Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-03-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.


From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, D. G., Feb. 27.-The
for the inauguration-pa-
rade, ball and firsworks-is complete.
This preparation is the peculiar and
special work Of the citizens of Washing
ton and it is said that never before has
80 much money been spent or SO much
pains taken to make spectacular part
of the inaugural ceremonies successful. |
Decorations in conformity to the gen
eral scheme adopted by the Inaugural
Committee, consisting of green Oh a
flat white background, with the ma
tional colors emphasized on the fore
ground, are being put up on many
houses and the work of the Court of
Honor along Pennsylvania Avenue in
front of the White House for two
squares, is completed. The hotels are
rapidly filling and the rooms not yet
occupied have been spoken for. 1t is
estimated that from eighteen or twenty
thousand people will be accommodated
in the hotels, while Others, going to
make up the two hundred thousand Or
more visitors, will be housed mostly
through the efforts of the committee on
public comfort, which has already pro-
vided quarters for about fifty thousand,
not including those who will come in
companies, batallions and regiments.
Many of the military bodies have Sc
cured sleeping accommodations in the
railroad cars which will bring them
here. These cars will be side-tracked
in the yards of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and in the yards of the Penn
sylvania Railroad in Pennsylvania
Avenue, Southeast, and at Ninth Street,
and Maryland Avenue, Southeast.
There will, Of course, be thousand Of
visitors, the guests of their friends and
relatives III many Washington homes.
Less than week in legislative days
remains to Congress and this short
period is, to all appearances, not being
used very economically, or for national
legislation. TIE House on Friday de-
cided to retain in the sundry civiIe bill
the same limitation to the activities of
the secret service which the President
criticized in his first message to Con-
gress. The vote was 1853 to Al and was
after debate Of an hour and half in
which Representative Cook of Color
ado, fur1ously attacked the Presidents
"arbitrary course of government" Mr..
Cook began by referring to President
Roosevelt's statement that a secret ser
vice man has been assassinated in Col
orado. This he denied as positively an
incorrect statement. He then went on,
describing at length secret service &C
Invites in the West. He said that the
President was as "almost daily threat
to that peace and prosperity of the
country and should be knocked ON the
head by decision of the Supreme
| Court" mo Citizen of the United
States" he concluded sever heard a
| President brag about .wielding Big
Stick over Congress and the courts I'M
til the present crack Drained egotist
came into power by the bullet of the
assassin. The impudent presumption
and tyrant boast of whirling a Big
Stick over the legislative branch of the
government is the most outrageous in.
suit that has ever been given to Con.
gress." 1t is said that the speech Of
Mr.. Cook will be expunged from the
record.
President Roosevelt's few remaining
days in office are evidently to be as
strenuous and tumultuous as any Of his
seven years presidency. Hels coming
in for criticism in all directions. His
Farm Uplift Commission has been ridi
culed by Mr.. Hill, the great railroad
magnate, who said you might "as well
listen to the twittering of the first robin
in Spring as to the report of the Farm
Commission appointed by the admin
| lStTat1Ou IaSJ SumIuST. 1ueS0 uleH
spent sixty days trying to find ou
what is the matter with the farmer.
life. 1t took England fifty years t.
discover what was the reason her far
mers were leaving the farms for the
cities and get them back again to till
ing the soil. The members of the Farm
Commission spent only half day al
the State Agricultural School to fine
out the matter with farm life in the
| State Of Minnesota" Come to think
of it, there may not be 50 much the
matter with the farmers after all anG
it might be well to appoint commits
sion to see what is the matter with the
"bloated bond-holders" and million
aires and well-to-do people in the cities
1t is said that the farmers have pie fol
breakfast and that an inquiry might bt
made why this acme of prosperity is
not enjoyed by every citizen of the Uni
ted States.
Candidate for Acknowledgement.