The Washington critic., 1886-02-05


they ont in the rough. and tumble.
World, dependent upon their own
energies for success, and with no scope
TO their ambition, there is no telling
how high they might rise. But here
they have little advancement to hope
for and, living up to their salaries. as
most of them do, they become in time
machines, with all the ambition, energy
and goaheadativencss ground out of
their heads. Did you ever reflect that
these great departments are the canni.
balls of tic nineteenth century, Day
by day aud year by year they are eat
ing up the souls of thousands, and upon
their record books with their millions
of pages are registered the life work of
men and women without number. "
This idea, however, Is not restricted to
Judge Edgerton. No one who lives
long at Washington can help seeing the
effect of the Government employ upon
its employees, and there are many
fathers among the great men here, who
would almost as soon send their sons to
work in smallpox hospital, as to give
them u five years position at Washing
ton,
~.
How Congress stands on the woman.
suffrage question is thus reported to
the Philadelphia Press by Robert p.
Porter in a recent Washington letter.
Miss Anthony informed him that there
were twentysix Senators who favored
giving women the ballot. Among
them there is Senator Dolph of Oregon,
who made woman suffrage feature of
hiscampaign, and is n warm supporter
of any and every movement to better
the condition of woman Congcr of
Michigan and Blair of New Hampshire
did likewise, and the latter, of course,
| is regarded as one of the staunchest
supporters. Senator Sherman d" has
been there all along" while IToar Is
their Senatorial champion. Sixteen
years ago Senator Manderson of Ne.
braska declared himself in favor of
woman suffrage in an able speech.
| Mitchell of Oregon is another friend of
| the work. Senator Stanford, the Pa.
| ciic Coast millionaire, Is somewhat of
an enthusiast on the subject, and when
Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony visited
California insisted on defraying travel
ing expenses and showed them many
delicate attentions. Wilson of Iowa
and Teller of Colorado have always
shown friendly spirit. The other
Senators whom understand favor the
ballot for women are Allison, Iowa;
Bowen, Colorado; Cameron, Pennsyl-
vania; Chace, Rhode Island; Cullom,
Illinois; Dawes, Massachusetts,; Frye,
Maine; Jones, Nevada; Logan, Illinois;
Miller, California; Miller, New York
| Mitchell, Pennsylvania; Palmer, Mich.
| igan; Pike, New Hampshire; Sabn,
Minnesota; Sawyer, Wisconsin. The
other Senators who favor all bills for
the advancement and protection of
woman short of giving them the voting
power are Aldrich. Rhode Island (;
| Evarls, New York; IIawley, Connecti
cut; ingalls,, Kansas; Mcmillan, Min
nesota; Plat, Connecticut; Plumb,
Kansas; Van Wyck, Nebraska; Voor-
hces, Indiana. Among the Representa-.
tives, thoughno canvass has been made
| of the new Members, are the following
wcll-known sympathizers: Allen, Mass.
achusctts; Anderson, Kansas; Baker,
New York; Bingham, Pennsylvania;
Boutclle, Maine; Brown, Indiana; Bur
| loN builllOl, llltlOlS,
Carey of Wyoming, the only man in the
House, ,whose.wife voted for him; Clutch
con of Michigan, who made u speech
in Congress for them; Dinglcy of
Maine, who, when Governor, urged
woman suffrage for Maine; Dorsey of
Nebraska, who is the friend Of woman,
the Indian and all who are tramped
upon; Durham of Illinois, Funston,
Kansas; Gallinger, New Hampshire,
who prcsidcs at their meetings; Gif-
ford of Dakota, Hanback,, Kansas;
Henderson, Iowa; Hepburn, Iowa;
Johnson, New York; Kelley of Penn
sylvania, who has always been friendly
TO the work; Long of Massachusetts,
who, when Governor, urged upon the
Legislature the advantages of woman
suffrage; Nlilliken, Maine; Morrill,,
Kansas; O'Neill, Pennsylvania; Per.
kins and Peters, Kansas; Price, Wis
consin; Rockwell Massachusetts,; Ryan,
Kansas; Sessions, New York. Stone
Massachusetts; Swinburne; both the
Taylors of Ohio; Voorhees,, Washing
ton Tcrritory Whitney, Massachusetts
Tom Reed Of Maine made report in
favor of woman suffrage to the House;
Rice advocated it when Governor of
Massachusetts.
v"%
| A New York correspondent of the Chi
cago Ners INDUCES in the following rem
iniscent gossip about Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague; Il dare say am hypercriti
cal, but no costume plcases me when i
obscurcs in any way the individuality
of the wearer, ! saw Mrs. Ormc vii
son twho was Miss Astor) and her sis
ter, Mrs. Coleman Drayton, at n bal
the other night. The diamonds on then
literally made rivers of light They
Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Drayton ar,
pleasing. looking women, and with les
ornamentation would look distin
guished; but they are reduced to com
monplaccness by their torrents o
jewels. think never saw but one
woman who had vast numbers OF
clothes and jewels and yet rose superior
10 them all, and that was Mrs. Kat,
Chase Spraguc, 1t was some year
ago that she was in her prime, and
was not more than sixteen when | saw
her, but you know cut my wisdom
teeth, such rs they are, early, She haC
a grand air of being quite elevated
above any cXtraneous elegance tina
might be lavished upon her. Peopl
would say; 'Ilow magnificent Mrs
Sprague looks to-day % But not
gown, not a chain, not an ornament sh
wore ever attracted attention, except in
somuch as it shared her beauty
She had magnificent diamonds. bu
nobody ever heard of them and scarcel
anybody ever noticed them. Her gown
were gorgeous-I know of once whcl
she got twenty-five in bunch fron
Paris-but she eclipsed those gown
completely, Once, just before she lei