The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-14
THE SENATE RESTAURANT.
Only Two TeetotaIers i'm the Upper
House.


The senate restaurant has become
the club-room of the capitol With D
colored man in Charge, the senators
now get the best cooking and attend
ance in town. Representatives 90 over
there to lunch, and senators boast OF it
outside. was talking with John FraIIcis
the other day. He is colored mar to
whom Mr. Edmunds gave the restau-
rant, with $4,000 or $1,000 a year do
the senators generally spend much
money with youP' / asked him. mo,
he went on, "as rule, they come down
here and eat crackers and milk. My milk
is most all cream, and they like it.
Most of them are here each day, al-
though few have their lunch sent to
a committee-room. Senator Morrill,
always eats crackers and milk; so do
Senators Hoar and Ingalls,. Mr.. Platt
always drinks tea. Senator Vest likes
to stand up to the oyster counter and
take dozen on the shell, with some
ale, Perry Belmont is often here eat
ing raw oysters. Gen. Logan is very
abstemioas Mr.. Aidrich generally
eats steak But the best of our clls-
more and higher-priced dinners than
the senators. GenerousP Well not
many of them. They do not come
down to the walters very handsomely.
The poorer men are the most liberal.
Mr.. Frye is kind and always has a
pleasant word for the walters; so does
Mr.. Garland. Gov Vance has his
pockets full of dimes, and throws them
out literally. Gen. Logan, when he
feels good, is liberal, but the tips gem
orally come more from outsiders than
senator's A large closet full Of
brandy and wines stands invitingly in
plain view Notwithstanding the new
rule that no intoxicating liquors shall
be allowed. They are sold to anyone
who calls, but Mr. Blair's wild remark
that the restaurant is ''the national
groggery'' was good way from the
truth. Very few senator's drink to ex-
cess. Some of them have bottle or
two in their committee-rooms. Mr..
Hale entertains his friends occasionally
with wine-spreads. Pendleton always
to hand it around freely when the demo
cratic caucus meets, he being chairman.
Up in the back room of the senate
committee on printing Mr., Anthony
has something in store. You will often
see him and Mr.. Edmunds coming from
there with pleased expression. Judge
Thurman was Mr.. Edmunds' companion
of old. When they went out together
the senate blinked sympathetically.
Don Cameron invariably took wine with
his nice little lunch, served daintily in
his private room. Frye and Blair are
the only teetotalers in the upper house.
But drunkenness is never seen in these
days, 1t is in "bad form. Ten years
ago wine-bibbing was very common.
Old Willard Salisbury, of Delaware,
brother to the present senator, was
heavy drinker and finally was obliged
TO give way to his brother, He and
''Jim" Nye, of Nevada, were boon COM
panions. Nye died in an insane asy.
lum. Although opposed politically, |
they were great chums. Then there
was McDougall, of California, who |
drank himself to death suppose he
was one of the brightest men who ever
came to Washington. Why, he helped
survey Ine Albany ana schenectady /
before he was Is years old and
was Encouragement of Illinois at "a
Many of his bright remarks are still
Notably, one night he was
unable to reach home Some friends
along found him in the gut
.er. "What. is this you, YatesP" they
said. Moo, was the prompt answer,
IT am Seward /" MpDouralI waS in
he senate with Yates, who ruined him.
,elf with rum. Yates reformed time
md again, only to fall still lower. The
is growing better. News
papers and the sharp public opinion
against much drinking are doing their
perfect work. In the senate to-day
here is not a man who can be termed
! hard drinker to the detriment Of his
public duties. = Washington Cor. Troy
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