The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-05-03
Our Letter from Washington.

Our Letter from Washington.
The Return Of the Heated Term.-Pussqge Of
the Army Appropriation BW.-OutSidc
Covers Of the Nations mighty Brains
Vie,cS from the Reporters Gallery in the
House.-Mem5er'S teiucS in the Fyinq-p pan.
What are you Going to do about tide.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 20, 1879.
Such perfect days as we expect as matter
Of course, in our climate, especially after It has
shown that 1t can have rough side so persist
emily as during the past winter, have visited
us this week and Pennsylvania avenue has
looked very lively on the bright afternoons.
great many of the members of both houses
of Congress and some of the Justices of the
Supreme Court make a practice OF walking to
and from the Capitol daily via Pennsylvania
avenue. On this thoroughfare the diplomats
too make practice of promenading every af-
ternoor, 1 never have seen President Hayes
walking there, but General Grant, while
President, used to walk on the avenue very
frequently. He would sometimes join ladies
Of his acquaintance and walk with them, keep
Ing up conversation and In lively way, alto
gether different from his proverbial taciturn-
ity.
The passage of the army appropriation bill
and its signature by Speaker Randall and Mr..
Thurman, the President of the Senate yester-
day afternoon is so far the only measure ac-
complished by the present Congress. The bill
was received at the White House last night
and a member of the Cabinet states that the
PresidRnt'e veto will bo Rant In on Tuesday or
Wednesday, and the prospects are fair for an
all summer session.
Looking down from the Reporters gallery
I never beheld within my remembrance at
least, so many ill-favored and absolutely ugly
featured countenanees congregated together
under the dome of the Capitol as at present
For this the Forty-sixth Congress, with ia
"brigadlersn on both sides of the line, will be
famous long after their windy debates and
chickering's are forgotten. The man whom
Lincoln was fond of quoting as being ever
homler than himself is surely there, but it II
difficult to distinguish him among severa
scores who might with proprety claim tha
distinction. Is 1t true that mightiest braln
lie beneath ugliest features? Ifso, we chal
lenge the world to produce more stupendou
head works than are presented by our nation
al legislature Of to-day. What an array o
cripples are among them, too The one-eyed
the deaf, the bald-headed, the sickly, the halt
"the lame and the lazy" attended by wild
erness OF wigs and glass eyes, canes and crutch
es. And then, again, their habilaments ar
enough to drive a Chesterfield crazy or a re
spectacle valet to the verge of despair! Evl
IDENTIFY most ofthelr "tailoring" has been don
at home by unskilled housewives, or purchas
ed on our Seventh street, or at Hebrew shop
of similar ilk in different parts of the countr
-"ready made and warranted to fit, whethe
the wearer be long or short, thick or thir
obese or scrawny, 'joost like the paber on tn
WALL" as Isaac would insist.
Very curious developments crop out in con
sequence of the patronage given to member
OF the two Houses. enc follows, as mentor
ed In former letter, the too free giving
passes to the reserved galleries, as a result
which the members wife sometimes finds he
self close beside "the particular friend" of
member who has no wife or whose spouse
not In town. In consequence of some disagree,
able meetings In the private gallery some
the ladies OF members families whom hear
holding little caucus of their own recent
resolved that inasmuch as the reporters ga
. lery had been given over to the exclusive col
troll Of the gentlemen Of the press to max
} their own laws regarding tickets ofadmissiol
the galleries tor members and Senator
families should be given up to these ladies an
, they alone should regulate the disposition
the seats.
! Another occasional source OF trouble
members families can be traced to the priv
/ lege the members possess Of giving Orde
on certain Of the governments gardens fC
= flowers. More than one wife has gone to as
. Tor her husbands share and has been told
4 had given orders which had been filled for a
7 the flowers and plants to which he was entitle,
d and in proof the gardener in charge has show
1 the list with the names and addresses to WhiC
g they have Oeen sent, all ordered by Hon. Bar,
. well Slate, NJ. q. Tableaul
a Every day groups Of people stop in the 7,
s tunda at the Capitol to watch the work
}. Signor Bransidi, the Italian artist who
y celebrating rare freseO Of historical seem
n in the inner circle Of the dome. The venerah
o artist is over seventy, infirm and paralytl
j. An attendant aids him along with feeble shu
]
o ing to walk. ''Once man, twice child,
n But in art he is no child. His eye is as elei
y and bright as in youth. He is lifted into
i little box that swings round and round as II
S drawn slowly up to the scadolding, where
z sits and makes the figures grow beneath
Y def fingers. lie leaves of always on son
/. curve OF a figure, that there may be no defa
/. ing lines where the work stops day by da
? This is his last ambition, his last inspiratio
y He thinks II will require tiye years TO con
d plete II about one-iOurth is now done. I'll
!, artist seems SO inhrm one naturally dOub
r whether he can ever live to complete the Vi
4 dertakng but there is nothing like a faVO
; ite work TO make life worth living, and a wi
q tenacious Of existence keeps death long
y waiting. Signor Bransidi advises young ar
s lists 10 go abroad to study. Abroad they 81
4 willing TO 90 through so much more labor an
o intense study, which is absolutely necessal
to success. Our habits Of study are not sevel
enOughi We do many things moderately wei
I no one thing TO perieeti0n- AUsUsT.
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