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The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

Congressman can bo both present anil
absent at The same moment is absurd.
II is whispered that there Is more 1c
hind this ruling than appears on the
surface. There may he, but that does
net affect the rightness of tho ruling
per sc. II will he time enough to con
slider this phase Of the matter when it
develops. It's sufficient now to know
that for the first time in the history of
Congress the majority of the House can
be fairly and justly held responsible for
what It does not do as well as for what
it does do. In spirit of independent
kindness and fairness THE CRITIC
warns the Speaker and his followers
not to abuse the new power with which
they are vested If they do, it will be
very bad, indeed, for them, but it will
be much worse for the Republican
party
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
Mr.. REED'.S RULING.

Speaker Reed S ruling yesterday was
right. II may not he in the line of
precedents, but it was in the line of
common sense. THE CRITIC is no
great respecier of precedents, anyway.
They are quite as apt to be wrong as
right.
Congress is intended by the Consti-
tuition to be positive, not negative,
body. The people send their represen-
tatives thereto do things, not to prevent
their being done. Under the rules and
rulings of the past the House of Rep
resentatiyes was rapidly becoming a
n.ere obstructive body. Its chief func-
iion appeared 10 be the prevention of
any rcsitive act \ determined minor,
iiy, mastering but twenty per centum
Of the membership. could tie up any
legislation against the wishes and ut
ost Efforts OF the eighty per centum
" Mhieh favored it.
To Illustrate. In the FIRST session of
the Fiftieth Congress the Senate passed
a bin refunding the direct tax to the
States which had paid it. 1t came up
in the House in due time. There was
two to one majority in favor of it.
The minority, insignificant in numbers,
led by Mr.. Oates of Alabama, began
the policy of obstruction. They re-
sorted to every device of filibustering,
and they succeeded in tying the House
up for week They prevented a vote
being taken on the bill. The House
was, for a time, paralyzed. No prog
ress could be made in public business.
The wheels of legislation were blocked
and under the complicated and intricate
system in vogue no legislation could be
accomplished until the minority gave
way. After a week of this sort of
thing the consideration of the bill was
postponed until the following Decem-
ber. When that time came other mat
ters intervened and the day set for the
consideration of the Direct Tax bill was
never reached, and the measure died on
the calendar. killed by the minority
under the rules Of the House.
The ruling made yesterday, If sus
tanned, as il doubtless will be, will put
an end forever TO illibustering, prac-
tice which ought never to be counte
nance in Il legislative body The ruling
is in direct line with the practice in
The State legislative bodies. The
Speaker cited similar decisions from
New Yoik and Tennessee, where they
were rendered by Democratic presiding
officers. lie might have cited similar
rulings from Indiana aud Ohio, where
they were made by Republicans, though
the gentleman who rendered the former
has since been the Democratic Governor
Of the State, and was voted for Vice
President In the last Democratic Ma,
tional Convention. The idea that .
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
aR. BRrcE,.s .Ipp0rNTuENT.


Editor Critic: I'm sorry to see THE
CRITIC under its new management, repre-
senting the people of this District as approx
ing Of the appointment OF an outsider to
local Office when, in point of fact, they
thoroughly disapprove ii. Whatever the
faults of TIE CRITIC under the old man
agement, 1t was true to local sentiment and
upheld the rights of the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia, upon whom it is de-
pendent for support. Mr.. Bruce is not re-
garded as a District man. A man whose
citizenship is so elastic that within one year
he can preside over political convention in
Mississippi aud receive the appointment
to the best local Office in the District of Co
lumbia may be great success as four-horse
rider in circus but is he a proper man for
a responsible position? If at the time he
presided over the Mississippi Convention
he was q citizen Of the District of Column
bia, he received the honor under false pre-
lenses. If he was then citizen of Missis-
sippi, sufficient time has not since elapsed
for him to become citizen of the District
of Columbia. Citizenship is not acquired
in night.
There are numbers of citizens of this Dis
trict of the Presidents party that would
have made capable Recorder of Deeds
without going to Mississippi to find one.
The Office Is local one and should be
filled by citizen. Mr.. Bruce is not re-
garded as District man. His nomination
should be rejected by the Senate, and the
local press of Washington that does not
emphasize that fact will not, in my opinion
represent its people. On other questions
they may differ, but ON the question that
local Offices should be filled by Distric,
men they are unanimous. CITIZEN.
Washington, January 3D.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
4 MAN0E lL1.SrEpl.

