The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-12-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. "a, 1880.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Steps should be taken at once to have
Vennor sent as Grand Sachem to Ice
| town in Labrador. He is entirely toe
frigorific to suit this locality and ha:
made wretched fist at weather max
ing ever sirce he under took the job
We have not had the full measure o.
eleven feet of snow as he progncsticat
ed, but the storm has set the oldest in
habitants to comparing notes. Only
one storm Of equal severity has beer
experienced here in very many years
Street cars and pedestrians made poor
headway until the army of shoveleri
had made an assault on the snow block
ade. Sleighing in Washington is such
| a novelty that It calls iuto requisition
at fabulous prices everything on run
ners, whether orthodox or heterodox
Pennsylvania Avenue is the favorits
course for sleighing parties and here
can be seen all styles and variety Of
turnouts, from the autiquated puns
that Adam drove when a boy to the
cutest little cutter of modern style. The
horses embrace every kind and class OF
pedigree noble or ignoble. The drivers
and those participating in this rare
sport are mixed In character, black and
white, grave and gay, rich and poor.
The afternoon was given up to plea
sure and long after the great grey cur
tain of leaden clouds had disappeared
and the stars shoue out, merry voices,
tinkling bells and creaking runners
gliding over the crisp cold snow rang
out on the night air. Vennor missed
it by several feet but the lovers of
winter sports ut the Capital will score
another for the weather prophet OF
Canada.
The action of the joint committee in
selecting Judiciary Square rs the spot
on which to cree. new buil,!ing for the
Congressional Library will be approx
ed by Congress, and an appropriation
will be made to commence the work at
once. This square contains 1919 acres
and was decided in the last century to
the Government ''for public buildings
or other purposes" Plans of the build
fng to cover three acres are now being
made, and the structure when complet-
en- will be the finest public library i'm
the world.
Great attention is being paid by Con-
gress to the improvement of the hereto
fore neglected reservations and parks,
all of which belong 10 the Government.
These open spaces, parks and etc., for
breathing purposes-are to the space
covered by buildings in the ratio of 3 to
2, being more than double the space re-
served from residences or public build
ings in any other city or couutry, if not
in the world.
The universal yankee is always study
ing causes and effects and iuquisitive
ones are asking where the money is to
come from to foot the bills in the DeLes-
seps canal scheme. Subscriptions draw
five per cent from the start, ex secre-
tarY Thompson Is to have 4 salary of
$25, 900 ger year as President of the
American branch. Lesseps must have
four times as much. Is ards of direc-
tors in home and foreign countries are
to be paid good salaries for doing the
blowing for the concern. The canal is
not expected tn be finished In six years,
perhaps not in sixty. Where does the
money come from to pay such an in
come OF the shares, but then Col. Sci
lers explains it all by saying "There's
millions in it."
The scene in the House between
Sparks and Weaver was pleasau di-
version for the overworked members
and the country must be charitable
toward their representatives in refer
ence to such little idiosyncrasies. 1t
was a first class exhibition OF plantation
manners between two representatives
of the section North of Mason and
Dixon's line, egged on by Reagan of
Texas, Bland of Missouri and other
Democrats. Politics makes strange
that the Democracy and the rag baby
could sleep together with out first
class row. The Greenback candidate
for Presidential honors held himself
with unruffied temper while SPARKS the
Democrat applied to him the most op-
probious epithets charging him with
etc. This had continued for
some minutes, when all at once the
mad got loose In Weaver and made for
Sparks, and it looked as if the rag baby
would knock the head off Democracy.
Members gathered round and barri-
caded each Of the assailants. Speaker
rushed to the Chair, deposed
Covert, raped his gavel, pounded his
desk, shouted "Order," ''order," and
called to Thompson to take the Mace.
Some one cried 'let the American eagle
loose" and soon the stately Sergeant at
Arms was bearing the mace amid tu-
multi and confusion that was most dis
graceful. The House adjourned, day
light departed, the moon arose, the stars
shone out and not a blot of blood dis
colored the pure white snow that cover
ed like a mantle the Capitai of this
great Nation. The next day sober
second thought taught these belligerant
members that
''He thst lights and runs away,
wnliveto Hght another day."
They made apologies to each other, to
he House and everybody else, and all
s now quiet on the Potomac.
The talk over the electoral count in
he House has settled a fact that the |
country will approve, that is that the
,ote will be counted whether the Dem