The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.



Just now much interest centres In
the Senatorial elections In the differ
ent States, aud u number of Senators
OF both political parties have left their
seats In the Senate chamber and hied
oil to their respective State capitals, to
shake hands and he sociable with the
rural legislator who holds political
prelerment in his horny fists.
Washington was enlivened last
week 10y an influx of the members Of
the West Virginia House Of Represen'
talives, many of whom stopped here
on their way to Wheeling to orient
themselves at the national capital and
In the national bar rooms. Changes
are In prospect In the personnel of the
United States Senate, which, while
they may not amount to II regenera-
ton of that some what fallen body,
will, nevertheless, be long stride
towards ita reformation. There il u
strong prot ability of the elimination
OF such mel M Boutwell, and Logan,
and certainty of the elimination OF
Spencer, West, Dorsey, ana, In
two years, of Patterson and Clayton.
The West Virginia Legislature will
elect u Senator In the place Of Mr..
Davis, and his successor, II Is thought,
will be the Hon. Charles James Faux
uer, ut present the Representative in
Congress from the Second Congress
sional District. West Virginia is II
young State, and has not 30 far figured
very creditably In the National Sen.
ate. When cut oil from the mother OF
states and statesmen, Mr.. Faulkner
was one Of the very small number of
the type of broad and cultured states
men That fell on her side Of the line.
He had been Congressional Repre-
sentative from Virginia when the old
state extended from the Chesapeake
to the Ohio river. He was United
States Minister to France when the
second empire was In the zenith of Its
uower and when delicate information
al questions, requiring the coolest
| GHCSSG, We're to be dealt with 1t Is say
ing much, but not more than the truth
warrants, that neither at home or
abroad were State or nation ever more
creditably represented than by Charles
James Faulkner. Although u master
Of the strCng aud polished oratory for
which he was distinguished even
among his eminent associates in the
thirty second, thirty-third, thirty.
fuurt and thirty nth Cougresses Mr..
Faulkner has not courted uotoriety on
the floor of the House. 1t is in the
committee room and in council that his
splendid talents and rich experience
appear to best advantage. From d
Washington standpoint, he Is one OF
the most unsociahle of public
men. have been told that during the
many years ofhi3 residence in Wash.
ingt0n, he has been to parties only
twice, and to the theatre not ut all !;
aud, that during the evening, when
the average congressman IL in u swal.
low-tail coper!ng nimbly in the splen-
did salons of the west end, or, alas as
is too often the case, drinking himself
under the table with boon companions,
of either sex, this veteran student may
be found in his room working with the
arder Of M under graduate.
Who will succeed Senator Boutwell,,
| OF Massachusetts,; cannot with any
certainty be predicted, Tut any change
will be salutary. Since the elimina-
ton of Chandler, he il prominently
the most malignant, narrowest, and
most hopelessly jaundiced Senator left,
The country may DO grateful for any
change, for in Boutwell,, it has seen
the worst. 1t is thought by some that
Mr.. Hoar will succeed him; by others,
that General Batter will be his success.
sor.
General Logan will probably be sue.
ceeded by Hon. Lyman Trumbull, n
c0nsumation to be prayed for. 1t IL
thought that Mr.. Norwood, OF Georgia,
will be his own success or, any pros =
poets that Hon. Ben Hin may have
had having been ruined by his fatal
tongue. Governor Harris, of Tennes-
see, will succeed Mr. Cooper, and
Mr.. Lamar, of Mississippi, will
take the place of Governor Alcorn. Ii
is TO be regretted that three years
must elapse before this State can elect
IN place of the fat mulatto, who now
represents her, the able aud distin-
guished Hon. Charles Il. Hooker.
The Democratic mass meeting held
in this city on the anniversary Of the
battle Of New Orleans was the happi-
est of successes. The crowd was I'M.
mense; the enthusiasm was superb;
the speeches were the best | ever
heard; and the applause was sublime.
Its effect is seen in depression verg-
ing on de pair of the conspirators. A
handful of otiice-h holders have hoped
that they would be able to hold their
places through the Chinese strategy OF
noise. They will find themselves as
powerless on the 4th OF March as was
Packard's sham government recently
In New Orleans. CAS-.