Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Seniority ON Committees-A Little Story
About John Morrisscy.
WinterSmith's achipremenis-The Blue
Blood OF Kentucky.

| Washington, January She met
! that Senator MaNey secured the chair
manship of some committee OF me
| senate and that Senators Coke, Gar
! land and other Democrats were not
thus favored. has excited some com
nett. The explanation is that such
| chairmanships thus generously con-
crded by the majority to
the minority of the senate are
riyen To the senior senators Of the
minority, the minority itself in caucus
making this distribution and giving
the craftsmanship, to the Oldest MEM
beers OF the minority. | remember
hearing the story when the famous
John Murrissey had just taken his
seat in the house and ColfaX was
speaker. that Morrlssey was seen
walking nervously back and forth in
front OF the speakers room in which
the lists of committees were being
made up. Finally, Murrissey stopped;
he started towards ColfaNs
door, then turned back,
and again summnning courage
he drew from his capacious pocket II
box of Hahanas and 6owing before the
speaker said mir. CnlfaX, wish to
"A
II looked nightly like credit mo-
bilier performance, and ColfaN biushed
and he-ilated but at last said: IL am
very grateful, MIR. Morrissey; what
can do for you:n That's lust " hat
| come to talk to you about. | want
you to put me on the smallest aud
meanest and idlcst and most insigHili-
cant committee, where | wont have
any more do than ! know how To
dO.n
Coliax laughed immoderately- he
could not help il. The request WAS
most unique and extraordinary. He
promised Morri-sry lie would do his
best for him, and John stalked away
like u mastudon ~ lie was Happy
WAS he when he saw il stated in the
newspapers thst he was assigned To
the Craftsmanship of tie committee
ON revolutionary claims, -
| body said to meet once in
twenty years. Moryisey ordered his
colleagues Of the committee to con-
venr az ih- close of the session, and
drowned them in champagne
II viii he observed 10 capture the
charmauship at committee does
not always involve the acquisition OF
honors aud perQuisites, though Nor
fisseS, ny virtue Oh MS position ut the
head OF the table, IN his supposed COM
utiltee ruom, won a clerk who drew
ms pay ana was ns inle as M"rrissey
MlN4hi'HNIiH.
IL seems mat Mintersmlth doeth
wen. Ihe iinsst horses and cattle in
the world and tie finest men are pro-
duets OF the Riue'grass region of Ken.
lucky. II may be because Clay and
/ breckenridge ana Marshall went
| thither nj an early day and gave orr
gih To- " grand race, ol winch Carlisle,
Blackburn, Knott, Wntersmith and
many Ike them are representatives..
! henllicNlans believe ia the blood Of
men as OF horses, ana women are not
sold tut ,wedd'd and mated in Ken
lucky. The leople hold IN as high
estimation the blood OF theirdescend
/ anus az "l 'helr horses ana Il ma eli"
Is only proper IN iNenlucky, in which
I TIE ID, lie and gr0"m arr ply ,irally,
/ morally anG intellectually peers of one
another; Inc mi'erlea OF society and
lis hereditar' pfips and vices and dis
| ,a~es are unknown in Kentucky.
fEIests ntteraccursed morkcries in call.
| ing down heavens blessings upon man
ana wife, both representing dollars rath-
er lhan those vlitue~ Of body and mind
deemed IN Kentucky the richest in
helitance par nts can vouchsafe 10
| children. The pr pagallon of species
J isa me art, whether applied TO Lex
! lh6tnn or To Ii Romanun. or in u
household OF The bluegrass region.
when she says of Wint, rsmith thai
!uony porn IN keaiucky, weaned
~ Tv n,"u s r"sS , a.u cn'llhg ,eelh IN
iv isth 20 """," W vH'ri! on, h'heciai-
dv,n rne i""''ug nul VI ga fossils ana
$500. $500 ~ " ,n'e's'il,h approved;
~, ,isa,h ", NV rnrTu ii"u NEG places un'il
- vail ~ d. a. i've ~, Lii' WI" ma osco'iie
IheT ha d." ..sa, a. and t"e country dance;