The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-22
Washington Letter.
[From our regular Correspondent

''anti-bayonet bill," as 1t Is called,
would be signed. The President had
said SO to several persons, and there
was hope that this branch of the
present complications would be speed
lily settled. Now everything is up
side down again, and no living being
can tell what is to be the result
Politics and politicians are about as
uncertain as anything can be in this
world. The only opinion / accepted
prior to the veto was the one expressed
by mutual friend, who said the speech
to be delivered by Senator Edmunds
would forecast the Presidents action
upon the bill. Time certainly verified
the prediction. It's q pretty rough
| state of affairs for us scribblers, who
so often find it necessary to know u
day or Two beforehand about what is
coming. All L can say about the
present situation is that, having got
his hand in, the President will proba-
bly, keep ON vetoing, and the Demo-
Gratis say vetoes are going to be mighty
common. What will be done about
the appropriations, or how soon the
session will be brought to close, can
not be foretold. There is some talk of
a recess for ten days.
The grave and reverend Senators are
talking away at each other on various
subjects. know some strangers i'm
Washington who went to the Capitol
the other day to hear Senator Ed
munds speak, and returned express
ing much Disappointment. L could
have told them that y}Idmunds is not
an orator; but his speeches read well.
Speaking of Senators, it is, according
to my observation, that no woman,
however young, inexperienced or vain,
is nearly so easily duped by flattery as
hoary-headed statesman. He never
seems to suspect woman (however
hardened he may think he is to the
wiles of female lobbyists), if she is of
respectable appearance, has reason
| able amount of tact, and is not pos
itively ugly, of any other motive in
seeking him than to enjoy his society
Wherefore, the woman who seeks him
with q purpose, and possesses the re-
quisits above named, whether her
purpose be marriage, blackmail or lob
bying, is almost sure to succeed. The
new Senators are even so oblivious of
the real state of affairs as to rather
make boast that such a charming
woman called Oh me at the Capitol to-
day, and didn't she say pretty things
to me, and tell me how much she had
heard of me, and how desirOus she had
been to meet me-" l have quoted
actual words from solOn. Could any
school girl be more unsophisticated /?
Yet the remark was made while the
papers were filled with reports of the
Oliver-Cameron case. A young man
prefers to he the seeker, and rather
feels repugnance toward the woman
who pays court to him, while he is of
course fiattered by her preference.
But the man over fifty never chants
''The fruit that will fall without shak-
ing is too mellow for me-" but accepts
woman's attentions as the most de-
licious Of flattery. Thackary's proverb
was, "As vain as a man." Had he
lived here he would have amended it
to "As vain as Senator"
A rather desperate opposition has
been made to the Warner silver bill by
the Republicans, under the direction
of Secretary Sherman, but it is likely
to become q law. The proposition is to
provide for free coinage of the silver
standard dollar, and placing silver on
the footing it held from 1892 to 1873.
Individually, l think majority of
the people of the country are in favor
Of the proposition, and / cannot conf
prehend the advantage to any party
in laboring for its defeat, However,
this is not the only thing upon which
people honestly differ.
Montgomery Blair is credited with
the intention to begin the publication
Of a Democratic organ at Washington
on the 1st of next month, in which he
will show the country what an organ
ought to be, None of the organs now
printed seem to please the peculiar
tastes of Mr.. Blair. Some people re-
member that he started an organ at
the Capital about three years ago, but
it got lost somewhere in the confusion
of the time. and it is probable that not
even its proprietor knows what became
of it. Democrats generally are pretty
well pleased with the Post, though it
don't pretend to be an organ" There
is no doubt about its Democracy,
though. Zach. Chandler threatened to
sue the proprietor for libel in reporting
and commenting upon his speech in
tho Senate last Saturday, but he has
abandoned the idea. 1 guess Zach.
was little "of his pins that day.
Dom PEDRO.