The infinite mysteriousness of the profes-
sional Washington lobbyist-his way OF ap-
peariDg as wise as an owl, when he is really
as foolish as blue-jay-was exemplifed
yesterday by Msjor Brock of Tennessee. ..
Major Brock discovered Major Curtis Of
Kentucky at the Capitol, near the door Of
the House.
Major Brock caught Major Curtis by the
arm, led him around the hall to the stair
way, downstairs, through twelve dark cor
rdors, past the foldingroom, into a corner
where the sunlight never penetrates, and
iammed his feet into pile of refuse and
his head into a thousand cobwebs. Then
Major Brock placed his mouth close to
Major Curtis ear and whispered in a wild,
weird way, as though he were still afraid of
attracting the attention of the great
world
slIhdt do UOi k7l0iulr
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
UPON HIS KNEES.

lie was village parson
And she pretty maid
And she was poor in penitenee
While he was poorly paid.
But, though he was but poorly paid,
This parson never would
Let any chance go by TO do
human being good
And so he stopped this pretty maid,
And whispered; "lf you please,
hoTe your lover is a man
Who's Oft upon his knees:n
~ fear he's not, ~ the maid replied,
Who east sad looks afar;
"lf he l. not,n the parson said,
81 hope at least you are"
The maiden blushed and hung her head,
"And this from you, said she;
"A had not thought TO tell, but true,
I'm Oft upon his knee"
COlWa5as Dlspateh,
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

THOSE who know Senator Farwell
will not be surprised at the coolness
with which he declares guerilla
war upon President Harrison. Aggres-
sion, and not submission has been the
secret of the Senator's political power
in the past. The Administration is not
going 10 force upon him change Of
tactics which have earned him respect
and following. 1t is evident that Pres
ident Harrison has turned upon himself
that faction in Illinois which know bet
Ter than any other in the West the subtle
use Of the stiletto.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
MISS SCHOMBERG'S COuPLhNIO

MISS SCIfOMBERG'S COMPILATIONS.
The Hughes-Iallet controversy revives
many "reminiscences of the time when Mrs.
Hallet-Emily Sehomberg-was the most
famous society woman Of her day. Her
beauty was of striking order, but her
manifold accomplishments made her even
more distinguished. Cosmetics were by no
means so generally used in those days as
now, but so marvelously perfect was Miss
Schomberg's complexion that q whisper
went around to the effect that she had been
enameled, a process which frequently deiles
criticism, although 1t makes washing or
dampening the face difficult. Knowing
this, party of young people who were
going 10 a Seventh Regiment ball at Cape
May contriyed to give Miss Schomberg a
seat where the cinders llew freely that they
might decide for themselves whether she
was willing TO battle her face before arriv-
Ing AT Cape May. To the surprise aud
perhaps discontinue OF some present, Miss
Sehomberg calmly took out her cologne
bottle and generously applied the contents
10 her brow aud checks, after which there
was no further question in her cOterle as TO
the genuineness OF her bloom. d The Epoch.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
SrE1K non THElIsELTES.

"Our Clientsn IS the title of the address
Mr.. Depew will deliver before the visiting
Judges and lawyers at tho Judiciary Centen-
nial banquet next Tuesday evening. "our
fees" is not the subject OF any toast, prob
ably because the fees Of most Of the gentle
men who expect to attend are big enough
to ospeah for themselyes.-N York HcrdtI.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

JTSTICE IN NEED or 4 R1ZOR.
It's lucky that Justice is blind. We sup
pose that she has been invited to the cele-
bration of the centennial of the organlza-
tion of the Supreme Court of the United
States. If she were able TO see Chief JUS
tice Fuller's mustache waving in the winds
of eloquence at the celebration she would
stop the proceedings while she beat her
sword into a razor.-Ncr i'ok SIN.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
MR. nARRLsoN CONSISTENT.

