Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. a, 1871

e To the Editor Of tile .Acant Courier:
= No business Of importance has as We
y been transacted by Congress at this gre;l
extra session. that is, with any results tina
are now visible. Last Wednesday tn
House adjourned till Saturday. when fiv'
minutes session was had-just long enough
for the chaplain to pray briefly, and ad
: ioulm till Monday During the last day.
> OF the week Speaker Randall took trip tC
Philadelphia. for what purpose is moi
known. All this seems like 4 waste OF
: time. but l suppose it is not so. The days
have been occupied in the making up OF
committees which must be done before
anything else could be accomplished. The
Senate had no session on Saturday, and
Friday was deep in the consideration of
that tresOme old Pinchback case. Poor
Pincbback! He has one strong clarac-
teristic. at all events, that of perseverance.
For years and years he has been knocking
at the door of the Senate, without avail.
but he will not give it up. Perhaps he is
thinking that although they will not rise
yet because Of his much knocking they
will yet rise and give him.
Mr.. Thurman has espoused Mr.. Curtis
case against Pinchback, and after speaking
at some length on the question last Friday
he ceased by making the motion. since the
Whole case I'D been under consideration
for so many years and was so thoroughly
understood. that it he voted on and settled
then and there. But in a very unexpected
manner this was stopped by Senator Davis.
who rose and calmly stated that he, not
having been in the Senate before, was en-
tilely Ignorant of the details of the case
and could not possibly vote upon it with
at present. So it had to 60 over
and ''Pinchback's case" still exists.
Mi. Blaine receiveda telegram. Saturday, |
stating that his daughter Alice had been
shot by the premature discharge OF toy
pistol. He made preparations for an i'm
mediate trip to Maine, but was taken with
a severe chill. just before time for the train |
TO leave. and his physician forbade his
leaving before Monday or to-day. MIR. |
Blaine is said TO be still ambitious tor the !
Presidency, but even his friends are not
over santguine of his success in that di, &C.
ton. He grows old. His face shows the
warfare he has been through. lie is grow
ing cOrpulent, and now he has those same
swollen circles under and over his eyes that
Sumner had during the latter part of his
life. His heir is very gray and his whole
face and pc son have a9ou at least twenty
years in the last len.
Conhling is still a bright and shining
Senatorial light. but his glory, physically
speaking. is also on the wane. His TOP
knot of silvery gold doesn't curl as high
and is somewhat .hinned out in the last
year or t" ,; and tie wrinkles in his hand |
some face have perccptibly deepene,l. And
yet, he is called by tar the handsomest
man in the Senate.
Spencer has general ''slicked up ap-
pcal ance this season. Evidently his wife
has had her dainty hands in his hair. for II
no longer lies flat to his head as formerly.
Now it is brushed up and out at the sides
and even curled into crest on the top. al
most rival'ng the style of COnklinr, He
receives his congratulations appreciaiiyely
and has at once entered upon his own spe-
cial political business. COnkling is said to
be his legal adviser.
Stanley Matthews wears gold-bowed
glasses andlooks ridiculously like Brigham
Young. He occupies his new seat with
dignity and with apparent comfort as if
the rival images OF Ewing and PendIcton
did not loom up before him.
Senator HaInlin, old and bent, but clear
headed and long-sigbted as ever, is still in
his old place. The Senate Chamber would
not look itself without him. His appear-
ance is scarcely that of fop. His coat
looks as If 1t had seen decades veal and
is cut after the same pattern of his first
wedding swallow-tail, very likely. His
boots are coarse. and large and iow-Eeeled.
and he wears the kind OF spectacles that
yourg people ransack all creation for now
a-days. in which TO figure at the ..old folk
BALI or antiquarian supper"
This week came in cold and damp and
fall-like, inaugur.ted by thunder storm
Oh Sunday evening. The weather tor the
last fortnight has been glorious and we
were hoping for q cOntinllanee of the same
through this month at least. We usually
have some days in November, too, warn. |
and sunny, full of Indian Summers COLDER |
glory. but yesterday and to-day are most |
pronounced hampers.
ADAMS.