Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-03-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON LETTER.
| From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. c., Feb. 27.-Your
correspondent met Gen. Grosvenor,
Representative from Ohio, yesterday
as be was coming out of the House af.
ter adjournment, and asked him where
MS sympathies were in the Jap.Russ
war. "They are with Japan, he said,
Notwithstanding that she struck the
first blow and struck it somewhat be-
low the belt. But she'll get licked If
she doesn' It look out, "he added. "Your
faith doesn't seem to follow YOUR sym-
pathies, General" Isuggested. ''WelI.
this is the way it u.s." he explained: 81
don't know whether the Japs are good
lighting men. Anybody can fight
afioat, where there is not much appar.
ent danger, but to stand up and go for
ward N the midst of whistling bullets
and hurting shells, is another thing al
together. If the yellow mea can stand
up in front of white men, and fight
them equally, man for man,-that is.
II Japanese regiment is equal to a
Russian regiment.-then the Japs will
win and capture the whole Pacific
seaboard. But that 3 the conundrum. ;.
While the Agricultural bill was be-
ing discussed in the Senate it was an.
parent that the appropriations recon.
mended by the House would be largely
increased, and the number of SO called
divisions" in that department were
to be raised to the rank of s'bureausn
with corresponding growth of salarie,
for all the "chiefs," assistant "chiefs'
and the rest of the big Indians. The
misquito-killing division is to become
a bureau, if the House consents: also
the pathological or English sparrow
and hen hawk division, which is now
called biological survey Senator
Nelson, of Minnesota, says that this
last division has never done ANYTHING
OF practical Importance to agriculture,
and never will it is purely ornamental
and frightfully scientific. Senator |
Proctor, of the Vermont marble yards,
who knows as much about farming as
did the late Horace Greeley, has the
Dill in charge, and whenever Senator
objects to an item he replies: Tho
Secretary said it was necessary" Sena-
tor Bailey, of Texas, very observing
man, said if he had his way be would
abolish the whole thing, free seeds,
bird-catching, horse. training, noun
tain climbing, chrysanthemum- raising
and all. The State agricultural col
eges can look after the interests of
farming in their respective states much
1stter than a central establishment at
Washington.
The streets of Washington are made
lively by thirty eight carriages kept !
y the government for Its well paid !
Employees. These are driven by men d
arried on the rolls as watchmen, Ia t
orers and messengers. A private .
of the "chiefn of a bureau, =
government coach, with a colored n
ian on the box, is slight to make o
ne IS mouth water. 1t is also a suf- u
cient commentary upon the Civil Ser i,
Ice, that such things can be. IL
At the eleventh hour ex Secretary a.
cot has explained the whole matter. =,
o sum it up and boil it down be saws: OF
olombla held the Isthmus of Panama N
IbJect to the convenience of the CT
orld; and that Panama, as province, W
'wned'' the isthmus, which it had
'ver morally alienated. II this had
ly come before the debate in the Sem
e it would have saved much time.
lese two brand new doctrines of an
'rld convenience and moral aliena. alb
IN knock all the text books higher wi
an Gilroy's celebrated kite. Pr
Those who watched the personal con-
oversy in the Senate on Washing. MI
MS birthday between Senator Hoar. Ell
Mass, and Foraker, of Ohio, could tn,
regard it as either necessary, or ha
unified. There is too much hot da
AIDED eagerness on the part of Sena- ins
s, who should know better, to rush tt {
the rescue, full of words and fury,
enever they imagine the Executive o,
been criticised. The policing of tar
} White House is not the special af {
'vince of the Senate and Senator eli 3.
raker need not put himself on the VIZ
ce. Each coordinate branch of the mo
has only to look after its TIL
n affairs. There is silence which ket
ecoming to ones self-respect, and seal
Senate Is good place to maintain he
whi
itches regarding the construction hs d
he great canal have already ap- ho1
red. No money can be paid to 81
anna until the Spooner act is modi- NJ
clear IlGls 10 the properly can SIT v
lily be claimed until the suit COL -
ia has brought against the French DR
i company is decided A vast,
unit OF machinery must be made
re a shovel full of dirt can be NOV
D.
nara
SmiGl
nhpr Wa nfnn We will pay up-tO
'iUSs ~Iou' $12 90 per Nj, Burke
lie Poplar or Chestnut box lumber | Virfi