President Harrison regards appointive
power as personal privilege and Office
as personal perquisitel Such is Sena-
Tor Farwell's criticism. Lurking be.
hind this declaration is the certain con
viction that President Harrison has,
in disregarding the wishes of the Illinois
Senatorial delegation in the recent ap-
p0intmeDts, acted in contempt of the
Congressional leaders of that State.
Doubtless the President is fully aware
of the challenge he thereby issues, and
accepts In advance the consequences Of
it. II will be observed that in making
concessions to the millionaire influence
he is performing sort of duty. lie
believes in the potency Of money in
modern politics for the best of reasons.
He cxemplifies it, His consistency
whatever may be said Of his want of sa-
gacity as the head of great party, is
admirable. Though it may not be to
the liking of party workers, it is sure to
gain him credit for gratitude with those
who supplied him with the sinews Of
war in the late struggle.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

MIR. THOMAS says he will tell all he
knows about Senatorial bribery if he is
called before an investigating commit
tee, which, presumably, is equivalent
TO saying he knows nothing about it.
else, of course, as an honest man, he
would not wait to be called before a
committee.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

lr is not passionate oratory, but calm,
sensible argument, that is needed in the
discussion Of the Southern race qucs-
ton; and it is the gravest question now
before the people of this nation.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

THAT OLD RATTLETRAP. the City
Postofiice Building, has been leased for
two years, and the only hope the people
of Washington now have is that it
won't tumble down while any of them
are in it.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

A CmcAGo PAPER says that city will
contain 100000 souls by 1900. This
sounds as If she were making ready TO
annex her esteemed contemporary,
shpol
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

1F SPEAKER REED is going to run
the whole House without the aid of rules,
his salary ought to be increased. 1t is
good deal of job for one man to un-
.larfaEp
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

Pedestrians in Washington have
rights which the drivers of cabs and
carriages should respect and the police
should see that they do il.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

WHAT is the difference between
Foraker and the Delaware peach crop?
None whatever. The peach crop is a
dead failure.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

THE House. really ought to have u
set of rules. Suppose Speaker Reed
should happen to be absent some day?
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

EN-CoNGREssMAN HoRR of Michigan
is quoted as saying that he has very
poor opinion of President Harrison.
This, however, is not 50 very remarka-
Bile. Most of Mr.. Horr's opinions are
vely poor ones.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
To-NIanr,s ANusnNlnNrs.

ALBAren's-Fanny Davenport in la Tosca." "
NATIONAL Francis Wilson in "Thc Oolah."
Buou-"The Fakir."
ErnnAN's Rentz.santloy Buresque Company
GLoBE-Variety.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

New JEHIEr has declared for New York
as the site for the Worlds Fair. This
ought TO insure to New Jersey the prompt
and profitable sale Of her entire mushmelon
crop next summer.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

The rRorosIrIoN to postpone the
Worlds Fair is believed to be blow at
Chicago II she is going to put mp for Il
fair she will have to do It before Boston
demands her next installment Of interest.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

If DENSE stupidity were not in a
sense pathetic it would be amusing to
hear an enthusiastic protcctionist rail
against English syndicates for buying
up vast manufacturing interests in this
country
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

WE SHOULD BE sorry to see General But
Ter sued for the eabfare that Driver Shell
ton says he did not pay. Wouldn't it be
better to submit the case to, say, Admiral
Porter for arbitrationg
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

INCOMING steamships continue to report
sighting vast ieebergs at sea They ought
to bring some Of them IN. lcebergs will be
worth money when the next mint iulip sea
son sets in
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
1 pR0E1NE pR0lERB.

