The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-04-12

those Of the new Senators on whom she must
call, as she had, during the winter, done her
duty by those who we're In the last Congress.
Another law Of etiquette requires the families
Of new Senators to call on those ofold ones.
The same rule applies as between members
Of the lower house. But writing Of Congress
sional families has made me insensibly DRIFT
into politics. find though, that among the
wives Of members there are many who take
active interest In politics and keep themselves
informed Ns to all public measures liable to
come before Congress. They are even great |
or partisans sometimes than their husbands,
and are rigid in their views regarding "bolt-
ing" On no account would they permit their
husbands to dodge or weaken" on party
measure. II mrs. Kelley holds these opinions
perhaps her husbands ignoring party discl-
pline has something to DO with the fact that
his wlle's absence during the winter has caus-
cd an inteTregnum In domestic discipline.
The Jury In the Cameron - Oliver case
brought in q verdict for the venerable ex-Sen.
ator on Thursday. The jury was oloseted for
three long hours. The delay caused the
greatest anxiety among General Cameron's
| friends and n corresponding elasticity In the
spirits OF the friends Of the Oliver. There
was good deal ofexcitement In the city, and
for the afternoon nothing else was talked
about. The feeling here among all classes is
almost universal for General Cameron, and
the fear that the jury might not agree caused
the greatest anxiety. Contrary to general
expectation Judge Cartier did not charge the
jury, but gave them the case without remark,
The Judge has been vigorously fair in the
trial, leaning, If at all, TO the side OF The Oil
yer. The ex-senator and his son Don wore
happy faces this evening and were warmly
congratulated.
Great Indignation is felt here because Gen.
eral Butler went out o fhis way to sneer at the
feminine clerks in the Treasury, among whom
are many noble women whose birth, breeding
and association entitle them to all possible re-
sprct when in the cause celebre, Oliver VS..
Cameron, he made last week such comments
rs these. He was trying to make point
against the plaintiffs claim oil a promise Of
marriage by referring to the fact that old ST.
mon proc urod her u place In the Treasury.
He spoke Of Simon as Cabinet officer (Which
he WAS not at the tlmo referred toy and a
Senator, which he was, and contemptuously
said the Treasury was not the school from
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all the marriageable women in tho Treasury
expected to marry Senators. He added with
passing remembrance Ex-senator Chri,tiancy
that an old decrepit man might take as wife O
young, blooming girl from the Treasury, but
no man was likely Ito take n tough old wild
ow" In the first place General Butler has
no business to sleer at honorable women II
government employ because his own niece
who resides in his house, is clerk In the Pos
Office Department, in which 1t is no more
creditable to be employed than in the Treas
ury. In the next place, the sneer at the Chris
tiancy case was unnecessary, because, wheT
speaking of "old decrepit men, General But
ler's client who recently celebrated his eight
ieth birth lay, goes several years better (o
worse) than Chrlstiancy, who, according t,
= the Congressional Directory, was born Marcl
8 II, 1872, and consequently is now only sixty
+ seven years old, and was three years youngc
e when he married a young girl employed il
G tho Treasury. In such cGse of breach O
5 public morals as this Oliver--Cameron affair
b surely the Senator who honorably marries III
j. woman he finds attractive, whether in or Ou
y of the Treasury, should he spared sneer fror
: the counsel for the man who not only does no
:, marry, but uses his influence as Senator t
y force the Government to provide for the mil
4 tress OF whoa he is weary. This is q wea
spot in Gen. Buffers argument which tells,
seems o me, more against his client than an
,f one else.
s. Speaker Randall said to-day that his CON
u mittees were all ready, but there was no oC
d casiun to announce them until this poiticf
e debate is over in the House. lie thinks