Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-18
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
A Scene in the Senate Zeb Vance, Vest
and Jones are not Actorsin 1t.
A Big Scare How People Of Washington
Dread that Their Faces will be Spoiled.
The villainous Detectives Body Lice Of
Despotism.

sp.c,sI Correspondence OF the Gazette
Washington, ID. g.. January BIT
was even pitiful when senator Hoar
spoke almost barshly Of Senator Ed
mund's silence through many months,
and during the last session OF congress
when Honr's presidential succession
bill was discussed, and now Judge
Edmunds attacks IL most yehemently
and with force Of argument and
degree Of earnestness that iinpels it,
most ardent advocates to question the
wisdom OF Its author. Hoar was even
yindictiye In his assault upon Mr..
EdmuBds. When the latter rose TO
reply he was vizIbly and deeply
moved. His voice was tremulous
when he said, "the senator from
Massachusetts does me great Injustice
IL condemniDg me because Of my
absence from the senate. He knew
------v Mr. Edmunds here hcsitated
and was silent. Then he made an
effort 20 go on, but, falling, put hia
hand over his eyes TO conceal the tears
streaming down his face.
There was dcathlike silence. Ev-
erybody on the floor and in the gal
leries was awed by the majesty of
the sturdy old senator's uncomfortable
grief. Some senator in low tone, al
last moved an adjournment Every
body seemed 10 know, except MT.
Hoar, that Judge Edmunds protracted
absence from his seat. when Mr.
Hoar's bill was discussed came Of the
sickness aud death of Judge Edmunds
daughter. whom he loved with all his
heart. His irrepressible sorrow was
then more touching because his assoc
ciates had only contemplated his maj
esty a. "a lurist and statesman. They
learned at last how 10 revere the man.
THE PLAGUE AND THE PROPHETS
Great anxiety and alarm peryndes
the capital because of the prevalence Of
small pox in the adjacent city of Baltl-
more. Vaccination " dreaded be-
cause the virus used CONVEYS into
the system diseases often more terrible
than that whose spores it destroys
People, even when the snow is four
and six Inches deep, prefer the pave
ment, To contact with many filthy per-
s0ns who defile crowded vehicles with
their presence and exhalations. II is
now proposed 10 establish Il quarap-
tine against Baltimore. Two railways
thronged with hurrying multitudes,
connect the two great cities. MANY
clerks serving daily In the depart.
ments, have their houses in Baltimore.
How difficult will be the task proposed
becomes apparent. when dozen
trains or more from Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, passing
through Baltimore, daily enter the
capital. But the rotting plague per-
vades the Monumental City soruinous-
~ and thoroughly that absolute terror
POSSESSES Washington, and peo-
pie begin 10 believe this Is
first OF n series Of dreadful
entamities destined, as "prophetsn
have forctold, to dcsolnte land aud sea
during tn year just dawning.
DETECTIVES.
Each great bureau, and especially
those of the treasury department, has
its secret service fund disbursed among
men denominated detectives, spies
and inforIners,t the bascst tools ofdespot-
isns, who frequent hotels and lounge
about bar rooms and "shudown unslls-
pecllng clerks and citizens. The poor
clerks have no faith in one another.
Each suspects his friend. ANY un-
thoughted word spoken OF bubble
functionaries, of high or low degree. Ia
conveyed within the hour To the
mighty parsonage whose dignity IL
offended. Without notice or reason
assigned the hopeless clerk il advised
that his place is vacant. Honest
bravo men are made vcriest towards
ny the brumllzing system and we
nave here an army of sneaks and
trucking, cringing frcemen so-callcd.
The system of eavesdropping
was inaugurated, suppose,
To guard against the pres
encc of secessionists while war
ragged II IL continued by the mag
mates OF the party of grand moral
ideas, that organized scheme to make
Grant, through the Intervention or
the standing army, dictator when Til.
den was chosen president. But tho
detectives, whose pursuits and pro-
lessional habits necessarily make them
treacherous, have begun TO prey upon
one another, and the public at last
learns something Of their base
methods and knavish devices. When
one of them demanded, not long ago,
ms share OF rewards for the
capture OF counterfciters. his
pals conspired against him, They
depositcd counterfeit money In his bed
room, and proving that Il was found
there, consigned him To the peniten.
tiary for ten years. He has estab-
lished his innocence, Is now free and
making IL hot for a body OF redemp.
tionless scoundrels in the employment
OF the lordly heads Of departments
No wonder statesmen and patriots
have pronounced detectives the body
lice of despotism.n Polk, the swart.
wouting treasurer ofrenncssee, knew
how 10 deal with professional detect.
ives When the people as contm-dis
tinguished from the plutocracv, re-
gain mastery in the United States.
these hase tools of swollen, diseased
greatness Will be no more.
PovERTyis woIs.
The thermometer Is below the freez-
ing point, and snow envelopes the capt.
tai. lts depth il from four 10 six inches
Beggars abound. At night negroes
come. forth from dens aud holes To
ask aims, All ages aud sexes and CON
uitlons prey upon strangers. Give one
dime and throngs dog Your stems.
one must rudcly drive them OH ar
supply his pockets with pennies with
winch 60 buy peace and escape annov-
ance, Negro children show cracked
bare feet aud beg for enough 10 hpv
thens pair Of shoes, othsrs tell that
malnmy has no cnalN and that the
household freezes. please sir. Give