The Washington critic., 1886-06-11
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, JUNE II, 1886.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

HTcSSUlan 1nHllB copies OF MS SpeeCnGS
TO his constituents which he has never
delivered on the floor. The Congress
man rises and gets the eye Of the
Speaker, speaks sentence or two and
asks that the remainder of his remarks,
which often take up ten or twelve
pages of closely printed matter, may be
printed In the Record. lie sends this
out to his constituents, and they think
their Representative has delivered it all
to an admiring and open -mouthed
House. There are Congressman here
who do not write their own speeches,
and instances have been discovered in
the past in which they paid other men
and women to get up speeches for
them. A little fellow named Williams,
of Alabama, who looked like Bob In
gersol in miniature, delivered llowery,
sentimental speech year or so ago
which was 80 much ridiculed that he
confessed, for very shame, that he had
paid for 1t to lady of Washington,
and had had it printed in the Record
without looking 1t over. Some classes
of Congressional speakers think they
have done q big thing whenever they
have seconded motion, and there are
one or two who are always ready to
object to anything possible.
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Says "Towle" in the Boston 7rdo-
6ller: The weeks come and glide into
months, and the months have come and
made half year, but Congress still
holds on and refuses to emerge from
its wilderness of talk. Some of the
leaders get together occasionally and
whisper just loud enough to be heard
by q convenient newspaper man that
"the end is nigh" This idea has been
said so often and with so many varieties
of expression that "the nighness of the
end" has become a standing joke at the
Capitol. AS a matter of fact neither
Carlisle, Morrison, nor Randall have
come to any agreement relative to
the time of adjournment. A month
ago Randall said that Congress would
not be In session in July. He made
his calculation upon the supposition
that he could scare Morrison and his
revenue reform followers with the ap-
preparation bills, which he is holding in
committee. Randall thought that Morri-
son had no intention of bringing up his
Tariff bill for discussion at this session,
and at one time 1t looked as though he
had good grounds for this supposition.
Just at this time Carlisle stepped in
and put his foot down hard. He took
the ground that the Democratic party
could not afford to go before the coun-
try with its pledges to reform the tariff
unfulflled next fall. SSuch action he
nj 1o
the consequence has been that the
Ways and Means Committee, or at
least the Democratic portion of 1t, has
made up Its mind to force the fighting,
and let Randall and his followers take
the responsibility for the opposition.
All the stories afloat to the effect that
Randall and Morrison have reached an
agreement relative to the provisions of
They are as they always have been
as far apart as the poles upon this par
ticular subject.
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Says the Chicago Nens: A garden
party was held at General Logan's
house few weeks ago for the benefit
of the Garfield Hospital. The presid.
ing genius of the cigar booth was a
lady celebrated in Washington society
for her wit and beauty. She is an
especial favorite of General Logan's,
and the latter spent most of the even.
ing lounging about the booth, where
he was permitted to make himself COM
Portable. Later in the evening party
of gentlemen strolled over to the booth
in search of the General They found
him standing at the side entrance,
rigid as statue, and apparently In
brown study. He held his cigar be-
tween his teeth, but was too much alb
sorbed in thought to keep it alight.
"What have you done with the Gen
eral " inquired one of the party, ad.
dressing the lady manageress. The
lady pointed in the Generals direction.
"Sh!" was the irreverent reply "Im
using him for cigar sign. Don't you
think he makes good 'injin' ?"
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inquired of Mr.. Stanford about his
recent sale of horses, says "Gath" in q
recent letter to the Cincinnati Com
ial-Gazette, wherein he realized
some $S0,000 for the average run of his
stable, making $1,000 to $1,000, per-
haps, the price of each young horse.
Said he II was brought up on farm,
and always had pleasure in horse. In
California, after had opportunity, l
found that l could not get diversion
and usefulness together any way so
well as by raising horses. | commenced
system of training horses in a stable
and ring prepared according to my no
tions. Soon after | commenced | OBJ
served that one of my favorite horses
had tremendous stride, some twenty
three feet; the average race horse
strides something like eighteen feet.
This stride is the movement of the
horse, by the assistance of the other
leg, from where he lifts his foot to
where he puts IT down again with a
rapid motion. / looked at this horse
as he went around the course, and it
occurred to me, from the speed he was
making, that at times he must have
all his feet OFF the ground. Horse
experts stated that this could
not be the case, and they demonstrated
it by argument" Nevertheless, Mr..
Stanford could not see how horse
made such speed without at times
throwing himself clear of the ground,
and darting through the air like a
Pegasus. lie thought he would make
some experiments by photographing a
horse in motion. On that subject he
began to read ard inquire, and finally
called in his chief mechanics from the
railroad shops. 1t was found that
some work had been done in Europe at
photographing animals in motion. A
camera was obtained, and devices were
agreed upon to operate 1t upon run
ming horse. 1t was soon found that no
single instrument would depict the
horse in his ratio of motion from where
he started out to where he finished his