Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-04-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHING TON.
RDMUNDs, THE WATCHDOG OF THE SENATE
MALONE, TIE LITTLE LION OF THE SENATE
HIS BIG BOUQUET, HIS POLITICAL INTENTIONS,
HIS DRESS, HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE-
TIME TO GO HOME.
Correspondence Of TIE PHUNtx.
WASHINGTON, ID. O., April IL.
Sitting in the gallery of the Senate, one
day last week, waiting for the "show to be-
GIN" gentleman at my side said "Will
/ you please point out Senator Edmunds of
| Vermont TO me-"
oSenator Edmunds is not in his seat he
has gone South for his health, 1 replied.
~ am very much disappointed. would
rather see Senator Edmunds than any other
public man in Washington. l have come a
great many hundred miles to visit the Ma
tional Capitol, and shall go home feeling that
the great object Of my visit was lost in not
seeing Senator Edmunds, for / believe he is
the grandest statesman we have. You see 1
am lawyer and judge men and things from
that standpoint"
1--WE all regret the absence of Mr. Ed
munds,n l replied; land he is specially
needed Just now. There seems to be no one
on guard You know he is called the watch
dog of the Senate"
"Well," said the stranger 81 should think
the Senate needed something to balance il
now. Seems to be losing its head over"
Just then there was a stir in the densely
crowded galleries and a murmur of there
he is !" and Malone, followed by Don Cam
eron, came out of the cloak room, and seated
himself behind a huge bouquet. Several
Senators-Mr. Morrill, Of Vermont wasn't one
Of them-rushed forward to shake hands with
their deliyerer and to examine the card at
tached to the bouquet / assure you, my Ia
dy friends, that Senators are like all men,
very curious If there is ever time when
a United States Senator looks foolish il is
when he is seated behind big, flower wired-on-
to-wooden- TOOTH pick, fragrantless bouquet
All government bouquets are of this sort
don't think the Senators generally object TO
a neat little button hole posey, which is fra
grant and bright have seen the elegant,
dignifed Senator Morrill, with Just such a
bouquet in his button-hole Yes / have
there is sentiment in that, you know-but a
great big promiscuous bouquet, placed upon
one of those little desks, has a tendency to
embarrass sensitive, modest Senators like Ma
hone and Ben Hill But Mr.. Malone had
the good sense to have his bouquet, which
we learned came from the White House, re-
moved to the cloak room or some other place.
Moral don't spend your money upon Sena-
tors by sending them bouquets they wilt
After the excitement over Malone and his
bouquet had subsidized, tho stranger at my
side remarked 80 that is the little speci-
men of humanity who is raising such
breeze 1 wonder if his intentions are real
" honest or is he casting his vote with the
Republicans for plumber ?"
ut is too early to judge of Senator Ma
homes intentions. 1t is evident he intends
to get all he can, and in having Mr. Gorham
as secretary of the Senate, and Mr.. Riddle
haryaN A. Nako h.. - l. =.
slice of the Senate pie, replied.
"Wel," said the stranger, II am a true
blue Yankee born and am a staunch Repub-
lican, but have lived South long enough to
know that a Southerner is q Southerner and
you can make nothing else out of him he
will take all he can get and give as little as
possible"
Senator Malone is truly queer bit of man.
hood. He says he weighs 100 lbs. Possibly
yet much allowance must be ma de for his
clothing, as there seems to be a good deal of
clothes about him. He is of the average
height of a Connecticut Yankee, stands sol
dier-like and inclines bis body gracefully for
ward from the hips like a French dancing
master while speaking. He has a good head
covered thickly with iron gray hair Under
meath care-lined brow, not of very massive
proportions, (high brows are all out of style)
deep-seated are a pair of blue-green eyes
They change from dark to light as the occa-
sion may demand. While answering Ben
Hill there was a fash of midnight in his eyes
while talking to me in the marble room they
were softly light l assure you that he knows
how to be agreeable to ladies. For the life
of me can't tell you the shape of his nose,
and the rest of his face was so covered with a
long flowing beard, the color of his hair that
it is impossible to tell what its expression and
shape might be. His suit is of black broad
cloth a long, full-skirted frock coat button
ed up closely to the neck. His waist is slen-
der and tapering as young girls, which
gives his shoulders a broad, square appear
ance. q hope they were not padded 1t
was a very naughty girl at my side who said
she verify believed Senator Malone wore cor
sets! He certainly has corset-shaped waist
but the skirt of his coat being so full and
gathered into the hip-seams adds much to
the delicate appearance of his waist and his
pants being full and plated into a band at
the top gives him broad hips, very much out
of proportion to the rest Of his body. His
pants are just short enough to show red
stockings and pair Of the most slender feet
encased in the daintiest A last, No. 4, shiny
black boots ever seen on a man. Senator
Logan has been wearing the belt for having
the smallest feet among the Senators, but
Malone takes the belt on the foot You
know Southern gentlemen are most observ-
ant of small feet And such tiny hands,
with full cuffs flowing over them, which he
uses very vehemently when addressing Ben
Bill or Dan Voorhees,. His collar, like his
cuffs, is full and frill-like. Sometimes he
wears lace frills to adorn his hands, such as
the F. F. VS. wore in the long ago. Blood
will tell.
Well, take this little lion of the Senate, all
in all, and truly he is a strange makeup both
in person and politics. l doubt very much
about his power to break the "solid South"
or that he is the golden link to unite the
North and South harmoniously. Not in this
generation, 1 fear, will the lion of the South
and the lamb of the North lie down together
The blood of the war is still too fresh
for the lion to conquer his appetite and
slumber peacefully with the lamb.
To-day is the twentieth anniversary of the
firing on Fort Sumter, which awakens sad
memories in all our hearts, and to-day arouses
bitterness in the Senate. Words are spoken
on both sides of the chamber which rekindle
the old fire, and now, as then, they propose to
fight it out
But my letter is getting too long. i have
toldyou little thatyou have not felt and known
yourselves, that our grave Senators are max
ing some very foolish speeches, which will
add TO, rather than solve the difficulty. It's
time to go home, as Prof. Schuster Il wonder
if he is still in Brattleboro) said after sere-
nading one of the village bellies for some time,
playing his most heavenly music without
awakening her. l had the benefit of that
music, though, and would like to hear il
again. Mc.s.
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