Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1905 — WASHINGTON LETTER [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON LETTER

[Special Correspondence.]' The president is going ahead witli the plans for his southern trip and a month's hunt in the Hookies. The president is due at San Antonio, Tex., on March .'ll to attend the rough riders’ reunion. He expects to leave Washington on March 25, lie will make short stops on the way at Louis,ville, Dallas, i-'ort Wortli and Austin. After Its' reunion lie will visit Houston. lie will have a hear hunt and a Jack rabbit hunt. Immediately after the reunion, as now planned, the president will go to Colorado, where he will disappear into the Rockies and hunt grizzlies and mountain lions for four or live weeks. Ilis camp will he established in some remote canyon, and until he returns to civilization hi" will concern himself about only the most important affairs of state, though he will keep in close touch with the White House. The president's special train will be sidetracked at the nearest railroad point, and Secretary Loeh will have his office there, with a direct wire to the White House. He will he accompanied by several clerks and stenographers and will dispose of all routinematters without bothering the president. Important questions which must be decided by the president and which can not be delayed will be taken to Mr. Roosevelt's camp by Secretary Loeb on horseback. There will he no other means of 'communication between the president's hunting headquarters and the temporary White House, and the trail will be guarded to keep out outsiders. The president will return to Washington about May lb. lie will stay here a month and then go to Oyster Bav for the summer.

< lcanliiK tlic White llonir. The old style broom an<l the old system of house cleaning have disappeared from the historic White House, and there has been inaugurated a new system of cleaning by means of suction through pipes. Every bit of dirt is. drawn through tubes to the cellar of the White House, where it is deposited in receivers. Most of it is taken out of the receivers and burned, but the finest part goes into another receiver and is churned up with water, passing out Into the sewer system of the city. It is claimed thpt the machinery will do the work of three or four housemaids and a corresponding number of quickly wielded brooms, making everything clean in a few minutes. It is put in operation as often as the White House rooms need cleaning. Squaring Accounts. Very little items sometimes get into the legislative hopper. A debt amounting to a penny may be the subject of just as much legislative routine as a debt for a million dollars. This was demonstrated a few days ago when Postmaster General Wynne forwarded to the house twelve pages of deficiency estimates of appropriations aggregating $3,355. A large portion of the estimates were small amounts doe certain postmasters. Among these were the following: Postmaster gt Chicago, i cent; at

Traverse City, Mich., 2 cents; St. Louis, 2 cents; Deerfield Center, N. H., 4 cents. < itliers get as much as 20 cents and one 42 cents. The JefTc»r»on Dibit*. Doorkeeper Lyon of the house has discovered wily there Is such a demand fer the Jefferson Bible and why so many copies of it are stolen from the mails. \o other government publication of recent years disappears so generally and fails to reach its destination. The reason Mr, Lyon assigns for this is tlic attractive inscription printed on the folding room wrapper. There are several qualifying sentences sandwiched in in flue print, but the following stands out in bold black type: “The teachings and morals of .Testis of Nazareth free.” In Xo Hurry Por Salary. That there is a man on the government payroll who draws his salary but once every two years and lias followed that rule ever since lie has been on the payroll will doubtless appeal to most people as utterly incredible, but it is a fact. There is such a man, although It is said that there is only one official entitled to that distinction. Representative E. Stevens Henry of Connecticut, when congress adjourns on March 4. will receive SIO,OOO from the United States treasurer, the sum representing Ills salary for the Fiftyeighth congress. Since his election to the Fifty-fourth congress Mr. Henry lias never drawn Ids salary save in SIO,OOO lumps. He doesn’t need the money, and then in adopting this rule ho has achieved distinction in a unique line that has never ls>en sought or received by nuy other government official. An Election Souvenir. Senator Frye, president pro tern, of the senate, who presided over the two branches of congress when the official count of the electoral vote was made showing the election of the Republican candidates for president and vice president, delivered to Secretary Loeb one of the credential boxes which contained the official returns to be presented to the president. This will be retained by the president as a souvenir of his election. The box Is made of mahogany and is ornamented with inlaid work. Sent Hl* Rrynrda. Representative Bowers of Mississippi received a letter the other day from one of his agricultural constituents which read something like this: “I have received the seed what you sent. and they is great. I bet they will grow the biggest squash and turnips In I the county, thus making me feel that ; the district is safe In your hands. Give my regards to the house of representatives.” CARL SCHOFIELD. I A*e. “Man has seven ages,” she said. “Yes.” he milled. “Woman has only : two, her real age and the one she tells her friends.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Her Criticism. “The men are all crazy to know her.” "I think they must be.”—New York Weekly.