The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-06-05
Washington Letter.
from our regular Correspondent


adjourn June 10, and great many |
people wish Congress would take it.
self off at that time. But I guess it |
won't. The general impression among
members of both houses Is that some
days or weeks longer will be re-
quired, especially as no definite plan
has been agreed upon for disposing of
the appropriations. Barring the pas
sage of the Warner silver bill and the
veto of the legislative bill, the situation
with reference to business is pretty
much the same as it was week ago.
There has been q good deal of inter-
est here in Ohio politics for some time
past. Indeed, it looks almost as though
the Washington end was rather run
ming the machine. Up to the meeting
of the Republican convention there
was a strong impression here that the
Governorship question would finally
settle down to q contest between Sher-
man and Thurman, but the nomina-
ton of Foster changes the aspect of
L
candidates is what complicates mat
ters from Washington standpoint,
and, as far rs Ohio is concerned, the
Grant movement has received a check,
while Sherman "takes the cake" as
the boys say. 1t is ain Administration
triumph. Secretary Sherman is the
Administration candidate for Presi-
dent. His friends and the Admins
tration's friends expect to see him
beat Grant forthe nomination. Blaine
is doing positively nothing in the
matter of his own candidacy. He
says he came so near the nomination
once that he is sure lightning cannot
strike him. If the nomination should
come, he would no doubt be very glad
of it. but he will not incur animosities
and subject himself to the annoyances
and the anxieties of being q candidate.
OF course his friends will urge his case
as they did before, but really do not
believe that Blaine has any hope for
himself. He thinks Sherman is stalk
ing ahead very rapidly. Pennsylvania
is no doubt for Blaine, but what will
the Camerons do? Until Sherman be-
gan to loom up as candidate, Don
Cameron was heartily for Blaine, after
Grant. He has been disposed to be for
Grant against everybody, but now he
may switch around and go for his
uncle, John Sherman, in whose house
he courted his charming wife. But
Don will never try any more of the
Hartranft business. The probability
is that he will be for Sherman first,
then Grant, and then Blaine. He has
given up Conkling as an impossibility.
Ramsdell, of the Philadelphia Times,
relates the following anecdote about
Don and Blaine, which will be under
stood by those who remember how Don,
by main strength as it were, kept the
Pennsylvania delegation from voting
for Blaine in the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, when two-thirds of them were
for him, and a few votes would have
nominated him: The other day, when
the recommendation for the appoint
ment of Pennsylvania Judge We're
ready to be sent to the President,
Blaine, Don and another Senator, who
shall be nameless, stood together in the
Senate Chamber, one of them holding
the envelope addressed, "The Presi-
dent, Executive Mansion" A page
stood near at hand ready to take the
recommendation to the White House.
The nameless Senator, who held the
envelope, placing his hand the young
Senator's shoulder and said: "Don,
Blaine ought to be in the White
House receiving papers bearing that
address, "Yes," answered Don, land
he would have been if had not been
a ID fool" and he and Blaine
shook hands on it.
One of the well-known women of
Washington is Mrs. Kate Sprague, the
beautiful and accomplished daughter
of Chief Justice Chase, who married
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island,
when the Spragues were wealthy and
powerful. She is now living here at
"Edgewood, "her fathers suburban
residence, and seems destined to al
ways occupy public attention in one
way or another. Last year she sue
ceeded in getting a bill through
Congress exempting this property
from taxation, and also won a
lawsuit Of some sort here in the Dis
trict courts, Senator Conkling appear
ing as her attorney. Now she has
just won another suit, the circumstan-
ces of which have caused considerable
comment. A photographer sued her
for bill of $55 for photographs and
views taken to illustrate biographical
sketch of her father. The photographs
were made by her order and submitted
for her approval, but she placed the
financial responsibility upon the au-
thor of the biography. The photog-
rapher sent the bill to her husband, ex-
Senator Sprague, who replied that he
had nothing to do with Mrs. Spragues S
bills. The court refused to give judg-
ment against her on the ground that
a married woman is nonentity in the
District, and cannot be sued. 1t com
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