Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-03-23
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondents Of the CormFR.
Washington. Mar. 22.


lot of four flushers, trimmers,
hypocrites and towards. Ii was
a strenuous and most exciting week
in the House. Every man whose
name had been mentioned i'm the
Bristow report that was flung into
the bear pit by the chairman of the
committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads, the Hon. Jesse Overstreet.
was boiling over with rage and
wanted a chance To get at BriStow.
There we're nearly one hundred
and fifty Republicans and about
dozen Democrats named in the re-
port who were accused of using
their pull with Beavers and Machen
to get things from the Post Office
Department that did not belong to
them and that were unlawful TO
grant. As | said last week these
requests were made, for the most
part. with no criminal intent.
The members of Congress did not
know that ii was unlawful TO grant
these requests and relied on the
officers of the department TO know
the law in the matter. They knew
they wanted the things asked for
if they could get them. And,
Beavers and Machen, in order to
stand in with the members ofCon-
greSs granted them, law or no law.
To have themselves placed on a
par with Beavers and Machen. the
latter a convicted felon ON his road
10 the penitentiary. was calculated
to make the bristles rise on the
back of most any man and il surely
did on the members in the House
who were tarred with Mr.. Bristow's
stick. They ranted and roared
and ragged for two days. They de-
nounced Bristow as liar and a
scoundrel and did other stunts that
caused the House of Representa-
tives to resemble a ward meeting
in hot factional campaign.
When however, the Democrats
tried to get them TO pass n resolu-
tion to enter on a full investigation
of the rottenness in the Post Office
Department, they ran like a paSsel
of scared coyotes. The party
whip cracked over their backs and
they fell into line. They refused
absolutely to investigate the very
department about which SO much
has been written as to its rottenness.
and which they were so Justify
"cussing out only few moments
before Was there ever before
such fragrant exhibition of incon-
SiStency. DenOunee the depart
ment in one breath as being one of
the worst things on the face of the
earth, and in the next vote that
there is nothing about it to investi-
gate. That is wha: the Repubh-
cans did. When will the people
get their eyes open!
In talking with Mr.. u. V. De-
Graw, the eastern press represcn-
tative of the st. Louis Worlds
Fair, | learn something of interest
to the farmers and stock breeders
of the country in connection with
that great exhibition. One of the
curiosities of the World Fair will
be two twin steers, probably the
largest ever born in the world.
These redpolled giants were born
on Texas ranch owned by Will
liam III. Goodair and purchased
from him by Harry Berlines, of
East St. Louis. These steers now
weigh about three thousand pounds
each although they are only in fair
flesh. Mr.. Berliner thinks they
can be made to weigh I, 500 pounds
by the time the Fair opens. They
undoubtedly will excite much in
terest among breeders of stock
who attend the Fair.
Another exhibition of great in
terest among breeders of stock
will be in the first shipment of
Holstein-Fresian COWS to take part
in the Exposition COW demonstra-
ton which will arrive on the
Worlds Fair grounds in the
charge of T.. Is. yon Heyne,
the expert, who will act as super
intendent for the Worlds Fair
Holstein-Fresian Association dur
ing the demonstration This ship
ment comes from Cortland, \. Y.
Another shipment of Holstein-
Fresian cows will be made shortly
from lNr~OA.., H. u l. .....