The daily gazette., 1878-02-12
Our Washington Letter,
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L WASHINGTON, Feb.9.--The entertain
ment furnished by Congress- this week
has been rather tame, and, in respect to
Mr. Blaine's speech, disappointing. The
galleries and the floor of the Senate were
crowded to hear him Ifhe could stir up
menagerie on the presentation of
marble statue, what might not be ex-
pected ffopl him with cur ancestral root
Of all evil for theme? AT precisely if
teen minutes before the appointed time
for his speech, he entered the Senate
chamber, and all eyes were fixed upon
him. 1t was observed by the ladies that
he was faultlessly dressed, 4 but this is
rule, not an accident with Senator Blaine.
He seems to have imbibed the very spirit
of the advice of Palonius 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 hands; it was felt that that little roll
of paper would bind him to his subject,
and fetter 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 desert
ed him, and, after speaking for half
hour, the Senator from Maine sat down,
having for almost the first time in his life
| spoken without sensation and ecldt.
| At the other end of the Capital they
were discussing the -Wigginton
| claim to q seat in the House, and that
| question has been decided after kind of
8 to fashion, in favor of the Democrat
ic claimant. For some time the Demo-
Gratis in the House have had great diff
Guilty in keeping their strength in hand
SO as to utilize their small majority. Some
questions they are disposed to dodge, on
| other questions they are lukewarm. It
is observed that the Republican members
ill their seats in dense array and are
well in hand, ready to take advantage Of
opponents. During the debate on the
Pacheco- Wigginton case, and few min
utes before the vote was taken, / heard
a reporter say: "There is Beverly Doug
las at last, and drunk as usual" Mr..
Douglass a representative from the
"Mother of States," &C., was seen on the
floor, shaking hands with every one that
he could reach, gesticulating and talking
in state of maudlin intoxication. He
had been sent home and to the hospital,
but in this crisis his vote was needed land
telegram had summoned him to the
Capitol. 1t is not the fashion know to
tell of incidents like this. Correspon-
l1x he, .lxr1 Ia.
in relation to what we call the private
lives of public men; but the life of no man
is private, much less of a legislator. If
no man hveth to himself, how much less
the representative of a large constituent
cy. There are great many things about
lpublc men that the public ought to
know. When men dare to climb and
stand on eminences, they must expect to
be observed and criticized. There are
correspondents here who could furnish
some mighty interesting reading, if they
were not afraid of hurting somebody.
But the world has, perhaps, 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 diagnoses, and,
ms sequence, aimless blind treatment.
!, l once wrote something about our sailors
spending their money in brothels; but
the editorial Aunt Nancy to whom it
l WAS Stnt was W plihb tnC WOiu
"brothels," SO he changed it to"saloons,"
thus making it weak in strength, and
short of truth. Such an editor ought to
drape the legs, or perhaps, should say
limbs, of his writing desk, lest their bare
ness offend his delicate soul.
Last week 1 saw the queen of the lob
by. There have been many queens OF
the lobby and their reign has been dis
puted by jealous aspirants of their own
sex but refer to the present reigning
queen. Her regal title is not disputed by
either house of Congress, but in many
ways privately acknowledged by both
She is employed by a powerful railroad
exhaustible exchequer and carriage, in
which she has taken more than one
member of Congress from his seat at the
capitol to her luxurious palace. 1t need
not be presumed that when members OF
Senators cannot be relied to vote on an
imminent question, they always have
pneumonia. may state that the policy
of the reign of the above mentioned
queen is not favorable to the Texas Pa
cific Railroad. There may be seen every
day an ex-queen of the lobby, or rather,
she was a princess, for her sway was new
er quite regal In its absoiuteness, put she
was wonderfully successful in making her
own fortune and, having acquired
wealth, she is now fighting bravely for a
social foot-hold. She has long possessed
a powerful attraction for distinguished
Western Senator, and the fact is known
that, notwithstanding the presence of his
wife in the city, the greater portion OF
his leisure is spent at the house of this
young woman.
No Reconciliation With Italy
LONDON, February 12.-The Daily
Telegraph's Vienna dispatch says that a
telegram received there states that the
Cardinals by a vote Of 80 to 10 rejected
the idea of reconciliation with Italy.
The German Reception.