Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-22
"a POSITION"
Scenes In the Senate LObby---The
Trialspfa Politician, :
THE NEW SENATOR FROM DELAWARE.
The Victory Won For West Virginia
by Her Distinguished
Senators.
SOME OTHER ITEMS os INTEREST.

Special Correspondence Of he Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 2l.-The
Senate lobbies are daily crowded with
throng of Office seekers that includes all
conditions of men. For at least two hours
before the time for converting, they are on
hand, congregating mostly in the lobby i'm
mediately back of the Presidents desk, and
commanding a full view Of the elevator.
Every time that convenient machine heralds
its approach with a squeak, all heads turn
like sunhowers to the sur" in hopes OF see
ing their particular Senator emerge from It's
embrace. The confident Office seekers. lap
propriate the chairs, and survey the various
stages OF agitation surrounding them with
calm disdain, later, from lack OF success.
they may be reduced to the same state OF
uneasy FORMULATING expectancy that
iostles about them, but for the present they
feel no necessity beyond the mere asking,
to receive any Office that takes
their fancy in that pictorial gallery
of finance, the blue book young men who
have enthused and burned red fire in q
patriotic but distant part Of the country,
seem to divide their solicitous attention
between the proper arrangement OF their
neckties, and the elevator alluded to. While
those who, from force of habit or fear OF
not being on hand in due season, have
breakiasted by the dawn's early light,
propitiate NATURES cravings with donations
of peanuts, the more timid putting the
shells and other debris carefully away in
their pockets Directly young girl
advances heistatingly through the
line Of assorted humanity and takes
up her position in an obscure corner, still
shivering from the cold searching wind
OF March day, that has cut through and
through her poor thin little jacket of alpaca
all shiny with age, until her very heart is
chilled, and she draws closer and closer into
the corner where she has crept, as if seeking
warmth and protection from the gaily fres-
coed wall. Now and then an impudent
stare brings a flush to her pretty face,
which bears already, even in its youth, two
embryo lines drawn By those malicious ar
fists poverty and toll, but the people for the
most part, even the intellectual young men
with tight pants and silver headed canes,
are too intent upon their own affairs to no
tice other people very msch.
A lady Of uncertain age, dressed in q
Thompson wave and long velvet cloak,
Aourishes daintily package Of gilt edge
cards with pretty little scolopS on the cor
ners. There is a determination in her
very movement to prove that she has made
up her mind to see this thing through.
Directly the elevator Fgives a premonltory
squeak, she catches sight of some one
emerging therefrom, and makes a Decline
in his direction. The figure catches sight
Of her, and his gaze becomes as fixed
and far away as that of the
Duke Eberhard in AIRY Schafers
picture, he even fails to hear her silvery good
morning, but nothing daunted, she stands
directly in his path, holding one OF her gilt
edged cards on level with his nose, and
entering into an animated monologue in
which "a position" seems to be the oftenest
recurring theme. At last the poor man
makes a break, uttering something about
seeing her again, being very busy, but she
follows him up to the door of the Senate,
and filings "a position" in after him, imme-
diately resuming her former stand near
the elevator and going through the same
thing over again, to the great amuse-
ment OF several lockers on, who almost forget
for moment that the safety of the country
depends upon the same fact so ardently
impressed BY the fair dame before them,
namely, that they be given "a position
Senator German has had three new wires
to his door bell inside Of two months, while
the other evening the parlors, dining room;
Office, and even his bed room, were filled
with callers, Mrs German being obliged to
seek refuge in the third story and patiently
wait till after o'clock to get to bed, the
last of the visitors getting away at that
hour.
The story Of the office seeker that came
and stopped at frst-class hotel until his
funds and prospects both became small,
and was obliged to take lodging in cheap
boarding house near the wharf, and who ap
piled for the position Of a messenger, that
he recognized, floating in the water, only to
find the place filled by the man who saw
him fall in, is fully equalled by another in
stance. A gentleman wishing to call on
prominent politician merely to tender his
congratulations, waited in.yain to get an
audience and finally concluded to call ear
ly in the morning before others got there,
when he drove up, the shutters were not yet
open, but the front steps and curb stone
were full, one man holding the bell knob,
ready to ring MS soon as any evidences Of
waketulness proceeded from the inmates Of
the mansion.
The newly elected Senator from Della.
ware, Mr.. Gray, is man of fine bearing and
personal appearance He is fully six feet in
height, of noble physique, regular features,
dark brown eyes, with hair and moustache
of the same color, in speaking his voice is
full and mellow, bearing a strong resem-
blance in quality to that of Senator Butler,
of South Carolina. Mr.. Gray it will be re-
memberei, was the gentleman who nomi.
mated Senator Bayard, whose place he now
fills, at the Chicago Convention.
The appointment of Mr.. Joseph S.. Miller
to be Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
has met with warm degree of recognition
rarely witnessed on a like occasion, and
must awaken feeling of pride in every
West Virginian, not only on account Of the
universal confidence evinced in the distin
guished appointee, and the great honor be-
slowed upon the Mountain State. But their
good fortune in possessing two Senators OF
such ability and devotion to their trust, who
have made it not a victory Of factions that
awaken internal party strife and ran
cour, but the sterling recognition
of confidence in two public men
whose dignity and irpneSs Of purpose has
been crowned with success acknowledged
to be Just, and respectfully deferred to by
even the most Jealous friends Of opposing
nominees.
Senator Wade Hapton. who has been con-
fined to his rooms at the Riggs House for
some time past, is couvalescing, and hopes
10 appear at his post before many days.
Mrs. and Miss Camden are still in the
city, having determined to remain until the
Hygeis Hotel at Fortress Monroe shall be
less inconveniently full and more desirable
accommodations obtsiuable.
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG.
BsNWooD.