New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-29
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL.
VIcrs CLEANED FROM THE NE" III
RECTORY.

Vv,suixcToN Jan. 23.-Curlous as We" 80 N'>
and instructive facts can DO g'eanoe "V. W.
a, ca,,fornia used to be clerk In the Treasury
r,.r,n.nts and Fuller, Of Iowa. was employer In the
S,t.r,or Dspartnent ct the same time ANcn OF Mehi-
ran was an Indian Agent when the present Admnstra
sisn sare IN and renewed fer "ohensive partisan
ship- Senator German was once page In tho Senate,
and sfterward Postmaster of that body Mr. Sect, Of
pennsylvania, and Mr.. Tswnshend. Of Illinois. we're
sorn,rly pages In the House Of Representatives
Mason and Hitt Of Illinois; Fsrd. Of Michigan; Oar
unston, OF Pennsylvania. and Holmes. OF Iowa. are
abort hand writers by profession
rsenater Pasco. of Florida was bern in London scna
cor Jones' Of Nevada in Hereferdshirs and Congress
man Crisp Of Georgia. In Sheffield. England.
Representatives Dsughsrty, OF Florida. and Beutelle
~ Maine used TO be saorsJ and Frank Lawer. OF I'LL
nas, learned the trade Of ship-buildsr Mr. Reed OF
Maine and Mr. Hayden, Of Massaohusetts were pawn
tsrs in the Navy during the war.
Senator Ksnna began life coal miner In West VIZ
nia Speaker Carlisle and Senator Dawes were soho'i
tsachers whom they were young and Congressman
Cultivate. Of Ohis the principal OF the Hgn oon0'
Ut Columbus fer several years
Justice Batchord Of the Supreme Court was private
secretary to william H. Seward whom the latter was Gov
srnor Of New-Ysrk.
Senators Morrill,. Of vernont Hale. OF Maine. ana
sockbrfdge of Michigan began life IS grocery CLERKS
Roterck Random Butler OF Tennessee. ana Morse OIL
Ma.sachusetts, are tailsrst Tarsney. OF Mlcni-
ssu is steamboat engineers senator hes-
ssn Of Texas. and PiAcock. OF NewJersey' civil
engineers; Felix Campbell. Of New-York. consulting
enc.eer; and Senator Blsdgstt OF NewJersey, LEGO
native .nrneer Delegate Cains. OF Utah, Is theatre
manager Senator Sawyer. OF Wisconsin. earned his
Srst wages By working in q saw-mill Darlington. OF
Pennsylvania. was reporter On Philadelphia paper
Rsmsis of Toledo was baggage master on the Lake
eAore Railway West, the millionaire Congressman,
fron Saratoga, hand In paper mill
noNke Of
vhsn hs WAS young; and Gusather Of Wisconsin, was
elerk in drug store. From 1871 to 1878 Mesh ane OF
Nebraska, was cowboy. Representative Lahhain' VI
Texas was also q cowboy. David WILDER. OF New-forK
has been in the hop Business for 80 years Dsaso o.
New York. is o glass makor Kelley and Brumm' o'
p.nysylyania were watch makers Mash. Of the same
State is mashinist Houck Of Tennessee Is cabinet
maker and Collins Of Massachusetts, an uphostersr by
trade Congressman Smith, Of Wisconsin, Is hi
wright
There are moro printers in the Hsuse OF Represents
tsyss than members Of any other single occupation UT
ur.f, sion except thelaw. Amos Cummings OF New
Gsrk was tramp printer and says no has set type In
syery state In the Union. Senator Plumb was nrst
pripter then an editor and finally banker Galnger
OF New Hampshire, printer but afterward studed
medicine. Farquhar. OF New-Ysrk Is not emily printer
but was once president Of the Typographical Union
~Tn Campbell was a compositor on The Nep-forH
Herald when he was elected to the Nsw-York Legsat-
urs ODonnsl OF Michigan. learned the printing bus
pess and has always kept att DinEey OF Maine
Yorau OF Ohs Nicho. of North Carolina; wicEAam' OF
Onie; Hudd, Of Wisconsin; Yost, OF Virginia. were all
pnnera
Mr. Burnett Of Massachusetts announces In his auto
biography that he married the only daughter OF James
Russell Lowell" Senator Coke says that he was elected
TO the supre ne Court Of Texas but after having oecu
Ned lis position for year was removed by general
Sheridan because he "was an inpedsent to recon
siructon."
Senator Stewart Of Nevada left Yale College whsR lie
vas sophomore and went Calfsrnis by sea to seek
his fortune with the ether forty miners Senator Jones
his colleague left Cleveland Ohio, at the same time ana
went overland. Mafett Of Pennsylvania, was al's
forty miner
Ford. Of Michigan is the only graduate OF the unted
erstss Naval Academy in Congress- ana Representative
Wheeler Of Alabama represents the Military Academy
In the last Congress were three West Pointers Repre-
sentative Dargsn of south Carolina announces that he
educated at the expense OF bis native county al the
State Military Academy. Anderson OF Mississippi was
esseu In the Confederate Army. Tracy OF Nc"-iorA
served in the Papal Zouaves.
Senator william Chandler refers to the fact that MS
nomination TO be soicor-Gensral OF the Uhtea STATES
was rejected BY the Senate In 1881
Senator Blair Of New Hampshire. is net usually put
down as military man, but he nevertheless announces
that he was LeutsnantCsloael OF the l5th New-hamP
shire Volunteers during the war
James Peter Walker, Of Missouri states In his Dogfa
ply that he elected to the Lth Congress as Demo-
c,.t receiving ls 400 votes against 1888 votes for
Davidson Republican, and sns vote scattering
oreressman Cox Of New York. has enjoyed 80 many
Ac.or that the public has lost ght OF The aetthat ne
was secretary of Legation TO Peru more Than thirty
years ago
pepresentatiyc Buckalew. OF Pennsylvania, Is e
Conmisgener TO Paraguay in 1893, to negou
ate a treaty between that republic and the
UuIcd States, and in 1858 was sent TO Ecuador as
United states Minister by Buchanan
/, Is not generally known that Samuel j. Randa was
spryats in company Of cavalry during the late War OF
The Rebellion In the abundance OF other fame his NIL
ilary record has been lost sight or
Senator Jones' of Nevada. was Sheriff OF Tuelnmne
r-.n.s California. in 1850. when he was only nneteex
years IL age
Senator sabin. with his trousers tucked in his beats
used TO stand en- OF Springfield Mass all day
long to sell csrdwood that he had chopped and hauled
twelve miles.
Justice Field was intended for the missionary service
BIS sister sek him Smyrna when thirteen years Of
age to the Oriental languages and he spent eleven
years there in study.
Strange requests are sometimes made OF Senators by
applicants fer sics and persons who daily thrsns the
corridors OF the Capitol Tho telephone In the office Of
the Secretary OF the Senate rang violently one day THIS
week rs il hungry applicant Undetermined upon
an imned hearing and resolved that nothing should
Interfere with his pressing wants.
"Hello Hello !" came through the telephone
"HelOP
els this 277r
"Yes; go shsad!"
els Mr. there 7" mentioning tic name Of a we'll
kxown Senator
eyes"
tell him 10 GENE to the telephone"
"All right"
The Senator who. by the way, bears the same NAME
that wellknown restaurateur in this city bears, was
called and promptly stepped to the instrument
"Hello!"
"Is that You, -"
"Yes. go ahead"
"Wheres is my steaki Send me beefsteak at
once "
"send YOU q WHAT /"
mo. net a what-a beefsteak."
what did you sSyi Say that again." called the as