Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-03-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent
Washington D. c. March IL, 1905.
Now that Congress has adjourned
the little deals. I" whereby junkess
were arranged for in tie rush incl
der. to the closing hours of the Con-
gress are coming toiiQht. Quarter
master General Humphrey has al
ready left for Porto Rico and other
Carrinean points on the army trans
port, Sumner. General Humphrey
takes with I'm andmber of members
OF Congress-. tueir wives add their
srs ana their cousins ano their
sunts. The men selected ior this
Jnnke+ . members OF the House
committee on Rivers ana Harbogs.
Ind Of cOcrs 9. TIE Gov rnment pays
.he freight. They viii visit Por.o
Rico, De to Dom. ne1 aud Cuba and
otter pCi Its winch may De rieternlin-
"a on from time 20 time as the jsunt
progresses.
Another ju1ket oae Of monster
proportions, il being arranged for.
IL will be a personally conducted
excurs on under the supervision oil
the Secretary of War and the Speaker
Of the House. and will compass the
world. About fourteen members OF
the House, in addition to the Speaker,
expect tC take the trip AID q like
number of Senators. They will sail
from San Francisco about the first of
July on a Pacific Mail steamer and
will stop at Hawaii, and Guam and
finally land at Manila. There they
will become the guests of the Philip
pine Government which will employ
small transports and conduct the
party about the archipelago. The
members of Congress who are to be
OF the party are insisting that the
lunket be arranged to return by way
OF the Suez canal and the Mediter-
ranean but Secretary Taft has thus
far opposed this plan on the ground
that he would hardly have the nerve
TO take so round about away home at
Gnvprnmank ovnanco
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1t is probable that other iunkets
have been provided for, but if so
the appropriations for them have vet
to be detected. 1t is not, perhaps,
fair to call the summer meetings of
the Senate committee on Interstate
Commerce a junket. although it is
announced that if the committee
finds Washington too warm for
comfort it will repair to some pref
ty seaside resort to finish its work,
at Government expense of course.
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The sudden death of Senator Will
liam 3 Bate, III Tennessee, as the
result of "a cold contracted on inaugu-
ration day, has afforded one more
warning against holding the presi-
DENTAL inauguration at SO .nc!ement
season. Senator Bate became chill
ed on the inaugura' stand, there be-
ing q fierce North wind blowing
across tae front of the Capitol, pneu-
MONA followed and although ne at
tended the session Of the Senate On
Monday, on Thursday he breathed
his last. Democrats in Washington
were much pleased at the courtesy
shown the late Senator from Tennes-
see, hy the PresiuonE, who, with bis
cabinet, attended the funeral servi-
VS. Of the old Confederate General
AID .oCathernst statesman. The Presi-
delt is very busy these days, host
CT callers coming 10 the White House
each day, but he broke all engage
ments to snow honor TO tue deceased
Senator from Tennessee.
The Senate is sill. debating the
San Domingo treaty, but.will pro-
badly conclude the argument next
week. In fact it is freely predicted
that it will be- impossible to hold a
quorum in Washington after March
IL. 1t is probable that the protocol
will be Iati6ed after having been
very materially amended. 1t would
DC impossible 10 ratify it with Re-
publican votes alone and in order to
secure a sufficient number of Demo |
cratic votes it will be necessary to |
materially modify the convention. |
The trenty has been reported from |
the committee on Foreign Relations
after being radically revised. All |
reference TO the Monroe Doctrine |
has been stricken out, more explicit |
provision for the adjudication of
claims against Sauto Domingo as
been made, it has been made evident |