Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-12-16

! YsoN OCH REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

! WAsBRsToS. Dec. :. 1855.
The President has made very easy
work OF lis first message TO Congress,
apparently. At least, be has be- very
forehsnded about it, and. 50 fsr fro-1
being vearied by tie preparation Of IL,
II seems to have been a positive relief
10 nln to turn from the opportunities
of the office seekers and devote himself
10 q thorough review of the sfairs Of
the Government. He has been ahead
OF bis Cabinet officers all the time IN bis
work, and / hear an interesting story
about quite funny scene having oc-
l Cured week or two ago at Cabinet
meeting vnep the President was entirely
ready 10 hear something further from
ais Cabinet advisers, and none of them
had anything ready to submit to him.
IL was on a THURSDAY, and / sm told
that one member of the Cabinet whis-
pered to another. as they left the Cabi-
| net room:
81 su glad that We shall not see the
master again until Tuesday"
General Logan's refusal 70 accept the
Presidency of the Senate vas q genuine
| oeh paAoN- hAtAo1kA NC Ad- FttrdtcNiN
| said that he did not want the office, no.
body believed him; and when he arose
and, IN verv graceful and appropriate
speech, declined the honor, the caucus
WAS 80 astonished that it adjourned at
| once IN order to allow the Senators time
to recover from their surprise. | think
ths General did very viss and proper
thing. and 1t will strengthen him 10 the
! favor of the people. His intimate
friends tell rms that his motives chiefly
lay In his intention 70 lead fight
| against the administration, and that
be thought Is would not be- becoming
IN him to do SO from the chair. He
has had several of his intimate friends
| In Illinois and other parts of the coun-
try suspended from office and super
seded by Democrats, and hs proposes
to prevent the confirm alton of their
SUCCESSORS. De also intends to make a
bght against every Democrat who has
been appointed to succeed a soldier, and
will take up the case of Postmaster
Huidekooper, of Philadelphia, as a test.
The confirmation of Mr.. hImoall, the
Director Of the Mizt, for whom Bur
chard, of Illinois, was turned out, will
be fair subjsct for controversy. he |
thinks, and there are several other sin- |
liar cases.
Some of the new Congressman require |
| a good deal of room, out they vii be |
able to get along with less presently. A |
member IA q YER 50 wise or important |
as en- the day he arrives iu Wa hin gton, |
but the atmosphere aororhs much of |
his natural size, and by evaporation he |
subsidies to his natural Dimensions. 1t |
was always so, and will be forever. An |
employee of the House was telling me /
about a new Congressman from the |
South who came walking into the hall,
looked around for while with an air |
of ownership, as If he had just bought |
the capitol and was pleased with his |
purchase, and then inquired which wers
the vacant desks. When told they we're |
all vacant, he seemed gratified and asked
how they were assigned.
Every member selects for himself"
was the reply.
" Which have been taken?"
None. Nobody has been in to choose
yet"
"Wal. that's lucky, amt it? So I'm
the first man on the gronud," and walk
ing away with a satisfied air, he picked
out seat nearly in front of the clerks
desk and observed: / reckon I'll roost
here"
The word was passed around among
the messengers and pages, and, as usual,
they we're ready for - lark. A card Was
cut, upon which the new honorable |
wrote bis name. and then one OF the /
boys showed it in the frame made for
the purpose. Next they showed him to
the stationery room, where he inquired |
into the perquisites of a legislator, and |
| seemed greatly pleased at the idea of |
having so much fine letter paper and |
| snndries at his disposal. he gave each |
of the pages a pocket knife and the sta |
| tionery clerk put up for him an assort- |
| nent of all kinds and sizes Of paper and |
| envelopes, which he packed away In his |
desk. Then be sat down to write q letter |
home and tell the folks ali about it. |
Next week he will discover what she boys |
we're laughing at.
There was never n Congress opened |
more quietly or with less excitement |
| than this. The little hght over the |
office Of doorkesper has been the only |
thing TO rsffie the placid sarfase of
events, and the attempt to get up an
interest in the revision of the rules has
proved abortive. Everybody wants the
rules changed. There's no question
about that, but the trouble is in finding
enough members who want the same
changes. Each man sees how a slight
modification would promote the passage
of his little bill, and he will vote for 1t
unanimously; but in the multitude OF
desires there is much diversity, so TO
speak; aud there's the rub, a. Mr..
Springer can tell you from experience.