Show WashIngton ton Post POS Through the lobbies of the capitol yesterday walked the stalwart for form of 1 P McDonald formerly of Ohio and now of New York swathed In a fur I lined overcoat Mr Ir McDonald who looks much snore like a prince than Williams brother ill hi one of the largest railroad contractors In the world He baa haa constructed any nim bet ber of railrOAds in this country tad had 18 men on his hie payroll In Jamaica and aDd Is now engaged Itt In building Miles of track from to Quito In South America Mr McDonald talks most about this latter reed tOd h nuTS rua through the heart of the Andes Aade At one one lx of our route said Mr fr McDonald the track will be al almost 1 most moat the highest t railroad in ht the world We cross the Andes Ande at an elevation of 14 feet teet The track skirts shirts the bottom of Mount Yount Chimborazo th the summit of which is feet above the sea level I think the volcano is the most fail thing I ever saw In the world It rises Up to the sky in three peaks The central peak eak IS hi obscured In the anytime by the mist arising ro from 11 the heat keet of Ute the sun upon the snow and aDd Ice but just as 8 noon as 88 the sun begins to set Ute the air cools the tog fog congeals and the pe peak k stands out clearly The rays or of tM the sun setting over th the Pacific fall fait upon the peak long 1011 alter after darkness lies settled nettled upon the MM base and the snow shines like burnished copper The sight cht hi worth goIng thousands of miles to tolee see lee Mr Ir lunched yesterday with Lay Layton ton tOft 00 about big schemes nH Senator Turner of Washington has a eat CRt whose mind Is 1 no DO Utica The whole boundless continent Is his Out In Washington the western side or of the Cascade range is covered covel cl with hevy forests while the eastern side Is Ie practically bare re On the we tern side the people have bave more raJA yam than they need on the eastern easter sd the people have kave not enough Senator constituent proposes that two pa passes ses or artificial valleys each 1000 feet fiet wide shall be cut through the Cascade rae one at tile the northern and the oetter at the southern end Through th these se passes which should of course I Ibe be on a level Icel with the plain the moist I 1 winds from the pa ocean would be expected to snake make their way I to the eastern R portion ot of the state stat bringing fertility In their path The Theman man who suggests this Improvement I upon nature thinks that the valleys would make aa table highways for forthe tM the railroads a So 0 far the then is no MI suggestion Uon of a I gOH government appropriation whIch i iI is ismore more remarkable t than ban that the scheme should hould have hae been n suggested I t 4 7 When Senator Warren of Wyoming rus to separate and Me Mc McLaurin Laurin In the senate enate chamber the other day he must have haae n remembered ment red rather vividly a S scene ent which wu was once onee enacted I in the Wyoming territorial legislature ture I W when he presided over oer that bod bodOn body I On fl that two alter after the free and easy manners of the western statesmen wanted to secure a abill abill bill which was upon the clerks desk and a away ay with It The stalwart I legislators wh n they attempted to I seize the bill were ver by the clerk elerk A struggle Senator War Warren ar arren ren as SOOn ai a he grasped d the tion leaped from his chair and precipitated himself upon the combatants hes he separated three men rescued cue l th tb bill put the clerk derk buck back at athIs hl hIs desk and sent the two k legIslators to their seats eata Then he resumed hiS place as presidIng The house wilt come to order was his sole ROle remark t t V i iA VA A certain breeziness of atmosphere which nOW marks mark the White House reo re reminded minded an Indiana member yesterday of the days when Andy Johnson was president Johnson de decided to appoint Dave Gooding of Indiana as United States marshal for the District of Co Columbia lumbia In those e d days the JM position was one of much more social import Importance anee ance then than It La now w for the marshal made the presentations to the 1 praM dent at t aU all functIons Gooding l tore re early In the morning and went direct to the White House At As Atthe the president wu was not awake Clouding Gooding loafed round around and finally presented to Mr Johnson con considerably considerably the worse for travel John OD non looked over him with a critical eye Dave Deve he said akl you are going to have your Job aU all right but you have got get to up a bit I 1 ama ania tailor and aDd if I only had a little more time I would make you a new suit of clothes I think if I were you I would go and get fixed up Gooding took look the hint When he next appeared he e WAS arrayed In purple and fine Aile linen He always expressed the regret hoWever hoever that he lost the experience of wearing a suit suh of clothes es made b by the 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