Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
A GLANCE AT coNGREss-PoLITICA
sPEcULATIoNs.
Party-Something about a Noted
Wrtter-old Age-The Gar
field Statue Fund
Correspondence of the RECORD. UNION.

WASHINGTON, November "a, 1882
The approaching session of Congress is
interesting in prospect, because it will be
the last session under Republican organ.
lzation for-Proyidence knows how long
1t is evident that it is to be "death. bed
repentance session, loaded with frantic
and hasty efforts to make record that
shall help the party in 1884. However,
the best-informed men here do not look for
Republican victory in that year. The
sanguine predict it the wise ones shake
their heads. The editorials in the RECORD.
UEIoN since the elections have contained
the best.digested views on the situation
that find in any quarter. l would par.
ticularly mention those entitled "The Rise
and Fall of Parties, Proofs of Popular
Intelligence" and "The Democrats and
the Tariff" Judge Jere Black, the sound
est Democratic thinker l meet, says he
fears
THE TARIFF QUESTION
May unhoTse the party in the Forty
eighth Congress, owing to the varied views
entertained among its diverse elements,
and the clamor of the American people on
the one hand for tariff reduction, and the
alarm that will be sounded on the other
by the great manufacturing monopolies
Perhaps the Republican party is fortunate
in being hid IN the cleft of rock during
these two years-taken, as it were, from
the evil to come.
I find rnusalf tunn1eripr, d,,1p -b,&
field would say of the crisis were he here
and participant in Congressional affairs
as when | first knew him. 1t was then the
period of uphesval in the winter of 1915.
The large Republican majority had re.
ceiyed notice to quit at the expiration of
that term. awe have 30 long been ma
jority," said General Garfield, 81
do not know how we shall sue
coed as minority. 1t will require a
totally different line of tactics. We have
hitherto been the
CONSTRUCTORS OF FoRTIFICATIoNs,
Of policies, for the opposition to knock
down. Now we i'm turn become the sap.
pers and miners" As newcomer in
journalism here. commended to him by a
prominent editor of his own district, he
taught me how to observe understandingly
much that would otherwise have been
enigmatical to me. The impulse is almost
irresistible at times now to put on my best
hat and run up to his pleasant old home
on | street, as in the old times, and ask
him the bearing of this and of that.
shall always think those were Garfield's
golden days. The forum was his true
place. The Senate, and possible leader
ship in it, was the summit of his ambition.
The mirage of Presidential honors had not
as yet risen to distort his view. How full
these eight years have been of deep and
tragic interest With Goethe, 81 seem to
get nearer the goal of the dramatic as l get
clearer insight into how the great ones pay
with men, and the gods with the great. +"
Last night at party of about 200 guests
at Hon. Horatio Kipg's-the first large
party OF the season-Alrs. Francis Hodg-
son Burnett sat in cosy corner among the
guests, her bright, handsome face turned
alertly on "the passing show" a strong
passage in the December installment of her
story Through One Administration, u
came TO mind as | watched this watching
thinker. 1t is that In which she says OF
the wife Of the Secretary of State, She
had not been the leader of this world of
hers without seeing many things and
learning many lessons, and as she had
stood, giving her greeting to the passing
multitude week after week, she had gained
wonderful amount of
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
OF her kind. She had seen so many weary
faces, so many eager ones, so many stamped
with care and disappointment; bright eyes
had passed before her which one season
had saddened che had heard gay voices
change and soft ones grow hard she had
read of ambitions frustrated and hopes de,
MED, and once or twice had seen with q
psng that somewhere a heart had been
broken" Mrs. Burnett's fair English com.
plexion and bright brown hair and eyes were
well set eff at the party by lavender satin
dress, somewhat esthetic in It's make, and
scftened with black velvet and lace
Mrs. Burnett's interesting and youthful
faced husband was with her, DR.. 5. NJ.
Burnett, lame man, and little moody
from his infrmity, but gentle hammered
and fine physician. He has the unro
mantle pTeuomen, Swan Moses, and Mrs
Burnett, who is devoted to him, was sc
chaerined to feel that she could make moth
ing out OF ellheF uaiIlS gOOu enough TO cal
him by, that in naming her little boys she
went TO the fanciful extreme of "Lionel
and Vivian" They are handsome little
madcaps of perhaps and years, and IL
their play room few days since they made
a bonfire which communicated to the walls
and the fire department had to be called
out to suppress the mischief. A party
such as that of last evening makes one fee
how delightful 1t is TO be
IN AND OF THE CAPITAL.
Twelve weeks absence in Saratoga, New
York and Boston had prepared me thor
oughly to appreciate the charm of shc
many sideduess of social life here. It il
not a vulgar plutocracy like New York and
Saratoga, nor close-cnrporation.m mutual
admiration.society like Beacon Hill, but il
is rich in brain-force and in varied culture
Mr. and Mrs. King always give their an
nua party early, because their house, 70I
II street, which is in the outgroTn " fash