Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-29

Appropriation to Make Good the President
Executive Appropriations for Pensions
mission Of Two States-Three Millions for
Senatorial Lounsins Rooms - Personnel oil
Some Senators-Daushtsrs of the American
Revolution Use Historic TroweI With Which
Washington Laid Cornerstone Of the Ma
tional Capitol-CiviI Service Humbus-Sen-
ator Smoot Again "in Jeopardy
From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 81.
Legislation has made marked prog.
ress, since l wrote you last, and the
members OF Congress remaining are
polishing up their brass passes for the
homeward trip. (They are not under
the slightest obligation to the railroad
companies for these. You ask them,
and they will tell you SOY. If asked
why they are hurrying, most of them
would reply with far-off look, d" Sick
ness in the family"
Several things have been done this
week. In the House the deficiency
bill has been passed, making appropri-
alton for the executive legislation"
pensioning all veterans over sixty-two.
The bill has also been passed by a
strict party vote admitting Oklahoma
and Indian Territory as one State and
Arizona and New Mexico as another.
The Democrats voted against it unan.
imously, because it was not what the
Territories wanted and because it VIC.
lated the good faith of the United
States in its treaty with the Five Civil
lized Tribes of Indians. General Gros-
venor and other Republicans de-
nounced the bill roundly but they all
voted for it at roll.call.
For two days the Senate has been
considering measures for more Office
room, and has voted 100000 for a
magnificent marble building, occupy
ing an entire square diagonally oppo.
site the Senate wing.
Every American who can afford to
ought to come to Washington and
spend day or two in the Senate gall
lery, inspecting the statesmen. They
are strikingly dissimilar. Platt of
Connecticut is tall, lean and feeble
and has a hesitant manner. When
speaking lie always stands on three
legs. 1. e. one leg end two arms, the
latter balanced on his desk. The
other foot he waves in an embarrassed
manner behind him, and occasionally
touching his toe to articles within
reach. He is not ready speaker, but
is good worker and is listened to.
Morgan, of Alabama, has a front
seat and speaks often and rapidly in a
very low tone of voice, addressing him.
self directly to the reporters table in
front of him. Of no other Senator
can it be so truly said that che talks
like q book" So perfect is his gram.
mar, so symmetrical his sentences,
and admirable his English, that his
speeches are always printed without
revision, exactly as they are uttered
He reaches the ear of the contiguous
reporter and scorns the galleries. He
has turned into the eighties, but his
mind is clear as bell. his memory as
retentive as an elephants, his knowl.
edge exhaustive of the subject treated
and his step as firm as that OF many q
man of half his years.
Bailey, of Texas, is listened to with
more satisfaction, perhaps, than any
other man on either side of the cham.
Der. He is the delight OF stenogra.
pliers. Though the youngest member
of the Senate, he speaks with all the
deliberation of age. Murphy, the
stenographer, tells me that he speak.
not more than 100 words a minute on
an average, and his voice is loud and
his articulation perfect. He has the
gift of making a commonplace topic
interesting and his speech is decoratec
with great variety of gesture Of
hands and head. Senators on both
sides respect his great knowledge Of
constitutional law. He will be Presi
dent some time-and will be his Min.
lister to Paris or Panama for thus early
making this prediction.
Spooner of Wisconsin must not be
forgotten. He looks the funniest when
Fairbanks Of Indians, who is Just g
foot taller, is standing by his side and
smiling down on him. There is moth.
ing that Spooner does not discuss with
utter complacency. Like Lord Bacon
he takes all knowledge for his prov
ince. When any question is mooted
he leaps from his seat into the central
aisle, wags his head, swings his arms
aloft, smites the nearest desk, shake
his finger menacingly. and shouts un
til the crystal panels ring and the
Goddess of Liberty shivers with terro,
upon her exalted perch. She is con
scious that John c. has broken loose
again. His voice is tremendous-the
very antithesis of himself. To the
stranger looking down from the gal
leries for the first time, the roar and
gesticulation are startling. No mod
ern statesman has created more amuse
ment than the Fuzzy-wuzzy of the
Senate. and at adjournment he take.
sweet revenge on Nature by mounting
q tall and shiny silk tile.
Those convivial old girls, the Daugh,
ter of the Revolution, have been hav.
ing a gay time here this week. Wait
/ mean Daughters of the American
Revolution. Every one OF them would
be madden than a wet hen il l left of
the word American" 1t was a nota
BILE scene on Tuesday, when 5000 Of
them assisted Mrs. President General
Fairbanks to lay the corner stone OF
the Continental Memorial Hall oil
marble, back of the White House,
When finished it will cost half a mil.
lion dollars. A cold and searching
wind blew all day. and it is estimated
that a thousand caught cold, which in
some dozens of cases will develop into
pneumonia. The Masonic trowel used
was the one with which George Wash.
ington laid the corner stone of the
Capitol.
The Civil Service Reform" SC
called, has had to run the gauntlet in
Congress this week. Several of the
principal members of both houses and