Daily Republican., 1882-08-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE CAPITOL NOT As DULL Az
MOST PERSONS IMAGINE-wO.
MEN TO BE EXCLUDED.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Aug. 10, '82.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 10, '82.
From our REGULAR Correspondent.
People away from washington, are
apt to think this very dull season with
us, bat the National Capitol is never
dull and II we who really live here did
not have breathing spell after the wis.
dom that dropped around US by the So
lonS of our nation, and the filibustering
and parliamentary tactics endured for
over eight months, there is no knowing
what the consequences might be.
Secretaries Lincoln and Teller have
made 1t lively here by their action in
excluding women from obtaining ap-
pointments In their departments In the
eight hundred appointments to be made.
Consequently the women have dOnned
their war paint and organized a Wo-
mans National Labor League for the
purpose Of concentrating the working
woman's influence throughout the coun-
try, ands""members and senators are
threatened with the exposure of the
names and characters of some OF their
special favorites appointed here.
The Star Route trial still drags its
winding way, and 1T is apt to be very
confusing TO the average brain, when
the Thermometer is foOling among the
nineties, to read one paper and have 1t
oonclusively proven that the other side
are all liars, thieves, robbers and other
cheerful members OF society, and then
read another one and become impressed
that it was tho other side again that
deserves the chrome in the above char
acters
There are still few members Of the
House and Senate that walk around
the deserted halls of the Capitol.
You may break, you may scatter Cur Con-
gress II you will,
Gut ghost Of a few will lingor hero still.
Mrs. Garfield has presented the Ohio
State Association with hundred year
lease OF the house owned by the late
President and in which he lived until
taking possession Of tho White House,
to be known as the Garfield House. The
house in question is in one of the best
and most valuable portions of the city
q plain but substantial double house,
with pretty yard at the eide. Since
his death it has had a sad look. as II
the grief Of the country was felt even
by the inauimate walls where the hap
py family so long resided, not allowing
the turmoil of public life to break into
the sanctity of home. Col. A. +. Rock
well, commissioner of public grounds,
who was the warm loving friend OF the
lat0 President, is often seen strolling
by the deserted house in the gloaming'
and leaning sadly over the little fence-
railing.
The comedy and tragedy of life is
more forcibly illustrated here in Wash
ington than, perhaps, in any other
city. The house formerly occupied by
Belknap, when Secretary OF War,
where his lovely, fascinating wife
reigned queen aud gave some of the
most brilliant receptions ever given, to
which the leading people of the coun-
try fought for invitations, is now to
fall into the ranks of boarding houses
and the dining room, filed with the
recollection of superb lunches, aesthetic
dinners,-with hosts of brave men and
beautiful women, will now resound
with the cries of the hungry boarder
for moro hash and more substance to
his soup.
IL IL Cu0 COmuon Iabo VI mOSI VI Guo
houses, celebrated In times past, to end
up in the inevitable boarding house.
The handsome house of Chief Justice
Chase, where Kate Chase Spragua SO
gracefully presided, is now the refugee
of any one who can pay monthly
room rent, and has even gone through
the modification of having the gas
turned off for non payment. To what
uses do great houses come at lastl Your
correspondent is writing this letter in
the room formerly occupied by Bob
Toombs and Alexander Stevens.
G. A. s.