Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-06

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Wait Likewise for a Passage at Arms Be-
tween Littlefeld and Williams - American
Newspaper Publishers Association Ask for
Prosecution Of the Paper Trust - Countess
Cassini Shows Bad Policy - Democrats Sc.
cure Report Of Resolutions of Inquiry.
(From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April %.
Congress will make precipitste adj
journment at noon today, and rush
home leaving scores OF most important
measures clamoring for attention.
This hurried dispersion is We ry crafty
ing to Republicans, for it enables them
to avoid committing themselves con-
corning much legislation which the
country sorely needs. Not bill has
been passed in the interest Of the la
boring man, but with half a dozen
bills on the calendar for an eight-hour
law and for an anti-injunction law,
Congress found time during the very
last hours to pass bill for the benefit
of the shipping trust, prohibiting the
transportation of government freights
in any but vessels owned in the United
States.
A momentary obstacle to adjourn
ment arose in the war of words be-
tween Dalzell, (Rep.). Pa, and Bourke
Cochran, (Dem.). N. Y. Dalzell, dur
ing his Congressional service Of thirty
six years, has earned the reputation OF
a master of bitter invective and reck-
less speech. Being sixty years old, he
has lost some OF the more lurid ali.
ties but still possesses the ability .
fire up in season and out OF season.
He is small man, specialized, some.
what gray, somewhat bald, strident
and snarling Of speech. Cochran is
ten years younger, fifty pounds heav-
Ter, nearly smooth Of face, surmounted
with an ample shock of hair. When
he came into the house thirteen years
ago, he irresistibly suggested the Fat
Boy in Pickwick. But he has out.
grown that classical resemblance and
is now very large and stalwart man
with an Irishman's blue eye, instan.
taneous wit, easy wrath and tongue
hung lightly in the middle. For the
benefit of John Dalzell, of Pittsburg, l
hope that his controversy with this
angry giant will be wholly verbal one.
Dalzell is ready talker, but Cochran
is high-class orator whose volcanic
eloquence moves alike friends and en-
emies.
Yesterday was distinguished by an
oratorical wind.up of the stump
speeches which have echoed through
the Capitol for the last month. The
galleries were crowded for seven hours
with some thousands of people who
did not stir from their seats. The
principal actors were Littlefie!d of
Maine and John Sharp Williams. the
leader OF the minority in the House.
The Republicans made fdur pas in
putting forward Littlefield as their
champion. He is an entertaining,
scholarly and forcible speaker, but is
such All independent thinker that he
has opposed the Republican admins
tration in it's imperislistic policy and
therefore was easily embarrassed by
questions with which the versatile op-
position piled him. He asked the
leading Democrats, one by one, wheth-
er they endorsed what he called the
free-trade speech OF Mr. Cochran, and
when they declined to answer categor-
ically, he raised huge Republican
OUTLAW at their expense. When Will
liams took the floor he turned the
laugh and applause very completely
by asking Messrs. Grosvenor, Payne,
Dalzell ct al. if they endorsed what MIR.
Littlefield had just admi,ted-that he
would repeal all trust.breeding tariffs
and all tariffs which enabled a manu-.
facturer to sell his goods cheaper
abroad than in America. "Answer,
yes or no." he shouted, to their great
confusion aid discontinue. Mr.. Will.
liams said that tariff created prosperity
about as much as a dam created the
current in the river. 1t was mastery
effort and it received unbounded ap-
plause.
A committee OF the American News.
paper Publishers Association appealed
personally to the Attorney General
yesterday asking him TO prosecute the
paper trust. They explained the in.
furious extortions OF which the trust is
guilty and backed it up by vigorous
plea for newspaper publishers. Mr..
Knox said he wonld see" and smil-
ing put the question by"
If the oracles assured the Countess
Cassini, daughter OF the Russian Am.
bassador, that she should have pleasant
days on Tuesday and yesterday for her
lawn festival in behalf OF the Russian
Red Cross, they certainly deceived her,
for a cold and drilling rain was kept
up most of the time for forty-eight
hours. The lawns were in Q bad con-
dition and umbrellas were little help.
To cap the discomforts, the arrange.
ments were not good. Many people
bravcd the storm because they be-
lieved that a wanton war had been
made on Russia at the insiigation of
England, and they wanted to back
their sympathies with their money.
But at the portals of the only resi-.
dence on the great lawn, where they
had been assured OF hospitality, they
were brusquely repealed as carriage
load after carriage load drove up, and
informed that it was a private house
and they must stand out in the wet.
BY this foolish Encouragement a good
deal of money was lost to the fund.
There were attractive booths in the
rain into which visitors huddled from
the cold, where they obtained violets
and beautiful vaudeville novelties and
pneumonia, rare exotics and rheuma.
tism. The Weather Bureau certainly
failed to obey the Presidents injunc.
ton OF "strict neutrality"
The Democrats 10 the House won a
victory of some importance on Tues.
day in securing the adoption OF the
minority leaders two resolutions; one
asking whether the Attorney General