, 1878-01-12

stale snuff. This is Eustis. He has
waited patiently for twenty-five months,
cooling his heels in the ante-chamber-
Within less than that number of days,
now, he will get his just dues, Deo roleate,
and will be installed senator Of the
United States.
AFTER MIDNIGHT.
While we have been lingering in the
democratic cloak-rconi, an hour has glided
bv in the senate. 1t is / o'clock Ben
IIin is speaking. The galleries are thin
ning out The interlopers who crowd the
reporters gallery on great days have gone
home. The workers still tafry, condens-
inc hours Of the political history which Is
making into lines, which are flying along
the wires, north, east, south and west, TO
greet at the breakfast table in the morn
ing the great public. scattered from Bos-
ton to San Francisco, and from Chicago
to New Orleans. The change of head
line by pale, over-worked Young man IN
that gallery takes paragraph from Bos-
ton reader and serves it up in New Or
leans. L is wonderful, The floor, that
maaic space, SO near you might drop
down upon it from Ire parapet without
/ injury. vet distant By years Of labor; and
even then more likely unattainabIe; that
forum which has bequeathed TO fame a
: Webster, Calhoun and Clay; that
space which has echoed The fiery eloquence
! of Benjamin and Summer sforclblephlllp-
pies that enchanted ground of our imagi-
! nation wheroon the lordly Conkling treads
and POSES. on which Edmunds pours out
! his gall, where the courtly Bayard pleads
for honor, and bIuG Thurman strikes for
democracy sturdy blows, the ''floor u
Tire senate" that Mecca of al american
ambition, stripped Of all 3nchantment and
vap0ry disguise, looks for all the world
! Ike a cciieee recitation room after hours.
: The desks are three ee-fourths deserted. The
! LIGHT brown carpet is streWn with bits OF
paper torn by nervous senatorial fingers
! 4 few stra@g!erS lounge upon the sofas
against the wall in the rear and at either
end.
BEN ELL Is WAXING EARNEST.
| He is appealing to Mitchell Where is
; Mitchell His haci; Is towards thespeaker.
! His elbows are on Conkhng's desk. He
! Is ore Of a gIoup of six whose heads are
clustered close about the senior Senator
from New York, who, stretched clear foa,-
ward, is talking earnestly to the group.
All their bodies are spraw:ed- literally
! sprawled. OF three, ycu can see the
! backs; os three, yo" -an see the tops OF
the heads only. .4dn4unds is one, and
siadieigh Is one, and Howe IS one, and
Don Cameron Is one. The speaker, stand
Ing a:ai1 ais audience OF empty desks,
mikes 4 poi,.t SO strong against Kellogg
! thai II psnetratcs the thickest skull IN the
Galleries. Do you say that must convince
, the senate! Look again ut Ccnkiins and
h:s group They have not even heard it.
They hardly know who is on the floor.
| Why moi Hecause the arguments which
have been and which may be hurled into
the arena of the senate have as little in
iuence upon this question as the s;moons
OF Arabia Ben Hill may indeed be talk
ing to tie country, but the issue of the
contested cases hangs uporthe conclusion
Of those six men so ina5teTtive to all save
their parry leader, who Is explaining to
them the nature and the effect of the
ultimatum which he's been submitted by
the democrats.
Dignity there Is very little Of it IN a
night session. Hypocrisy there ismucl
Of it in politics -Bosioa Pcst.