Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15

party that make a six weeks. tour of Cali
! lorna last spring, the other members being
Hon. and Mrs. Frank Hiscock. of New
York, and Hon. and Mrs. VIM. Mckinley
of Ohio.
MR.. ALDRICH
Is facile, available man, rather than a
strong statesman. He is industrious and
bold, and mace his mark as member of
the House Committee on the District of
Columbia. Hon. Warner Miller, lately
chosen to the Senate from New York, was
a member of the same committee. The
selection of these two gentlemen by their
respective Legislatures, as also of Hon. l.
Mitchell at Harrisburg last February,
would seem to indicate that gray hairs and
bald heads are 10 be at discount hereafter
in our staid old Senate. The Young men
are capturing it horse and foot. Frye and
Hale, of Maine, are young and vigorous,
almost boyish men, IN many Of their trai6s,
and General Hawley is not yet an ancient
by any means. The race OF great orators
vanished from those halls with Roscoe
Conkling. His eloquence was of type
not pleasing to all, but it was eloquence
indisputably. To appreciate it was an ac-
quired taste, just as is liking for olives
and like them, too, it was oily, yet pun
gent. Unless some OF the lew men develop
forensic gifts of high grade we shall hardly
go to the Senate gallery now with great
expectations in the way of oratory. The
real interest always centers largely in
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
The great popular branch. There all i'm
portant legislation begins; there our
strongest contemporary statesmen have won
their first and brightest laurels there are
found the true sparkle and foam-the |
ozone" of Congressional life. The House
of Representatives, seven years ago
the coming winter, had in it then |
a Garfield, Blaine, Lamar,
a Hoar, and hosts of other shin
ing lights. 1t is something to be able to |
remember those days and those scenes |
Sometimes General Garfield, to whose care
/ had been commended by my Cleveland |
editor, would come up into the gallery and |
sit beside me long enough to point out the |
drift of the days legislation, and to teach |
me how to observe and understand what !
was done and what was brewing. He had |
a lucid, schoolmasterlike way of explain
ing and gave many precious seed thought !
of information. Indeed he was a hard man
to forget. Coming homeward this evening,
with the hunters moon shining full in the
sky, someway his presences seemed topervade
anew these streets, from whose overshad-
owing houses they are taking down the
emblems day by day, till nearly
ell are now clear, except the great govern
mental piles of granite and marble, on
which the drapings will hang during the
perfunctory thirty days. Rockwell,
said the slowly wasting man to his fdHs
debates one day after the removal to Long
Branch. Rockwell, fully realize my sit
uation. Then, after long pause, Do
you think my name will have a place in
human history?" This seems the most
pathetic utterance that reached Us from the
of pain. Garfield, the President,
with his brief, troubled career, may be,
will not leave deep mark on his century
but Garfield, the orator, the philosopher,
the martyr, will be one of the bright, i'm
mortal names. EMMA JAMES.