New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-28
JONES OF BINGHAMTON.'
HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM AT ALBANY.
TIE COMEDY or SEVEN WOMEN AND ONE MAN IN
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ROOM.

TIE COMEDY or SEVEN WOMEN AND ONE MAN IN
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ROOM.
'-RoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRIBUNE.
ALBANY, Feb. 2G.-Whcn the business of the
Senate was ut its height the other day the Fat oorkeeper
swing the ponderous silent doors OF the
Senate Chamber and then To look immcasurably aston
ishcd women, almost much alike PEAS In
pod. strobe Rrandly into the Chamber. Each one
carried her head very ligh each dressed splondidy
In silks, in velvets 10 iurs, aud many dress WAS
crossed with chains OF gold. The Senators caught the
view and noticed that, either accidentally OF naturally
each had the air OF Elizabeth Six OF the
middle age more or less gray, aud naughty in domcan
The seventh was rosy plump checked brunette bright
eycl fresh cOmpleXionei and blended with the naughty
air OF the Others the lau ching spirit OF youth the
whisper ran through the Senate that these were the
of the great wOmans rights meeting held In the
Assembly Chamber the night meeting held here
annually. The women took up the whole OF the padded
dyan on ono side of the Chamber and smiled victor-
Ousy as they heard the Governors nomination OF Helen
b. Case of Rochester, for trustee the State Cnstodla
Asylum confirmed by the unanimous dice OF the Senate
The guioless Senators aftor the other wandered
and drfted to tho silo OF the Chamber on which the
women were seated and haughtiness met dignity with
seven shakes OF tho hand. Next the women swept
the Chamber and through the clouds in
the smoking tho beautiful apartment OF Lteuten-
ant Governor Jones, a walled IN half with creamy
marble and hall With rcn mahogany ornately carved
As Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake sank into tue enormous
chair built expressly for Lieutenant Governor DORIS
hcimer and put aside because General Jones said ne
felt when he got into H. se raised her eyes TO the
beautiful carvings and said with feminine ervor: Oh
ladies' do admire tho beauties OF these rooms for
feel that we paid for them, you know. We shold leel
a proprietary pride in them"
The Lieutenaut- Governor caught the sound OF the
rs,ling Dresses AS they disappeared in the doorway
OF s room, he put Senator Cullen In the chair and
abandoned his duties.
81 will make ore suggestion, ladies' in the way OF
politics. he said may he that OF the mon who
promise you that they will vote for woman suffrage are
.ay decsivers have noticed that the quite "a
dccctiu as the women. You should make mcmoran-
dun of each mans name o. lie makes promise"
oh" said MIS- Blake. producing two well thumbed
ana bits OF paper from an inner pocket OF her
sncaue we've got EN- the list-and furthermore |
may say noticed that when they 90 back on their
pledges they are certain to be missed ,,......,
Ia, Ia, very good very good. sud the lieutenant
Governor recognizing KO nos words.
Well don't know" chrped the rosy checked one OF
orabc i've no complaint at all to make of the men,
An. said an elderly woman from ea'er so ,s In
have you'll come to our opinion 49,, ,.,. ,,0,,,.o.
We'll, trust the men to keep their promises
They wouldn't say they would vote for Us without
All" said the Lieutenant Governor, you evidently
have not bean long IN politics; you VIII get q rnde
awakening ioar among the politicians. You VIII ma
good many promises are Mhue Oocauso IL ~ 'uu c9'o9t
way 20 get rid oi you -, ,,.,ou..
Presently the women filed out ana the lieutenans-
GoyerooI turned aud saw reporters standing beside
hi, cLnir Bless mo- said he, didn't know there
were any reporters present. should have been more
guardod IN fact wonder what i've been saying 49,,
~, was nssuie I'd that he had been nothing more tudn
nlre and he frankly said that he had great deh "l
.ympathy FOR the cause OF womens rights, ana mat ne
o I'd them debt for their activity In his behalf ~ the
last election. - ..,.....,,,. ,ts
appOlnteI the pu bic IN Albany than has any oSis
,bn has come io "A public post here In many years TER
erif kpDubllcAnA
Democr ats in testityine to his good qualities In me
st place IS siugnarly quiet ana nnobtruvei anu I've
l. one a, the easiest presiding Officers that the senate
ms ever known far he has secned Ia he eriecty
iuinartix IIe has strlvcD 10 make point InI MS
mar, by taking any advantage OF hls position
sessions OF the Senate COuIu ot
detect whether Mr. Jones IA a Democrat or EepuoI
deuco I'm this state strong New England chafacterstcs
of peech aud has ont from among the applicants
, uositons aud adopted native Oi Massachusetts LOT
Lls clerk lie has dropped his business. NO ono ever
heara ANYTHING about the sknles ot Jones OF nE-
hAuton and that nickname, which lie gave hihse' mas
nnnarcntly cen forgotten hero. grown up son 10 IN
ri1rye Of the works at Binghamton AMI the General
drvotes hmset TO hls work Those who have com
cd bin hts excellence a. presldn9 Olncer
haze usually modified their praise by assuming hat lie
nbtued his knowledge of parliamentary procedure IN
he has no remembrance OF hatng spent an hour IN the
chair AT Bo.ton. He says that ha"ng heard eNce!lent
nrcounts OF Ccrk John ". NroOman. he took the liberty
a, .knR the clerk 10 post him little about his dntoa as
readug and FOR the rest he has learned lhe DJ
study and the an plication of common sense.