Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-03-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.


Garfield will be able to pay some
attention to the Cook ladies' trust.
Can't the senate pass an arbitra-
ton agreement in time to still that
raging tumult between Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis and General Miles,
$4,000, 900 worth of patent medi-
clnes were sold in the United States
last year, an average of one dollars
worth year for every man, woman
and child in the country. Congress
slonal legislation on the drug habit
in the Philippines might better,
like charity, begin at home.
Congressman Baker Of New York
who won his only deserved notorie-
ty by refusing a railroad pass will
have to pass on. His term expires
with this session.
Senator Depew says the the Esch-
Townsend bill was framed by men
not equipped to ''pass judgment on
the question that are involved"
Col. Hepburn said the bill was pre-
pared by the President and the
Attorney General.
Some people impatient to see the
Panama canal finished doubtless
wish that Doctor Osler's suggestion
that all the men over sixty
should be chloroformed, could
be carried out. If the rule were ap-
piled to those responsible for the
canal only the president and chief
engineer Wallace would be left.
Judge Quarles of Wisconsin has
no cause to quarrel with fortune.
LaFollette has gotten his place in
the United States senate but Quarles
has been appointed to a Federal
judgeship which is a life position.
Senator Eugene Hale. of Maine
says the United States navy is used
Go bully weak powers. Senator
Hale was opposed to the liberation
of Cuba. He is opposed to big
navy, to the big stick and to the
building of bigger ships than can
be foated in the docks of Maine.
In spite of Doctor Osler's lugubri
GUS diagnosis of the human race
there has been no sudden rise in the
price of chloroform or other lethal
President Roosevelt has called the
senate in extra session not that he
particularly likes to have it around
but out of his respect for custom
and precedent.
President Fish of the Illinois
Central railroad says that if rail-
way rate bill is passed by congress
1T cannot be enforced. Why doesn't
he tell the president so and save
the trouble of an extra session.
A resolution abolishing the Gus
tom of sending bouquets to the
senators has been adopted by the
senate. Senators want it known
that they cannot be bought with
bouquets.
William Randolph Hearst was at
tending an auction sale of pottery
in New York while the president
was being inaugurated. He wanted
to prove that the Inauguration was
not his affair.
The Presidents Inaugural address
about twelve hundred
words or about che and half news
paper columns. The shortest of all
inaugural addresses was delivered
by George Washington and Lincoln's
second inaugural speech was four Or
five hundred words shorter than
that delivered by President Roose-
Welt last Saturday. In style and
diction and literary from it is one
of the best addresses the president
has made.
When the Presidential party en-
tered the Senate gallery for the in
of the V1ce-President
the spectators were surprised to see
Mrs. Roosevelt looking after her
children herself. The entire family
was present and there was no maid
or orderly to take charge of the
little ones. Mrs. Roosevelt helped
the boys off with their coats and
every one knows that it is easier to
skin a coon than to get small boy
out of REFER. She waited in the
aisle until they were all seated and
with an eye out for possible larking
she had the little ones seated be-
side her. Quentin, the youngest
seemed deeply interested in a pair
of new grey kid gloves which he
had donned for the occasion though
ha occasionally cast an onVlOllS