Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-03-06

IS modest and staT7ds back lingering
his card, and ~hesitating whether tc
push into the crowd or not. Then d
veteran ol1ice-seeker steps up to the
door keeper IN a business like way and
says, Smith, Rhode Island"
The ladies waiting room is always
crowded. There is a woman from the
south with her little claim against the
Government for cotton destroyed.
Another wants to have her little son
appointed a page in the house, and
she is waiting to 9 the Sergeant-at-
Arms. There are young women and
old women who + trying to get plac-
es in the Departments and female
lobbyists who are to get SC many humid
red dollars for pushing such and snch
a bill through. Then, just outside
in the corridor again are scores Of men
who want Office. Some Of them came
here last March expecting to get a
consulship, who would be now thank
full for a nine hundred dollar clerkship
Be thankful dear reader, that you
are not dependent on the government
for support. There has just been a
competitive examination here for Post
Office Inspectorships. There we're
only twenty-five vacancies to be filled
and eight hundred candidates yeara-
ing for the places, prevented then
selyea. Several hundred b 4s7s>3
had no possible cAalice of getting ap-
pojntments, 50 reaIly those who passed
were not much better of than those
who failed in the examination.
All the week, SO far, the Senate has
been unfolding and criticising again
the educational bill that passed that
body last session, and the House Of
Representatives has been defending
and denouncing Fitz John Porter as
it has done biennially il every Con
gress for twenty years. The same old
evidence and arguments TX being re-
peated IN both Houses over each
measure. Nothing seems TO have oc-
cured in tie internlin to change the
views OF the friends Of either question
or to modify the objections Of oppon-
,p4- A. 10 4Io aJ,ae+.nro1 Hill ~
cannot be said that the southern Sen
ators are disposed to give their section
the benefit of the doubt on the question
The strongest opposition to the meas
ure comes from that section notably,
from Senator Morgan, of Ala, al
though the South would receive the
bulk of the proposed appropriation of
SIT, 900, DOC.
The woman sufffragists are here
again holding their convention. The
representation is fully as large as at
former gatherings. In their speeches
they tell the same old story. They
rant Of their demand their
rights, and declare they will get them
yet. They dwell with citation on what
they call their victories Of the past
year, and one Of their ablest champ
ions Mrs. Merriweather proposes to
make an address in reply to Senator
Vests letter stating that be is an "un-
compromising opponent" The wo-
men say this fair orator is going to
annihilate this Senatorfrom Missouri.
Apropos of this convention which
is being held in All Souls Church,
the. pastor preached a sermon IN
woman suffrage. He said the ques-
ton had narrowed down to a single
issue. the right to the ballot. He was
still in doubt, but was hard not to ia
vor it when the appeal came from wo-
men. He had drawn near the fence,
and was looking over, but this fence
was one that thoughtful people could
not clear at a bound. It was at least
a six rail fence. Speaking Of women
in Congress he said the morals Of
Congressman were much better when
they brought their wives to Washing
ton with them than when they left
them at home. IF good women
should be elected to Congress, he add
ed, 1T is to be hoped thdy will bring
their husbands with them. I should
be sorry to see them leave their hus-
bands at home to keep house during
a two or six years term