The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-02-21
From our regular correspondent.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Blaine Surprises the Senate with
Tame Speech-IIis Faultless
Clothes.
WIGGINTON WINS.
a NIaudIin Member.
4 Railroad that Sends a Notorious
Woman to COngress-SOmethin
About Lobby Queens.
WASHINGTON. D, G. Feb. 18th. 1873

WASHINGTON, d. G. Feb, 10Th, 1878.
The entertainment furnished by congress
this week has been rather tame, and in re- I
spect to Mr.. Blaine's speech, disappointing. /
The galleries and the floor of the senate |
were crowded 10 hear him. If he could stir !
up menagerie on the presentation of (
marble statute, what might not be expected |
frOm him with oar ancestral root of all evil
for theme? At precisely fifteen minutes
before the appointed time for his speech, he
entered the senate chamber and all ewes
were fixed upon him. 1t was observed by
the ladies that he was faultlessly dressed.
but this Is rule, not an accident with Sena-
tor Blaine. lie seems to have imbibed the
very spirit OF the advice of Polonius to his
son. costly thy habit as thy purse can
buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not
gaudy." Much to the disappointment of
his audience, he arose with a manuscript in
his hand 1t was felt that that little roll Of
paper would bind him to his subject, and
letter that splendid rashness that has been
! the chief characteristic OF his former efforts.
Before he was half through, a large portion
of his audience had deserted him, and after
speaking for half hour, the senator from
| Maine sat down; having for almost the first
/ time in mis- life spoken without sensation
and ecJat.
At the other end of the capitol they were
discussing the Pacheco Wigginton claims
to a seat in the House, and that question
! has been decided after 4 kind of s to :
| fashion, in favor of the Democratic claim
ant. For some time the Democrats in the
House have had great difficulty in keeping
their strength in hand so as to utilize their
small majority Some questions they are
disposed to dodge, Oh other questions they
are lukewarm. 1t is observed that the Re
publican members fill their seats in dense
array and are we'll in hand, ready to take
advantage of any lack of vigilance on the
part OF their opponents. During the de-
bate on the Pacheco Wigginton case, and a
few minutes before the vote was taken. /
heard reporter say "there is Beverly
Douglas at last, and drunk as usual" Mr..
Douglas, a representative from the mother
of States etc, was seen on the floor, shaking
hands with every one that he could reach,
gesticulating and talking in state of maud
lin intoxication. He had been sent home
and TO the hospital, but in this crisis his
vote was needed, and telegram had
summoned him to the capital. 1t is not
the fashion know, to tell of incidents like
this. Correspondents and the press are
strangely lenient in relation to what we call
the private lives of public men; but the life
of no man is private, much less of a Iegisla-
tor. If no man Ivcth TO himself how much
less the representative of a large constitu-
ency. There are great many things about
public men that the public ought to know.
When men dare to climb and stand on
commences, they must expect to be observed
and criticized. There are correspondents
here who could furnish some mighty inter
esting reading, if they were not afraid of
} hurting somebody. But the world has, per-
haps, not yet been educated to that point
that it can receive the nakedness of truth
it still prefers to see things through glass
darkly." Hence we have imperfect diagnos-
es, and, as a sequence, aimless blind treat
ment. l once wrote something about our
sailors spending their money in brothels.
but the editorial aunt Nancy to whom it was
sent was afraid to print the word "brothels, y
40 he changed it to Saloon" thus making
it weak in strength, and short of truth.
Such an editor ought to drape the legs, or
perhaps, 1 should say limbs, of his writing
desk, lest their barenness offend his delicate
soul
Last week I saw the queen of the lobby
There have been many queens of the lobby
and their reign has been disputed by ieal-
Gus aspirants of their own sex; but / refer tc
the present reigning queen. Her regal IL
tie Is not disputed by either house of con.
gross, but i'll many ways privately acknowl.
edged by both. She Is employed by q
powerful Railroad corporation, furnished
with an almost ineXhaustible eXchequer
and carriage in which she has taken more
than one member of congress from his seal
at the capital to her luxurious palace. Ii
need not be presumed that when members
or senators cannot be rallied to vote on al
imminent question, they always have pneU,
: monia. may state that the policy of the
reign of the above mentioned queen is moi
favorable to the Texas Pacific Railroad
/ There may be seen every day an cx-queeI
of the lobby, or rather, She was princess,
for her sway was never quite regal in i'll
: absoluteness, but she was wonderfully sue.
cessful in making her own fortune; and
having acquired wealth, she is now fighting
| bravely for a social foothold. She hat
long possessed a powerful 1T raction fol
a distinguished western senator, and the
fact is known that, Notwithstanding the pres
ence of his wife i'll the city, the greater por-
ton of his leisure is spent at the house Of
! this Young woman.