Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-11
WASHINGTON.
General News and Gossip at the
Federal Capital.
White House Calers-The Old and the New
Regime-how the President Looks
Railroad Passes Army =
Discipline. g
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN DRINKS.

The DISTANCE BETWEEN DRINKS.
Special 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, February 10.
white House Callers
Callers at the White House now find q
very different reception from that Of few
months since. The establishment has been
reduced to business system framed evil
IDENTIFY for the purpose OF as much dispatch
of affairs as is consistent with respectful
consideration and decent hospitality.
Hayes used to sit behind his big table like
a mud turtle on a rock, until you had fired
off your story at him, and when you were
through he would endorse your petitions
and give you a certificate to some particu=
lar Department in a mechanical sort OF
way, as though he was an autematon wound
up for four years and set there for that pur-
nose The certificates were good deal ike
the one that old man kiger gave Ely Swear
niger, which certified that Swearinger had
been with the writer nine years and that
during that time he had never caught him
stealing anything. In other words they
were not meant TO be needed by the peo-
pie TO whom they were addressed, and as
rule they were not
Garfield was q good deal more cordial, il
not q good deal more sincere, but MS
natural kindness of heart and dislike TO
disappoiut all expectations, had atendency
to make him yacillating and tedious IN
making up his mind definitely, and his
business receptions had slowneSs and un-
Certainty about them that grew worse daily
up to the time of the assassin S attack upon
him.
The New Regime.
In the matter of receiving and disposing
of visitors. President Arthur combines
Garfield's kind manner with good deal
more promptneSs and decision. II he does
not know anything else, he knows how to
say yes and no CourteOusly, and yet in
manner decided enough to settle the mat
ter in question. Iwent up day or two
since with couple Of young ladies who
wanted to get an Annapolis cadetship for
their Younger brother, and had pretty
/ good opportunity OF observing ms meth.
! DDS He gets rid OF much OF the delay OF
/ receiving and diSmissing people by his
I plan OF admitting everybody entitled under
/ the rules TO see him at the same time, into
| the same room, and mingling among them
7 like candidate at primary convention,
\ graduating his demeafior to the particular
/ Individual addressed, but seeing that no
/ body is neglected.
How President Arthur Looks.
As he moved round quietly from one
group to another, he put me in mind OF
one of the big, handsome foorwalkers,
that you sometimes encounter in the Larger
metropolitan stores, and who come for
ward with an air OF mingled dignity and
graciousness to tell you in what part OF
the establishment you can find anything
yorSWant, from toy .postothce to n con-
SulsE onttts He manltests the easy con con
fidence OF atnan who knows that his clothes
III him, and who is sure that he cannot be
turned OIL until the end OF a definite
bperiOd. He has q weakness for short tail
! coats and on all possible occasions abJures
the long tailed and solemn garment which
the average Washington statesman affects
and buttons at the waist when he rises to
address the country. He is
Not as Fat
rs his pictures, but looks like good liver
and there is fullness about his lower jaw:
that recalls the story oil the old lady who
looked at his photograph and said she
thought he ought to be muzzled. He has
pair of courageous eyes-I don't know any
better description of them-that take on
all shades Of expression from keen scrutiny
to humorous twinkle, and light up won
derfully. what would otherwise be rather
heavy and unrefned countenance. He ex
: planned to the Young ladies who wer'
bright enough to catch his early and un
divided attention, that there we're no place
: such as they asked within his gift at pres
ent. and when they asked If he woult
promise them the place year hence, n
laughed heartily, and with the remark tina
il would be time To cross that stream whei
he came to it." went oil smiling to anothe
waiting delegation.
Railroad Passes.
| notice that the subject OF railroa'
masses is receiving rs much consideration
in Western States as in your own, and tina
| the Iowa Commissioners, in their report
: humorously suggests that rs between tn
railroads on the one hand and Legislator
and newspapers on the other, t. pass SyS
tenn is only an interchange of commodities
| This is nearly if not truthfuliy put. Ii
the case OF newspapers there is usually a
advertising consideration, which relieve
the latter from any feeling of unpleasan
| obligation, but, as some one expressed
| here Yesterday, while reading over you
!. | report of the Legislative discussion, ther
must be a sense of unpleasantneSS IN tn
case of representative, who Is the II
Cipient Of a favor which he cannot return
> except by conforming his official conduC
r 10 the wishes and orders OF the donor.
o Army Discipline.
The Whitaker case comes up periodicail
: in the shape OF a statement from some
4 body, the last being that the Secretary q
{ War has never had time to examine tn
a record vet. and determine whether tn
= court martial which found that Whittake
l. gnawed his own ears off was legally cor
stituted body or not There are too man
political infieences at work in the regula
n army, apparently, to keep up discipline
was the remark of a volunteer ex-soldlei
who was here last week. Between Whitts
, ker and Flopper, and Mason. the regula
tions are likely to be damaged.
Delegate Cannon's Case.
> Delegate Cannon, of Utah, is evidentl
too smart to be provoked into reprisal
against his monogamic but suspecte
= brethren Of the House. He says he doe
not know anything about Congressions
4 habits out of the House except as he read
/ OF them in the newspapers, and does nc
' consider them any part of his bu siness In
formation. All he asks is that simila
treatment be extended TO him.
Presidential Succession.
e There seems to be some prospect that tn
L bill referring all unsettled questions cor
nected with Presidential succession to th
Supreme Court for adjudication may b,
come law.
h Between Drinks.
! Under Speaker Keifer's ruling, stint
a lants for Congress are likely to be confine
{. to the Senate side, which will make il
II long way between drinks for Represent
n tiyeS.
e Revenue Decisions.