Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-04-16

great deal of annoyance. He re.
minded the General that a great SOL
dier is not necessarily q great states
man, and that making the Senate
ring with personal "reminiscences is
not necessarily statesmanship.
Mr.. Teller's remark that Logan
would never permit the public to
forget that he (Logan) had served
in the army, stung the latter acutely.
Logan said if the remark had come
from a copperhead he would have
understood it, but no confederate on
the opposite side of the chamber
would insinuate in such q low, mean,
despicable way as that. He denied
having any Presidential aspirations,
added that he did not pretend to be
a statesman, and that Mr.. Teller
was not statesman simply because
he had served in the Cabinet. Mr..
Logan, at least, made good point
in his remarks when he said: "I
am not a statesman" Such argu.
ment was unanswerable.
The House of Representatives has
been on q strike, inasmuch as it has
been trying to solve the great labor
and capital problem. There has
been an interesting debate upon the
settlement of strikes by arbitration.
The causes, effects and remedies
were discussed and criticisms and
warnings were freely given.
Senator Vance took party" as
the text for speech which he deliv-
cred in the Senate against the civil
service law. He avowed himself
party. man in its most comprehensive
sense. He believed the safety and
welfare of American institutions lay
in party feeling and allegiance. and
he criticised the civil service act rs
an invasion of the Presidents pow
ers. For want of political parties,
he said, Russia had Nihilism. France
slept on communistic fires, and Ger
many had to maintain enormous
armies. He did not see why q Gov
ernment clerk should DO endowed
with official Immortality any moro
than the President, or the Senators
and Representatives.
A Senator remarked that there
was a good deal of sound philosophy
in the measure recently introduced
in the House giving Government
clerks half-holiday every Saturday.
"From present appearances" con-
tinued he, the new Administration
is going to kill itself with overwork,
and we ought to pass some such
measure as this in the name OF civil
service reform"
Speaking of the sick Cabinet Off
GERS, the ultimate recovery Of Socre.
tary Manning ia still q matter Of
doubt. His friends are encouraged
only by the fact that he becomes no
worse. Being restricted to diet OF
milk aud beef tea, the patient won
ders why they do not give him some
thing solid to build upon. A physi-
clan who was discussing the condi-
ton OF the distinguished patient
said, the trouble with these men
is that they simply work with thoir
heads; if they do not take moro ex-
ercise, there is danger Of fatal conse.
quences. DEN.
From an Occasional Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 81, 1856.
EDITOR STANDARD:
During the sessions OF Congress,
besides the 40 Senators and men,
bers, and the House and Senate off,
GERS, and the leading men from all
over the country holding official po-
sitions whose duties require their
presence in this city, and in addition
to the army Of newspaper men,
every leading journal having q rep
resentative here-there ASSEMBLE in
this city. attracted by business. poll
tics and curiosity many, very many,
influential persons from the States
and Territories, so that q close OBJ
server can better feel the public
pulse, at this place at such times,
than any other place in America.
When q measure of interest to the
public is being discussed in the Sen
ate, the five thousand people who
look down from tho Senate galleries
upon the fog bank" as that august
body is familiarly called, constitute
o talkometer-a meter showing the
public estimate of men and measures.
A statesman whose speeches are full
of wisdom and wkoso manner is at
traotive, like q favorito preacher or
theatrical, will draw good house.
while the honorable gentleman from
Buncome will soon denude both
floor and galleries.
Never, since the Hayes electoral
count, has any measure attracted so
many persons to the galleries as did
the discussion of the Edmunds'
resolutions commencing on the 9th,
and closing on the 26th instant. All
seaned 10 feel The urofound influenoa