The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-29
WASHINGTON T T
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
March 90. 1SS3(

nlduy congressman SILL llnger IN
the lap of Washington. Besides
those who have gone off on pleasure
trips to return again there are fifty
or more to be seen on our streets,
about the departments, and in vari-
GUS haunts over the city. Numbers
of them do not expect to leave for
several weeks to come. In fact,
Washington soon gets to be more
the home of many Congressman, who
bring their families and live here,
than the districts tLey represent
This is especially true of some who
are re elected term after term. Mr..
Sabin, the newly elected senator from
Minnesota, was about here some
weeks. He looks like John A. Lo
gan. 1t is said that a syndicate of
senators here next session will ado pit
q style of living like the "Arabian
Nights Entertainment" and MIR.
Sabin is one of them. This will be
an agreeable change for him from
the $1,000 clerkship which he enjoy
ed here in 1868. AS for the figure
they will cut in the United States
senate they probably will not trouble
themselves about that. Mr.. Tabor,
says that he got off cheap during
his brief senatorial term; he only
spent $4,000 in thirty days. Sen
ator Fair, the Nevada millionaire,
has a rich Irish brogue that would
do honor to st. Patrick himself. He
says "It's a foine day." and is justly
proud of his ancient Irish blood
Elk Senator Davis, of West Virginia,
whose term expired with the late
session, is said to be the owner of
mines in his state which will put him
among the mining princes of the
country, and Secretary Frelinghuy-
sen is also reported to have a claim
before the French commission shat
casts a shadow as big as the Jen-
nings estate in England. The sec
rotary has always labored under the
honorable imputation of being a poor
man and of having remained so in
tie midst of the opportunities of
Washington. there will soon be
a property qualification required for
The right to vote in the United States
senate, and no man under a million
will be allowed in that august body;
or perhaps the seats will be sold as
they are on the stock exchange.
General Sherman, whose service
at the head of the army will shortly
be at an end by reason of his retire
ment, proposes to make his last Of
fetal trip to the frontier this season.
He is going late to the spring or ear
ly in the summer. and will be back
in time to attend the natable army
meeting here in October. General
Sherman has always had q partial
side for the western posts and the
officers aud soldiers of the frontier,
and he has long made it a practice
to 60 to the farthest posts once a
year, to show the boys they are not
forgotten. On this trip he will de
vote himself particularly to Montana,
Oregon and California. Much OF
the distance VIII De made on horse
back, and the General will always
have q cavalry escort. He will be
accompanied only by two members
of his staff, Colonies Tourtellotto
and Bacon, and but two of his par.
%ticular friends will go as his guests.
namely, Chief Justice Waite and
Justice Grey, of the supreme court.
1 have MI doubt General Sherman
has had to decline the offers Of at
least q score of intimate friends, any
one of who I would gladly have paid
the expenses of the whole trip. But
the trip is not one of pleasure alone
there is a good deal of hard work
in it for the General, and he does
not feel that he ought to cucumber