The daily gazette., 1877-10-17
Washington Letter.

ONFE 81
oPEEING Seen IS IN THE HOUSE; nov THE
LIONS ARE iDENTtFiED-A DIsTINGuE
cLIRK-a,s. cox, BEN. BUTLER, TOM
Ewing "A BOLD BACHELOR, TWO PRET-
TY MKMBRRs-THE SENATE ,coNkLINes
oRATroN--BLAINE EoL1PsED--aPENCER
,E,uPHorsTERED--MoRToNs EMPTY DEsT,
ETC ETC. p.
From otw Regular Correspondent.
q '''' g. '1A WAsHINuToN, Oct. 10.
lIfthe aspect Of the heavens on epochal'
days may be, supposed to forecast the
char acter Of new, eres, then, surely, the
country may draw hopeful auguries
from the elemental perfection of the 18th !
OF October 1877, on which the forty-ffth
congress convened nextra session. These
occasions have been often described and
they present lirtle that is salient and not
stale. There is always great rush,
chiefly of the transient population of
Washington, to be present at an opening
session, and always failure on the part
Of from 1000 to 5000 to get nearer than the
doors of the galleries of the Senate and
House. The galleries are crowded with
those who have seldom or never seen
live congress in session, and a sprinkling
of old habitues are offcious in pointing
out the lions on the floor 'Therel That
Is "Supset" Cox coming down the aisle
to the right. Who, that short broad
faced man with dark whiskers? No, no
that is Charlie Foster of Ohio. Here
leok in the direction of my pencil. Now
he is taking his seat, now he, is shaking
hands with Whithorne of Tenn. OF
course, score or more members are TAX
ing seats, or shaking hands with some
one who will answer the visitors concep-
ton of Whithorne of Tenn, so he pre-
tends to have seen Mr.. Cox in order to
get rid of his guide. Then there are
many who are unfamiliar with the faces
OF our Legislators, but have wonderful
facility for "spottIng" a great man by
the shape of his head, or his tout ensemble.
They will ask you: "Who is that dis
tinguished looking Senator talking to the
second tier?' Ohl that distinguished
man is the clerk of one of the commit
tees, and Senator Thurman is perhaps
asking him to bring cubic foot or so of
legal documents to his desk.
Opening Scenes in the House--Sketebes,
The hall of the House of Representa-
tives was crowded by half past II, and
the old members were busy exchanging
greetings or Introducing the new ones.
S. s. Cox sat in his old seat busily writ
ing, with plug hat on and a cigar in his
mouth. The restless, Springer of Illinois
sat beside him hurriedly turning the
leaves of Barclays digest Fernando
Wood marched straight to his seat, clap
ped his hands for page, sent for some
sheep bound reports and went to work
with the air of a man that had been
there before. Chss. Foster of Ohio and
Randolph Tucker Of Va, went about
res 1lessly shaking hands with every body.
Alex. Stevens came down the main aisle
with hat, gioN es, crutches, cushions, and at
tendants he was deposited and proped In
chair, Immediately in front OF the Speak
er's stand, while bis servant, without q
taiat of Caucasian blood, looking for all
the world like the Hon. eSmalls OF y. c.,
but not as well dressed, stool by his desE.
Milton Sayler, who Is bronzed and bald,
though unmarried, sat with his arms folded,
dlgnified, indolent, and happy-the incar-
nate reputation of Touchstone's assertion
that the brow of married man is more
honorable than the bald head OF bachelor.
Berks, of Massachusetts, stood erect like a
sentinel by his desk, not unconscious, |
think he was comely to look upon, but on
the other side of the house, in AL the pride
of his majestic beauty, sat Walker, of Va,
who would make a better drum major than
even Banks. Both have great glory Of
shining hair, but Walkers Is the better
groomed- hair will grow With
out subsail OF brains. These two states
men sit on opposite sides OF the House, and
a harmonious aesthetic equilibrium is pre-
served. - .@
Conspicuous and observed of all, on a
front seat by Mr.. Southland, of 0hin, sat
Hon. Tom. Ewing, with his strong gloomy
face In marked contract with beautiful
boquet OF flowers which he held In his hand.
All ewes were looking for the best carried
tatred man in America, Boss Tweed per-
haps excepted, and soon with his old shamb-
ling walk, and apparently the same clothee'
he came in, aud except for an lncTeasi ng
corpuleney, with evident WEAKNESS OF man"
ner. he went instinctively to his old seat,
and Benj amin f. Butler Was himself again.
AT IL III. precisely, Clerk Adams gave
three sharp raps with the gavei ana oegan
calling the roll at slow speed that meant
he would be occupied at least an hour, aud
many improved the occasion TO see achdt aouS
ooiaq on IN the Senate, That body had
met, organzed, sworn in Armstrong OF
Mo-. and Matthews, of Ohio, appointed a
committee to wait upon the President, and
after session OF twenty minutes adjourned
until the next day. Many Senators re-
NAMED ON the floor where Senator CoDkliug
seeming in the hey >dey of -exhuberapt hap
piness- was Receiving an ovation, SHAKING
hands, talking and laughing with the Sena-
tors, mem oers, clerks and others who
pressed around his desk. Nothing is
more evident than that the, Senator struck
a chord that thrills the heart of the great
Repu bhcan party, in his Rochester speech,
and il is also evident that he knows it,
Blaine is for the time ecllpsed as he plainly
feels, and unless he goes step further than
his great rival thing not easy to do he
must stand aside. CONTRARY to all reflection
SoenceI OF Alabama was on hand remarka-
biv upholstered and looking as refined and
sLatesrnanhNe as it is possible for SO much
erossness aud stupidity to look. His actress
wife knows what he ought to wear. Con-
splcuous by his absence was the lame Sena-
tor from Indiana, and the peculiar black
walnut mechanism by which he used TO sup
port himself, whiie speaking hung omsn-
ously over his empty desk. U. "A. ..
At a meeting of the prominent busi-