The Washington critic., 1886-08-26
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 90, 1886.
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.

when Speaker Carlisle announced
that the House of Representatives Of
the Forty ninth Congress was ready for
business he looked into the faces of
one hundred and forty new Members.
Great as that number was IL Is likely to
be exceeded In the next Congress. 1t
is already evident that a large per cent.
of the Members of the present House
will not be in the next. A few will
voluntarily retire. A considerable
number represent districts which will
be carried by the opposite political
party, still more will be displaced by
rival candidates in their own party.
The tenure of seat In the House OF
Representatives Is prec0rious and few
there be who succeed In long maintain.
ing 1t. Speaker Carlisle is compare.
lively new member He has not
been in Congress ten years yet
He was silent member for the
first two years Then he stepped into
the front rank by his great speech on
the Funding bill; and three years later
was elected speaker. He Is now con.
sidercd q formidable candidate for the
second place on the next national Dem
ocratic ticket. OF the three hundred
and twenty. five members of the present
House of Representatives only seven.
teen have held their seats continuously
for more than ten years past. This
'old guard Is composed of Messrs.
Blount of Georgia; Henderson Morri
on, Springer and Cannon of Illinois,
Holman of Indiana. Strait of Mime.
sofa, Singleton of Mississippi, Bland of
Missouri, Kelley, Randall O'Neil aul
Harmer Of Pennsylvania; Mills, Cll.
berson and Reagan Of Texas, and
Tucker of Virginia. The Democrats
have eleven and the Republicans six of
these old timers All of them except
Mr.. Tucker, who declined to be can.
didate, will probably be in the next
Congress.
~
Concerning Miss Stauffer, one of the
legatees of Mr.. Tildcn's will, Gay" of
the Couricr.JOarRdl writes as follows
from Saratoga Springs: Having met
Miss Celeste Staulfer three successive
summers at Richlleld, and hearing
each year that Mr.. Tilden had named
her in his will, | was not surprised
when | read that he had settled upon
her 100000. Miss Staulfer crossed
the ocean on the same steamer with
Mr.. Tilden the last time he visited Eu
rope. 1t was on the return trip that
the handsome girl bewitched him. He
presented to her a diamond bracelet
said 10 have cost $4,000, While Miss
Stauirer was staying at Cranston's, Mr..
Tilden sent his yacht up that she might
use 1t for pleasure. She kept up cor
rcspondence with Mr.. Tildeu, but |
never heard 1t intimated that he had
asked her to marry him. 1t always
seemed more as if he had adopted her
as his daughter and enjoyed making
her happy by gifts and favors Miss
Stauifer possesses all the requi-
sites for belle. Without be-
ing particularly beautiful, she is snowy
and siriking-looking. She has many
admirers. She wears her lovely and
costly toilets as though they were a
part of herself. She is finely formed
and dances gracefully. She is crack
tennis player, and it is said that she
composed, as well as delivered, the re.
ply she made to Rex when he chose
her for queen during the MardiG
festivities in New Orleans two years
ago. 1t requires some nerve and all
the sustaining qualities of vanity for a
young woman in private life to assume
the mimic robes OF royalty and lide
through the public streets of Il large
city, TO be stared at by the vulgar
crowd who, on such occasions, flock
to New Orleans. She spoke last sum.
mer of not feeling bit nervous when
making her address. Miss Stauifer
has been in the habit of dividing her
summers between Richiield Bar Har.
Dor and Cranston's. Her parents and
brother form her party. Her parents
are very plain, uninteresting-loolling
people. Her father is a prosperous
hardware merchant in New Orleans,
though not native of that city. She
is passing this summer in Europe.
Wv
Says "BystOnder" in the Philadel-
phia NecS: While editor of the n. Y,
Stdnddrd, John Russell Young per-
formed delicate task for the United
States Government which until very
recently even many of his close friends
were unacquainted with. The reasons
for secrecy, however, no longer re.
main. The character of the loans and
securities Of the Government were not
understood in England, and it was de-
sirable that the press and public of
Great Britain should be made acquaint-
ed with the desirability of American
investments. 1t was matter for deli
cate treatment. Young, at the sugges-
tion of General Grant, was sent to Lon
don as the special agent of the United
States Government, although his
holding this relation was kept q
profound secret. lie wrote a
number of articles on United States
securities, that were published in the
Times and other London journals, and
successfully accomplished the object
of his mission. While abroad on the
occasion he and George Wilkes of the
Spirit Cf tie Times, ran over to Paris,
then in the power Of the Commune,
and succeeded in passing the lines.
They witnessed the siege and fall of
the gay capital, and Young sent ten
column account of it to the ,StaHdald
that Wendell Phillips said was uneX.
celled in its yividness of narration and
the purity of its English by even the
productions of Macaulay. Ever since
then John Kussc1l Young has been as
much a traveller as u writer. When
the StdRdard suspended the elder Ben
nett employed him on the HcrUN, and
he has travelled all over the globe for
that journal In 1877 he started with
General Grant on his memorable trip
around the world and wrote book de-
scribing the journey. Grant recon-
mended him to Garfield as United States
Minister to Japan, and the appointment
would have been made had not death
int ,p1 a