Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-08
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Opinions About the Adjournment
Red-Nosed Bedford ans the Temper
auce Question.

Red-Nosed Bedford ans the Temper
ance Question.
Correspondence a tie Nog-sfag Nss1s.
WASHINGTON. June 6.-RaBdaH talks
about adjourning Congress on the 10th OF
June and Morrison talks about the 9th OF
June. but nobody thinks that either of
them will be able to bring such an early
adjournment about. They are reckoAing
without the Senatorial Club. This club,
conventionally known as the United States
Senate, exists chiefly for the pleasure Of
its members. But it still exercises one Of
its constitutional functions. is regulates
the legislation of the Congress. The
House passes bills. The Senete hcks
them into shape. changing with impartial
hand their phrase0lOgy and their pro
visions. II it likes, it pigeOn-hOles them.
Now the Republicans Of the Senate, who,
with the Virginia Senators, are in
the majority, do not propose
that Congress shall adjourn until
several weeks after the Democratic Ma
tiOnal Convention has adjourned. 1t is
mere matter Of financial economy with
them. During the sessions OF Congress
Senators and Representatives have the
right to send their speeches and other
public documents under their, franks, free
Of postage. through the mails. During
the Congressional vacations they have to
pay postage on such matter just as though
they were not the big mug
wumps that thev are. Now
the agile Edward Mcpherson, who.
in spite of his growing badness. looks en-
tirely too young to have been in Congress
when the war broke out, has been hard at
work for weeks in the rooms of the Re
publican Congressional Committee at the
old Metropolitan Club House, just OppO-
site the Arlington, preparing biographies
of the Democrats who are being ''men-
toned" for the Presidential nomination.
MePhersOn's pen is as ready as his
tnngua and fios the paper as ne nles
over the streets. He has bright assist
ants, too, and between them they have
ground out a good deal of campaign lit
erature-yery good campaign literature,
800, from a Republican point of view.
Mcpherson was designed by nature to
run a political literary bureau. Now,
just as soon as the names of the Demo
cratic nominees are announced their biOg-
IaphieS will be carted up to the capitol
and dumped on the desks of Republican
Senators. Then for days to come, on land
grant bills, and public building bills. and
appropriation bills. and bills OF every
other sort, these shTewd strategists will
write McPhersOn's little novelties in
the Congressional Record. Mr.. McPher-
son can take immense quantities of these
speeches and, with a Senatorial frank or
two, distribute them broadcast among q
long-sufering people.
After a few weeks of this sort of thing,
the Republican Senators viii adjourn the
club for the summer and 90 home, chuck
ling with satisfaction. | hope the Demo-
cratic members of the club viii make the
Congressional Record the vehicle of some
candid opinions on the Republican candi-
lot I -
bureau here, which Is not in the hands Of
a Mcpherson. is not prepared for such
brilliant tactics.
BOSTON SOCIETY PEOPLE
arrogate to themselves a place at the
head Of the social procession in America.
They are apt to look askance at every
body who has not received the impression
Of the Beacon Hill Back Boy stamp.
once stamped with that social seal. a
man or a woman may rest secure in the
proud consciousness that the haven most
to be desired has been reached. Every
now and then a Boston Brahmin stravs
away, however, from that vestibule of
heaven into some foreign tOWn-New
York, for example, or Baltimore
and then by rude contact learns
that there is a more exclusive society
than that of Beacon street
or Commonwealth avenue. A few weeks
ago one Of the leaders Of the best society
in Boston went to PHILADELPHIA to visit
her friends, Lieutenant and Mrs. Thackara.
Now Mrs. Thackara is a daughter of Gen.
Sherman, and Mr.. Thackara is a well
educated young man who graduated from
one Of the nations training schools into
the nations military service. You may
imagine Mrs. BOston's establishment
when she learned that her friends were
not admitted into the best society of
1,Tr, l. IL. i
"But Why?" puzzled beyond expression.
because Mr.. Thackara's family are in
trade and Mr.. Thackara has gone into the
store" Mrs BOstOn's view was Widened.
This reminds me of good
story told here of a Boston woman
with all the Boston ideas, and Boston
daughter, who came here not long ago.
She was bewailing to a bright Washing
ton woman. poor dear James loss Of the
precious privilege of Boston society,""
''Oh,' said she-as who should say, ''You
have no such society in this country vii
lage'-"Oh, my dear, wish poor Jane
could get into such society rs we have in
Boston" ''Wen, can't she?7 asked the
Washington woman with an icy direct
ness which took the c0nceited Boston wO-
mans breath away.
THE RED-NOsED, RED-HEADED BELFORD
takes the most liberal view of the tenn
perance question. He would pass a law
making it a capital offanse to sell adulte-
rated liquors, making place for it on the
statute book by wiping out all other Iegis-
latIOn designed to restrict the manufac-
ture and sale of liquors. The warmth of
BelfOrd's utterances on this subject is
equal to the warmth Of his COM
pleXiOn. 1t is his faYorite topic,
too, and when he gets started he is
willing to talk much longer than any one
1s-~@- WT
everybody who has strong prejudices on the
drink question, and breaches his free
liquor doctrines with all the intolerance
of a sixteenth century bigot. He quotes
scripture like the devil, and is never at a
loss with a text which will cap the latest
advanced on the other side. The other
night he was holding forth in high con-
tempt of water. After showing that most
modern diseases could be traced to the
unprecedented use of water, and de-
claring that it was made for washing
purposes only, he wound up with: ''Why,
sir, read your Bible; look your New
Testament through. From lid to lid
you'll find but one man who ever asked
for even a drop of water, and he was in
hell, where he ought to have BEEN"
The Boston Ideals sang here last week
for the benefit of the National Rifles,
whose commander. Col Burnside. is in
jail waiting bail. They were in no great
hurry to get home again, so they stayed
with US two or three days this week, and
several imprOmptu musicales were the
result. Tom Karl makes more friends off
the stage than on. He is an Irishman. as
you know, with the purely Greek name of
Thomas OCarrO1l, under which he strug-
gled against an adverse fate at the begin
ming of his career. With a change of
name came a change of fortune, and Tom
aFl has done we'll ever since He has
all the Irish traits except prodigslitY and
shiftlessness. He is very industrious and
very economical, and hence has saved
money-a thing that very few other tenors
have done. He has nice house at RO-
chester, y. Y. where he spends his vaca-