The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17

Miss Couzins Relates Her Experience with
the President About q Bill.

Miss Couzins Relates Her Experience with
the President About q Bill
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Miss Phoebe Couzins has returned from her
visit 70 Washington, where she has been at in
tervals since the Inauguration, and has resumed
her duties as the only lady deputy marshal in
the United States. In their performance she is
not hindered from expressing an opinion regard
ing the present administration, which is not at
all unfavorable.
II met the President" she told a Globe Demo
crat reporter, and was more deeply impressed
by a personal interview than ! had been before.
He is not at all coarse, though very large, and
he has large gray eyes that are very expressive.
| don't think he will be much of an addition to
Washington society, for he is not cal
euiated to shine in such a position. So far
there have been no entertainments or
account of the dangerous illness of General
Grant. After a while the usual dinners will be
given, l expect, but the entertainments will not
be on a large scale. / met Miss Cleveland and
Mrs. Hoyt the Presidents sisters, while in
Washington, and was greatly struck with Miss
Cleveland. She is a fine woman, very intellect
ual, and a charming conversationalist She has
Miss Van Vechtin and Miss Folsom staying with
her, the ladies who have been spoken of as the
prospective Mrs. Cleveland-which one the
Washington gossips have not decided. The first
is about twenty-eight, stately and intensely in
tellectual, and, | think, is most likely to be the
favored one. Miss Folsom is quite pretty, but
barely nineteen, and is still a schoolgirl, / be-
lieve. OF all the occupants of the White House
whom [ have known, / think Miss Cleveland is
the one with the greatest mind. / never knew
Mrs. Garfield, but have been told though she is
a most excellent woman she was not as compe-
tent to be the first woman of the land as Miss
Cleveland.
II went to see the President, and talked with
him regarding the tenure-of-ofic act He is
disposed to regard its intent, and L believe from
his many public utterances no one doubts but
that it is the intention of his administration to
retain officials in their places until the expira-
ton of the terms for which they were appointed,
unless specific charges can be brought against
them. Secretaries Lamar and Garland ex-
pressed that view to me, but I did not see Secre.
tary Bayard, though he will hardly differ:
THAT was not all of my visit to Washing
ton. Did you ever know who planned the Ten
nessee campaign in the civil war; Some of the
generals, no doubt9 Well, they didn't, and
though every general that has commented upon
the war has said this campaign was the decisive
one, it was a woman, Anna Ella Carroll, who did
it, and here in st. Louis, too. She wrote for
ton of the Revolving Citizens to the National
Government The Right of the President to
Suspend the Habeas Corpus and The
War Powers of the Government which
were widely distributed and read. She
came West at the time the Mississippi
expedition was inaugurated, to watch the
She overheard one evening, at the
Everett House, a pilot telling his companion
that the Tennessee was pavigable to Mussel
Shoals. The chance remark was like a revela-
ton to her. She had not thought-nobody had
thought-of that river as a method of attack.
She studied its character from charts, etc.
planned a campaign, setting out in detail the
practicability of the rivers use, the cutting of
the Memphis & Charleston road, and the TAX
ing of Vicksburg in the rear. She sent her
plans to Washington, and they came at a time
when the government needed a suggestion. 1t
was accepted, and her plans were used as she
made them. The assassination of Lincoln, and
Stewards death prevented them from r~ecogniz-
ing her as they knew she should have been rec
ognized. Several times since their deaths bills
have been presented in Congress for her relief,
but all have failed to pass. She is now in Balti-
more, paralyzed, under medical treatment, and
would have been destitute had not a fund been
raised for her. When l told Mr.. Cleveland her
story he said something must be done for her,
and we hope at length her bill will pass.n