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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
President Arthur and senators Vest
and Hampton Said to Have spent
Last sunday Fishing.
Especial correspondence OF the World.l
WASHINGTON, June 29.-If there eyer
was a beguiling serpent In the form oi
man, that serpent is Senator Vest, OF
Missouri. One night last week he went
up to see the president. aud in the most
innocent way Imaginable turned the
conversation on the subject OF fishing.
Now, this is a pastims which it is for
Ridden to mention In the presidents
presence, because he has so much to d"
in Washington that he absolutely can't
go fishing; but what did the cold heart
ed monster of a Senator do blu begin
to tell the most fascinating fish stories.
The president listened and sighed and
made a few feeble attempts to turn the
conversation, but the cruel 'Vost kept
on. each story being more bewitclsd
than the one before. AT last he told q
beautiful romance about a nine pound
trout. which brought tears TO the eyes oil
the president. Uly sses among the
sirens was comparatively safe with the
presidential fisherman under the witch
cry of Senator Vests musical tongue.
But why pursue the painful theme ?
On Friday morning, leaving D false bulle-
tin behind them that they had gone to the
Point OF Rocks. off started the president
and his seducer, accompanied by Sena-
tor Hampton, and not until the following
Monday did they put in an appearances.
IL is currently believed that the bold,
bad Vest and the willy Hampton induced
the president to go fishing on Sunday,
as q little change irom going to st.
Johns church, where the, minister
breaches at HIM. and the choir sings al
him /; bat this turpitude of Sunday fish
ing is not yet proved on him, except by
Implication. When Senator Vest was
ssked lhe question by anxious friends
of the president he gave n sard0nic grin
and closed his left eye'for a moment,
the right one remaining open. When
the same inquiry was stermly PROFOUND.
ed to Senator Hampton he replied that
he thosgEt the tariff needed
considerable revision and had great
hopes of the tariff commission. OF
course this reply threw no light what
ever On the subj CT. But by degrees
some incidents Of the trip have leaked
ont as the case invariabIe is of fishing
parties. They went to the Great Cacap-
on River, West Virginia. The presi-
dent and Senator Hampton fshed with
those beautiful little painted flies thai
draw the aesthetic fish to The surface In
order that they may feast their souls ON
beauty. Senator Vest dug up a hand
full ol, larvae such as the small boy puts
on the bent offs crooked pm and car
ried them in an old tomato can slung
over his shoulder. When the president
saw the senator inserting his hook
through q in a manner that would
have secured his arrest by Mr.. Bergb
had he been on the spot, he turned from
him more in sorrow than in anger.
Senator Hampton muttered something
about bringing along a paper OF pins
and his grandmother's ball of darning
cotton. but Senator Vest coolly ANNOUNCE
ing ii that did not suit he would get a
piece of salt pork for bait. the subject
was dropped. They fished and tished
and 6sLed, the president rcmarking that
he didn't care it he did get sunbErned
Fancy the president, laying aside his
dignity OF attire, in a seersucker coal
and Panama hat! As for the wv sen
ators, each tried to Guido the other in
yarns abou: the antiquity of their fish.
ing clothes. Senator Vest, like another
S~cherezade, beguiled them with anec
dOtes and romance to which the Arabian
Nights were tame, commonplace and
devoid Of invention. The president
and Senator Hampton would gaze into
each others eyes and simply say, go
on. SENATOR" TN Monday they Came
back, the president evidently gloomy al
the prospect of a return to Washington
and no more fishing, but the two SEM
tors cheered him up with prospects oil
The accounts they would give of their
exploits when they got home. By q
singular coincidence they each caught
IA black bass. weighing twenty pounds
each, IA white perch. IA mountain
trout, IA picked Goldfish. la canned
salmon, and shot q great many OF a
species OF bird which resembles y wal
rus, and which irequenis The Great Ca
capon River. They saw several schools
of proposes, and dOlphins abounded
they also saw a spout in the Little
Cacapon River, which they think was
q sperm whale, and Senator Vest had an
excellent view OF the sen serpent, which
had green whisk ers eight feet long.
The president al avs explains at this
point of the narrative that his back was
turned at the time. They say they are
gong fishing again soon. But lestIvi
ties OF a sober kind were in progress at
the white house during the masters
excursion. MIR. Allan Arthur, in the
absence OF his %''princely pa" as the
landlady in Martin Chuzzlewit" de-
scribes Mr.. Hoar-I mean Mr.. Pecksni6E
entertained Mrs. r. Ogden Doremus
at dinner Oh Sunday. That SUNDAY was
the memorable ''hot Sunday" anu even
GOODNESS was impossible in thewide and
airy corridors OF the white house. The sun
blazed down in torrid heat-the next
day and during the heated term tho
Thermometer in the senate chamber
went up to S3 "a. a height almost .un-
precented. with two engines OF sixteen
and ten horsepower pumping so, 600
cubic feet otiresh air into the chamber
every minute and I'VE immense fans
drawing off the impure air. Congress
is going 10 adjourn. and isn't going to
adjourn, according to the thermpmeter.
just let a cool. pleasant day CONS and
an August session is mentioned, but
whom two or three hot days come in a
bunch they are as eager to get
away as urchins are to get out of
school. Acting Vice. President Davis
adjourns the senate every day as soon
as he gets hungry. When the hand of
the clock points to 8 80 something with
in him admOnishes the acting vice.
president That it is time to leave Off
which he Immediately proceeds to do
with great alacrity. Mr.. Blaine has
gone away. Disguised with his efforts to
keep cool in the atmosphere of Washing
ton. On the fervid Sunday when the
president and Senators Vest and Hamp-
ton didn't 60 fishing, but stayed at the
fshing-box and read prayers, MIR.
Blaine was seen about z O'Clock in the
evening to saunter around the corner to
Secretary Chandler's house-they only
live a few rods apart-and the secre-