The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-05-05
Letter from Washington.
! Correspondence of The journal. ]

JHlS week, VI Will SEE It'll DtlOIc ltdN Ing
for their homes. The President had
quite a talk with Gov. Burleigh on
political matters. The Governor has
decided, at the solicitation of Chairman
Babcock of the Republican Congress
Sional Committee, to serve on the ex-
ecutive committee of that committee
in this campaign.
The press of callers at the White
House this week has been great, as
most of the Senators and members are
preparing to leave town and have
errands there before departing. The
President is in excellent spirits, in
spite of the constant hard work before
him. and has a cheerful salutation for
everybody that comes. Being a young
man of strong physical powers he with
stands the strain of his high Office far
better than any of his predecessors
have done. There is no sign of pallor
in his face, which people have almost
invariably seen in the faces of his pre-
decessors after few months of applica-
ton to the arduous duties of the White
House.
GOV. Burleigh had talk few days
ago with the Supervising Architect Of
the Treasury, Mr.. James X. Taylor, re-
garding the prospects orpublic building
work this summer. In the next Congress
Gov, Burleigh will have larger intlu-
ence than ever before in shaping the
public building legislation of the coun-
try, and he is keeping in very close
touch with all that the Treasury Depart
ment is doing in that line.
1t is very important" said Gov.
Burleigh soon after this interview with
MI, Taylor, that the buildings we au-
thOri2ed at the last session of Congress
should be fastened in construction as
fast as possible and as fast as is consis-
tent with careful and substantial con-
structlon. The Treasury Department
seems to be making good progress with
the eighty new buildings which are
now in charge of Mr.. Taylor. Before
winter comes again | believe the Treas
airy officials will have many of these
buildings well advanced so that they
can take charge OF more buildings,
which we intend to authorize at the
next session.
Il have another object" he added,
''In looking into the progress the
Treasury is making with these build
lngS, for you know that the Third dis
trIct furnishes vast amount of gran
tie to the government. | wanted to be
able to tell the owners of quarries, who
are among my constituents, something
in detail of the prospects, should they
care to inquire. Many of the contracts
for the buildings about to be construct
ed have been let, but | am certain that
the outlook for the sale of granite
building material to the government
this summer is good and that the Maine
QuarIymen will get a sufficient share to
Keep great number of stone cutters
at work several months"
HE supervising Architects office is
al interesting as well as a busy place.
')n the walls of its offices are scores of
pictures and sketches of famous public
buildings all over the country. A large
fofee Of architects are kept at work
constantly planning buildings for vari-
ous localities There are many con-
strucCon problems to be worked ont
there, not only as to eXteriors but as
to Interiors; for the accommodation of
puD!c business, which is constantly
growing in volume.
Senator Hale las a right to feel
gratliied at the splendid manner in
which he closed his labors of the session.
lie has been through many hard fights
on the floor this winter but has come
Off successful in most of them and has
accomplished more in the way of legis-
latlon probably than at any previous
session OF Congress during his long
public career. The amount of work he
N"'' f'''i VII WIN dppdIcIlG ease is Il
subject of remark all around the Capi.
tol. No man i'll the Senate at this ses-
sion of Congress has been identified
with as much legislation which has re-
ceived the presidents signature. His
comrade in the appropriations room,
Senator Allison of Iowa, has done as
much as Senator Hale in the handling
OF appropriations, but Mr.. Allison has
had very little to do in the active work
of framing other measures. Senator
Aldrich of Rhode Island, the other of
the THO of great Senators, has had
little to do at this session in framing
important bills, or in debate, as it has
happened that few of the measures
passed upon and considered in the Sen
ate have come within his jurisdiction.
Neither of the Maine Senators will
hurry back to their homes after the ad-
journment of Congress-. Mr.. Hale will
take a good rest and return to Ellis
worth at his leisure Mr.. FRYE will
possibly be more anxious to get back
to Maine, for he wants to wet fishing
line in some of his favorite lakes and
have a sniff of the ozone of the Maine