Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. II, 1904.

fraternaliy participate in the Inauguration
exercises. and both the President and his
Democratic escort will forget what they
said about him in October. It will be in
teresting to see Senator Carmack and Repre-
sentative Kitchen haye a place on the in
auguration Committee. It is understood
that these twain are expected from the
Presidents general amnesty. They enjoy
only the privileges of ticket-of-leave men.
1t looks to-day as if the Inauguration ball
would take place where the Inauguration
itself will take place-at the Capitol build
ing. The House objects to tearing up the
Pension Office and interrupting business
there, and the Senators object to granting
the use Of the Congressional Library, by
far the most appropriate place for it.
The Inauguration Committee announces
that no refreshments will be provided for
the publie-quite superflous announce
ment, as no President since Jackson has
tried to feed the OF poktoi. He tried. Re-
ceiying a vast cheese weighing several tons
from New York farmer, he placed it in
the center of the East Room of the White
House, then called 1.-The palace. The pop
ulace made rush for it. They clawed it.
They scooped it out. They flung it at the
chandeliers and carried it from room to
room, trampled it under foot on the carpet,
and tho odor tbaraof oSoandad 70 Haa,o,,
But there were other things. A letter
writer of that time wrote: A profusion
of refreshments had been provided. Orange
punch by the barrelful was made, but, as
walters opened the door to bring it out a
rush followed, the glasses were broken the
pals of liquor upset, and the most painful
this carried that wine and ice cream could
not be brought to the ladies', and tubs OF
punch were taken into the garden to entiee
the crowd from the Palace. It was morti-
flying to see men, with boots heavy with
mud standing on the damask satin-covered
chairs, from their eagerness to get a sight
attempt to feed the American people on
March 4th however much His Strenuosity
might enjoy the sight.
Secretary Taft just back from Panama,
has spent some time this week helping to
rescue the Philippine bill for defeat. The
debate on the bill touched mainly on the
right of Congress TO delegate to the Phil
ippine Commission power to revise the
insular tariff. Several Republican Sena-
right Senator Newlands urged a
reduction of the interest on the railroad
bonds which the Philippine government
must guarantee, from five per cent. to two
and a half per cent, insisting that the
United States would be morally bound to
redeem the bonds and by assuming the
legal responsibility for them they could
easily be sold for higher price. Senator
Carmick got the floor yesterday with his
usual effectiveness. He said that after the
late election he might not have had cour-
age to take any further part in debates had
not he President in his message distinctly
aligned himself with the Democrats and
The President expressed
the hope that the time would come when
the Philippines would hold such relation
to the United States as Cuba now holds
the very thing advocated in the Democratic
platform. Would not the Presidents mes
sage anticipating self-goyernment for those
people tend to excite insurrection there /?
The President further said that our presence
in the Philippines was justified only by an
effort to aid and insist them. These two
bership in the Washington Anti-Imperial-
list League, = said the Senator amid laugh
ter The bill passed last evening by a.
party vote.
The confirmation of the sentence of Ma
chen, Lorenz, and the Groff's is greeted
with II told you so, {" on the part of Re-
pubieans who promised that official de-
linquencies should be punished. In this
connection it is announced in the Postmas-
ter Generals report that 1888 post-of
fees were robbed during the last fiscal
year. And this recalls inevitably the OPP
timistic prediction of Senator Beveridge,
who, in one of his oratorical rainbows as
serevated that our government OF the Phil
ippines would be so just, so honest and so
exemplary that it would be reflected back
upon the United States and immense
raise the moral standard Of our people. This
is good time to invite bis attention to the
prophecy
For instance our laws against smuggling
seem to be violated with impunity by our
naval officers. The fragrant Porto Rican
scandal has not ceased to assail our oliiac-
tories when comes the detention of the