Smyrna times., 1905-05-31
SHORT, SHARP AND SKAPPy
ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON
GIEANINGS FROM AL PARTS OF THE
COUNTRY TOLD IN A SPICY STYLE.

10 a Bright and Interesting Manner by
Our Washington Correspondent.
Isn't it about time for the archaeolo-
gists to unearth a miniature of Eve,
painted on ivory?
Scientists now claim that the sword
with which Adam and Eve were kept
out of the Garden of Eden was only
radium.
The report that the Presidents bear
and other skins, has been ruined by
moths is what is called in newspaper
offices "pure Fake.
The fact that it will be closed sea-
son for Vardamans and partridges will |
not deter the President from making |
his southern trip on schedule time.
Let the private car industry insist
that it is not common carrier but a
highway robber and therefore not
within the scope of the Interstate
Commerce Act.
If it is true that the President was
pleased with the railway rate speeches
of both Secretary Taft and Secretary
Morton it must b because he believes
in the double track system.
When stage struck girls read that
Nan Patterson was no sooner acquitted
she was engaged for the stage at So, 900
week, they should recall the fact
that she only missed electrocution by
very small margin.
President Roosevelt could have
taken 10 step more likely to secure for
him the Democratic presidential nomi-
nation than by exposing the way in
which the Steel Trust, and other
trusts, are ''robbing the folks at home
A Republican President has de-
nounced the tariff as enabling the
manufacturers to practice extortion
and the stand patters are able to ex-
claim with Artemus Ward, "This is 2
mutch, 2 mutch."
Frenzied finance seems to have per-
meated even the New York legislature.
Some of the legislators whose salaries
amount to only 81 500 year, have ac-
cumulated bank balances during this
years session amounting to $25, 900.
1t is all a mistake. Vice President
Fairbanks souvenir inkstand is not to
cost $500, but only $3.50. AS there is
a deficiency in the Treasury the Vice
President has determined to be eco
nomical in spite of any thing.
The political situation in Ohio is at
tracing the attention of the entire
country. A stand pat, anti-railway
rate legislation Republican party is
confronted by a tariff revision, anti
railway Secretary of War on one hand,
and by Senator Foreaker on the other.
The subborning of the press has al
ready been attempted in so far ai
railway rates are concerned and two
special correspondents are constantly
employed by the railroad interests tC
circulate biased reports of the testl
mony given each day before the Sen
ate committee on Interstate Commerce
The methods of these correspondents
is to send, free of charge, to CORES
pondents of reputable journals and t.
the newspapers themselves, daily alb
stracts of the testimony given befor,
the committee and, unfortunately
hundreds of newspapers, many o
them doubtless as the result of ignor
ance, are daily printing these entirel.
unfair reports. The only safeguar'
for the newspaper away from Wash
ington, which wishes to present un
tainted news to its readers, is to sc
cure the services of a regular Wash
ington correspondent whose reputs
ton is known to be unsullied, an
whose honesty is invulnerable.
The coming session of Congress
that is, the one which the Presider
will call into existence on the 10th
next October, promises to be extremel
lively. Two intensely important quef
tions will be placed before it in th
Presidents message and on the actio
of Congress on these problems ma
depend the immediate future histor
of the country and certainly will d.
pend the future of the now dominal
party. The first of these, and Ii
President places it first in point of in
portance, will be the question of raj
way rates. The second will be I'll