The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-01-25

Entertain Senators and NJ. CTS mt
Wlilnrd's-Free Wine, Free lunch,
Hut No Free Trade.

Entertain Senators and NJ. CTS ut
wlllnrd's-Free wine. Free bunch,
Hut No Free Trade.
Tho National Board OF Trade, now IN session
hero, entertained number Of Senators ana
Representatives last night In tho "coa Room"
at Wizards Hotel. Covers were laid for one
hundred. The menu, which surpassed In OK
collcnco and variety even the former triumphs
OF this far.famed hotel, aud proved Mr..
Staples to be prince among landlords, was
as follows:
Blue points on shell-Haut Sauturne.
SOUP.
Green turtle, consomme, brunoisoylno do
Paste.
FISH.
Broilcd whitefsh, Maitre d'Hotel celery,
french-fried tatoes-Assmannshanser
REMOVES.
Boiled capon, with celery, Ia creme; roast
young pig, stunned, apple sauce; roast sir
loin OF beef, mushroom sauce; slowed toma-
toes, potatoes, green peas-st. Estephe.
ENTREES.
Chicken croquottes, n la Duchesse; terrapin,
slowed, a In wiilards; banana frlttors,
glace, au Rhum; chicken salad, shrimp
salad-Dry Monopolo.
soRDEr.
Punch, la Romano,
GAME.
Roast canvas.back duck, brollod quail, currant
Jelly; dressed lettuce-Clos de Vougeot.
PASTRY AND DESSERT.
Charlotte russo, champagne Jelly, tutti fruttl,
assorted cake, Napoiltaine ico.cream, fruits,
nuts, raisins, figs, coffeo-Cognac etllqueurs.
Among tho distinguished gentlemen present
were Senators Hawley, Beck, Hoar, Dawes
: and Harrison, and Representatives Reed, OF
Maine; Morse and Rauney, OF Massachus.
etts Nv. D. Kelley, OF Pennsylvania; skinner, OF
New York; Horr, of Michigan; o'Neill,o Penn.
Texas; brewer, Of New Jersey; Murphy, Of
Iowa; Follett OF Ohio; Durham and Cannon,
OF Illinois, and Strait, OF Minnesota.
Among tho prominent members OF the Bonrd
OF Trade were President Fred Fraley, OF the
National Board OF Trade; simon Sterne, OF tho
New York Board OF Trade; J. Il. Stranahan, ono
OF the trustees OF the Brooklyn Bridge and
member OF the New York Chamber OF Com
merce; John +. Henry, president of tho Ma
tional Autobiography Association; Ambrose
Trade and Transportation; Mr.. John p.
wetherell; Mr.. Young, CT Baltimore; John
Roach and other prominent representatives OF
| The toasts were as follows: "Massachusetts, -
responded 10 by Senator Hoar; "Kentucky,"''
Senator Beck; "The Father OF the House,"
| Hon.W. d. Kelley; "National Board of Trade"
| J. r. Stranahap; Commerce." Representative
| Reagan; connecticut" Senator Hawley; "The
West," Representative Durham, OF Chicago;
"Michigan,' representative Horr, OF Mlchi-
Speeches were also made by Representatives
Reed and Morse, Senator Harrison, Hon. Mr.
Folletf, OF Cincinnati; Mr.. Young, OF Balti-
| more, and Mr.. Sterne, OF New York.
Tho burden OF the speeches was how bes,
to shape legislation In the interests OF
| commerce. The views OF the different speak.
| ers on this point were somewhat various, but
| the protectionists were largely In the major.
ity, not only among those who spoke, but those
Senator Beck was warmly appiauded for the
| witticisms that sparkled through his speeoh,
but when he steered in the direction Of free
trade an eminous silence warned him not Ia
| proceed, and he didn't.
Congressman Reagan talked about free
ships, free trade and inter State commerce
regulations, but he met with no responsive
echo in that audience.
Senator Hawley, however, who talked
straight.out protection In Its intensest form
was applauded rapturously. SO woro Messrs
Reed, Kelley, Hoar, Morse and Horr
who spoke In tho same strain, tho latter, as
usual, keeping his audience In .paroxysms of
| mirth from the time he opened his mouth till
he closed It. The speeches that were listened
to with most attention were those OF Messrs
Toward midnight Mr.. sterne, Of New York
who was called on by the president for q
speech, rose, ana with the courage OF a hero
plunged into an out-and-out free trade, free
ships, and free everything speech, that nearly
paralyzed his audience. Mr.. Sterne is huenl
talker, and preeents his points forcibly, bui
ne hadn't spoken long before the thermometer
death'like silence pervaded the room when
he got through. The assembled gentlemen
eopts on the part Of some 'tSe aha sst
| gentlemen to applaud Mr.. Sterne when he go
through died still-born. At this critical mo
| ment the master OF ceremonies, Presiden
| Fraley, proved himself the right maj
in the right place by suggesting to Mr.. Strana
| han, OF Brooklyn, the expediency OF q motion
| 10 adjourn, and Mr.. Stranahan, with an alac
| rity rare in one OF his advanced years, imme
diately rose TO the occasion and niado tho mo
tiop, which, to everybody's relief, was unani
mously carried, and al IL 80 p. M, new time
| the meeting was declared adjourned, and TIL
CRITIC representative and the seven differen
kinds OF wine In seven different glasses bio
each other an afrectionate but reluctant fare
| al