Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-09
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

President Arthur rides out every afternoon
mounte I on stout bay cob, and Immediately
well DIRE sed for riding. He is remarkably
graceful rider, and has perfectly paralyzing
manner of raising his hat to the young ladies
whom he meets taking their afternoon canter.
The President is getting handsoner and hand
somer His curly hair has suddenly grown
white, which is ~ becoming, and there is
strong ground for supposing that he is cultIvat-
In a rival Lowell ok to ex-senator Conkling.
His English whiskers are q dream of beauty,
and it is said he is the first President of the
United States to habitully employ manicure.
Judge Kelley, callel the Father of the
House, and renowned for his affection for pig
iron isan example of the Congressional orators
of days gone by. 1t IS said he was pupil of
Edwin Forrest. At all events, he has an
enormous bass voice, which thunders and re-
veraerates through the House in a manner to
satisfy the names of Edwin Forrest and all his
school. The Judge revels in the tariff 1t
was a great disappointment to him that he
did not get his own tariff bill through at the
last ses ion, but any kind of tariff dscu sion is
like mama to his pMched soul. He stands
up, erect and dignifed, and rolls out in deeply
tragic tones the rights and wrongs of pig iron;
he declams Oh the subject of trace chains as If
it were Mark Antonys Grafton over Caesar;
when he reache old bottles ON the tariff list he
becomes eloquen ly frantic.
DIR. Wales, whose term rs Surgeon GEN
eral expired two or three months ago is one
of those who can sit down cruelty hard on
contractors who carried out the Apostolic COM
mand to be cheerful givers. Coming home
one day he found his basement filled up with
bottles of wine and demijohns Of whiskey The
Surgeon General demanded to know the mean
ing of it, and the card Of drug and medicine
contractor was handed him. lie slammed his
hat d 0wn on his head mad Wild break for
his carriage that stood before the door, and
was at the contractors in less 'han no time
The contractor appeared smiling, expecting to
be overwhelmed with thanks, as the Surgeon
General shot ou Of his carriage. Whit trans
pired after that mel her p.rty could give CO.
herent account Of, but the wine and the whis-
key were dumped into a wagon and returned
whence it came, and that contractor declares
that the eX-Surgeon General is the most ILL
contrived, unmanagcabc old hunks he ever
saw in his life.
If Their should ever be third party in the
coun ny they would find no provision made for
them at the Capitol building. There, if line
were drawn from the Speakers chair in the
House straight through the bailding 700 feet to
the Presidents chair in the Senate-whi,h is
possible, as if all the communicating doors
were opened TIE two presiding officers could
see each other--it would be found that on one
side arc the sheep and on the other the goats
1t is necessary, for voting, to have the two
parties divided, but the idea is carried out by
having Republican and Democratic cloak rooms
and Republican and Democratic rriva gal
| lerieS. The cloak rooms are used much in
common, and the fact is, certain Republ-
can Senators rarely go to their own cloak
rooms. When Don Cameron is at the Capitol
page or messenger sent for him invariably
| goes over to the Democratic side to find him.
| lie and Senator Butler of South Carolina are
| inseparabe chmns Indeed, the Republican
| cloak rooms htve rather deserted look in
these times. The best story-teers and Jolly
| fellows happen to be on the democratic side ;
Senator Vance is perfect Scheherezade and
Senator Vest is but little inferior TO him. The
| republican senators, when they want to enjoy a
| little senatorial hilarity would be pretty badly
off if they had no better comradeship than
Senator Ho 7 or Senator Sherman, or even the
imprisoned orator from Canandaigua, N Y,
Elbridge G. Lapman. The distinction, though,
is considerably maintained in the private cal.
| leries, which are reserved for the families OF
Senator'S and members The front cow OF
seats on the right of the middle aisle in the
house gallery is reserved for the Speakers IA
mily. There is bar across it on which is en-.
| graved in gilt letters "For the fnmily of the
Speaker" Mrs. Carlisle is extremely liberal
with these seats, and whenever there is a crush
in the gallery, invites MS many into the sacred
| precinct as il will hold.
The existence of woman is informally roe
ognzed, as it were, at the Capitol. There are
| two pretty rooms communicating with the
House gallery set apart for them, wherein the
! foot of man has never trod. They are lighted
by deep windows and are comfortably furnish.
ed with lounges, arm-chairs and tables. There
is II woman attendant and things are MS com.
Portable if not as splendid as in the committee
rooms. While there is small room in the
restaurant in which ladies unattended can get
luncheon, yet it is not pleasant for lady to g;
in alone, so many of them take their uncheons
in the retiring rooms. A glass door opens di.
rectly in o the galleries, so that if anything OK.
citing comes up they need not miss it.