The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-05-14
Washington Whisperines.

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WASHINGTON, D. c., April IL, 1914.
War, war, war, everywhere you 60 moth
| ing but war and its horrors is heard, the
past week having been given up solely
to the passage by Congress Of joint
resolution ''justifying' the President in
blockading the ports Of Mexico. seizing
the customhouses and other public Of
fees in the cities and establishing Ameri-
can supremacy, even though it may cost
many precious lives. After this had been
accomplished, although the resolution as
adopted by the House was considerably
broadened by the Senate, the name of
General Huerta being stricken out, as
having the appearance of making war
upon single individual, the members of
both branches of the national legislature
INDUCED in oratory over the private
soldier and what was expected of him.
Probably no more dramatic recital of a
great achievement has been heard in the
halls of Congress for many day than
was the simple. unaffected story of Cap
tain Hobson, who told how he and seven
picked men sank the Merrimac under the
guns of the Spaniards, how they were
taken prisoners and how they were liber-
ated. While Captain Hobson failed to
bottle up Cervera's fleet, yet the I'M
daunted courage of the attempt will re-
main an imperishable record of bravery
under fire.
So tense has been the situation the
past week that Congress has done little
in the way of public business, even the
committee hearings being perfunctory
and without heart or spirit, with the
possible exception of the hearings now
going on before the Interoceanic Canals
Committee of the Senate with reference
to the bill repeating the free tolls section
of the act providing for the civil admin
istration of the Panama Canal and zone.
These hearings have brought to Wash
ing ton very large number of the big
men of the nation, big in law, in COM
merce, in economics and in trade. Even
the women have been participating in
the hearings, showing the wide interest
the subject has aroused. Had not war
obtruded itself, it is believed that these
hearings would have taken the center of
the stage and held it until action had
been taken on the bill itself.
The display of flowers, jewels and clothes
at the twenty third annual congress of |
the D. A. R., which held it's sessions
in Washington last week, represented |
something into the hundreds of thousands |
Of dollars every day. The President Gen
eral of the Society, Mrs. William Cum
ming Story, never wears anything but
lavender, heliotrope or purple. She ap-
peared in different costume every day |
and every evening" always in some tint
Of those shades varying from. the palest
to the deepest. The daisy is her emblem.
Her friends and constituents wore sill
YER pin, the perfect reproduction of
laisy in fligree work, as an inevitable
article of adornment. She always wears
a daisy or daisies somewhere about her
gown. In her choicest bouquets of Or
rhids, gardenias and lilies Of the valley,
such as she always has on specially i'm
oortant days, the gift of her adoring
q daisy may invariably be found
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