16,
| who will make her debut in Washington
next season. The Ankenys will make
their home in Washington. d. G., during
the Winters, and in Washington State
during the Summers. They will be dis
| tinct addition to Official Circles, and to the
social set of Washington.
| Representative-elect Hepburn, from
Idaho, is said to weigh above 300 pounds,
and he is enormously big. A special chair
will have to be manufactured for him, and
he will probably be given his choice OF a
place to sit, as, it would not do for him to
get in the middle Of a row. Nobody could
get by him either one way or another. =. ,.>
What on earth has Representative
Charles Cochran, of Missouri, got against
the Ermine? In a speech the other
night, in which he was particularly hard
upon the attitude of the Supreme Court
toward "'Trusts," he declared that 'the
Justices are selected from school of
thought that brings them 20 the bench
prejudiced against the very laws which
| it was the purpose of the convention to
have enforced. If Federal Judge were
to drop dead tonight" he continued, "the
corporations and trusts would pick out his
successor before the widows tears were
dry" Which, if true, Charles, would be
tuff, very tuff. But it amt true"
The euIogies in the House last Sunday
were not a swirling success. Three or four
dei.d Representatives were to be eulOgized,
AMI there were 30 members on the floor
by actual count, Is Of whom were sched-
uled to make speeches.
The reelection of Mr.. Teller to the
United States Senate by one majority vote
| is a sad comment on falling star. Mr..
Teller once held Colorado i'll the hollow Of
his hand; now he is returned in a half
mist of suspicion and doubt, and when he
takes his seat next term it will be On the
Democratic side of the hOu He must
do this, for he was elected by a Demo-
cratic Legislature. A lifelong Republican,
he has been repudiated by that party be-
cause of his "holier than thou" attitude on
the financial and currency question. The
party with which he allied his fortunes
when he tearfully walked out of the st.
Louis Convention has ebbed to nothing,
and no longer owns q name, even. The
Democrats do not want him, for if he ever
took the stump for that party his earlier
speeches would be used to ridicule him off.
He was once one of the wheel-horses of
the Republican party. In his old age he
stands cut at sea, like derelict in the
way of progress.
Mr.. BrOwnlow, of Tennessee, has intro
duced bill authorizing the burial of wives
of deceased enlisted men in National Gem
eteries. There is no reason in the world
why this might not be done. The Govern
mept is proceeding to care for the rebel
dead, and certainly the wife of veteran
of the war of the rebellion is as good as q
rebel any day, even though her husband
carried a musket, instead Of wearing
shoulder straps.
| The House and Senate are after the
Medicine Men" of the Indian Territory
with a sharp stick, and both bodies have
recommended stringent laws against fakirs
in either pharmacy or medicine.
Senator "Confucius" Pettus, of Ala
bama, wants the Congressional Library
turned into a circulating library for the