Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-11-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Special Correspond ncesto. the Herald
from the Nations Capital.
After all the administration can
not be waging very severe war in
the Philippines, or ELSEWHERE, for
he official reports .fshow that dur
ing the year ending June 80, but
three officers and twenty-seven pri-
Yates in the regular army were
killed. This is not bad .fwhen we
recollect that some 7O,OOoimen are
now enlisted under thel flag. Dur
ing the same period of time three
toficers and thirty-fve privates COM
mitted suicide. and forty-six pri-
Yates were drowned. Hereafter
the soldiers at the various posts
will be taught how to swim.
The United States is very gener-
Gus with it's navylIyard employees
engaged in building war [ships. It
pays them per diemI wages for fif-
teen days leave of absence and for
seven public holidays ,Iof the year.
The chief constructor of the navy,
Rear Admiral Capps, says theaUnit-
ed States cannot build it's own bat
tie ships as cheaply as theya can be
constructed in private yards.
The republicans of Missouri are
rejoicing over the prospect of elect
| ing senator from that state. Q It is
about thirty years since:CSenator
Cockrell took his seat in the Senate
and it looks now as if his time had
come to gracefully retire, and.Frest
upon his laurels. Only oneiother
senator has served longer-Allison
of Iowa.
1.-Two years from now" say the
republicans of North Carolina, 1--WE
will take our state out Of the solid
south column. At the last ELECTION
they reduced the democratic major
Eityisome $4,000. IT this operation is
repeated the Old North State will
again come into the Union.
.
Senator Proctor os Vermont, as
all who know him will agree, is a
very kind, benevolent land grand
fatherly sort Of man. He thinks
well of old school teachers who
have been poorly paid and had the
misfortune to outlive their useful
ness. To make them comfortable
the rest of their days he has given
them his home in Rutland, VT, and
with tia purse of $40, 600. Thesen-
ator is very wealthy and can well
afford to be generous. y 1ss
. s1szz 3Ste
1Humpty Dumpty had a fall;
couldn't keep his legs at all; Tommy
Taggart and his band couldn't make
Humpty Dumpty stand. iea
Mr.. James Bryce, author of THE
American u Commonwealth, y which
he says he wrote for the purpose Of
carrying the light into dark places,
recently told a New York audience
that mo people on the globe has so
great right to be optimistic as you
Americans. And then he went
down the harbor, the day after the
presidential election, and saw a
fleet of six ships from Europe come
in with 6, 1874 immigrants on board.
They, too, are optimistic regarding
the future of America.
Most of the labor union city gov
ernments in Connecticut we're
turned down at !, the last election.
The majority against the stoker
mayor, Mulvihill, of Bridgeport was
some 1900. He petered out as re-
former and became very narrow
partisan.
John Morley, the British states
men, who was the guest of the
President for several days, has been
giving the Americans some good
advice. He remarked to some gen
tlemen at the White House: "You
are to be the greatest power on
earth. Your policy should be to
keep your powder dry and your
diplomats alive"
Under Governor F. w. Higgins of
New York, the work of improving
the Erie, Oswego and Champlain
canals, will begin at cost SOL, OOO-
600. This great enterprise will
give employment to thousands Of
men, besides providing for the fu-
ture vast transportation business of