Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-03-30

Is the milk IN the Santo Domingo !
cocoanut.
At its two sessions the Fifty |
eighth Congress had voted to spend |
81 ,599, 651 ,289, 80, which is more
than was appropriated in gold by /
any previous Congress in our his |
tory, not excepting the period OF
the Civil War. In the short session
just closed a few decent things
we're done. One Of the leaks in
our land laws was stopped by
abolishing the lieu land privilege
which has enabled spectators TO
swindle the Government by ex-
changing worthless tracts in forest
reserves for valuable timber lands
outside.
The Yosemite Valley has come
again under the control of the Uni
ted States, having been re-ceded by
the State Of CALIFORNIA; valuable
precedent for the rescueo OF Niagara.
Provision has been made for i'm
proving the efficiency Of the militia
by encouraging rifle practice. The
Government has been authorized to
take part in the celebration OF the
three hundredth anniversary Of the
first permanent English settlement
on this continent, at jamestown,
Virginia. For the first time since the
contract was made, seven years ago,
Congress has refused TO make the
annual appropriation Of Sl30, 900 to
pay rent to the National City Bank
for the old Custom House site in
New York. This was one of the
scandalously bad bargains charac-
teristic ofthe Government S dealings
with shrewd fnanciers. The Gov
eminent agreed to pay rent" on
its own funds, incidentally cheating
the city of New York out of the
taxes. But since the bargain was
made, the rent will ultimately, have
to be paid out of the peoples pock-
cts.
The average newspaper CORES
pondent in Washington, who works
at the business for a living, is a
manly, truthful, honest man. He
rarely sends out lies to his paper,
for he knows that lie is boone
rang, but soma of the scribblers
hero in Washington who are en-
ployed as private secretaries TO
members of Congress, or clerks in
some OF the departments, who do
not know what news is and never
| get out to get news, even ii they
did know it, are the worst liars and
scaLdal-mongers on the face Of the
earth. They invariably pick out u
shining mark to shoot tt cir slime at.
! always some man Who is persona
non grata to their editors, thus
currying favor at home.
A favorite theme with them is
William r. Hearst, and the sup
posititious slathers o. money he is
always spending for something or
other, in order to prejudice people
who are easily prejudiced. In writ
ing about the inauR ural parade here
is sample lie: William Randolph
Hearst is said to have p-iG he
highest price OF any one for rooms
and front windows at the New Will
lard. The sum paid was $2,J0U.
This from the Telegram, of Portland
Me. When this lie reached Council
Bluffs, Iowa. the Nonpareil raised
the ante to 81, 800. The truth is. as
could easily have been ascertained
il the scandal rIongering papers
we're not eager for such stuff, that
Representative Hearst was not in
Washington at all on Inauguration
day, as were not many other Repre-
sentatives, both Democratic and Re
publican. He did not even pay as
much as twenty cents for any kind
OF window to view the parade.
Mr.. Hearst has lived at the New
Willard for some months during the
session of Congress, paying the re.
gular rate per day for his rooms as
any other guest would pay; his
rooms were engaged by him until
March B, and as he was TO be absent
on the 4th of March, he permitted a
personal friend to have the benefit
Of the view from his hotel windows.
A source OF great amusement to
the Democrats at the capital has
been the dilemma in which the Re-
publicans have found themselves
over the report of Commissioner of
Corporations Garfield on the investi-
CATION into the Beef Trust.
Commissioner Garfield has prac-
tically exonerated the great pack
ers of all the charges made against
them. For instance, il shows that
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