The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-02
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Washington Turned to the
Seventh Regiment.
ABOUT THAT MORMON LOBBY.
Gould and Powderly-TheA Arguments
on the Edmunds BIll-Mr. Gaines
Letter to the Times"
wAsH1seros, D. c.. April 20. 1886.


From our Own Correspondent.
During the past week the weather has
been unprecedently hot for the season
of the year, and if it continues to get
hotter from now on-as il will do, with
perhaps, an occasional cold spell-there
will be some chance of a reasonably
early adjournment. There is some
thing about the dog days that acts
like charm upon the average Con-
gresham. The heat becomes unbear
able The place in which he is COM
PEELED to spend a considerable por lion
OF his time, if he is faithful member,
is one of the worst ventilated In the
world. He. therefore, becomes ex-
hausted. He sweats and swears, pulls
and blows, and flies to lager beer. lem
onade, and the like to keep himself cool,
but it is no use. He looks akin to a
boiled lobster; can't sleep at nights;
must get off TO the sea shores, where his
wife and daughters succeed in spending
the balance of his salary. if any balance
there be. and where he can talk politics
to his hearts content without very much
exertion. Not that he exerted himself
very much in Washington; but then,
there is great deal in fancy.
The past week in Washington was
one OF considerable stir, occasioned by
the visit here of the famous New York
Seventh Regiment. They came by invita-
ton of the Washington Light Infantry
Corps, and from the time of their ar
rival, on Monday evening, until their
departure on Wednesday afternoon the
city was kept in one continual round of
excitement. The Seventh New York
Regiment is one of the. finest IN the
country, and their parade down Penn
sylvAnIa Avenue last Tuesday after
noon was certainly the finest military
display l have seen in this country.
The marching was simply perfect, while
the band. composed of seventy-six
members-ffty-fve wind instruments
and twenty-one drums. is scarcely
second TO Gilmore's of national fame.
The boys" of the regiment certainly
had a glorious time in Washington.
They captured the city. Senators and
Congressman and Secretaries were no
bodies compared TO the gallant men of
the Seventh Regiments regiment that
twenty-five year ago, in response to
the call OF the government, came here
to defend the nation s'capital from arm
ed invasion. Every place in town was
thrown open to them. They swarmed
to public departments and took the
capitol by storm. For two DAYS these
800 mentor that was the number COM
prising the regiment-had such a time
as they never had in their lives before.
They were jolly. The bartenders sold
them beer; the cab-drivers whisked
them around town; the girls were
mashed on them; the whole town
seemed to be upside down. Yet be it
said to the credit of the Seventh New
York Regiment not one of the boys"
most of them were young. for the
veterans of the regiment are nearly all
dead-committed an act that called for
the interference of police officer. 1t
is true they made things howl. The
city only slept when the Seventh Regi-
ment would let it, which was not very
often. All night long the rooms of the
hotels in which they were quartered
reSounded with the uproarious hilarity
OF the young men, but no one felt IN
clined TO be angry. They were allowed
TO do as they pleased-and they did it.
The visit of the Seventh New York
Regiment, with its magnificent band,
will be long remembered in Washing
ton. 1t was pleasant affair all round.
Business in Congress, during the
week just closed, cannot be said to have
been prolific of great results. Miscel-
laneous business has been considered,
but nothing particular has been accom-
r1lfshQd Tho GraQroI Of fhn
House of Representatives to inquire
into the labor difficulties of the south
west, held its first session last Tuesday,
when Mr.. Powderly appeared as a wit
ness. Mr.. Powderly is the Grand
Master OF the Knights of Labor, and is
admitted to be a very shrewd man. He
is quiet, reserved, delicate looking
man, and appears to be about fifty years
of age. He has a high, intellectual
forehead; wears spectacles, and is close
ly shaved. except as to a long dropping
moustache. He has attracted consider
able notice in Washington, and this is
not surprising when one thinks of the
great body of men of which he is the
head and brains. Mr.. Jay Gould also
appeared before the same committee,
ana il goes for the saying that he did
not tell more than he knew about the
present railroad troubles in the south
west. Mr.. Gould is diminutive man
in body. but considering he is only forty
nine years of age. the wealth he pos
esses to-day stamps him as one of the
greatest fnanciers of this country. IL
is folly to say that he has simply
amassed his fortune by fraud and sharp
practice. The secret Of his success lies
il the genius he possesses. and the abil-
ity to use it at the proper time, as also
the ability to be surrounded by men of
equal capacity in his line to himself.
The struggle between capital and labor
is serious one, and the message of the
President TO the Senate on the subject
is considered to be timely. OF course
the Republicans argue that the message
is simply shrewd bid for the vote of
the workingmen for the Democratic
party; while the Democrats maintain
that it is unfair TO judge the message i'm
that light and say that the only object
of the Presidents to have Congress pass
some measure that will In some shane
or form settle the increased disputes
between capital and labor. Just what
measure will settle such a question is