The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-03-12

with amusement There was another
Senator, who hss reputation for refine
ment OF dress and manner. His personal
friends assure me that be sis as sensitive
rs woman" which Is unfortuste, as he
insists on the masculine pceroSstlye OF
getting tight This night he persm-
6ulated the Senate Chamber SIS if "his
feet were caught in skeln OF sewing
six and he, in the effort to disentang!e
them, WAS disjointing st the knees, with a
terrific bump threatening TO aEnihilate
the back of his curly head. His
affections were Of such lively
character that he Insisted on hu
ging and kissing every Senator whom
he tell sgsinsL. He was also burdened
with wild desire to speak. His best
TREND could not keep him still. He
broke in, with uaintelligible sentences,
upon every speaker. and when be At
tempted to vote, tell over his desk.
All this, and a thousand deal more,
went on in the Senate Chamber, with the
Senate of the United States in full ses-
sion. With ali these Senatorial baccha-
nails sfloat, not even sixty sober Senators
could redeem the aspect of the legisla-
tive chamber or make 1t look other than
convocstIon of men engaged in the
widest spree.
There was not Senator from New
York nor from New England who was
Intoxicated. There were many Senators
from the w est and South who were per-
feclly sober. Yet the liquor lunstics
were all from the South and West, The
mssculinity IN public life needs
A THOROUGH PURGING
of some kind. Making utter exception
of perfectly honorable men, whom l
know and honor, l am still profoundly
impressed with the low tone OF pubIc
morality and by the utter necessity Of
purifying and uplifting. \ cosrseness
which amounts to tiithiness always, ant
to brutality often, is everywhere appsr-
ent in public places. You see 1t even IN
tbe huge splttoons, which should be hung
around the neck, as they set at the feet OF
every doOrkeeper, even OF ladies gallery.
Il lady speaks to one OF these men, and,
until he disburdens MS jaws and
emptIes his mouth OF nasty
quid, which he does before her
lace, he cannot even answer her.
As masculine muscle still prevents my
casting my vote on this subject, l de-
msnd with 10. tear in my voice. that
no man who makes public use OF tobsc'
co shall ever be appointed to visit upon
American lsdies in the Capitol. 1t Sen
ators choose to get drunk and 10 disport
upon the Senate floor Us bu1oons, let not
the door of the upper gallery, through
which ladies pass 10 behold them, be de-
flied even by tobacco. Letthe drunken
ness and the nsstiness be all shut
below, while it is given up
TO mea. DO you wonder, that
the Senators shrank so utter
" from the invasion of the Senate cham
Der by women? The best Senators think
that politics are not high enough for
women. They show such very decided
fOadness for them themselves that they
intend to continue TO monOpoize them
but they are not good enough
for any wife" do you think l could
bear to see my wife in such q place SIS the
Senate Chamber was on Friday night
said Senator, who has been much be
.ieged by suffrage women for the pat
month, 10 pathetic tones. NO! no.
with rnouruful shake of the head. Pol.
itics are not high enough for women"
Nv friend is utterly sincere.