Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-09

marble counter or at the oyster bar, under
the soft light Of incandescent electric
burners and the sharp eyes oil Page,
the Maine hotel-keeper, who is now
managing the Senate restaurant. All his
tea is hot tea out here, but there IS
I lengthy wine list which the well-dressed
walters invariably hand you when you sit
4 down Page is gray-whiskered Yankee,
famous for his Boston beans and brown
bread. Behind the partition is another
I large room, reserved for the Senator'S,
which is much more luXuriOusly finished
and furnished. There you can get cold
/ tea (if you are SenatOr) and all the
| turntables on the wine list besides-and
/ there you can ind a majority of the SEN
ate eating, drinking, and telling stories in
their capacity Of Senatorial club about
. O'Clock Ia the afternoon. 1t is usually
after O'Clock before many Of them have
str0lled up stairs and back into the Sem
ate chamber, most OF them laughing,
and, | regret to say, picking their
teeth in the very presence OF the Presi-
dent pro tempOre and the venerable Isaac
Bassett. They are lazy lot OF men, these
Senators, and they are having a good time
as they go along. They often neglect the
demands OF public business, if the public
business happens TO take the form Of
long, dry speech, OF dull, prosy bill; but
they hardly ever neglect the demands OF
their private appetites for the delicacies
Of the Senate restaurant Morgan, Of
Alabama, an able man, a good lawyer,
and fiuent-alasl too fuent--speaker
VINO makes speeches on every subject and
therefore finds it difficult TO interest the
Senate, suggested, sarcastically, the other
day that the Senate would do we'll TO
AXE a recess every afternoon from
to 3 O'Clock, since the chamber was
usually empty at that time Of day any
how. But he might have made
1t quite seriously, for his reason was quite
true. You see, the morning business-tbe
introducing and the reporting Of bills and
the consideration Of certain bills and res
OlUti0ns in which every body is interested
stops at O'Clock, and debate is then re-
sumed on the pending bill" which Just
now is the bill for the admission Of Da-
kOta. The pending orator then gets up TO
talk, and the rest Of the Senators, with
few exceptions, get up to 20 down stairs
to lunch. w zen John A. Logan, OF Illi-
nois, who is sometimes spoken Of as a
dari, sort OF winning horse in the next
Republican convention, rose to speak on
Wednesday afternoon at O'Clock he
lOOs ed around the almost empty chamber
and remarked that II was discouraging TO
note the lack of interest in this important
subject evinced by Senators on both sides
OF the question. IL certainly was. How
Harrison, Of Indiana, who had charge OF
the bill, neither Of whom could leave, and
William Maxwell Evarts, OF New York,
who is seeker after votes and would not
leave, remained to listen, like a congrega-
ton on rainy Sunday, TO Logan's lecture
TO the absentees. It was very funny TO
see Evarts, who had been smoking in the
Republican cloak-roOm. drop his cigar
and start right out as soon as he saw llo-
gan rise. He did not 20 to bis own seat,
which is in the rear aud out Of the range
OF Logan's vision, but he walked all
across the chamber and sat down in the
large chair specially provided for SentOr
Joe Brown, OF Georgia. in which he looked
like avery thin nubbin in avery big husk.
And oh how he listened, with his thin
head on his breast and his gold-rimmed
eyeglasses dangling from his thin FORE
finger while Logan told him all about Da-
kOta in sentences such as even Evarts
could not parallel. IL just shows how
much Evarts wants the Presidential
nomination Of his party in 1888. Mark my
words, he will be Logan's second choice.