Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-05
CAPITOL CHATTER.
The Capitol Receiving It's Spring
Cleaning
Mr.. Kasson of Iowa.

WASHINGTON, April INF. hasson
Of Iowa, Is q deiicate-faoed man o.
high polish and much f~sstidiousness
He ought to have been q Duke or {
MARQUIS or a Squire Of high degree.
He Is o natural a%ristocrat, and hts
residence abroad for several years al
the Court of Francis Joseph heighten'
ed all his aristocratic tendencies. He
10 a man OF manner not a man Of
men. President Arthur likes hill
manner. / don't think he cares for
him as q man. And at the State
Department Mr.. Kasson Is approved,
Other people do not like him so we'll.
The politicians call him Old Turvey,
and mimic his little airs aud graces.
People In society are apt to speak OF
unfortunate marriage and of the fact
that there was trouble between his
wife and him, which finally resulted
In a divorce at her request. Then he
Ia In the neighborhood Of 60 years Of
age and that makes one rather.
AN ANCIENT BEAU.
Frank Hatton, of Iowa, the first as
sistant postmaster general, Is the very
opposite Of Kasson. Hatton is young
and smart and bold and bad. He has
no airs and no graces and no partlcu-
lar manner except a barroom-hail fell
low-well.me sort. of manner. Neither
has he any status in society. He is
just q rough and tumble western poll
tician, with business habits and keen,
cunning ways. No man has " de-.
spised his youth, and he gets his share
of what is going just as frequently
as the next man. Just now, although
SO old, Kasson would be quite willing
to be postmaster general. Just now,
though 40 young, Hatton would like
to be postmaster general. Hatton Is
without honor In his own country to
this extent, that the Senators and Rep.
%resentatives from Iowa prefer Kssson
to him. Perhaps they don'tlike Hat.
ton because he Ia too fresh. Perhaps
he has been too successful. At any
rate, they think Kssson would make o
better Postmaster General than Hat
ton, and the latter will have to get his
honor and his influence from outside.
I don't think either of these Iowa
statesmen will get the Office they both
want. The probability at this psrtic'
ular moment seems to be that it will
be given to q man from Indiana or
Ohio. But the fact that the Freling-
huysen influence is counted for Kss.
son In the lively contest now In pro.
gress serves to remind me of q good
story about Kasson, who would like
to marry Miss Title Frelinghuysen.
that was handed around with the tea
and punch at the kettledrums this
winter. Kasson, the story ran, was
drinking tea at q certain prominent
mans house at an informal ''drum,"
and the clock struck z. Thereupon
Kssson remembered an important
meeting of the ways and can com.
mittee, of which he was q member, at
the Capitol that evening. Hastily
withdrawing, he speeded, not to the
Capitol, but to the Frelinghuysen
mansion, where he was soon In con.
v~ersation with the young lady he ad.
mired. Unfortunately, she did not
admire him. About 10 o'clock q
southern senator, who had heard Kas-
sons remark In the early part of the
evening, brought home another
daughter of the secretary of state.
"Ah," he said to Kasson, when he
entered the parlor,
"You here2"
sob, yes" said the fair hostess;
"Mr. Kasson has been here since half
past z o'clock"
"Your committee must have ad.
journed early" continued the senator,
provoklngiy.
eyes," said Kssson, looking at the
ire-logs. "Fact Is, I did not 60. On
the way up / remembered a question
l wanted to ask the secretary of state,
80 I came here instead"
"Why I'll tell father at once" said
the mischeyious Miss Tillie; 81 did
not know ycu wanted to see him."
"No, no, never mind" said Kas.
son. 'It will do IN the morning quite
as WELL"