Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-20
AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
The Presidents Callers. this Bright
Spring Day.

That delightfully."- popular disease-spring
fever-has become epidemic, and affects even
the White House callers. A few of the younger
and more vigorous legislators. such as Wade. of
Missouri. still trip lightly up to the library, but
they are in the minority.
SENATOR QUAY SAID FAREWELL
this morning. and moved out with a face that
was hardly an index to his feelings, for it lacked
all expression. He has that Pittsburg post
Office, though. beyond doubt, to say nothing
of a number of little places of which but few
people know anything.
Now that Quay has gone you NAV look for
the temperance of Cameron" said Penn
sylyania politician who talking with STAR
reporter when the shrewd little Senator came
out OF the cabinet room. They remind me-"
he continued. ''of one of these old-fashioned
hOuse-shapcd weather indicators On one side
there Is a man and on the other woman Both
are suspended on a catgut cord. which is short
ened or heightened as the atmosphere becomes
dry or moist. When the man swings out OF his
abode it Is going to rain. and when the woman
appears then you NAV look out for fair weather,
but both can't come OFT at the same time
When Quay Is i'll town Cameron is away and
rice rerSd."
NOT CRYING ABOUT Split MILK.
Senator Higgins made brief visit, the first
since Mr.. Hill was appointed collector for the
fifth district. Mr. Hill was not his candidate:
he supported DIR. Dawson. That milk is split.
and the active Delawarian is not wasting anv
time in lachrynOse cercmOnials over the grave
in which the doctors ambition is buried; he is
looking after something else.
Representative Butterworth was the first of
the Ohio contingent TO put i'll an appearance,
and he was accompanied by Gen. Bateman, of
Cincinnati. A little while later Representative
Mckinley entered tine cabinet room, and close
behind him was Senator Sherman.
SENATOR sHERMAN's MISSION.
The Senator has a good deal of work to do
and not much time to do it in. He wants to
put Col. POOrman in some nice place.
The colonel was at one time a promis-
ing candidate for first assistant post
master-geneTal, but GARRISON captured
that. No good Office would come amiss to the
colonel now. and the Senator thinks that his
friend should be nominated for a place on
either the civil service or the interstate COM
meTce commission. The latter place could be
reached easily were ii not that the
colonel is not learned in the law. and the Presi-
dent believes that only lawyers should be MEM
bers Of that important body. Ii the colonel
only secures recognition before May |. Senator
sherman viii start for Europe with a light
heart. He is already pleased over the assur-
ances he has received as to Mr.. Childs' chances
for the public Partnership.
ANOTHER BUCKEYE REPUBLICAN,
who thinks he will be cared for is Judge J. K.
Brown, of Warsaw. The Montreal consulate is
the goal Of his present ambition. and the dele
cation is said to be 'as nearly harmonious as
possible on the desrability Of getting the Judge
the honor and salary he seeks.
REPRESENTATIVE BURTON DIsAGREEs WITH sESA-
TOR SHERMAN
on one very important point and the fight is
being watched with a good deal of interest
The Congressman wants Frank Mason. of
Cleveland. to be consul-general at Frank
fort-On-the-Main. The Garfield influence.
which Is still power, also
stands prepared to aid Mr.. Mason in every
honorable way. Senator Shermans candidate
is DIR. Weber. another Cleveland republican
Mason has, perhaps, a little advantage over his
rival-he is in the service how. being consul at
Versailles. He held over from the Arthur
administration and is understood to be popular
tinues much longer the plum may drop in
somebody else's upturned hat-some man from
Indiana
OTHER CONGRESSIONAL CALLERS.
Senators Stewart and Evarts and Represen-
tatIves Morrow, Wade, Ketcham and Reed
were the other republican congressional callers
while the democratic wing was represented by
Representative Oates, of Alabama Gen Ben
lie Feyre was another of the more eminent
among the many callers.
THE CENSUS BUREAU ORGANIZED.
One OF the most active and business-like Of
the few who talked with Secretary Halford to-
day was Robert p. Porter, the superintendent
of the census
The census bureau is organized" said he to
a STAR reporter. Il took the oath of Office to-
day and commenced to put matters in shape.
| had two clerks put TO work, and the census
bureau Is once more thing OF life.
The President engaged i'll q fifteen-minute
hand-shake with the general public at / o'clock.
The only feature that attracted any attention
was three-year-old tot who with shrill voice
| twice enunciated the statement that he was "a
Harrison boy"