National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-08
ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About Men and rr.nsur.,

Small Talk About Men and Measures.
Prof. Eugene Field, the litterateur art
critic, and singer has not been seen on tho
avenue with his usual frequency for tho past
two days. His friends we're somewhat anx-
| ous lest designing men had led him away on
some pretext into the fastensses of Swampoo-
die and were holding him for ransom
| People who knows the professors confding
and childlike nature and his ignorance of the
ways of wicked men will not DO surprised at
this anxiety. Much relief was afforded
therefore, by the discovery yesterday
afternoon of Prof Field in one OF the
secluded alcoves of the congressional
| library, reading a large volume, and occa-
sionally jotting down something in note
book. There was large pile of books on the
table in front of him. Not wishing to dis
turb Prof Field, the friend who discovered
him asked Librarian Spofford how long tho
professor had been there.
This is his second day." said Mr.. Spofford.
| HE came TO me yesterday with a request
that all books in which reference was made
to confidence mem and 'bunko steerers' be
brought to him. One assistant has been
specially detailed to wait upon him.
1t is supposed, therefore, that Prof. Field,
led thereto by his recent unfortunate adven-
| ture with two Of the class Is about to favor
the world with o work on "crooks." The
professor has admitted that previous to the
recent unfortunate event ho knew nothing
about these pests of humanity, as none had
ever appeared in Aurora, Ill.,, whore most OF
the professors quiet life had been spent.
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1--WE expected to get the bonded extension
bill up to-day" said one of the whisky lobby
last night, "but about n score Of those men,
bers upon whom we thought we could rely
upon funked square out. Why? Afraid OF
Sam Randall, Of course. / tell you it is sur
prising how many men there are on the floor
of the house who dread the ex-speaker worse
than "Auld Clootie" himself You see Ran.
dali as the chairman of the appropriations
committee has bigger pull than oven
the speaker, and we've got a dozen OF
two democratic representatives whose
political lives will DO bounded by
by this single session, and If they should
offend the chairman they are afraid he will
break up several of their pet schemes. You
know Randall is against the whisky bill
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screwed up the sticking point, he has only to
hold up his finger and they break like 9
flock of frightened sheep. Our bill is fair
and honest measure Of relief for an important
industry, but, between half-hearted friends
and fanatical opposition, am afraid it will
ultimately be defeated"
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This INDIANA democrat club is fixing up
to make big whoop in the coming cam
paign," said western politician, last night
They say that they'll capture the state to s
dead moral certainty, and are going to have 9
couple of dozen tons of democratic political
tracts ready for distribution at an early date
They expect to garner big lot of shekels in
the shape of voluntary contributions from
democratic Office holders-all spontaneous, oil
course. They have elected the postmaster OF
the house, Mr.. Dalton. as their treasurer
and he is to rake in these voluntary
offerings The only thing they are afraid OF
now Is that, as Mr.. Dalton is a federal office
holder, some of you republicans will call
attention to the fact that for him to manage
tho money matters of the club will be a
violation of that portion Of the civil service
law that prohibits person holding an Office
under the government from soliciting contri-
buttons for political purposes. If there is any
row made about it, Mr. Dalton will probably
resign and let in some untrammeled demo.
crat to manage the financial end Of the clu b
Don't give this away, though"
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He was colored statesman from the south
and very indignant He said: Preparation
are going on to create q sectional feeling
among the colored men of this country. A
Mr. Smith, the colored editor of the Pitts
burg (Pa,) Citizen, Is here trying to boom up
national convention Of colored men to NEE
in that city, and one of the features Of hi
project is that no delegates from southern state
are to be admitted 1t is proposed to discus!
the matter of civil rights, and to take som,
such steps as will bring this question NJ
before the republican convention when l
meets in Chicago in June next. Now, VIII
has tho deepest interest In securing civil
rights? Not the colored people in northern
states, but we of the south, who know wha
. the lack Of even common rights of humanit.
means. And yet the great republican part.
is to be called upon to take some decide
action on this subject by mel
, who know nothing of star cars an,
niger galleries. Editor Smith called upol
Register Bruce and Mr. Douglass, and mad
!. a strong effort to secure their presence at hi
= great northern national colored convention
MT. Bruce is southern man. and excuse
himself, no doubt feeling he would BIO out O
, place at such gathering. Mr.. Douglass tool
the matter under advisement, but l doubt
!, he will consent TO discuss national issue i
a sectional convention. He can't afford it.
: Territorial Affairs.
t The senate committee on territories ha
, agreed to give the name Lincoln" to tn
o new territory which it is proposed to max
o out of the northern part of the present tel
s ritory of Dakota. The committee also tool
up for consideration the resolution Intro
duced few days ago by Senator Vest, pre-
viding for an inquiry into certain allege
Irregularities in the organization of the lei
:, stature of New Mexico. The question
, the advisability of sending q subcommittc
to the territory to mako an investigation VIZ
a discussed and decided against for the presen
Il the committee directing the chairman, Sena
c tor Harrison, to first call upon the executiy
# departments and upon the governor of tn
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