The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-11

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LOOK AFTER THE STORMS AND Po-
LITICAL VICIssITUDEs OF RECENT
CAMPAIGNS sAYLERr
cox, GARFIELD, BUTTER, FOSTER
| HILL, LAMAR, CAMERON, ETC, ETC
SENATOR BLAINE SECURES THE
N.-PREsIDENTIAL AsPI
RANTs.-THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN
THE DEPLoMATC GALLERY OF THE
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I'd.
| To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
Everybody in Washington got up
this morning with the recollection
that it was the day for Congress to
meet. and everybody's wife and
daughter looked at the leaden sky,
threatening protoxyd of hydrogen in
some shape or other, with a regret
that it would be periIous to wear her
best hat. Still she wore it, trusting
to luck and her umbrella. There
are certain days on which feminine
Washington literally mandates the
capitol. They are the first day Of
Congress. the last days, and the in
termediate days when great lions
are billed to toar. / have seen it
crowded for Andrew Johnson, Sum-
ner, Morton, Coukling, Thurman,
Voohees, Hill, Blaine, Butler, and
sometimes. when grave charges or
crises give very little men fictitious
prominence, as when Patterson of
South Carolina, defended his vote for
the admission of NJ. @. Butler. But,
usually, when the ladies and the
Third Estate are in the gallery, you
may know that somebody will say
something that will find its way into
at least feHF thousand American
journals, and may be will be cabled.
reduction to three sentences, across
the Atlantic. Pity that the cable
tariff cannot be placed on all orato.
ry, There would be fewer of what
Hamlet calls words, words, words" !"
By II o'clock the galleries of the
House were densely crowded, and
adjoining lobbies and stairways were
filled with a disappointed throng
who had come too late, or without
sufficient influence to get seat, l
imagine they manage things better
in the capitol of the Utopian Repub'
JIG. There the galleries of the capi
tol are res publieae, and the lady
from Oregon has equal rights with
the lady from the District to a seal
from WHICH she may look down upon
the great y men; but courtesy gives
the preference to the lady from s
distance, and a judicious distribution
Of tickets prevents the providing on
Of those who have come from afar
with a patriotic desire to see The
architects of history at work, by res
idsnts who can go to the capitol any
day, and select this day simply TO
its attraction of crowd.
By half past II, nearly all th'
members were in the Hall. and thi
10 how they appeared to your CORES
pondent who, like any other chris
tian, sees men and manners through
the distorting lenses of his pyadi
ces: Whitthorne of the Naval Com
mittee sat alone thinking seriously
/ imagine, of the not distant da.
when his bete n0iT, Ex. Secretary Gee
NJ. Robson will occupy a seat o.
the Republican side of the House
Hon. Sam Cox has showed his chin
but he still resembles. in one re
spect those old Norwegians who's
ideal of happiness was to fight a
day and drink all night. MiltoI
Sayler Of Ohio, though, had de
feated air; be came in for larg
share Of hand shaking, congratuls
tions. ~ l suppose, and assurance
that he should have cabinet pos
ton, foreign mission, or port co
lecto rship after 1880, when Thurma
shall be made President. Alex
Stephens wheeled himself into th
arena just before prayers, but he wa
not received with the usual warmt
by Democratic members. His ind'
pendent course since the adjourn
ment has not endeared him TO thos
who hold that political success ca
be attained only through party di'
cipline. The venerable Georgian hs
gained two pounds since his last al
pearance and now weighs 81. II
appeared to-day in new chair wit
a high back. Gen. Butler was ne
seen until after prayers. CARTEL
has not changed hair. Wsddell I
North Carolina, and Foster of Obi
wear their recent defeat with tt
grace of men who expect anoth'
chance, or that they will be remeu
bered when their respective parti'