Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-04-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
from the Nations Capital.

LIE congress gnaG ADJOURNED TOUR
weeks ago and the special senate
session that adjourned two weeks
ago, have receded far enough from
immediate view to permit prospec-
tive study. This congress was not
much more idle or less responsive
to urgent duty, than Other con-
crosses since the Civil war period.
The president, had marked out
splendid program of work to be
done, but congress was remarkable
dilatory and nonchalant. He urged
that the interstate commerce COM
mission be empowered with the re-
gulation of railroad freight rates;
that the great corporations engaged
in interstate commerce be placed
under national control; that a new
canal commission be appointed;
that the naturalization laws be re-
vised; that the tariff duties of the
Philippine Islands be reduced, and
that arbitration treaties be approx
ed. Each of the measures Mr..
Roosevelt urged were of the great
est Importance. Not one of them
became law. Does any one doubt
that the people of this country are
with the president? Are we to as
sumo that there was no meaning in
that remarkable majority, three
times greater than that given for
Grant, Mckinley, Lincoln, or any
other president? Nobody who
knows President Roosevelt will
doubt that having put his hands to
the pillow he will not turn back.
The country has waited with more
or less patience forty years for a
man with head, heart and hands to
do some imperiously needed things
that Theodore Roosevelt is earnest
ly striving to do, and there are
those who believe the country will
keep him in the White House
whether he will or not, until his
task is done, and will also, in due
course, by election, give him a
senate less obdurate to the voice
of the people.
The American Board Of Foreign
Missions will probably accept Mr..
Rockefeller's gift of tainted
money" with the idea of reforming
it. 1t can be redeemed in gold at
any bank or in fresh crisp never
before circulated notes at the U. S.
treasury department.
The administration has approved
of big irrigation plant for Mont
ana to cost $40, OOO,0O 1t is to be
hoped that water frauds will not be
added to the land frauds of the
West.
Jiu Jitsu after all it's advertising
fails to come up to the mark. The
champion wrestlers of this country
declare there is nothing in it for an
athletic man to fear.
A man who begged a pair of
trousers from President Andy John
son is now one Of the applicants for
a consulship under the present ad-
There isl nothing
peculiar about this except SHAT he
got the pants and is likely to get
the consulship.
Miss M. E. 'Braddon probably
holds the worlds record for the
amount of fiction she has written.
She has sixty three long novels to
her credit or discredit as one is free
to decide according to his taste. AS
a matter of fact she is one of, if not
quite the most popular of authors
of time and when Henry::James
has trouble to entertain an audience
of thousands Miss Braddon writes
for millions. To copy alone her
writings would take rapid writer
working six hours a day, three
years.
Boys and girls for the first three
years of their schooling in New
York are taught principally the
tying of knots, raffia work, brading,
instruction on fibres and textiles
and weaving on small looms. The
evolution of the public school in the
United States is a fearful and
wonderful process and no man yet
seeeth the end of it's futility.
The Haberdasher says, ''There is
a decided fullness about mems
clothes. They hang about them
more loosely than ever before!"
Maybe the butchers bills are respon-
sible for the change in the fashion.
Uncle Joe Cannon is going alb
road. It is said that he will circum-
navigate the world and the country
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