Show ault lkins lK int JA from u our own it q sorro washington reb fob 1 it 87 the porty forty ninth Congre ii ud ad joern to day at precisely twelve ocl ocic it leaves a very vary fair record of r useful work it has done dona many things which it ill ou not to lieve lave done and left undone many things which it should have hava done clone but it ban baft also aleo done dona many well many things which its prodoc predecessor essora usg lecter to do it leaves about 2000 measures on the calendars of I 1 tb bo two houses as unfinished busino wi but this was rag to be expected many of them are of 0 an entirely on a private char actor and should not have bon been there only about one me forth of them are of national about a wook week iwo to so ronny many imbor tant bAls wie were behind that tin an extra eitra beabdon beemon tile the son keu ate wasi was berating the house as aa a I 1 sl sluggard while the was vili tying the senate as a spendthrift ur mr randall lla adall tho the chairman of the great appropriations committee was sullen an and silent mr Holi holman nab the groat great objector was waa autly objecting to ta everything emitting leader read odthe of the ciui bide mas joking a boat about the theotra th extra eitra euion that tle the dom dem were on the point of hurling themselves into on account of alleged laziness senator edmunds was wag do da daring claring that his en end of f tho the capitol capital would woold proceed with ath important bills deliberately it if it took all summer bummer and the speaker was in great suspense it was rumored abata that a mes sagi 91 p complaint from the white house had something to do with starting business at i any rate there was a mar marvelous eha change nget in proceedings roco edings all at once the obstructionists became caneil conciliatory batory two of the largest appropriation 1 I 1 bills bila passed the house several other mea stares equally im portail tant were wera put right through the Eor senate responded without a mo moments monts delay astonishing progress was mada mad in both ends of the capitol and tb the scare over an extra session was all for nothing citizens of the tha district of columbia bia who objected to the presidents appointment ot of a st stranger ranker to be their recorder Et corder of deeds are of bourso loud in their denunciation of his sel sec ond of fensel Bol pig headed obstinate and 1 cowardly coward are some of no ha ad joe jec t tives ives which have bato been used to express their opinion of his coursoh course in regard to this matter interest in the he case of the boston appointee via increased by the fact that the same sama I 1 day le he arrived in washington I 1 agton the senate committee acted adversely upon his hii nomination and then the retiring dg officer from albany mr mathews Mat bews appointed him deputy of deeds the lad act was very significant it will make EO act difference now with ur mr 1 trotter whether the senate con firms or rejects him hilli he can legal ly hold bold the office receive the fees and bi be the Ko corder in reality as long as president CIeve C lev landa term lasts if iia ocher appointment be made T the lie statute under which he ha was appointed deputy has no parallel la in the states instead I 1 odthe office expiring the principal as s deputies 18 ig uku usual at with deputies the tha law spa J bially provides provida that the tha do deputy aty lie tie corder of deeds shall have been a ap pointed lent is berng being kept herein herein the tha asti usual way in washington the no fashion abl world difference moke mote strongly than in djmal Ji icea KB 16 aig ligion ion here is more the modo mode many maily people go to church on week refrain da daa during lent A low law even refrain from balls balla for forty days daya as well is cards and theatres theartres the atres and every fash faeh bonaby inclined woman is lo 10 keep her spring bonnet out of sight until E easter aster sunday but that is ia about all there is of it at least all that any but the real pen itella know V doubtless there afe are many who are truly devout and faith ful in lu all that the lenten seabon I 1 means for such but those these do not lot pray to be seen of men or take toe the U uppermost seats beats in the tha churches ren then there being no state religion gover government n ment is not affected by lou lent ii or carnival though as gen badelt u once remarked the politicians high hilla i and low would taki take the twice a day to get a place or keep 11 one wilt washington t b in agton is is overflow overflowing ing now with visitors T the he ho hotels tells are so crowded that cots cola aro are placed in the hallways for the accommodation of guests the crowd is ia larger than it has been at ab any time during the thelast odst winter thousands of excursionists having coma during the last week of bf congress to remain until aft erthe adjournment of coarse the president b a s t shake hauda hands with all these thefts sight seeing visitors and as the last day adf a session session are aroath ehst busiest of his bin term the dutie I 1 the hospitality aste been lesii pressing 0 1 rather heavily upon him it ha As not failed how bow ever ver to come down to the east bast room at t th ahr ippo appointed I 1 booe bong on three days dava of cibit thin week at as usual and shake hands with the tha who have as there for that purpose |