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Show TRUTH. WASHINGTON LETTER. 41144 X STBMT. Truth btjbbau,Marconigraph. By Special I f 6 SenaWashington, D. C., June, in securing tor Reams great victory the passage of the Filipony bill is the con- talk of the nation. Messages of ratulation have been pouring in from Doc Jones every state in the union. will celebrate the event by getting married and going to Japan on a wed- dine trip. The president will let Tom with him next fall as a S hunting mark of appreciation for the great suecess he has achieved. Every one here realizes the important part played by Kearns in relation to this bill. ( Ane As one senator expresses it: country owes a debt of gratitude to Senator Kearns. But for his untiring efforts, his lucid explanations, his for cible utterances, his patriotic decla-mations upon the subject the measure would have been defeated. 1 regard his speech to the Republican ladies of Kearns, Joe Forsythe, a veteran of the civil war W,'N doubtless get a pension P.r month. Joe lost a small toe from one of his feet while digging an intrenchment before Vicksburg. Through all the weary, toeless years wlch have elapsed since then, he has ffet recognition, but has failed, until now this great man takes up the cau8e and threatens, if the government does not reward the valiant warrior, to carry the matter into the senate and bill for his pafsage of adread Knowing power the commissioner of pensions will doubtless weaken and Joe will get justice at last. . I Provo as the cap sheaf of the great stack of eloquence he has bestowed upon the work. Prior to that time the at large more than half be-lTeved the contentions of the Demo- cratic party in relation to the islanders, But when the Provo Enquirer re ached me, as it did every hamlet in the land, contain- ing his burning, glowing, irradiating heartfelt and heart stirring words; his gallant defense of our army and its noble commanders, I felt, with my col-And when leagues, the day was ours. from day to day I have watched him pleading, coaxing, arguing and eventerrifying other senators into supporting the measure, I have gone to bed sent him to earth and tWnkingindly of the much abused people who sent him to the senate to save his country. J"0 J top of the great white dome of the building here, that of Senator Kearns, with outstretched hand; with beneficent smile; with firm determination carved upon its benign features would be more fitting. ft ft Scarcely had the news of the passage of the bill been spread through the city than like an electric shock came the tidings that at a meeting of eighteen senators, representing sugar states, Senator Kearns announced he would an adjustment of satisfactory tariff arrangements with Cuba- - on imports of sugar from that country into the United States. This was a bomb shell in the ranks of the cane sugar trust. Have- nieyer fainted when he heard the news and three or four well known attorneys for the American Sugar Refining company were stricken with apoplexy. Senator Kearns was magnanimous, however, and offered to send his secre- wi Senator Kearns wondrous power as a leading factor in matters relating to government was displayed this week, when he made the secretary of the treasury and the commissioner of im- migration bow before him and yield to his entreaties. The immigration au-thorities at Boston have been detaining Mormon converts and among others was a woman and, her three children. Your correspondent could not get the WOmans name because Doc. Joues had mislaid the memoranda, but that makes no difference for the purposes of this story. Senator Kearns heard of the cage and he immediately took a stick in tie ame Wlfc , e result that both Shaw and Sargeant got down on their marrow bones, as it were, and reversed and others who have to do with governthe decision of the department. This in thi clty ia respectfully but firmly woman Paid her passage to this coun-- 1 directed to the Consolidated Street niche in the nations capital. For my part it would seem to me fitting, that instead of the image of a mythical consent to a compromise in securing bene-sena- ft ft What Abraham Lincoln was in the dark days of war, Senator Kearns is in times of peace said a well known member of the deplomatic corps, whose name is withheld for personal reasons. If England had him in the house of lords, the Boer war would have ended long ago. Send my congratulations to Utah and say for me that Senator Kearns should be continued in the senate indefinitely and that when he dies, if such a calamity can happen, his marble statue should adorn the highest goddess standing on try and has $35 in her pocket, thund- Railway Company. Not with a view ered the senator to the two cowering of