, 1889-04-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[Frcm our Rsguls. Cs rrespcadent)
WASHINGTON, April 5, 1889. :

WHsHINarox, April 5, 1889. :
The senate having finished its work
for the present. the president may hops
to get q little rest. Not that the sena.
tors were especially importunate in their
quests for patronage, but the sense whicn
weighed upon him that he WAS keeping
a body of statesmen in session for the
nero purpose of passing upon his nomin-
atoms must have made Mr.. Harrison
push business at high rate Of speed.
There is no part of magistrste's duties
which is more exactins in its demands
upon his time and attention than that of
filling the principal representative Offices
when he first enters the white house.
However we'll he may know the public
men OF the country, and however method
ical may be his habits of work, he can
not holp being more or less hurried by
the pressure suddenly brought to bear
upon him from new and unexpected
quarters, and by the discovery that per-
IONS whom he had never seen fr heard
OF, have claims, aspirations and backing
which he cannot afford entirely to ignore
Now that he is released from the ap-
parent necessity of grinding out daily
grist OF nominations in order to keep the
gentlemen at he capitol busy, the prssi-
dent Will have time TO look about him
and examine we'll the records of persons
he will be called upon to appoint during
the recess.
Two tiny pink and white specimens
OF humanity, wrapped in swaddling
clothes, in which white flannel and white
silk embroideries were prominent fea-
lures, we're boing taken into the white
house yesterday forenoon just as tSo
gentlemen were coming out of the Inan-
sion. This, in Itself, is net an ususual
occurance at the executive mansion, for
hundreds OF gentlemen make an exit
from its portal every day.
Rut two generations OF white house
occupants were represented by the tiny
tots and the portly. brown-vhiskered
gentleman, who wss the companion Of
the elder man. Babies Mckee and Har-
rison had been out for a ride with their
grandmother and Miss Mckee, and upon
the threshold of the white house when
they returned stood Minister Robert T.
Lincoln and Senator Cullom of Illinois.
The former had called to pay his respects
and accept the office Of Ambassador to
England which had been rendered him
by his fathers SUCCESSORS as the ruler OF
the greatest nation on earth.
Holding open the door tc speed the
parting and greet the coming guests WAS
Usher Pendleton, who knew Mr. Lincoln
when he WAS youngster named Bob, at
the white house. At that time no one
probably thought of his being in turn a
cabinet minister and diplomatic repre-
sentative Of the United States, but the
whirligig of time works changes, and
good luck may DO in store for at least one
OF the two little ones who crowed in their
nurses' arms as their predecessor in the
white house passed them.
Minister Lincoln appears trifle stout
er than when he Was secretary of war,
but his step is as springy as ever, and he
had the same cordial greeting for the at
taches of his old home that marked him
whsn he WAS Bob Lincoln to all with
whom he came in contact. 1t il nearly
a quarter of century since an assassin,
by an act which paralyxed the civilized
world, removed one of the leading men
of history, and it was noted as coincid-
ance that the son of such man had re-
ceived 8 signal honor at time when the
anniversary of his fathers tragic end
was at hand.
The Ides of March have gone and the
Beware has withdrawn its warning. With
due precaution and oontrits spirit the
season of light overcoats and heavy colds
will usher in the spring. Judging from
the numerous leaves which have taken
place within the last few days, the back
of the office-seeking crowd must have
been broken by winter of waiting. The
hotel corridors are empty, the arrivals
are only normal.
For over 8 month the lobby of the no
tells have swarmed with place-seekers,
but now the old familiar dadoes who
have decorated the seats for years have
crept out of their retreats, and sre back
once more, still grumbling at the crowds
which drove them from their accustomed
haunts.
Ex-Congressman s. v. White of Brook
lyn, is in the city. He seems to have
wrung the orange of congressional life
dry at single squeeze. It has lost at
tractiveness. This is not unnatural. To
a man of his decided convictions place
in body where those convictions carry
very little weight must be distasteful.
But while there he made some sturdy
fights for opinions sake, and gave sever
al of his colleagues strong taste of his
fighting qualities and his ability to hit
back.
Now he is in his element. He is back
on his adopted heath and can below
with the bulls and growl with the bears
to his hearts content. At present he is
going with the market, whichever way
that is. r.
The Pioneers.