The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-06

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of the presidents private secretary, her
pretty daughter, Jeanette, and Senator
and Mrs. Saunders, of Nebraska.
All the ladies carried boquets of roses
and other choice flowers, which lent pleas
ing bit of color to the subdued tints of their
respective costumes.
THE STATESMEN.
On the floor beneath the members
grouped themselves. The senatorial body
had, on the republican side, as small share
as was consistent with their dignity, and
they, too, like the people overhead, CON
sumed the interval of waiting IN general
conversation.
The new senators, Mcmillan, of Michi-
gan; Washburn, of Minnesota; Higgins, OF
Delaware; Marston, of New Hampshire,
and Wolcott, of Colorado, made their first
appearance on the floor this morning. They
attracted, naturally, a good deal of atten-
ton, for all of the members, with the ex-
ception of Mr.. Washburn, are new to pubic
life, and every one, especially those who
are to be their associates in the senate, We're
curious to see what they looked like and
how they conducted themselves.
THEY WE'RE NOT DISTURBED.
Their predecessors, Palmer, Sabine,
Saulsberry, Chandler and Bowen appeared
in uOwise disturbed by the fact tnat an
reers. but chatted with their old associates
as calmly as if certain Of life tenure.
WELL REMEMBERED.
Mr. Window, the next secretary OF the
treasury, was one of the conspicuous Zig
ures on the floor. He is well remembered
in Washington, as Mr. Sabine, his prede-
cessor in the senate from Minnesota, and
the further fact that he is the second time
to control the portfolio of the treasury
made him the object of interest to all alike
He sat beside John Sherman, with whom
he engaged in long and earnest converse
ton and probably gathered additional ideas
of finance from the great Ohio statesman.
OTHER DISTINGUISHED MEN.
Ex-senator Ferry of Michigan, General
Tecumseh Sherman and General Schoheld
of the army were also among the dlstin-
guished visitors on the floor.
| Meanwhile the venerable Captain Bas-
sett. who has served the senate as man and
boy for half century was busting ABOUT
superintending the seating Of the new az
RIVALS One of those who came IN when the
chamber wasHw we'll filed and who was
greeted with a round of applause from the
galleries was Hannibal Hamlin, OF Maine
who was elected on the presidential ticket
with Mr.. lincoln, back in 1860.
& DIsDAINs AN ovERCoAT.
The old gentleman, who is 50 years of
age. still disdains to wear an Overcoat in
the coolest weather. He boasts that he
can walk farther, run faster and jump higher
than any man of half his years in the. state
of Maine and Judging from MS robust and
sturdy appearance, as he modestly settled
himself behing General Sherman to-day, he
is able 10 make good his assertion.
THE PET OF THE PARTY.
Scarcely had the noise consequent upon
Mr.. Hamlin's arrival subsidized when Mr..
Blaine, carrying in his hand high silk hat
and neatly dressed in a well-ftting suit OF
| black made his appearance. The pet OF the
new administration looked well.
His entry was well chosen, inasmuch as
! its manifest purpose was the production of
the strongest dramatic effect possible.
He succeeded as admirably as he always
| does in such coups. He came IN from the
corridor in the rear of the presiding officers
desk.
CAUGHT THEIR EYE.
His position was such that every eye in
| the room could rest upon him instantly. AS
he came forward through the area to the
seat which had been assigned him, score
| of hands were Outstretched to greet him.
The galleries at this moment burst into
applause, and that was not noticeably
| hearty applause, but rather OF that prefunc-
tory claquer character which clever actors
on the mimic, as well as the political stage,
| frequently resort to.
HR BOWED.
| But little as it was Blaine acknowledged
| it by dignified bow, and then dropped into
| a vacant chair with Stewart of Nevada on
his left and Hale of Maine on his right.
CALLED TO ORDER.
Mr.. ingalls,, who was in the chair-for
| the senate was nominally in session
raped sharply upon the desk before him
| and rebuked the galleries for their breach
of the official prOprieties.
There was a minutes silence, and then
the hum of conversation was heard again,
only to be broken off minute later by the
arrival of the diplomatic corps.
J GORGEOUS DRESS.
The procession was headed by Baron
Fava and Senior Romero the representa-
tives respectively of the Kingdom of Italy
and the sister Republic of Mexico. All the
| gentlemen wore the gorgeous dress winch
they reserve for ceremOnials OF this char
acter. and formed a brilliant contrast to the
black-coated senators and dignitaries on the
other side of the chamber.
sAcKvMLE's SUCCESSOR.
Queen Vic's government was represented
by the Hon. Henry Edwards, who has been
acting as charge d'affairs since the enforced
retirement of Lord Sackville in October
last
One of the marked additions to the diplo-
matte corps since the Inauguration OF four
years ago is the Persian minister and his
suite.
QUEER DUCK.
The minister whose name is Hadji Has
sun Gouly Khan, is a little mite of man,
whose dress on state occasions Is not unlike
that Of a messenger boy. The jacket and
trousers are a dark blue in color, plentlfully
besprinkled with gold braid. The resem-
blance to the messenger boy is made more
complete by the shOrtness of the minister S
stature, which is about that of a lad IA OF
- years old.
His complexion is dark. His face is
strongly Hebraic in feature. His red 'fez'1
perched on the back of his head completed
a tout en- semble which was striking and
oriental to the last degree.
HIS MAN FRIDAY.
The minister was accompanied by private
secretary and general factOtum Mira
Mahmond Khan. The two are inseparable
companions. They are the antipOdes OF
each other in mental and physical make
up, yet their friendship is as lasting as
that of Senator Don Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, and Butler, of South Carolina.
The minister is bright and vivacious, the
secretary is as staid and solemn as purl
tan of old The minister dresses in gay
colors. The secretary in sombre robes
which rival in austerity those Of domini
clan friar.
The two attracted no little attention as
!, they sat together in the midst of the dip
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