The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-16
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
CADET Quotations.

The Hon. John Covode, who was re-
turned to Congress by a majority OF
only three hundred against him, has q
broker who swears that he sold the
cadetship fora good round sum, but
never paid one cent to the Congressman.
There used to be honor among thieves.
At least We had proverb to that effect,
but it is no. practices I'd in the Cave.
Cunning Covode-and Covody is
Gevillish sly-in5ends to keep quiet
until the thing blows over, and then
sue his broker for the full amount. John
believes an action will lie. II not,
however, John can; 50 that the broker
had better compromise.
Waiting AMBITION.
l learn that our colored statesman,
Senator Revels, has directed the doer-
keepers to carry him in ne cards, As lie
wishes to devote his entire time to a
study of Charles Sumner and the Con
stitution. Since the last named instru-
ment has been dragged through the
war, and amended fifteen times, it is as
incomprehensible as that other instru-
ment OF divine wrath, called Charles
Sumner.
NEW oFFICE.
A bill is before Congress that provides
the State Department with legal ad-
visor, whose business shall be to inject
some knowledge OF law into that an.
cieDt and fishy institution. Jones sug-
gests that it would be better to provide
the Der""tment with a Secretary of
State.
am told that the place is put to n
heavy expense in keeping Two able
bodied men on hand to waken the old
SardiRe when presented with an idea.
But the trouble attending this work of
stirring up the old Fish is so great,
that these men are wasted to mere
shads or shadows, and they threaten an
unheard-of thing in Westinghouse.
signation, not to the will of God, but
office.
KING LOG.
Last Saturday his serene Highness,
Ulysses S. Grant, got down from his
very high horse, and walking to the
Capitol, politely requested an inter
view with the committee on the Judi
ciary in the Senate. 1t is said that he
offered to compromise upon the obnod-
Gus Judge.
The visit is significant. His serene
Highness of the sweet cigar set ont
with the understanding that he was to
keep clear of politicians, and hiss success
has been remarkable. He has kept alo0f
from politicians, and the politicians,
with the same success have given His
Excellency wide berth.
But there came time wheA into his
darkeDed brain there crept the notion
that, after all, the politicians had
their uses. The Senate, for example,
has, under the Constitution, the right
to confirm. This right, under many ad-
ministrations, had fallon into disuse.
Bot when U. S. Grant pulled his con.
tempt into the faces of these Senatorial
solons, and permitted his venerable
daddy to appoint collateral Grants to
office over the heads of solons from the
Cave, they hauled off. One day there-
after his Excellency, driving past the
Capitol, found his friend, the judicial
mutf, from Massachusetts,, stranded on
the curbstone, and split all to pieces.
And the only reason given was the one
SO often foui- in the Fog-bank, Don't
like him."
Experience is an expensive school,
but some Presidents will learn at no
other. AS his Excellency reads no pa
pers, and permits no one to approach
him who can or will tell the truth, he
is forced to drive his unhappy executive
skull against the stone wall of expert
ence.
For the first time in the history of the
United States, we have President who
draws his salary with healthy regulari-
ty, and is in every word the King Log
of the fable. We had been so troubled
with the King Stork and his eternal
and internal policy, that to have a
President who knows nothing, and did
not pretend to know anything, was re-
fresing. But, since King Log has
turned all the powers of the Administra
tion over to seven gentlemen, and those
not the wisest in the land, and we find
ourselves possessed of seven different
policies, some of them conflicting, the
change is not 80 refreshing.
For time here the all-absorbing
questions were, who runs the Admins
tration, who is Grants confidential ad.
viserl The conundtum dried out for
lack of interest, for it was discovered
that Grant had nothing to do with the
The King smoked and
said nothing, and the Government run
itself,