bringing its superintendent or manofficials, She has a right to land and ager to book for his many sins of omissgo out to Utah. I demand that she be ion in the past: not to secure his punsent ashore. We want that $35 in my ishment for the provokingly, state. The secretary faltered out way in which the cars are run on the something about its being a mistake line, but rather to prevent, upon future and gave the order to admit the lady. occasions the disgracing of the good Then to appease the just and righteous wrath of the great statesman from the name of Salt Lake City as was done on Wasatch range, the Boston officials Friday of last week. Upon that day the were given a jacking up. Your corres- veterans of two wars, assisted by the U. pondent sends this interesting bit of S. troops at Fort Douglas, the Nanews, not because other cases of a similar kind have been attended to by tional Guard of Utah and citizens genother Utah representatives in congress erally, turned out to do honor to the and have passed unnoticed as being too dead. As usual a parade was one of common, but to demonstrate that noth- the features. Thousands of citizens ing escapes the vigilant eye of Senator Kearns, and that when he has per- turned out to see it. But what was the formed a good act he believes in letting result? Instead of being permitted to bis light so shine before men, that they march a few blocks uninterrupted; inmay see his good works and the press stead of the line of inarch being kept boys can have something to write clear until the procession of military about. Now Joe Rawlins has never and civic societies had passed, the told us a thing about the immigrants foment thereof caw! he has released that way. George jumpi0g sidewise to Sutherland never gives us details when Prom plat00n front t0 foiJr8 street fpom ricrht he gets a postmaster appointed or se- to rear with infantry; from section halt cures a man a pension. But with Tom to battery halt with with artillery; its different. His clerks write out Grand Army of the Republic cutthe in twain by the caboose which runs on Third Southto Jordan bridge, and the K. of P. whittled to fragments by the crossing of the Warm Springs car; with the governors carriage cut out far and slip-sho- d . confess a wavering myself. 7 Jones, to prescribe for them. tary announcement, however, settles the sugar question. It is rumored' that one Rawlins tried to break into the I dif-divisio- Ls j away . from his staff, thus it went. There were street cars to the right, street cars to the left, street care in front and street cars in the rear. For the first time since the last parade one could get a street car to any point in the city. They came down by companies, battalions and brigades. They rushed up and down, over and across town in extended order and in echelon. And the bells: the gongs. They rang When the euphonium insessantly. player in the band reached the solo part in the dirge they wqre at their best. They drowned the music of Not in a rhyme either. But had a jag on, thought it was in a game of cross tag and it was it. It was a disgrace to any civilized city and would have made a barbarian marvel. And no one rode in the cars either. They ran up and down without excuse. the-quickste- w ft ft Some time this summer Mr. Mayor et al, there will be a big meeting of Elks here. They are going to have a parade. Thousands of people from abroad; from Portland, Maine, to the Golden Gate: From Minnehahas clear waters to the shelly shores of Ponchar- train: From Keokuk to Kalamazoo, from Alpha to Omaha and several other places, will be here. For the sake of the fair name of Salt Lake City, before this parade starts take the street car superintendent, and if he will not stop the care lock him up. Then arrest every motorman who dares run a wheel on the line of march from thirty minutes before the parade begins until fifteen minutes after it is over. Do not let this corporation, with its poor service, which does not care a tinkers continental for the public, usurp the streets as has been its custom. No one will miss any trains by stopping it, for folks either walk or take a carriage as it is. But shut down on it. Let not our visitors go away with the impression that we are savages. ft ft There has been a great deal said about the lesson to be learned from the Graves tragedy. But none of those who have written have ventured to suggest that a more thorough ante nuptial acquaintance of the parties, a complete study of habits, might avert many serious consequences. Half the troubles of marital life are due to haste to have the ceremony performed. As to the merits of this case, if it has any, let the grave close over them. Perhaps in another world the wrongs of this will be set right. |