Show washington LETTER 1 efm ovit oun REGULAR I 1 mar 14 it is now the belief of many leading men of the democratic party sonic some of whom are occa 8 call ed calto to tae th ewhite ey I 1 hite Hou house sefor sor co counsel finsel and advice i that the ask the fiffi fiftieth etli congress bocon to con veno in extra n Q carin i oct ober if it ii does there ire are Yge several Veral lrea sons that will prompt t V delun popular pa lar step it is is a well known fact that congress resi fic scarcely arcely ever avei does doe anything like real work until after the holi aday without saying also that the two great parties in ia congress will he surcharged with politics next nex t year yeah and that their time will wili ha be largely devoted to i president bid t making m akl so kinle unless ss some so 1 of the important lin cortani legislation I 1 ato to bome f oc me before it can be at an earlier dv day than the course of ibe be regular session would make ble there ther i e would be but liitle bitle hope for its success i tn at e of odthe the pait two wi aiex in in Con congress ivess has shown very aearl clearly y th at the th inte retti of the country havo have become alto altogether other too vast vaa band and complicated to be thoroughly ably looked after and kept ept up within the time afforded by the regular sessions ions much of the first or the long ion 0 session as I 1 it t is i is usually 1 caleodis ical cal ledis lodis devoted to the formulation of bue buness s for the seco second n a or art short ines session andthil and the business abu thus defered from one term to another itt in many cased cases business of tte most urgent importance is is hurled into the whirl hirl of the last ten tell days J or two weeks af of s to tabe abe but i half adon eor badly done on not done clone at I 1 all 4 11 some seme idea of the ille macnevin mac ner nerin in which the forty congress Cong sess would up its work may be found in the ilie dec leation of a member of long experience that tho the record revealed the fact that one one quartez of the legislation of the session had bad been enact ed in the last six legislative jeays an ali enrolling clerk cherkof of twelve years yea rs of service said that never in that length of time had biad lie he witnessed the haste exhibited in the last awen ty four hours of the congress which I 1 has just jus expired during the recess of the uppers upper house for the senate which only renews one third of itself biennially is a perennially organized body and goes on forever some seme of the senators will go to europe mr ingalls of kansas the sheeted sleeted slee ted d pre Q aident of the senate says lie he is not one of those who can indulge in such guch a luxury however when asked if he proposed to spend the summer js ummer abroad lie replied not unless some good fairy Pity pityingly Y puts money in my purse he added that european Eu rojean pleasures called for more filthy lucre than he could command when so some we astonishment wa wan q expressed that the president of that gi great cat millionaires deb zb the united states stages senate could not af forda trip across the atlantic in three days of low prices ind and rapid transit the senator said it was the plain unvarnished truth and that taj e were quite a number of members mem of tle the ill ionah ise club in abut predicament he thinks a I 1 great deal of unnecessary all non bente be is ie written abut about ten atonal excle dieves fi ivene eves 63 and bands senatorial and asb alberts as berts fits that clatin in reality reality a arity of ef his contreres confreres con freres bye nothing but salaries to th live on senator spooner is s not too poyer ty stricken en to plan a summer r trip to eier europe orr b however however and senator palmer who is one of the undisputed nii Wons jit w going to bringle bring his f is 1 invalid i wife home the has been called the philosophical millionaire and nd is ia fond of albing c p of life and the uselessness of immense wealth his washington residence is oneff one of the handsomest brown stone fronts front in the city but lie says the happi cat man is the cne who thohas has the most illus illusions lops speaking 1 ng of hiso ec a s ional trips abroad lie he said isaid he wanted to tc get all lie he could out of them before he be gota got a for it took youth aswell as wall as mone money yo to enjoy europe or an any y thing else the prominent business men of this city who are ara anxious to have I a carnival lil here re after a ft or ae the N national a t 10 arl ariu which is is to take in may lay L have been discussing details in regard to io the seberne scheme atthe at the recent mardi gras in new orleans the I 1 knights of bornus and the th knights of proteus were the organizations tiona which made the finest display and both are proposing to dispose of their outfits which originally cost cars and costumes at 5 and washington is disposed to hire instead of buy expense could be ba savea sa vedin in that that way and it is held thata that a sum of 2500 which will have to be raised by prita ate te subscription would be necessary to ins ina ire a creditable display it w s tl bought ought that if the carnival waa n t held this year it would not be poss ble to have h a ve it for four beirs years the presidential presidential campaign camp ai I 1 agn and ali the e inauguration augu 0 ration would give 0 all the displays dispi pi ays needed for two years and the knights templar conclave would fill up the third sei season ison |