The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-15

Forty-sixth, he has been a member of every
Congress since. So that it is really on talent or
self-assertion and not on seniority that men
seem to base their claim to the privileges Of
leadership. Bynum, of Indiana; Wilson, of
West Virginia, and Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
who have been for some time recognized lead
ers in the House, came in only with the Forty
ninth Congress, and Crisp, of Georgia. who has
achieved great prominence of late, began only
one term earlier. Roswell P. Flower, while he
served in the Forty-fourth Congress, is now
only serving his second term, yet at the begin
ming Of the session he was given place on the
Committee on Ways and Means, whose mem
bership is generally supposed to be made up of
the greatest and the best. Under the Consti-
tuition of the United States and ever since
the Declaration of Independence was writ
members of the House of Representatives do
not come to Washington equal, nor are they
treated equally by those who rule the establish
ment.
Andy Lipscomb the learned and witty AS
sstant United States District Attorney, is prob
ably the best Shakespearean scholar among the
Washington lawyers.
1.-TWO cups of cold tea, with ginger ale Oh
the side" That is a common order at the
House restaurant nowadays. Now the simple
proposition to drink whisky or whisky and gin
ger ale out of piece of crockery is repulsive to
any man, who, like the Vice President, is in the
habit of living like a gentleman. Speaker
Reeds recent order that whisky, if taken at all
i'll the House restaurant, must be taken in a
cup instead of a glass, appeared at
first to be absolutely prohibtory to men
of taste, But while giving the order the
/ Speaker furnished to the restaurant-keeper pri-
vately an idea of how he could fix things up so
as to conform to the order and still please his
. patrons-how, in fact, he could use the cup
! without discarding the glass The consequence
is that if you go to the House restaurant now
and order cup of cold tea with ginger ale on
the side you will get cup and a saucer; but in
the cup which is only demi-tasSe size, there is a
neat little glass the lower half of which is con-
cealed within the cup, while the upper half is
visible above it, What is within the glass is
not expected to appear above the crockery line,
so that the eyes of the casual passers-by are not
offended by the sight of the abhorrent liquid.
The man who wants it get what he wants, and
the man who doesn't want it doesn't see it,
X 4
Yct there is no telling but the watchful eye
OF the reformer may see through the crockery
some day Everybody remembers that beautiful
little story which Tennyson tells about the
cricket players and the old maid The old
maid IS window looked out on the cricket field
and the clubs pavilion happened to be located
on the old maids side of the field. She sent q
communication to the captain of the club, com
planning that the tent where the boys dressed
and undressed was right in her view, and she
demanded that it be removed. The tent was
removed TO the further side of the field but tC
very little purpose. The old maid wrote to the
captain again to say that by the aid of a tele
scope she could sec them STILL