The Opelousas courier., 1904-05-07
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent

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Washington, d. c., April 30, 1904.
Gone the House and gone the senate;
Gone the winters prime attraction
Gone the tumult, and I pen it
With no little satisfaction.
SpoOner's chatter, ending never;
Teller's comment, wise and witty;
Stewards drOne and Platt's palaver
Gone! Skedaddled from the city!
flushed are Bingham's economies;
flushed are Payne's remarks satlric;
flushed are Bede's and Cannon's comics;
flushed is Bourke's Hibernian lyric.
Champs vociferous trombone,
Kitchin's speech, direct but frugal,
Grosyenor's roaring cacophone,
ALEC Suffers mellow bugle.
G0ne!-the racket multitudinOus;
German, Lodge, BeArmond vanished.
We have listened very good in us)
Till December now they're banished.
Gone! / wonder as / pen it
What election day will send us.
Gone the House and gone the Senate, u
And the void is most tremendous.
Yes, they're gone. And the void is
more tremendous than would be cIea-
ted bpsuch an exodus from almost u
other city. Washington, as IL matter of
.&tsct, is not really IL city, bnt IA magnifi-
centTillage. 1t has 10 &c, 10
manufactures; it is not only not Il pro-
Queer, 1t is not even IL distributor of
anything but speeches.
Never within my recollection has a
Speaker laid down the gavel in the
midst of such enthusiastic eulnsy as
that which Mr.. Cannon received on
Thursday. The fervency of The salu-
tatioD from political opponents will not
be witnessed twic" in IA generation.
The greeting was IL Unanimous tribute
to Mr.. CanuOn's utter fairness. He is
n of the best natured of men. He is
not a scholar. He is not an orator. He
a hardly be called an impressive
speaker in any sense. except that earn
estness makes a mar impressive. He ia
as u~npretentiOus and as homely as Lin
coin was, and bis ~undeDiable popularity
is attributable to the possession of sim
liar qualities. II know You will be
fair" said John Sharp Williams to him
at the opening of this Congress. Can
non replied: John, L am going to be as
fair rs the exigencies of American poll
tics will permit" The buzz of farewelIs
adjournment greetings, hand-shak-
embracings, songs and agreeableA
made the scene like "A clasM
demonstration on the college campuS
when school is out.
lnvective and the insolence of repair
tee were blunted during the last day or
two, but there were some sharp ex-
changes, even on the very last day.
When Democratic leader Williams re-
minded Republican leader Payne that
the majority would be held responsible
before the country for the needed laws
it had failed to pass, Mr. Payne instant
ly retorted thai the Republicans were
willing to assume fnll responsibility for
their action. Mr.. Williams az quickly |
reJolned: The administration shows
It's courage and generosity 10 being
to u responsibility that
it cannot possibly escape"
In the Senate MIR. German declared
the total appropriations and obi
cations of this session amounted to
more than $800.0 600, 900, not including
the Panama Canal, and Mr.. Culberson
announced that the expenditures of the
Roosevelt administration had been
S211, 0O0, 900 greater than the four years
Of the Mckinley administration and
SS83,OO 600 greater than in the four
years of the Cleveland administration.
Mr.. Allison, Republican, admitted that
The appropriations of this session are
e28,OOO,OOO more than the %appropria-
ions by Congress at the last session.
German thanked him for the ad-
and said that the revenue
had been evaded by tire ad-
ninistration for fear that it would dis
.urb the political atmosphere. mot
political! not political! bpt for fear it
Ronld disturb the business atmos-
i%nterposed Senator Aldrich.
Exactly sol" retorted Senator German,
the business atmosphere which sur
ounds the effort to elect Theodore
President! We will see what
people think about that b%usiness!"
Many Republicans admit that R0ose-
will be q bitter pill to swallow,
nut they will have to take their medi-
%ine.even if it does mean death to them.