New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-01

sands To achieve absolute greatness he wah'eu oiS
high Office He bought 1t with his vulgar NO" uoi''
ana left it after sitting for sixty days hsen'ns " ~,
comments of his peers upon the hatfield story Oh niS
cut himself cognzant all the time OF the whoie un
deniahe truth and came home again to gather up 'ne
frapnents Of his business Pubic interest," h"s he'ei
since been sufficiently aroused concerning nm 70 inquire
whether he is any wiser than he was or hKey Ia inc
present state OF trade, to get back inc money he pau o
his Senatorial commission.
TuIs YEARS SENATORIAL CONTEST.
The Farmers Movement, Grangerism, Reform, or
haiever its friends and enemies please 20 call It, was
understood last FAIL prior to the elections TO nave an
ecmeDaf strong antag onsm to ways that are dark In
politics and the strength OF that feeling was TO be
tested in another manufacturing Legislature
this Winter.
The surroundings OF law-making are somewhat
changed in Kansas since the days when the lobby sat
arrow upon the barrailing like attenuated congre-
cation OF tobaccOnzng crows, and drank In the monot
onous draw OF the clerks and filled themselves with
the pure wisdom embodied in bills upon the third read
ing. There is Quakersh drabstone structure now, In
the midst of vast and desolate area. ornamented with
pillars Of Gothic mold with vast and gloomy halls, long
vstas OF stops and dry and sitting atmosphere, which,
though only the beginning of milliondolar future. is
yet offered to the Kansas law-maRer as an
immense contrast to tho dlngy housing OF
his predecessors The overcrowded hall OF the
Lower House. with its LOG members is frescocd loudly
which one or two at recognizable by the aver
age observer stare down upon assembled wisdom from
SOodd feet of dizzy elevation The placid face OF the
Father of his Country beams benigny from above tho
Speakers chair and is remarked to have changed
at any of the dongs below him. Here the
lobby must betake themselves 10 the gallery stand or
90 out The familiar rumble Of falling cord-wood is
wanting and the cheerful rattle OF the poker upon the
stove is no longer heard Here the 18th OF January,
assembled the very last congregation OF
elected under what felt TO be new auspices OF
whom much expected in reform and anti-monopoy
way. The mighty throng Of seekers OF small offices was
there Some Of the asprants for Senatorial dignity
already present. and the session began amid great
| CROWD OF AsPrRANTs.
| In the FIRST few hours there much clustering
| about reform. Movements made toward the cut
ting of salaries and the general reduction OF on-
| cial armies But no motion Of that kind carried On
the very first day boarseness. which lasted upon that
subject during the remainder OF the session SO 1a was
induced byspeeches denunciatory OF grinding monop-
oes" with other neat phrases calculated to make tho
listening railroad agent trembe. On the second day
resolution was offered by politician OF long standing
setting forth that the possession Of railway pass by
| member interfered with honest and impartial law
making requiring all such to be deposited with the
chief clerk for return issuing companies 1t did not
| bv any means pass Such movements were frequent
during the first week, failing as fast as proposed.
Presently the time drew for the real business OF
the session. and the 9th the first separate ballot re-
aured by law was taken in the two Houses This de-
yeoped fact that there only 28 candidates IN
the field with chances In these tho learned politician
might discern hundred operative causes. There was
the man from the South. and the from the West.
together with q from the Southwest, and, for
aught have ever heard TO the contrary, complete
boxing OF the compass in matter Of locality Then
there were the Granger candidates to the number OF
halfa dozen, and the straight Republican candidates,
and the Republican candidates with reform ten
denotes" and Reform candidates with Republican
| antecedents; it was most astounding mixture The
lobby grew to immense proportions. Each night was
field night caucusng Divided and subdivided as the
duestion was all efforts at unity futile. Reporters
of long-practiced ingenuity in connecting telegraphc
specials failed find much as sensation in it, Day
after day, high 12 the roll was called, and the mem
beers of the JOINT Convention and named the Old
| familiar twenty-odd names. and adjourned. Some
voters had a candidate whose single, lonesome name
they called unterred and unsupported to the last bal
| lot Of all.
The reason Of this curious proceeding for long
time unsuspeo ted it lay in this :neary mem
Der had himself Senatorial aspirations. They dare help
DC other candidate, for fear OF hurting themselves
BAD TEMPER-FINAL BALLOT.
Balloting from Tuesday untiiSaturday, DONG nothing
else Reform Legislature wasting $1,000 per diem, Tor
which each of them must find excuse when he goes
home, or come more. is trying upon tempers. The
|
inv collar and hair lately combed Ia Sumner, is mad
because nobody mentions him in a caucus in which no
| should naturally expect to have friends The in
the next seat but one with the foreshortened pana-
looms, and shoes turned awTy with walking in furr0w,
has the feeling OF unappreciated ability; while
their opposite the village editor, with hair ambrosal
and necke like Summers cloud, but still who,
considering stirring words he has written in its be-
half ought to rise in the movement sits calmly
wondering at this action OF th Legislature OF
! State which has heretofore made Senators easily.
The loss OF temper begins TO affect the quality OF
| speeches made. Amiabe gentlemen begin TO talk back
at each other the fourth day. Candidates more
promnent than others assaled and the fact that
they have at some time IN the past voted
! 80 and so is made much OF, O0 Saturday, in
continuance of the ieeling, questions OF personal
yeracy arose, and in the evening the first and only
attempt TO ballot twice on the same day, the feeling
vented itself in a camor, hooting, standing upon
desks and general disorder winch forced IAN adjourn
ment.
There remains little TO he told Sunday interviewed,
| and many misunderstanding discussion evidently
ended in no hopedfor harmony among the Seconaiss,
the southerncrs, the Wcserners and all the remaining
persuasions On Monday the man who received
votes on the first ballot left on with the happy 20
CURED He was farmer technically ponderous, honest,
SLOW aud much addicted TO making up ms mind 1t is
the first Senatorial contest in Kansas which has been
pecuniary honest throughout He was elected because
they tired. The first spleen vented by mem
Der in iadvised oratorca effort, which
Missed and hoOed by of his brethren who had in
| time changed their for the winning man. that
they esteemed coaborers in the arduOns duties OF
law-makng BANKED sons OF blanks and with this
amiable mention OF relationship lie sat down. the cleo
tion declared, the Convention was dissolved and
Kansas duly seized and possessed OF her seventh
Senator. DENNE MONAHAN.
| MIR. BEECHER on GOVERNMENT LIES.
| Steinway Hall, in Pourteenth-st was last