A Washington man who has been specu-
lating by wire in Chicago paraphrases
Fielding thus
IA non-resdents speculation In Chicago
is a d--d fool at one end OF the telegraph
wire and a d--d knaye at the othern
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

AUTHORITIES pretty generally agree that
the passage of the bill to discontinue the
eoinege of the nickel three-cent piece will
force good many people either to stay
away IRON church or to put real dimes into
the contribution box.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

WHEN DIR. McGLYNS says he would
rather be burned at the stake than retract
one word he has ever uttered he makes
himself ridiculous, In the absence of any
possibility of his being burned at the stake
such remark is the cheapest sort Of nub-
III
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

HE WAS generous editor who wrote
GLOW to live on $4,000 year, and pub
lished it in two-cent paper, This world
is full of men who would give chattel
mortgages on all they possess for informa-
ton which would enable them to live on
half that much q year.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

so FAR AS TIE location of the Worlds
Fair is concerned Chicago has a very bright
future 10 look back upon.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

Now THAT THE scientists have sue
ceeded in identifying the grip microbe, we
sincerely hope Commissioner Roosevelt
viii see TO it that the measly little erltter
is never again admitted to official circles
until he has passed the civil service exam.
ination.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

WASHINGTON, JANUARY 80, 1890
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

IN 1865 GENERAL TEcuMsEn SHERMAN was
not as fond of the negro as some of his friends
were. He said in letter: "A Niger, as
such is a most ex cellent fellow, but he is not
to marry. to associate, or to vote with me
or mine. '-iHdBt0 Constitution.
Does the esteemed Atlanta editor know
no difference between negro and a Niger?
There weren't many negroes in 1865. They
were nearly all niggers then. 1t is different
now, and as education goes on it will be
more and more different.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

WE TRUST THAT our energetic towns
woman, Mrs. Charlotte Smith, will not sue
ceed in inducing Congress to place tax of
dollar package on cigarettes The bur
dened fathers of this land have about all
they can do to support their sons at the
present price per package.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

IT WAS VERY distressing to see Mary Ann
Dougherty, who became national issue at
the time President Cleveland vetoed her
private pension bill, sitting In the pris-
oners' dock at the Police Court in this city,
and never Republican statesman there to
pay her fine of 50. We fear Mary Ann is
not live issue.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

NEVADA, Mo-, has taken a long step
toward the demonstration of perpetual mo-
tion. She gets money enough from her
whisky licenses to maintain her water
works and water enough from the works
10 maintain her whisky shops. 1t was also
Missouri man, we believe, who invented
the windmill to be propelled by the mule
The mule turned the mill and every time
sail came round it spanked the mule and
kept him going. Those Missouri folks are
very inventive
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30
1T LIST,

81 wonder where the steamship Erin is. ,
"Maybe She has gone brangh.n
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

MAN CAN get the Louisville Weekly
Courier-IoHBdl and six teaspoons for $3.50
or the same paper aud one dozen sewing
machine needles for Sl.15, or the paper and
Henry W'attersons picture for $l.l0. We
have our opinion of the personal appear
ance of an editor who considers his portrait
worth cents less than dozen sewing ma
chine needles.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

Henrik lDsEN is said to be sorely disap-
pointed because his works have not made a
hit in this country. 1t is hard to say why
his books have not sold here, but as for his
play, ''The Dolls EIome,n our people are
too busy studying the literary style of Mr..
Charles Hoyt's Rag Baby" to take up any
other intantile performance.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

THE PHILADELPHIA DHUG EXCHANGE
wants the tax taken from distilled spirits
and duty put on quinine. This would
not only hasten the popular tendency
toward drinking liquor straight, but it
would protect the vast armies of poor
workingmen who are engaged in the man
ufacture of Peruvian bark in this country.
The Washington critic., 1890-01-30

THE MAN whose business 1t is to sit at the
door of public building and answer civil
questions in civil manner may perhaps be
pardoned for now and then entertaining a
Hitting idea thas he is coordinate branch
Of the United States Government, but he
ought to be careful that the idea does not
take root and become perennial.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17

~" We close at 6 P. NJ every day but Satur-
day. 2. NJ then.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
How Old Soldiers Are Said to Be Treated
in the Department..

