New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-03
HIGH LYING AT THE CAPITAL.
GOVT AND POLITICS HAND IN HAND.
THE CROP OF AsPIRANrs TO THE TURKISH MISSION
ELECTION ECHOES.

THE CROP OF AsPIRANrs TO THE TURKISH MISSION
ELECTION ECHOES
rrnom TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON Dec. 2.-The Presidents cordtiou to-
day is somewhat improved though he is stu denying
himself 70 visitors Had 1t not been for tie urgent
necessity Of submitting the almost completed Mes.
sage TO the Cabinet cnce more 1t Is probable that the
regular meeting Of mis- advisers would have been dis
pensed with alto gethsr to-day. He still moves about
however with difficulty and going downstairs seems
out OF the question for the present Els ailInent is
complication, am told of govt well rheumatism
Washington, II must be confessed has atmosphere
which II it does not neeed produce govt Here
politics and high living hand In hand and though
public business may mt suffer much from the arrange
ment its influence is still discernibe. could name
dozen we'll known pubic men here whose daily battles
with govt rob life of half its enjoyment And still they
20 There many here Of the opinion that 1t was
the multitude of dinner-givers who FASTENED Senator
AuthOnys end. In the category should also place
the late General Arthur. judge David Davis was not
entirely free from this archhend Of all good lvers
Every once in while you will hear OF Senator Palmer,
whose dinners have acquired National reputation,
81 aerine as he would IL, the tortures Of
the" well. cry body knows whom he refers to.
There is much talk Just now the Turkish Mission
which s = Cox resigned take in the next Con-
gress IT Is safe 70 for instance, that every
defeated candidate for Congress applicant for the
place. 90 not remember Que whose name has not
figured in way another likely to be sent 10
CODstsntnope The latest addition to the list, Ben
lie Fevre 1t is true Is not defeated candidate. strictly
speaking for he had the good to retire before he
beaten. But he is out OF oo at present. and would
not object hobnob with the sultan Tor awhile lie
claim have had some experience abroad as repre-
sentative of this Government. fact that few Will re-
member, perhaps. In 1867 Andrew Johnson appointed
hiln Consul al Nuremberg specimen OF the stalled
would do great credit to his country
doubt.
The hotels register new arrivals every day In
day or two a majority OF Congressman will have settled
here for the ~uter. Al every street corner you see
groups OF them now. exchanging notes upon the late
camDaign. They sometimes rather amusing expert
ence meetings. l ran across group today IN which
the entertaining question discussed upon whose
shoulders the mantle OF Morrison would likely fall LOW
that the great trade leader had been defeated
number OF names were suggested and among Thorn that
OF Dick Iownshend. Inc latler is Winay Dut
House run their course inside or lass than two or
three hours 20 say INC esse, tue IIVl ,uo
long time 10 reAtn point The peculiarly OF MS IS
we'll known among his colleagues AMI II was therefore
with shouts OF laughter that remark OF OF
fellow members wa-received:
Well ii Dick ToSnshend begins to propose to the
sareyed Goddess AND she waits un. he through she
will die OF ola age.
In another group found two Kentuckians. William P.
Taulbee and ex0OsernOr McCreary. TaUbee IL lean,
lanky oversrowD man Of should say. hlry-hve; who
looks like student than the practical politician
that really He from the district formerly
represented by White. whose antics used To exasperae
the House much Ia days gone by 1t mount .lnous
region Tor the most part the home OF mOOnshners ana
turbuant characters OF that kind where the Shrek OF
locomeu-e would awaken wonder ana confederation,
where people live VINO haven't heard that the
closed twsny- years TauiDee was returned
iy largely reduced majority this year 1t was close
fight For sixty days he was almost continually IN
the saddle
They were after me hot this tme be said to Nc
Creary.
Yes" answered the latter svmpatbeticaly for he too
could have told OF similar experiences, Ike red fox
when the HOUNDS get into his shadow.