Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-11-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Washington, D. G., Nov Is, 1889.
There are, all told, about seventy
five members Of the House in town and
of these, for some unaccouutable real
son, the majority are Democrats. The
Republicans showing up slowly, and it
is probable that this tendency will be
evident up to the Saturday before Con-
gress convenes. Between candidates
for speaker, doorkecper and clerk the
Republican Congressman who is in
town has a hard time Of it.
At present there are only two can
didates for the speakership, Messrs.
Cannon and Henderson. Mr.. McKin-
ley has gone to New York for week.
Mr.. Burrows is in Connecticut. 1t is
not known when Mr.. Reed will be
here. He is represented in his absence
by Henry Cabot Lodge. Mr.. McKin-
ley's candidacy is in the strong hands
of Representative Grlsvenor and
Thompson, and they are doing every
thing possible to persuade every new
conner that the defeat in Ohio should
not effect Mr.. McKinley's speakership
hopes.
The first fight will be the entire
field agaist Mr.. Reed. The opposition
will be based upon his record in West
ern questions. The Congressional
Record has been raked with fine
comb to find his weak points. 1t is
stated that he opposed river and har
Dor appropriations when important
Western interests were at stake.
Another argument that will be used
against him is that he favors the re-
striction Of silver coinage, an argument
that must be convincing to members
from silver producing states. Then
there is the wool question. New Eng
land, manufacturers-Mr Reeds close
friends-have declared for free wool as
a business necessity to them. The
members from wool growing states can
not stand such an argument.
Looked on from any point, the fight
is thus a very pretty one. If Mr..
Reed is killed of, the battle will rage
only the wilder among the Western
candidates. 1t would take very old
man to remember better fight for the
| House dictatorship.
After long lease as government
office followed by year Of remodel
ing and plastering and furnishing, the
old Seward mansion on Lafayette place
next to Senator Don Cameron's house,
is again occupied Again the tenant
is Secretary Of State. The house is
very old fashioned and no exterior
alterations have been made, except the
frightening of some windows. The
aspect is staid and dull. The windows
look out on grand old elms and shrub
berry that were cultivated more like
forty years ago than now 1t is more
over rather dignified looking house,
as one having participated in historic
events. In its days as a club house,
Barton S. Key was wont to signal from
its windows to the wife of General
Sickles. And through its doors, light
ly laughing to himself, came Key to
keep an engagement with famous
society woman, and Sickles, waiting
for him by the big elm, shot him to
death, and his blood dyed redder still
the old brick sidewalk that is there
now. So, long afterward, Payne, the
confederate of Booth, came to kill
Seward and in the very room now oc-
cupied by Secretary Blaine, made the
attack on Seward, which came so neal
an assassination. In later years, Git
teau skulked in the shadow of these
trees and watched the White House
and nursed his desire to kill Garfield.
In was his first plan to have killed in
front of this fateful house, at night, as
Garfield and Blaine would pass by
1t is a good thing that Mr.. Blaine is g
man of good nerve these recollections
might affect less hardy man. Perhaps
he was influenced in his selection Of q
residence by the fact that the mansion
is the nearest residence to the White
House and it would not be far tC
move if the gods should be good tC
him in 1892.
That an adventures is always able
to find victim is brilliantly exempli
fed in the case of Mrs Levy, Of this
city. Mrs Levy is an enthusiastic
believer in spiritualism, from table
tipping to naturalization a d demater
iaiization, and that she thus believes
after her experience during this pres
ent year of grace is a compliment tC
credulity. During last Summer there
came to her unintroduced, Miss DisS
Debar, the famous adventures who
made the "spook" pictures for Lawyer
| Marsh, of New York. Though care
fully retaining from reading the news
papers, Mrs. Levy had never heard o.
Miss Diss Debar. The fair medium
produced dozens Of states, full of writ
ing from Mr.. Levy who has beer
popularity supposed to be enjoying the
pleasures of paradise for the last ter
years. The fact that Mr.. Levy's
handwriting was vastly changed die
not shake Mrs. Levy's faith. In two
weeks Miss Diss Debar had persuaded
her victim to go to London to meet
some of the farthest advanced thinkers
of the day. A month in England die
not confirm the Washington widow,
good opinion of the slate writing
medium, and she finally managed tt
break the spell and come home, sad
der but not bit wiser woman.
The most obstinate cases of catarrh are
cured by the use of Ely Cream Balm, the