in the Department..
To the Editor of The Sunday Herald:
Speaking last week of the Hine-Robert af-
fair, (perhaps L should beg Col. Roberts par
don for putting Mr.. Zine frst,) you gave a
good opportunity for Army officers to explain
why it is that they SO hate to be brought in con-
tact with civilian officially. But as none has
done so, 1 am going to ask you, Why is it
There are Army officers in the War Department
who do not allow clerks who gained high rank
on the battlefield to be addressed by the title
of that rank. | know of case of captain
who forbade his messenger from using ''major''
in speaking OF clerk who gained that rank on
the field at Gettysburg. He said he recognized
no such person as Maj. A. This captain had
never seen days service in battle in his life.
Another captain in charge of one of the
largest divisions in the War Department seems
to have the greatest antipathy to men who
fought for their rank in the late war, but who
are now clerks under him. Last week know
OF two or three who applied for leave to go to
Boston to see once more their old comrades.
Mop this captain said to one of them who
had made application for fifteen days, ''you
cannot have but five days. You have been sick
the other twenty-five days and that's all you are
entitled to-" Why was he sick? Because he
had suffered from hardships and long prison
life during the war and has never fully re-
covered. Now he spends his leave on
his bed and when his thirty days (al-
lowed by law have expired, for any more alb
sence from the service of his majesty, the cap
tain, pay is deducted from his salary in accord
ance with the time lost AT the same time the
captain, if he chooses, can get his thirty days.
leave and have it extended as long as he wishes,
stay sick for any number of years and draw his
pay just the same, and when the time comes he
is retired by operation of law on very good
living pay-for doing what? Nothing, then as
now. Why can't those who did actual fighting
and have suffered for their country have few
of these privileges and emouments?
VICTIM
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
A MERRY WAR AT WARRENTON
Society Divided Into Hostile Camps over
u Pink CotilIon.


Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD
WARRENToN, VA, Aug 16.--I arrived here
just in time to witness a grand social row. This
town has been all excitement for some time
over "pink cotilon' to be given by the ladies.
Society was divided into factions over the aues-
tion whether or not it would be compulsory for
all the ladies to wear pink gowns The anti
pink faction was led by Miss Elizabeth Gaines,
one of Warrenton's most accomplished young
ladies, and Miss Fannie Cox, popular visitor
from Washington, and at present the guest of
Miss Gaines. The pink contingent resorted to
every imaginable scheme to defeat their oppo-
nents, but signally failed at every point They
declined to receive the subscriptions of the
anti-pnks, and declared they should be refused
admission, and even went so far as to strike
their names from the list of committees This
caused no end of gossip, and those who
claimed to be on neutral ground came over
to the ant-pinks and in consequence
the dance last night was a dismal failure so far
as the pink part of it was concerned. Socially
the affair was grand success and the hall was
filled with beyy of pretty girls from Washing
ton, Baltimore, and this place, Miss Gaines,
who danced with Mr., T. Percy Myers, of Wash
ington, and Miss Cox were the bellies of the
evening. Miss Williams, of Baltimore, attracted
a great deal of attention by her beauty and
graceful dancing. Miss Carr, another Balti-
more belle, was much admired, as was Miss
Turner, of Texas, stately and ViYaeious blonde.
Among the Washingtonians present were Miss
Julia Wilson, Miss Jeanie Cox, the Misses VIII
hanson, Messrs. Nat Tyler, Jack Shepperd,
and r. f. Whiting.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17

AS sort of preliminary season Washington
the past week has been enjoying minstrel per
formances, divided up between Albaugh's and
Lincoln Hall. George Wilson'S troupe, which
occupied Albaugh's the first part of the week,
gave a good entertainment as modern minstrels
go. The most remarkable thing about all these
minstrel performances year after year is their
wonderful success in avoiding the introduction
of new ideas They follow the time-honored
traditions of the craft with fidelity that
would be touching if it were not so chestnutty.
If they would spend half the money they
squander on barbarous costuming in buying
new jokes and new ideas generally they would
find it a profitable change in their method of
management. But then there is no use getting
out of patience with the minstrels. They are
no doubt as the Lord made them, and will go
on in the same old rut until the stage shall be
no more
And the paying crowds flock in
To the old jokes ever true;
But oh !! for the touch of Il freshening hand
And the crack of Il Joke that is new.