Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-14


one gray IS creeping very last INTO MS Deard
and hair. His whiskers are now almost
white, and though his face is full and un-
wrinkled, his dark hair is mixed with silver
strands. The worry of the tariff is telling
upon him and the fact that he is able to do
SO little when he wants to do SO muck is his
constant worry and regret. Morrison's posi-
ton as bead of the ways and means com
mittee, is no pleasant one. He is blamed
with many things with which he has moth
ing to do, and his life is one of continuous
hard work. Like Frank Hurd, he believes
thai he has a mission and that mission is the
reformation of the tariff. He is honest in
his belief, and he does everything he can to
accomplish it.
The White House will soon need a new
coat of paint. In fact it needs it now, and
that badly. When it was draped in honor OF
the deaths of Grant and Hendricks, the
material used was of heavily dyed black
The rain saturated this. and the colors ran
in dripping streams down the plain white
paint, so that the whole has now a streaked,
dappled appearance of dirty white and
black. The cost of painting the White
House is quite an item. 1t covers, you
know, one-third of an acre, and its color
~ ~ sAAAS u Col q llGlAt
White. The material used Is white lead,
and that now on the walls is about a quar-
ter of an inch in thickness. The interior
paint of the White House was renewed dur
pg1Arthur's term, and tho main hall lead
ing 10 the East room had to nave its old
paint burnt off before the new could be put
ON. A gasoline lamp and a chisel were used
and the paint was first burned and then
scraped off with the chisel.
AT this writing the carpets are still down
In the White House. They will be taken UP
shortly, and the floors will be covered with
matttnS. No repairing has been done in
honor of Mrs. Cleveland as yet, and her
quarters are practically the same as those
occupied by the president when he was a
bachelor. The only changes made, how
are in a sociable arrangement of the
furniture and in the putting in of a number
of home touches in the private apartments
of the president, 1t is probable that Cleve.
lands marriage will Lring the question of q
new White House very prominently before
the nextscongress, and we will nave plenty
of plans for additions to. the old executive
mansion. A number of the prominent archi.
tects OF the country have had the subject un.
der consideration. and Mr.. Smithmeyer. the
man who planned the new national library,
has prepared one which leaves the present
White House as it is, and at the same time
makes such additions as to form O larger and
still symmetrical whole.
Robert 4: Porter, ex-member of the tariff
commission, and the author Of the protec.
tive tariff letters published under the title
of Bread Winners Abroad will sail for
Ireland on July 8. and will devote his sum-
mer to writing ind ustrial letters from that
country to syndicate of American news.
paner,. e
Mrs. Lillian Roselle Messenger, one of the
bright Kentucky women of the capital city,
publishes this week a volume of poems en-
titled "The Vision of Gold.o They are
met physical somewhat in their character
and contain many good thoughts.
Much interest is taken here in Miss Cleye-
!and's novel. which has not yet appeared in
our bookstores. IT is understood that she
will devote her leisure during the. summer
to writing and that she will be back in the
White House to assist Mrs. Cleveland next
winter.
Col Lamont tells ME TINT the president
has not decided where le will go for the
summer. and the ~v't-ious stories started
about his Adirondacs,s. the White Noun
Trims and ths Great -kes are advertising
~lcienie' gotten up ., Interested parties.
Gel Lamont thinks I atsthe president will
prob oily 10 10 -the san. llace in the Adj
rehgs wsitle harNvas lnso year, but as yet
ihese2le'it ot-lhA rip has not been deter.
lnine'i iutll.
CIR. Joa Vince es. the man who raised
suc,l q tempest In COZ grass about Stanton.
Is q little fellow With a thick, long black
beard a over his face sIfe-does not weigh
nvr 100 pornis, AMI H. is. as lively as a
HI ter. He has bri ut black eyes, a high
folehe,d anil brown hair Hel dressessin
bGs.ness clothes. Wear q slouch hat and
oftep walks abort ne house with this doubled
Eutt uider h rraig He does not pay much
ateent on 10 is- p2fstn i appearances, and
yen woultt nevef-tatic iiini TOR a man who
had lad q noted career us one of the great
est cavalry teacers ct a large army. He
lives here at Washington in a house big
fenough tor a cldb, IN / one which was oc.
cupied last year by 10 Chinese legation.
This house faces tha u ok OF the statue of
Gen. Thomas, and Gen. Wheeler has the
pleasure OF seeing one of the generals he
fought against during the late unpleasant
ness whenever he looks out of his front
parlor windows, Gen. Wheeler entertains
Wellsand he is very popular socially. though
there are many differences of opinion as to
his speech regarding Stanton.
General Bon Lefevrp tells me there Ia no
" ~ r1hAat- LS - 6uRdUeu LO
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, He does
not know her ut all intimately, and he can
not conceive what foundation there was for
the report.
| am told that the life of Lincoln. mon
which Colonel John Hay and Major John
g. Nicolay are engaged, is to be a very ex-
~tedsive affair: 1t is to comprise seven large
volumes aid is to be a complete history Of
the war period. Messrs. Hay and Nicolav
have been writing ut il for some years, and
they write a chapter about, each taking the
parts of the work which is most agreeable
to him. They have nfde a very exhaustive
examination of the records for the work and
they have many valnable papers and much
data, which they got during their expert
ence.as the private secretariesSo of President
Lincoln.
George Bancroft, the historian aas zone
to his summer residence at Newport and he
will continue his literary work there. He
has many books of his own a { his cottage.
nitd he has access to tie famous Redwood
library avfsowport, which is noted for its
age and historical completeness. This Red
wood library was founded more than 200
years.ago.
Judge Kelley, in taking up the cudeels
against Stanton. acts with more feeling on
the subject from the fact that he has been
lately denouncing Gen. Mcclellan upon this
same subject. He defended Stantonfs mem
ory IN a little book, entitled Lincoln and
Stanton" which he wrote last. year, and he
was SO close to both Lincoln and Stanton
during the war period that they have be.
come, in memory at least, parts OF his soul
You might bettor denounce the protective
tariff to him than say a word against Lincoln
or tanton. He considers them among. the
very greatest men of history, and he will be,
MS long as he lives. one of the ablest of their
defenders A GEORGE,
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