Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-01
THE PRESIDENTS QUIET DAY.
Not Great Crowd Of Ofice-Seekers
at the White House.


This was one Of the Presidents quiet DAYS
and it was also busy one; none the less busy
because the entire morning was not spent in
listening to the plaintive appeal Of the Office.
seeker. On Mondays, according to the rules
the President sees no visitors, save and except
those who crowd into the east room at O'Clock
and walk on each others heels in their eager
ness to shake the hand of q gentleman who
wishes they would give his hand q rest.
Secretaries Window, Blaine and Tracy were
the only members of the cabinet who had bust
ness of importance with the President, but
neither Of them occupied much of his time
they all know how it is to be crowded.
SENATORS SHERMAN AND RANSOM,
Of the Senate committee, whose business it was
to find out the earliest possible date at which
the President could dispense with the Senate,
were in the presidential presence for quite a
while, and departed with the assurance that
they could cease sitting at almost any time
without seriously endangering any of the
foundations of the government.
IN BEHALF OF GOV. STONE.
Iowa had an engagement with the President,
SO the delegation-which consisted of Senators
Allison and Wilson and Representatives Hem
derson, Conger, Sweeney, and Dolliver-was
w tuc uDTdTy dS soon as IL arrived,
and there 1t said nice sweet things to the man
who controls the offices and calls those whom
he deems best fitted for the places at his
disposal The principal weight of the Iowans'
argument were in behalf of ex-Gov. Stone as
commissioner of the general land office.
SENATOR HIscocK SECURED AN AUDIENCE
without the least apparent trouble, but he was
silent as the sphinx when he came out, and his
countenance had no more life in it than is pos
sessed by the face of a craven image.
Senator Stanford did not have long to wait
day; he simply wanted to introduce Mr.. Scott,
the great San Francisco ship-builder. They
had pleasant but not lengthy chat with the
President. and came ont smiling.
About II o'clock the President was called
down stairs into the red parlor, and there he
and Mrs. Harrison received the ladies and gen.
tlemen of the japanese embassy. Secretary
Blaine accompanied the diplomats, and they
spent fully fifteen minutes in very pleasant
converse.
PUBLIC HANDsHAKINa.
1t was after / o'clock when the President
went down to the three or four hundred men,
bers of the general public. No one outside of
the family seemed to know why he was late,
but the general belief is that Benjamin Harri-
son Mckee was responsible for it, for shortly
before the President started to go down stairs
iouu wall VI ulbITess went up from the throat
OF the aforementioned B. H. Mckee. Just
what hurt him can only be surmised. but it
is certain that the fond grandparent laid aside
the cares of Office for awhile and busted him
self in soothing the woes and suppressing the
infantile cries. Then he shook hands with
State Senator Irwin, of st. Lawrence county,
New York, and went below.
NO TIME TO WASTE.
If any man wants to prejudice his case he
can find no more satisfactory way of doing it
than to attempt to talk to the President at a
public reception. The chief executive has
made up his mind that all he has to do at a
public reception is to shake as
many hands as possible at regular
rate of speed, and any break in
the regular order meets with his chilly dis
pleasure. Sometimes the laxative visitor is
not after an Office, but that makes no differ
ence; the speed has to be kept up. There was
a little delegation at the tail-end of the
crowd in the east room this afternoon, and
they would have liked to stop and chat
for few minutes, but the President would not
have it, and he slid them by in a manner that
sent chills chasing each other up and down the
spinal columns of two or three of them. 1t
was not even automatically done. 1t was
very abrupt and said plainly, II have no time
to waste"