The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1904-12-03
Washington Letter.

tdilllV uuSJltl' buiihS 'hN ~
week IN giving evidences Of siren,
uosity he has accepted with thanks
the bronze statue of Frederick the
Great from Germany and three
carloads of wild animals from
Abyssinia, made three carefully
prepared and effective speeches,
collated and co Ordinated much III
formation from his Cabinet, ana
moulded the last half of his mes
sage into shape and read the proof
of the whole of it, received halt a
dozen foreign ministers, talked
with forty Senators and Congress
men, pardoned seven convicts, rid
den ten miles and walked four
teen, offsetting the eNercIce 10y
eating heavy Thanksgiving din
ner, with 34-pound turkey in
the middle OF it, SAID another fer
vent good bye to Parson Wagner,
shaken hands with a thousand
strangers, appointed several hun
dred to office, and dismissed half a
dozen, and yesterday morning be-
fore daylight he jumped on fast
flyer for st. Louis where he will
inspect the Fair for two days,
make several speeches and seized
ules to he back here by Tuesday.
When it is remembered that be-
sides attending to these tritles he
transacted the usual routine bust
ness and swept the desks of the
White House of all accumulated
correspondence, the American
people will see that their not very
ObseQuiOus servant in the White
House is person Of industrious
habits.
He will indeed have to hurry
back, for Congressman who had
not heard of his flight are at the
White House this morning, very
earnestly demanding to see him
on imperative business. For two
weeks statesman have been arr,
irving fIom different parts of the
country, and in two or three days
a majority of the members will be
on hand with Uncle Joseph in the
vanguard. Though the last SEES
sion of the 5Sth Congress will not
open till week from Monday
noon, there is unusual activity on
the part of Senator'S and Repre-,
sentatives already on the ground
and there are SO many matters OF
consequence to dispose of before
March 4 that there is less Incli
nation than usual to jump the
Christmas cycle and reassemble
only after the midwinteI holidays
If the mania for work manifested
by those already on the ground is
shared by those yet to come, it is
possible that that sop to the in
dolent will be entirely withheld
and that Cannon will keep the ole
gravel flying without interruption
in the determination to edo
things" If the two weeks oil
| Christmas holidays should bt
wasted as usual, there will be only
seventy working days left be
tween December 5 and noon OF
March 4. Appropriation bills
must be passed, whatever the
economical frenzy may be, aggre
eating nearly or quite 100000,
600. They will probably. be en-
acted with considerable prompt
ness on the ground that the!Ameri
can people have affirmed that
they like large expenditures, and
the feeble minority will have little
heart for fill clustering and dilato
ry tactics. With a majority OF
11G in the House, the Republican
party can do as it pleases, espec
tally as it will have a much larger
majority in the next House, where
there will be only 1874 Democrats
los of whom will come from the
old "Solid South"
Congressman exhibit abnormal
excitement about the shape which
the ''pork" bills will take-the
bills for rivers and harbors and
public buildings-these measures
being VIGOROUSLY not in the Pub
lie interest but in the interests OF
the constituents of individual
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