The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-02-16
THE JOINT SESSION.
4 Description OF the Actors aud the
Scene. .....

MARY Clemmor in Cincinnati CONNER
| cinl.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.--lu combin-
| ed effect, men gain by being massed,
and the Unhei States Senate never
| looked better than when it appeared
two by two filing down the central
aisle OF the House of Representatives
on Thursday morning. They We're pre-
coded by the boN-bearers--two men
carrying mahogany boxes, in which
were locked the precious votes which
arc to decide the fate OF eighty thou
sand ofticehoiuerS and five hundred
thousand ofticeseel>ers. Then came
Vice President Ferry ana Secretary
Gorl.anl, followed by two clerks of the
Senate.
In some instances the Senatorial
couples looked oddly paired, again fit
ly paired, according to temperament.
!. For example, the ruddy Welsh cheek
of Senator Jones We're wonderfully
brought, out by the Indian lines of
Logan, whose arm he held. Eoscot
Conkling was thrown into relief by the
whileneu crown of Sargent, of Califor-
mia. blanche (what II name tor II
manD Bruce looked like II cOcoanut
beside the milky Conover, the Penn
sylvuniu doctor from Florida. Blaine
looked twenty years older than he did
five years ago, in that aspect uutuulna
Conkiing, who is beginning to fresleu
aud brighten up again. !Gdmunds
took Il back seat !; Con>ling II front
one. Blaine and Booth, the beautiful,
fell to Whispering. The great FIRE.
linghuyscn lifted up the light Of his
hereditary countenance on the Crap
phic artist, and con,icscendcu to i'll
huIsc iN II slight pursuit of knowledge.
Randolph Tucker and David Dudley
Field began to commune, and Simon
Cameron dropped into the oars of his
SON Don 4 few OF those mighty secrets
of s'1atc--rcieathc your ncst--with
which he is supposed to be richly laden.
Martin l. Townsend, of Troy ,cxchang-
ed jokes over his chair with Fenton,
trottcd his grandson on the end OF his
| toes, and munchcd apples. Elder Can
| non, deprived of the companionship of
| his four wives, did likewise, to the
| wonder of tho English spectator. If
| they could have added their ginger
! bread, peanuts and pipes, his amaze
mcnt would have been complete.
| Alone, un;Gssistcd, following his illus
| triulls mates, came Morton, the grand
unwccpiug jeremiah On the occasion.
| There was no time to pray-l take it
| for grantc;i--as the two tightly choker-
| CT ch:tpt:lfllS Oh the 'front.' scat were not
called on. During his incumbency
| Vice President Ferry has cultivated
his voice to such II deep resembling
bass, tits pity the occasion for using
| it is nearly past. He called the joint
| convention to Oricr-Saiu that in Obe-
diencc to the Constitution they were
proceeding, etc., and then unlocked
| pandora's box, and took out tho votes
of Aiabalns,, handing them in II pack
age to Mr.. Allison, with Il duplicate to
Mir. Stone. Senator Spencer did not
object, and ten votes were recorded for
Uncle Yiidcn-aud Il horriu ugly little
| old uncle he is. Each State glided
gracefully and swiftly after the other;
even Colorado, without IL single trip,
| till Florida, with her roses, her flags
and her five ''counts," jumped out OF
| the box. Then the bare dome of the
| lofty Field at once scared in mid air
| the image OF the Kaiser William, with
his nose heightened. lie objected. OF
course he did. That is what he came
from New York for. Then Senator
| Sargent objected to him. And <asson
objected to something else. Then the
Senate thought il time to go home, and
it went, and the counting went over to
another day. At haif-pust , o'ciOck
the crowd spread through the avenue
into the sunshine, so tranSccndcnt, so
iifcgiving, and in the great sun bath
met the President and "Buck,' we'll
fed, wei! bred and content. 1t was
none of their sscoun,.'