Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-30
WASHINGTON CHAT.
THE REcoRD-UNIoN CORRESPONDENT ON
TIE SITUATION AT WASHINGTON.
Personal Notes of the Presidents Family
At the Theater-Re mini cencss Of
the Lincoln Assassination.
WA.u1xeroN lD. Cl.. April %. ISL.

gave it kindly welcome, Democrats and
all, but it has not yet got in tune with
the great popular heart. Something is
amiss. This deadlock in the Senate may
after all be saving ordinance, for sundry
of the Presidents nominations need to have
the cud chewed on them long time before
they will be digestible. Mrs. Garield's
management of the White House presents a
marked contrast to Mrs. Hayes's, whose
nature was peculiarly spontaneous and
OVERLOOKING. Mrs. Garfield is reserved al
most to ssperity; she gives herself as little
as possible to the public, consistently with
a systematic and conscientious effort to do
her duty. Each Tuesday and Friday even
ing, when she is announced to be at home
to personal friends, the number has grown
SMALLER AND SMALLER,
AS If from fear of intrusion, till from $50
or more it has dwinded to 20 or less. Ia
one respect she pleases beyond expecta-
ton. She dresses so much more than ever
before that it has made quite transforma-
ton in her appearance. No one was ac-
customed to seeing Mrs. Garfield in vel
vets or in sumptuous silks, but as the
Presidents wife she has appeared in
the following dresses that your cor
respondent can remember A street
dress OF very dark green velvet (almost
black, with bonnet and mantle of the
same; a reception dress of black Lyons
velvet, with court train another recep-
ton dress Of dark ruby velvet, particularly
becoming; a street dress OF black satin
reception dress of peacock blue satin ana
a choice lavender silk dress, trimmed with
rows OF clustered psnsies. This last she
wore at the inaugural ball. At the quaint
little . Campbelitef church which they
attend she wears either the green velvet or
the black satin by turns. Grandma
Garfield wears black silk altogether. She
is little, bowed old lady, with very white
hair, bright shrewd eyes, and almost pal
lid face. She has failed great deal phys
ically since first saw her six years ago.
In public she wears fur-lined circular
cloak and a Quaker-shaped hooded black
bonnet. The life
At THE EXECUTIVE MANSION
Is too exciting for her, and she is soon CO.
ing to her sons home at Mentor, where
Mrs. Garfeld's brother-Captain Rudolph
is in charge, her aged father having care
of the farm-tools. The inmates of the
Soldiers Home, two miles, from the city.
have drawn up am invitation to the Presi-
dent and family to spend the summer
months IL the cottage belonging to the
H.ny,a vrrLara D-oe,Jr,,G
used TO summer. This they propose to do.
The older Garfield boys, aged II and Is.
are preparing to enter Williams College
this fall, under the tutorship of DR..
Hawkes. of Helena, Montana, who lunches
each day at the White House table, but
boards at the Eobitt House, sitting Cd.
posite your correspondent. Heis a modest.
quiet, brown-haired bachelor of perhaps
5hirty-fve, very intelligent in conversation
and graduate of Brown University.
Molis Garfield, the only daughter
attends a French and English day school
ia the city, the same where she attended
last year. She is at the hoydenish age Just
now, but bids reasonably fair to develop
INTO handsome woman. Interest in the
q -rjeld family has fallen off two hundred
per cent. within month, partly from the
that Mrs. Garfield wishes
60 be let alone, partly from the absorption
Of the public mind in the imminent breach
between the President and the stalwart
wlng Of the party as represented by Mr.. |
yonkling. You may think that the anti /
Jonkling element Of New York are happy |
over this breach. No; only the little |
soterie, OF which Whitelaw Reid and the /
sribuae appear to be the core. The great /
oody Of them fear the powerful retaliation
u the senior Senator, IN the breaking up
1f Republican ascendency in the State, or,
-sther in letting it go by default. There
gas prospect of two years of harmony
With General Merritt's retention in the
Custom-ho and Judge Robertson is
lot such an idol with them that they
visAed him promoted, to the destruction
= this prospect. The most discouraged
nan l have talked with is a stanch anti
Jonkling Republican Congressman Of New
ork to- day. If Senator Conkling could be
CRUSHED OUTRIGHT,
lie and very many others would acquiesce,
,ut this being impossible, they know he
viii only 60 about like wounded lion, the
terror Of the forest; and my friend says
the outlook is gloomy for New York Re-
publicans. Every one is trying not to
blame the President for stepping on Mr., !
Conkling's sore toe-the Custom. house
but the excuses they make for him it would |
be almost disloyal for me to repeat. They
ire less complimentary than blame out !
light. Bat all unite in saying that he can
not now retire. Should Mr. Robertson be |
L - :
tally end the matter; should he |
De confirmed, discord is just begun.
Of course this makes lively prospect for |
newspaper pOndents-those stormy |
oetrels OF iterature-but the four years OF
friction just ended grew very wearisome |
TO me. One thing is sure TO follow IN the [
wake of disagreement 1t mars and cripples I
.he social side of life here. The Vice |
President Is hand-in-gloye with Mr.. Conk- |
ling. They have each a floor of sunny, |
cheerful apartments in the same lodging |
house, the one above the other, and eat
together at Chamberlains clubhouse on |
New York avenue, near by. They ride |
together after the Senate is over for the |
day, behind Mr.. Conkling's housekeeping /
horse, 90 up to New York together, and, |
for ali that Is known, may kiss each other /
good night Ike schoolgirls The Vice. |
President Is . wealthy, urbane, hospitable /
and society felt that he would I
be decidedly an accession in place of Mr. |
Wheeler, who quite made dodo of him
self in the Vice Presidency But should |
there be an open breach between the Presi-
dent and the Conkling party, of course
me Vice President would no longer 90 to |
The White House except when sent for. nor |
would he be in position to share in en-
given by the head-of- the
administration Jealous friends.
THE MALCoSTENTS
In any party do not give or attend enter
tainments much. except among themselves,
Ind those DESTROYS of keeping out of the
quarrel and having good time all around |
find their assemblies embarrassed by the |
absence Of many bright lights. If the
President provokes this hostility to the ex- /
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